<div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 2em;">History and Plot - For This Game</span><br/><br/>=======================================================================================<br/><br/>It has been two hundred years since the last fall was scheduled, and two hundred years <br/>for the people of Pern to believe that the looming threat of thread was finally over.  <br/>It hardly seemed fair to the Holds and Craft Halls for them to continuously pay tithes <br/>to the weyrs, when there was no longer any need for them.  Unrest, and questions of <br/>whether or not the people of pern should keep on supporting the few weyrs that were <br/>stil standing flew through their minds.<br/><br/>But although these questions where being asked, there where no fights, no skirmishes; <br/>just less and less tithes being given.  But more startling than that was the fact <br/>that there was less clutches being laid.  <br/><br/>Worry was in the forefront of the Dragon Riders minds, and slow resentment flowed <br/>through every one else's.  But still they coexisted, still they lived in a cycle of <br/>give and take.  That was of course until finally when population pressure and the <br/>improved technology made possible the recolonization of the Southern Continent.  <br/><br/>Some of the younger generation, some of the clever, some of the adventurous, and some of <br/>the fearful left to the Southern Continent.  Which subsequently led to the rediscovery <br/>of the original settlements along with the creation of brand new ones.  <br/>This more than anything led to the deeper exploration of the Western Continent.<br/><br/>And this is where our current plot comes into play.  Our Terran Weyr is located on the <br/>oft forgotten Western Continent.  Now settling on a new Continent, there is still worry over the small amount of clutches being hatched, and the need for food; because although they where on a new land, they still needed to learn more about the land, to be able to harvest what they needed.  And on top of all that there was an old threat on the horizon, it seemed like the short respite from thread was just that, a short respite.  Now with the threat of thread falling at any moment, the weyr's once again have become active.</strong>  </div>