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Revision as of 19:37, 20 February 2010
It's 2170. About 100 years since founding, and hundreds of light years from Earth. You don't really care. They've never spoken to you. All you have are second-hand tales from trade caravans, about FTL failures and killer drones. They call it 'the Rim', but you just call it home.
History Paths
A1) Origins
- Pioneers
- Some people petitioned the posthumans with the pure spirit of adventure. With no frontiers left on Earth, only longshots could satisfy the human drive for exploration and discovery.
- Seperatists
- Others left to escape persecution, real or imagined. Distance from Earth would shield them and let them start anew.
- Idealists
- Still others held in their minds an ideal for society. By travelling to a new land with like-minded people, they could make a better life, on sound principles.
A2) Colonists
- Baseline
- Mixed
- Transhuman
A3) Destination
- Garden World
- Tolerable World
- Hell World
- No World
B) Historical Events 1
- Quiet
- Transhuman Replication
- Crisis Situation
- Military Action
- Artefact Find
C) Historical Events 2
D) Historical Events 3
E1) Political Stance
- Keep On Keeping On
- Nationalism
- Grand Ambition
- The Podunk Union
- Open for Business
- Get Out
- Ideological Purification
E2) Economic System
- New Gilded Age
- Fabricator Rations
- Social Management
- The Middling Classes
- Transistor Mines
- Crossroads
- The Pirate Bay
E3) Military Doctrine
- Death Spiral
- Battlewagons
- Able Spacemen
- Swarms
- Tiptoes
- The Low Road
- Into the Darkness
- The Future's Fighting Man