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| stagedive | May 11 2010, 05:44 PM Post #1 |
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Life is tough out in the dark. Everybody knows that. Earth had to be abandoned, who knows how many eons ago. Some say our population outgrew her. Some say she became unlivably polluted. Some say the Sun was expanding. It really doesn't matter. What matters is what happened afterwards. As the thousands of ships carrying the most precious cargo of all, life, fled our solar system, they made the greatest discovery in history as we know it. A wormhole, barely sustaining itself, was found just outside the Sol system. A few ships that were along the same heading decided to stop, and investigate. Soon, a message was sent to a larger chunk of the fleet. On the other side of the rift lay a veritable Eden. Teeming with habitable planets, the new solar system was dubbed Eden Metraxi. A new pilgrimage started. There was room here, room for dozens of times the population of earth. Soon almost every colony ship had adjusted or reversed it's course to head for the rift . The wormhole continued to shudder and die, but nobody thought anything of it. The process of getting all the ships through the rift would take months, and ships were going through around the clock. Disaster struck. The wormhole collapsed when a group of a dozen or so ships were travelling through it, and they were lost. Ships were never recovered, and only God knows where they are now. About half the ships were left back at Sol, and the other half stranded in Eden Metraxi. Panic-stricken, the denizens left on the Earth side of the rift tried desperately for months to find a way to re-open the wormhole. Unable to achieve this, they at least pinpointed about where in the galaxy the exit was. The remaining ships formed into a flotilla, and set on their way. There was nothing left for them here. On the other side, a mild amount of concern, and a half-hearted attempt to contact those back home, were quickly thwarted by that long- standing human tradition. Colonizing. Making what they see theirs. A rudimentary government was established, which hinted at hegemony. Core planets in the system, with more temperate climes, became the fastest settled, the first to come up with more and more advanced technologies. Fast forward a few thousand years. The old system you saw is barely recognizable. Humanity hadn't learned from it's mistakes. Instead of solving the base cause of pollution, we just came up with ways to get rid of it. The once timid democracy has been erased by the Allegiance of Allied Planets. Remember the dystopia in Orwell's "1984"? The government removed all traces of what had happened in the past, tried to keep their citizens in line, and refused to even allow free thought? That's what things are like on the core planets now. Things on the outskirts, however, are a touch more difficult to control. Crime runs free here, knowing that the Allegiance will not interfere. Gun running, smuggling, extortion, prostitution. Name your sin, and you can likely find it within 5 minutes of landing out here. Edited by stagedive, May 12 2010, 06:23 PM.
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