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<blockquote data-quote="Paka" data-source="post: 5003069" data-attributes="member: 100"><p><strong>Lodi</strong></p><p></p><p> * Backs against the wall...</p><p> * Ancient Archive</p><p> * One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter</p><p></p><p></p><p>Tech: -1</p><p>Env: -1</p><p>Res: -2</p><p> </p><p>"Oh no, stuck in Lodi again."</p><p> - ancient folk song</p><p></p><p><strong>Description of Lodi System</strong>: Lodi consists of five gas giants circling a pair of dim suns. The suns are known as The Crones and the gas giants are known as the Five Cruel Brothers. There are archaeologists who believe the moons once were terra-formed for human occupation but even if this was true, the effects have long since been reversed, either through poor xeno-terra-engineering or biological warfare with technology too horrifying to contemplate.</p><p></p><p>New Ovid once tried to colonize the system and set up a series of satellites around many of the moons but the endeavor was not cost-effective and the satellites were abandoned. The satellites whose orbits have not entirely deteriorated have no more air. Air is obtained through lengthy and expensive processes that draw oxygen out from ice under the moons' crusts and from mercy missions from New Diaspora.</p><p></p><p>The only gates to Lodi lead to Candor and New Ovid.</p><p></p><p>During the war, New Ovid used the system as a place to safely re-fuel its battleships and sometimes press gang Lodi folk into naval service. Many of these press-ganged veterans have returned to the system to inform their brethren of the garden worlds to be found in other systems, causing agitation and preaching revolt.</p><p></p><p><strong>Habitation</strong>: The population is just under five million, a staggering amount, considering the brutal conditions these people live under. They are seen as desperate and are known for hijacking spaceships or breaking them down for parts or stealing their breathable air and burying the crew in a crater. Before the war, there was talks of relocating everyone in the system but negotiations broke down when no one could figure out where exactly to put them and as talks were underway, several goodwill ships containing air and water were hijacked, crews left to the vacuum.</p><p></p><p>The indigenous space travel is not done with fuel as much as using the gas giants' gravity and the satellites as whiplash stations to break orbit and be sent into space. Lodi-born space travelers are known as Whips and have the mystique that cowboys, samurai and astronauts did on Old Earth.</p><p></p><p>The pride of the system is the archive, built in a bunker, built deep within New Daedalus. Several terrorist groups have tried to take it over by force, holding its knowledge for ransom to the rest of the cluster but the Archivists have a brutal counter-terrorism team, comprised almost entirely of free-clones from New Ovid. Air and water comes from all over the star-cluster to the archives, in order to keep governments' rights to seek out its information resources.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paka, post: 5003069, member: 100"] [B]Lodi[/B] * Backs against the wall... * Ancient Archive * One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter Tech: -1 Env: -1 Res: -2 "Oh no, stuck in Lodi again." - ancient folk song [B]Description of Lodi System[/B]: Lodi consists of five gas giants circling a pair of dim suns. The suns are known as The Crones and the gas giants are known as the Five Cruel Brothers. There are archaeologists who believe the moons once were terra-formed for human occupation but even if this was true, the effects have long since been reversed, either through poor xeno-terra-engineering or biological warfare with technology too horrifying to contemplate. New Ovid once tried to colonize the system and set up a series of satellites around many of the moons but the endeavor was not cost-effective and the satellites were abandoned. The satellites whose orbits have not entirely deteriorated have no more air. Air is obtained through lengthy and expensive processes that draw oxygen out from ice under the moons' crusts and from mercy missions from New Diaspora. The only gates to Lodi lead to Candor and New Ovid. During the war, New Ovid used the system as a place to safely re-fuel its battleships and sometimes press gang Lodi folk into naval service. Many of these press-ganged veterans have returned to the system to inform their brethren of the garden worlds to be found in other systems, causing agitation and preaching revolt. [B]Habitation[/B]: The population is just under five million, a staggering amount, considering the brutal conditions these people live under. They are seen as desperate and are known for hijacking spaceships or breaking them down for parts or stealing their breathable air and burying the crew in a crater. Before the war, there was talks of relocating everyone in the system but negotiations broke down when no one could figure out where exactly to put them and as talks were underway, several goodwill ships containing air and water were hijacked, crews left to the vacuum. The indigenous space travel is not done with fuel as much as using the gas giants' gravity and the satellites as whiplash stations to break orbit and be sent into space. Lodi-born space travelers are known as Whips and have the mystique that cowboys, samurai and astronauts did on Old Earth. The pride of the system is the archive, built in a bunker, built deep within New Daedalus. Several terrorist groups have tried to take it over by force, holding its knowledge for ransom to the rest of the cluster but the Archivists have a brutal counter-terrorism team, comprised almost entirely of free-clones from New Ovid. Air and water comes from all over the star-cluster to the archives, in order to keep governments' rights to seek out its information resources. [/QUOTE]
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