Syzygy MMOG
The Universe teams with life. Gleaming starships
ply well patrolled trade routes, bourn on the wings of shiny
new technologies. Modern science has all but wiped out
disease and death is all but optional. Life in the civilized
galaxy is not about what you need but what you want.
But Saleen is not a part of the civilized
galaxy.
Centuries ago, the colony ships crawled out
from the homeworlds of the major races, struggling to get a
foothold. The lucky ships headed deeper into what is now known
as the Prodigal Void, founding colonies that went on to become
the jewels in the crowns of the galactic empires... Epagon and
Caraconcil, Tengadi and Drayquin. The ships that went the other
way would coin the term "Badlands" for the space they
travelled.
The ships that arrived in the Cynther system
sent back word that they had found a decent new home amidst the
turmoil and turbulence of the Badlands. They had
established a colony on Saleen, a moon of the gas giant Nineris.
They requested supplies and further colonists and their
subsequent silence seemed to indicate that they were getting on
with the business of settling their new world. Supply ships
would be sent but none would return. Rescue missions would
follow, with similar results. Eventually, the civilized nations
would turn their eyes from the Badlands and forget those they
had left to die there.
But the colonies on Saleen did not die.
Rumours persist that life struggled on in the harsh,
isolated system. Traders and scientists sometimes brave
the Badlands, hoping to establish contact for knowledge or
profit, and always confident that their latest generation of
technology will prevail. But few return.
None can say for sure what happens behind the
veil of the Badlands on worlds like Saleen, where technology and
society have been tested by abandonment. None can say but
those who have seen it first hand and they seldom return to tell
their story.
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