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Now as some of you may know, I am crafting a Sci-Fi war story. I've been going about this a little slower than usual crafting wise. I'm not jumping straight in, I'm building a world, and it's kind of fun. I don't have a proper title just yet, so I'm using the name of my protagonist. Anyway, I hope you find the world building interesting, if you wish to comment please use the following link:
http://www.ulmf.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=286
More will be following, and I'll probly be editing this portion to make more sense...
The Dark Age:
In the final years of Earth as it has been known for thousands of years, the pursuit of knowledge, and the desperate reach towards space is all that saved us from ourselves. No one is sure of what the year had been, or who attacked who first, all that is remembered is that as billions of colonists set out into space on 20 massive ships moving at one tenth the speed of light, a great war sparked upon our old home.
Nuclear weapons, orbital cannons and power hungry governments tore the planet apart, killing almost everyone still left on its once blue and green surface. All that remained was glass, debris and poisonous water. A new Dark Age had descended upon mankind. So much knowledge, and technology, and advancement simply erased from the universe.
The colonists, now cut off from their homes, each other and anyone they may have left behind, drifted through the systems, towards distant planets thought to sustain life. As the years passed and entire generations were born on the ships, only to die still breathing the same recycled air. Old nations vanished from their minds, forgotten and fading into myth, old hostilities simmering, only for new ones to arise.
Only a single ship was lucky enough to reach their destination within a single generation. After 43 years in space, the colonists landed in the Alpha Centauri system and immediately began to build themselves up with what they had left, naming their new home Arcandia.
The ship destined for the Alpha Ophiuchi was destroyed from the inside as the crew set upon each other, replaying the hostilities of man, unknowing if they were the last of their people or not. Another ship’s, the one gliding towards the Beta Cassiopeiae system, engines were ruined and a third (destination: Regulus system) ran out of fuel, stranding both alone and desolate in the far reaches of space, far from any star or planet. They drifted for generations, the fuel less one eventually running out of air leaving millions to suffocate. The other devolved into a tribal society, surviving off the gardens in their ship that grew unchecked and eventually turned the craft into a miniature eco system.
A fourth ship (destination: Denebola) was destroyed by a meteor storm, splitting the craft into pieces and sending the surviving population spiralling into the deep dark of space.
Sixteen ships were all that remained of humanity with one already landed, and after an unknown number of generations, they reached their destinations, planets far from Earth, each holding the promise of a new start, a new beginning. Over a dozen new Eden’s to plant a garden.
Alas one ship crashed into their planet in the Lalande system, crumpling the ship trillions of tons of torn steel that nearly destroyed the planet. Another four landed only to discover the estimations of their planet’s habitability were sorely overestimated. Of those four, three (Systems: Tau Ceti, Groombridge and Gliese 208) were wiped away by nature’s brutality, the last hiding in their ship (Vega system) for countless years and slowly evolving to the atmosphere leaking through torn bulkheads and becoming a species other than human.
The final eleven ships of the original twenty landed safely. After generations and uncounted years amongst the stars they were finally ready to start again and rebuild. These last survivors were the Sirius, Epsilon Eridani, Procyon, 61 Cygni, Epsilon Indi, Altair, Arcturus, Gliese, Capella and Castor systems.
http://www.ulmf.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=286
More will be following, and I'll probly be editing this portion to make more sense...
The Universe of The Seraphim
The Dark Age:
In the final years of Earth as it has been known for thousands of years, the pursuit of knowledge, and the desperate reach towards space is all that saved us from ourselves. No one is sure of what the year had been, or who attacked who first, all that is remembered is that as billions of colonists set out into space on 20 massive ships moving at one tenth the speed of light, a great war sparked upon our old home.
Nuclear weapons, orbital cannons and power hungry governments tore the planet apart, killing almost everyone still left on its once blue and green surface. All that remained was glass, debris and poisonous water. A new Dark Age had descended upon mankind. So much knowledge, and technology, and advancement simply erased from the universe.
The colonists, now cut off from their homes, each other and anyone they may have left behind, drifted through the systems, towards distant planets thought to sustain life. As the years passed and entire generations were born on the ships, only to die still breathing the same recycled air. Old nations vanished from their minds, forgotten and fading into myth, old hostilities simmering, only for new ones to arise.
Only a single ship was lucky enough to reach their destination within a single generation. After 43 years in space, the colonists landed in the Alpha Centauri system and immediately began to build themselves up with what they had left, naming their new home Arcandia.
The ship destined for the Alpha Ophiuchi was destroyed from the inside as the crew set upon each other, replaying the hostilities of man, unknowing if they were the last of their people or not. Another ship’s, the one gliding towards the Beta Cassiopeiae system, engines were ruined and a third (destination: Regulus system) ran out of fuel, stranding both alone and desolate in the far reaches of space, far from any star or planet. They drifted for generations, the fuel less one eventually running out of air leaving millions to suffocate. The other devolved into a tribal society, surviving off the gardens in their ship that grew unchecked and eventually turned the craft into a miniature eco system.
A fourth ship (destination: Denebola) was destroyed by a meteor storm, splitting the craft into pieces and sending the surviving population spiralling into the deep dark of space.
Sixteen ships were all that remained of humanity with one already landed, and after an unknown number of generations, they reached their destinations, planets far from Earth, each holding the promise of a new start, a new beginning. Over a dozen new Eden’s to plant a garden.
Alas one ship crashed into their planet in the Lalande system, crumpling the ship trillions of tons of torn steel that nearly destroyed the planet. Another four landed only to discover the estimations of their planet’s habitability were sorely overestimated. Of those four, three (Systems: Tau Ceti, Groombridge and Gliese 208) were wiped away by nature’s brutality, the last hiding in their ship (Vega system) for countless years and slowly evolving to the atmosphere leaking through torn bulkheads and becoming a species other than human.
The final eleven ships of the original twenty landed safely. After generations and uncounted years amongst the stars they were finally ready to start again and rebuild. These last survivors were the Sirius, Epsilon Eridani, Procyon, 61 Cygni, Epsilon Indi, Altair, Arcturus, Gliese, Capella and Castor systems.
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