Player-Created Homeworlds
[sblock=By DarwinofMind]
Homeworld Smolensk
Atmosphere Breathable mix
Climate Cold
Biospherep Immiscible biosphere
Population ?
Tech Level 3
World Tags Pretech Cultists, Zombies
The Soviet planet Smolensk was colonized as launch site for strategic purposes. Barely habitable with a harsh yet breathable atmosphere, most of the globe simply too cold for human survival; only the tropics can sustain life. To add insult to injury, it was quickly discovered that the native biosphere was
incompatible with earth life. The planet was never intended as a long-term colony, but when the world was cut off and lost. And Pre- and even Post-tech was lost. Colonists did what they had to do to survive.
Since this time, genetic engineering has created food sources that can survival the toxic planet; however they nutritional value is lowered leaving the population weak. Further gengineering was banned after experimentation with native life created a parasitic mold that brings the dead to a shambling simulation of life with horrifying aggression. The few remaining bits of Pretech are obsessed over and worshiped by illegal cultists. Contact with the planet is rare and tightly regulated by the local government so as to prevent the idea of defection spreading within the populous.[/sblock]
[sblock=By Songdragon]
Homeworld Calarn
Atmosphere Inert gas
Climate Cold
Biosphere Immiscible biosphere
Population Millions of inhabitants
Tech Level 4
World Tags Pretech Cultists, Theocracy
Calarn has a natural occurring atmosphere of krypton gas. When the first humans arrived within the system they found many domed cities of strange make, all but the largest, Curdal, where abandoned and in a horrid state of disrepair. The inhabited city of Curdal had a strange alien race within. They welcomed these new travelers and were able to see the potential of an alliance with these newcomers.
The aliens had harnessed the planets natural gasses in many uses from energy weaponry to high resolution imagery technologies. While advanced, they were small in number and in a sharing scheme bot sides where able to move forward. Many of the cities were reclaimed and the civilization grew.
Come the Scream and the following Silence, much violence occurred. Calarn had come to rely upon food imports but that seem to end. In the end, some 200 hundred years previous, the alien religious sect claimed power with their Theocracy their Vatween (religious police) restoring order. Civilization came to flourish again and when contact was reestablished many were more than happy to resume trade with the wider galaxy.
Of course, the Nalster came to be some 40 years again, a pretech cult, Led by the human Ned Nalster, came to led others in their anit-tech crusade. The galaxy had fallen and came to a halt once, the advances of these aliens and the new contact with other planets would draw it upon all again. There are many violent clashed between this group and the Vatween today.[/sblock]
[sblock=By kinem]
Homeworld Loontoo
Atmosphere Thin
Climate Temperate
Biosphere No native biosphere
Population Millions of inhabitants
Tech Level 4
World Tags Pilgrimage Site, Psionics Fear
Loontoo is a small, rocky planet that is thought to be a former moon of a terrestrial planet that was destroyed in a planetary collision. Legend holds that it is an exact duplicate of the moon which orbits the human planet of origin, though this is somewhat contradicted by its larger size. Only the vast underground caverns which hold the cities are inhabitable.
The prophet known as Cosmic Antenna lived there shortly after the first cities were founded, thousands of years ago. He preached that there are many universes, each of which was created by a different god; no universe contains more than one god, but sometimes gods from other universes interfere with our universe. The creed holds that the god that created our universe is indifferent at best; but by properly attuning oneself to another of the gods, chosen as suits one's personality, one can receive its help and even join it after death, being reincarnated in one of several more pleasant universes. Many pilgrims come to visit the holy sites and learn the techniques taught by the monasteries. Many believers think that the Scream was sent by the god of our universe because psionics somehow offend him, and they fear drawing his wrath by associating themselves with it.
Jase McMoon never put any stock in such beliefs. Instead, he joined the army and concentrated on the tasks at hand and on building his skills. With little action available on Loontoo, he became a mercenary and served on several planets. Having seen more action than he liked on Quarsc, he's hoping that the new assignment proves peaceful.[/sblock]
[sblock=By Zerith]
Homeworld Orion Prim XI
Atmosphere Breatheable mix
Climate Temperate
Biosphere Engineered biosphere
Population Tens of thousands of inhabitants
Tech Level 4
Not much larger than Pluto, Orion Prim XI, stands as the only caesural body around its star, and a marvel of pretech engineering, a marvel that requires constant maintenance around the clock.
Originally no more than a collection of asteroids orbiting around an isolated star, it was chosen as a test bed for terraforming, the goal was highly impractical, creating a entirely inhabitable world from mere asteroids. An entirely inhabitable world that would make an ideal agricultural planet. The resolute was a resounding success, costly, surly, but a success none the less.
At its zenith, Orion Prim XI was a highly productive agricultural planet that had a diminutive industrial base; just enough for it to sustain itself, pervaded it could obtain enough raw materials, generally accomplished by asteroid mining by spike drive ships; but it had a perpetual storage of physics. Then after the scream, the planet was unable to maintain itself in full, and was utterly isolated.
The regression was not as crippling as on other worlds, but crippling all the same, the parts needed to maintain the world’s atmosphere and environment could no longer be produced, and the during the fallowing chaos, the storehouses would most definitely not hold until alternative production means could be devised, and the only solution was a fighting one; the gateway would have to be canalized for parts, a slow and begrudging processes that has lasted for centuries in times of great need.
Since then the planetary government has slowly gained power under the flag of necessity, until it cam come to the point it's at now, where there are no rights, only privileges granted by the state.[/sblock]
