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Galactic Maelstrom
Topic Started: May 11 2010, 05:44 PM (67 Views)
stagedive
Charles
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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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