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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eayres33" data-source="post: 7233145" data-attributes="member: 6808932">I like it everything is starting to come together. For a neighboring solar system I am going to use the Xa-Osoro System from the Starfarer's Companion. Some of you may know something of this system, others nothing, I've included the basic outline of the system below. I'm thinking I'm going to start you off on your first job which will be a search and rescue mission of some sorts, haven't decided on the planet yet. [MENTION=4936]Shayuri[/MENTION] your idea for your characters background is solid no objections from me. [sblock=The Xa-Osoro System]The Xa-Osoro System and its Radiant Imperium have existed for thousands of years, originating from the planet Azan and spreading throughout the system. The Xa-Osoro System is a binary star system that features twinned rulers: Xa the Emperess and Osoro the Emperor. The deities that make up most of the pantheon of the Xa-Osoro System’s religions are deeply connected to the celestial bodies that comprise the system; Xa the Emperess is both star and goddess, as is her husband, Osoro, and various others such as Bantosian, Uramesh, Tor, and more. Some say that the gods worshiped by the inhabitants of the Xa-Osoro System are mere projections of the life essence of these planets, moons, and stars, while others claim that each deity created its planetary namesake to foster life within the system. Whatever the case may be, the people of the Xa-Osoro System are more religious than many others even in the far-flung future of science and mechanical ingenuity, a trait that makes recent events within the system all the more tragic. Roughly 300 years ago, a mysterious ripple in time caused much of the recorded history of the Xa-Osoro for the past millennia to abruptly vanish, as did the memories of those living through the age. These spacetime fluctuations were a mere nuisance compared to the real aftermath of this event, known as the Nova Age by mystics and scientists alike. For at some point during this Nova Age, one of Xa-Osoro’s binary stars, Osoro the Emperor, went supernova, collapsing into a black hole that dances with its empress in gravitational entropy. The entire system should have been destroyed, but much of the energy of the Emperor’s destruction was abated. Some think the energy was used up in causing dimensional breaches. Others believe the twin star the Empress saved the system from her mate’s fury. Even today, the answer is not known. There was considerable damage, of course. Moreover, the star’s collapse sent shockwaves of strangely-tainted plasma coursing throughout the system—this viscera commonly known as Blood Space, has twisted reality as the people of the Radiant Imperium once knew it. Azan, formerly the closest planet to the suns, was consumed in pyroclastic destruction, leveling the seat of the Radiant Imperium’s power and much of its hierarchy into little more than an asteroid belt. Hordes of fiends roam Blood Space, pulled into the Material Plane via subsequent distortions in space-time, and direct content with Blood Space corrodes ships and warps mortals into horrible creatures known as the Blood Mad. In the unfortunate situations where Blood Space made direct contact with a planet or moon, that world was forever altered in some way, often for the worse. For instance, on Bantosian, Blood Space warped the moon’s atmosphere, twisting the local catfolk and devolving many off-worlders into feral-minded beasts. On Eogawa, Blood Space’s influence caused a deadly airborne version of lycanthropy to infect nearly every humanoid living on the moon, and on Ashaleth, Blood Space sped up the planet’s rotation and revolution to such extremes that it twisted into a torus planet. In the centuries since Blood Space’s explosive arrival in the Xa-Osoro System, the people of the Radiant Imperium have tried to pick up the pieces of their lives and press forward. Several large corporations, such as 1010 Robotics, XLG, and Helix have stepped up and forged an uneasy partnership with the shattered remnants of the Radiant Imperium’s government to form a partnership dedicated to regulating the Xa-Osoro System’s citizens. New business opportunities emerge every day, and explorers from outside the system arriving in the system heralded the discovery of hyperspace technology. But even as the people of Xa-Osoro look towards a brighter tomorrow amidst the tragedy and loss of the Regicide, dark tidings loom in shadows. No longer a cohesive whole, countless factions that once festered within the Radiant Imperium see the Nova Age as an opportunity to grab at power, their squabbles preventing the once glorious empire from uniting with its full might. Additionally, the corporations that have partnered with the Radiant Imperium do so for their own benefit, often blinding the government to their dubious practices in the name of economic growth and prosperity. Shadowy schemes are born in both the dark underbellies of the Xa-Osoro System’s remaining cities and in suave sitting rooms and offices of powerful corporations. Amidst dark tidings, the people of the XaOsoro System need heroes now more than ever. [/sblock]</blockquote>

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