UseNet: Inside Larkspur THF

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When the lights flickered and buzzed on the hall and the reserve generators kicked in, it was no real surprise. They moved the transients from the big tank cells into gen pop, pulled the prisoners back in from the yard and locked the place down to wait it out. That night they brought the shit on a shingle around to the cells instead of running the usual dinner drill in the mess and the cons got room service.

OOC Background: Planetfall

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By the time Ouroboros finally reached Nuvel a substantial portion of the population either no longer believed that it was ever going to arrive at its destination or had forgotten that the purpose of their world and culture was to arrive at and colonize a new planet. A small but significant minority cult rejected the idea that Ouroboros was a spacecraft at all. As described in OOC Background: The Passage, the state of the Ouroboros society at the time it reached Nuvel was similar to that of a large city in the 21st Century U.S., but with somewhat more widespread poverty, somewhat fewer resources and slightly more advanced technology. The society was marked by a constant undercurrent of conflict, if not outright war, over territory and wealth among the cities and various corporations.

OOC Background: The Passage

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Axia, the city where the players live, is one of the Twelve Cities originally loaded into the spacecraft Ouroboros for the journey to Nuvel. Only Nine of those cities actually exist on Nuvel: two fell into ruin on the trip from Old Earth to Nuvel and one was lost in the landing process. Ouroborus is the size and approximate shape of a small moon and was built in orbit around Old Earth. It remains in orbit around Nuvel as one of Nuvel’s two moons, Ouro. The two dead cities are still docked in it.

It Begins

It’s hardly surprising that, when the shit hit the fan, a lot of it got sprayed on Larkspur. The summer of 1187 was a hot one, even by Axia standards, and the storm stalled out over the Gulf of Kanro wasn’t getting any smaller. By the time it came up the coast, the cold water from the North Etolian was going to make it a real bastard. So they cranked the Atmos all the way up, and turned on the air conditioning in the towers to wait it out. Of course you don’t pull that kind of power without feeling it somewhere, and where the grid wasn’t so good, well, that’s where they felt it.

History and Fairy Tales, Part I

A Short History of Nuvel: The Colonization

Adapted from Materials In Early Colonial History, C. Bishins (Educo, 1181)

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The colonization period was a golden age of technology and prosperity for Old Earth. Humanity had left the cradle and expanded into the Sol system, colonizing the nearby moons and planets. This enormous expansion of resources, and the self-catalyzing, exponential growth of scientific knowledge, led to the creation of technologies unimaginable to us today. Guided by the sophisticated machine intelligences known as Sophonts, humanity settled into a relatively peaceful, stable economy, unmarred by the global conflicts that had characterized its earlier history.