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Rogue (GM) and Vafhudr (GM) present....
Prosperity
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The screen flashed to life. A man, handsome looking, his cybernetic prosthetics barely visible - which spoke volumes to his level of affluence – sat upright in an ornate chair.
“Hello. You may have seen me before. Haha. I am, it is said, the most imminently recognizable person in this Arm of the Galaxy. That's right. Balthazar Doughnoughy of PanStar Corporation, bringing the future to your living room and to your wallet since 2132. When I was young, just a street urchin on Io, I used to pick up coins every day and stashing them under my matress. One day, I told myself, one day I would own the stars. Fast forward 50 years later and I have done the next best thing – I bought the planets! Stars are nice, but kind of hot, even for me! (laughter) PanStar Corporation is the largest interplanetar landowner outside the New Earth Federation – and I am here to tell you about our intersteller corporation's latest acquisition – Prosperity!
1 150 000 land claims. 589 charter for mineral rights, lumber, fishing, infrastructure and manufacturing. There is a world to build out there – and it could be your ticket to a brand new life.
(The scene shifts. The man is now standing up, the background changes to scenes of idyllic life. Everything is furnished and brande PanStar)
Here at PanStar Corporations we don't just sell products – we sell dreams – the life you wish you could lead. That's right. YOU.
The man laughed, throwing his head backward and showing his immaculate and perfect teeth. They were almost blinding. He smiles at you. This man knows how to smile. The screen caps off with the corporation logo.
(...)
HEY THERE. SLMAMMAAN PADOCK HERE.
ARE YOU TIRED OF YOUR LIFE? ARE YOU TIRED OF GOING TO WORK EVERY DAY, DRUDGING UP THE MERITOCRATICAL LADDER WE BOTH KNOW WILL NEVER GET YOU ANYWHERE?
WHY NOT TAKE A VACATION? WHY NOT TAKE... A SHORTCUT.
WELCOME TO BEAUTIFUL PROSPERITY – YOUR SHORTCUT TO PROSPERITY.
LOCATED IN THE NULLPAR 4 SECTOR, THIS LUXURIOUS PLANET WAS JUST RECENTLY REDISCOVERED BY THE PANSTAR CORPORATIONtm – BRINGING THE FUTURE TO YOUR LIVING ROOM AND TO YOUR WALLET SINCE 2132 ! - AND COLONIZATION BEGAN IN EARNEST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS NOW. HOLY SHIT. 50 YEARS. HOW COULD YOU HAVE LET THIS SLIP BY YOU FOR 50 YEARS. THAT'S ALMOST A WHOLE LIFE.
BUT FEAR NOT. WE GOT YOUR INTEREST AT HEART. WE KNOW WHAT YOU WANT.
FORGET PAULUS 6. YOU WON'T HAVE TO FREEZE TO DEATH FOR 4 YEARS UNTIL SUMMER COMES BACK. PROSPERITY IS SUNNY ALL YEAR LONG! GOOD BYE 89 HOUR NIGHTS. HELLO 23 HOUR DAYS.
FORGET SEDNA 14 – THIS PLANET HAS ENOUGH DRY GROUND FOR EVERYBODY. YOU WILL NEVER HAVE TO EAT CONDENSED PLANKTON AND ALGAE BYPRODUCT EVER AGAIN!
FORGET AGNI 2 THROUGH 17! PROSPERITY IS CONSIDERED A CLASS 5 HABITABLE PLANET BY MANY INFLUENTIAL AUTHORITIES. NO MAJOR TERRAFORMING EFFORTS BEYOND SOME TERRA PODS WAS NECESSARY. OXYGEN GARANTEED. WATER GARANTEED. NO SENTIENT CIVILIZATION TO FIGHT. VIRGIN LAND TO CLAIM. WHAT IS THERE NOT TO LOVE?
BUT WAIT. THERE'S MORE.
APPLY NOW FOR COLONIAL TRANSFER AND YOU WILL RECEIVE A FREE GUN.
A FREE GUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!! NOW YOU TOO CAN ROCK IN YOUR CHAIR, GUN IN YOUR LAP, AND SHOOT AT POOR PEOPLE INFRINGING UPON YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY.
COME TO PROSPERITY, FUTURE CORNUCOPIA OF THE GALAXY.
This message was brought to you by the PanStar Corporation ltd. We take no responsibility for your life decisions under the Charter of Human Right and the Space Code. Thank you and have a nice day.
(...)
Space flight is rather uneventful, all things considered. Once you are out of the grips of a planets gravitational pull and the phenomenons that come with it, space is quiet and without turbulence. Within the hull that seperates you from the absolute void, you are supremely safe from most problems – gamma rays, solar burst, micro waves, fragments floating idly but percuted at insane speed. Space travel is widely considered the safest mode of transportation.
Its just that when a disaster happens it tends to be nasty business. Its one things to be dragged down by a ship to the bottom of the sea. Its another to be torns apart as your airplanes crashes against a mountain – but to have an accident in space, it means that you will be lost within possibly infinite amount of space. It means that your exposed body will suffer intense depressurization. That you will be exposed to elements that the human body was never meant to handle. Hope that you die quickly. There are reports out there of people who survived days amidst space wreckage. Alone, floating in the dark. The other kind of crash and by far the most common are issue upon planetary re-entry. Most planet system have eliminated such issues by simply creating what amounts to space airports – in space, terminals where people can change to more suitable spaceships for space – surface travel, for instance as opposed to interplanetary or deep space travel.
You are currently traveling on a colonial ship. A ship design for space to surface landing, with the simple assumption that such infrastructure will not exist at your destination.
You hear a message on the communication system. It's the captain. You can hear the sweat rolling on his face from his tone of voice.
Well shit son, it looks like you are about to become an unfortunate statistics. You should've probably not have jinxed it by thinking about all this grim stuff.
Welp.
You had a nice run. I guess. Not much to say about your life really. Just another small spark snuffed out. This was going to be your big break. A tragedy really. It's really too bad they won't be able to tell your body from the next guy over. He's rather slovenly. You hate the idea that your flesh will be fused to the level of molecules from the power and heat of the impact, which will in turn be fused to the metal around you. You might have wanted to be a cyborg in the past, but not like this.
The captain tries to reassure you all things are under control. His voice is drowned out by alarms and sirens. Lots of flashing red lights. The emergency door is stuck. Just your luck. Migrant transports don't tend to be all that up to date when it comes to security. PanStar was also a cheap bastard that cut wherever it could.
Now the ship is shaking real hard. You've entered the atmosphere. You don't know if its hot because everyone around is sweating real hard right about now or if the ship's heat shield can't handle the descent. There is a sickening scream of metal tearing apart. The sirens go out. A lot of things go out actually. You must have lost something rather important. No way to know.
(...)
You survived. It has been 4 months. The remains of the Ophion, your ship, now serves as a mini-settlement.
Prosperity is not what you saw in that PanStar flyer.
It's true – there is a 23 hour day. 23 hours of blistering twin suns, searing the surface of the planet. It's the summer cycle, too, which means this will last for at least 12 months. Then 8 months of fall. Then 10 months of winter. Things get dark, you hear, in winter. Real dark.
There's water – if you are willing to dig a few feet under the ground. Lakes are deathtraps. Everything gathers there. And that's not a good thing. The land is rough. You hear that some settlements out there got some agriculture going. Not here though. Here, it's a wasteland.
Looters came fast to pick at the corpse of the Ophion. You repelled them. A lot of your fellow passengers died. You survived.
But resources are getting low. Rations are gone. You can't live in the shadows of the Ophion forever. It's about time you explore this phantom planet, a shithole that has been kept out of the eyes of the universe within its own personal Bermuda triangle effect. This planet was re-discovered, but it had plenty of inhabitants already.
And most of them really, really want you dead.
It's a wild world out there. Don't get cozy. I mean, it's impossible to get cozy here, but still - stay sharp.
PANSTAR COLONIAL FORM 12-GAMMA (wherein you agree that you became a colonial by your own will and we're certainly not coerced, kidnapped, insane or unsound of mind when you made your decision and hereby clearing us of any liability to any harm coming to you)
THE CLASSES
PROSPERITY AND YOUR SURROUNDINGS
PEOPLE YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW
coming soon
FAQ AND STUFF YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW AT SOME POINT
coming soon
Edited by Vafhudr, 17 January 2015 - 01:37 PM.
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