Post by greentongue on Dec 9, 2008 11:50:22 GMT -6
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The Valley (Internal, No Knowledge)
It was Wednesday and it was raining. It had always been that way for as long as anyone could remember here in the valley. Every Wednesday it rained without fail. You had asked your parents and friends, they had asked their parents too.
The elders didn't question it, "It's always been that way," they said. You on the other hand wanted to know answers. Why does it always rain on the same day. Where the path that went directly into the cliffs surrounding the valley went? Why the "Avatars of the Gods" only answered to people with specific ancient armbands? Who made the objects that nobody knew how to make?
Now that you had reached adulthood, nobody could stop you from trying to find answers.
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Liferaft (External, Limited Knowledge)
"We were dead, no two ways about it. The Foe had struck from hyperspace, crippling our Drive in such a way that its last spasm threw us light-years off course. With no nav-fix possible, our FTL commo destroyed, and nothing but an RTG pack keeping minimal life support going, we spaced our dead, recorded our last testament, and prepared to join them when the last of the ship's warmth leached out into space. Then the collision sweep sensor lit up. There was something out there."
"It was the Warden, one of the great STL colonizers sent out in the hopeful times before The Collapse, the Reascension, the Hubbard-Lo Equations that made FTL possible, and before The War with The Foe began. She'd been lost for hundreds of years. Yet, here she was."
"Not that we knew where 'here' was. Stellar fixes useless, whole ship dying around us, and this great big dead hulk filling the screens. Then Jemmi pointed out the lights, and the IR readings. Warden was alive. We worked like maniacs to dock or lock on before we drifted past, before we froze to death, before our ship died for good. We came across to this entry port, with the little survival gear we managed to salvage (not much - we were never tasked or equipped for planetfall). Aleks had coaxed out of our ship what little info he had on the old Warden, which wasn't much."
"We were never tasked as historians or sociologists either, so none of our training prepared us for our new lives aboard the Warden."
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Clone Bank Alpha (Internal, Limited Knowledge)
The players are essentially clones of the bridge crew. In an emergency, the Warden can wake up some frozen clones, fill their heads with the stored memory back-ups, and have a fresh set of the bridge crew all ready to go - A gang of Kirks, Spocks, Tashas and Picards, all ready to save the ship.
But, well, you know how it is. Things got damaged. The Clones don't get woken up for at least 150 years or so, and their memory back ups don't really work. And some of the clones got mutated. And a lot of them died.
So all we have is a handful of confused clones, with sketchy memories. They do know that they have a job to do...
* www.metamorphosisalpha.com/dragon06_2.html
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The Artifact (External, No Knowledge)
It wasn't natural, that much was clear. How it had gotten here wasn't.
The ship was ellipsoidal in shape, being approximately 50 miles long at its extremes, 25 miles wide, and 8.5 miles tall, with an additional ½ mile high dome on the top. The ship might have been mistaken as an asteroid except that affixed to one end was large drive units. Those drives were as big as some ships.
There was a feeling of great age about the ship but no clear way to determine just how old. It wasn't dead. It least not according to the energy it still emitted, mostly from what looked like the engines. While its exhaust was not hot from pushing the ship, it was not as cold as the age would have lead you to expect.
There was a large reinforced pressure hatch on one part of the hull and on closer inspection, smaller airlocks spread around the ship in widely spaced bands.
Just in salvage material alone the thing was a gold mine. If any of the airlocks could be forced, the loot collection could begin. If it could still be flown, and you could get it to an orbit, you and your children's children would be set for life.
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The Valley (Internal, No Knowledge)
It was Wednesday and it was raining. It had always been that way for as long as anyone could remember here in the valley. Every Wednesday it rained without fail. You had asked your parents and friends, they had asked their parents too.
The elders didn't question it, "It's always been that way," they said. You on the other hand wanted to know answers. Why does it always rain on the same day. Where the path that went directly into the cliffs surrounding the valley went? Why the "Avatars of the Gods" only answered to people with specific ancient armbands? Who made the objects that nobody knew how to make?
Now that you had reached adulthood, nobody could stop you from trying to find answers.
===
Liferaft (External, Limited Knowledge)
"We were dead, no two ways about it. The Foe had struck from hyperspace, crippling our Drive in such a way that its last spasm threw us light-years off course. With no nav-fix possible, our FTL commo destroyed, and nothing but an RTG pack keeping minimal life support going, we spaced our dead, recorded our last testament, and prepared to join them when the last of the ship's warmth leached out into space. Then the collision sweep sensor lit up. There was something out there."
"It was the Warden, one of the great STL colonizers sent out in the hopeful times before The Collapse, the Reascension, the Hubbard-Lo Equations that made FTL possible, and before The War with The Foe began. She'd been lost for hundreds of years. Yet, here she was."
"Not that we knew where 'here' was. Stellar fixes useless, whole ship dying around us, and this great big dead hulk filling the screens. Then Jemmi pointed out the lights, and the IR readings. Warden was alive. We worked like maniacs to dock or lock on before we drifted past, before we froze to death, before our ship died for good. We came across to this entry port, with the little survival gear we managed to salvage (not much - we were never tasked or equipped for planetfall). Aleks had coaxed out of our ship what little info he had on the old Warden, which wasn't much."
"We were never tasked as historians or sociologists either, so none of our training prepared us for our new lives aboard the Warden."
===
Clone Bank Alpha (Internal, Limited Knowledge)
The players are essentially clones of the bridge crew. In an emergency, the Warden can wake up some frozen clones, fill their heads with the stored memory back-ups, and have a fresh set of the bridge crew all ready to go - A gang of Kirks, Spocks, Tashas and Picards, all ready to save the ship.
But, well, you know how it is. Things got damaged. The Clones don't get woken up for at least 150 years or so, and their memory back ups don't really work. And some of the clones got mutated. And a lot of them died.
So all we have is a handful of confused clones, with sketchy memories. They do know that they have a job to do...
* www.metamorphosisalpha.com/dragon06_2.html
===
The Artifact (External, No Knowledge)
It wasn't natural, that much was clear. How it had gotten here wasn't.
The ship was ellipsoidal in shape, being approximately 50 miles long at its extremes, 25 miles wide, and 8.5 miles tall, with an additional ½ mile high dome on the top. The ship might have been mistaken as an asteroid except that affixed to one end was large drive units. Those drives were as big as some ships.
There was a feeling of great age about the ship but no clear way to determine just how old. It wasn't dead. It least not according to the energy it still emitted, mostly from what looked like the engines. While its exhaust was not hot from pushing the ship, it was not as cold as the age would have lead you to expect.
There was a large reinforced pressure hatch on one part of the hull and on closer inspection, smaller airlocks spread around the ship in widely spaced bands.
Just in salvage material alone the thing was a gold mine. If any of the airlocks could be forced, the loot collection could begin. If it could still be flown, and you could get it to an orbit, you and your children's children would be set for life.
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