<div class="floatright">(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24299180/Documents/RPGs/FATE/Clusters/EDiaspora08.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Systems</strong><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Anor</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Anor</strong>T0,E-1,R0<br/>Penguin needs to write it up<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li></li><li></li><li></li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Siren</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Siren</strong>T1,E3,R-1<br/>Penguin needs to write it up<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li></li><li></li><li></li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Tiradath</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Unnamed</strong>T2,E1,R2<br/>Penguin needs to write it up<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li></li><li></li><li></li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Helen</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Helen</strong>T1,E2,R2<br/>Penguin needs to write it up<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li></li><li></li><li></li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ozymandias</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Ozymandias</strong>T-2,E-1,R1<br/>Ozymandias used to be a much nicer place thousands of years ago, But a global thermonuclear war devastated it's environment and reduced it to a blasted radioactive wasteland. The current inhabitants are the descendents of survivors of this war who have been bioengineered for survival in the radioactive desert without civilization. Despite being blasted back to the stone age, the locals have managed to gain a small amount of wealth by scavinging the ruins and selling the artifacts found inside to offworlders. Some of the technology contained within is still more advanced than anything available in most other systems.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Bioengineered Desert Nomads</li><li>Blasted radioactive wasteland</li><li>Artifacts and Antiques</li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Cabochon</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Cabochon</strong>T-2,E0,R-2<br/>An ocean world studded with thousands of archipelagos and once the seat of an interstellar empire, but that was so long ago that only the oldest record and artifacts support it. The system was stripped millenia ago to bootstrap the first empire into interstellar conquest; it thrived on the luxuries of dozens of other worlds until, with most of its ships lost in a great offensive against a rebelling world, rebels destroyed the slipknot station and the sole naval yard capable of building slip-capable ships. Bereft of the resources it was milking from its colonies and conquests, the homeworld could not maintain itself. Unable to support even a tenth of its population, what was left of the civilization cannibalized itself - sometimes literally. Eventually plague, infrastructure collapse, and lack of resources reduced the population to one in equilibrium with its surroundings. Gradually the world-ocean has recovered its capacity and the planetary population has nearly doubled from its one-time low, but resources are still amazingly scarce and their use (and all authority) are reserved to a mere two percent of society that maintains the ancient royal bloodlines...Despite constant infighting and assassination attempts. The personal navies of the rulers are armed primarily with single-shot cartridge projectile weapons, only the best of their vessels have repeating cannon and steam powered turbines - the majority of the planet's population gets by on sail and salted fish.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>We once ruled the Sea of Stars.</li><li>Those not of the Blood must serve.</li><li>There are monsters in the depths of sea, souls and stars.</li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Trinity</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Unnamed</strong>T3,E-1;R1<br/>Ad Astera Por Aspera was the name of a great colony ship that settled a world they called Trinity ages ago. <br/>   Trinity is currently believed to refer to the planet—also called Gaul--and its two large moons—Bane and Chiad--though some historians claim it to be reference to a long forgotten religion.  It is also popularly held that the ship's name meant, "To the Stars through Hardships."  This did indeed prove to be a theme for this world's ancient settlers. <br/>   As the people spread out, struggling to retainer their technology on a world wracked by great tides, devastating storms, and no small amount of volcanic activity, there were many instances of people loosing track of one another, Separate nations rose up but something curious happened.  Solidarity rose--not along ethnic or nationalistic lines, but from a sense of humanity against the environment--and the variety of large, dangerous predators it supported.  People being what they were, there were, of course, wars, crimes, and repression, but the common theme of us against the storm guided the social evolution of the planet. <br/>   Despite the harsh environment, large tracts of this world have great fertility due to volcanic ash.  Valuable minerals are also in abundance, for similar reasons.  After stealing internet technology from the last interstellar empire to have occupied them, a series of brilliant scientists first retroegineered that technology to something sustainable, then set up processes for the exchange of technology and ideas.  The buzz word of the century was, “Know no limits; reach for the sky.”  Though it’s become cliché in the centuries, the cliché is still a powerful one.  Before developing slip stream technology, they had personal flying machines and lunar colonies. <br/>   The ugly side of this world showed when they joined the local galactic community.  Being far more advanced that their neighbors, there has sprung up a grey market for indentured servants that are easily recognizable as slaves.  Occasional offers made to help other worlds develop were clearly at the expense of the developing worlds. <br/>   But when the Che’e loom on the horizon, the people of trinity remember their roots, and their armored flying troops deployed to the aid of all allied worlds. <br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>It’s us against The Storm.</li><li>Know no limits, reach for the sky.</li><li>Under the light of two moons. </li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mintara</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Mintara</strong>T0,E3,R1<br/>Mintara is quite simply a new Earth, a garden world with enough resources to make some exporting profitable.  Unfortunately, technology advance has been slow, only barely able to support off planet hops.  Slipstream tech hasn't even been looked at for this planet, mainly because of the central placement in the cluster, and the resources that are available for such work being extremely scarce.  Resources in general are fairly abundant, with certain areas of resource (lumber, glass, plastics, and various metal alloys) being the foremost availability in resources.<br/>While the planet might not be very advanced, it is a welcoming place, with plenty of lush landscapes and unspoiled vegetation to tempt even the most HARDENED traveler to stop and rest a while.<br/>Many of Mintara's buildings and cities are actually built around the flora and fauna of the planet surface, due to a large enough percentage of the initial population being environmental activists.  Their rallying cry when construction began was "Nature is precious, keep it intact, lest we lose it forever!"  Indeed, even the resource collection that occurs takes care to disturb the natural order as little as possible.<br/>This, however, has given rise to another sector of the populace that believe If you eat it first, it can't eat you.  The concern for the natural order has left many predators protected, or at least avoided for one reason or another.  A small section of the populace have taken to hunting them, to thin the numbers so that they aren't so much of a worry.<br/>Curiously, in spite of this, it has fostered a very family and community oriented society.  Many city blocks and smaller towns still hold monthly, community wide get togethers where everyone brings something, and shares it with the other members of the community, be it food, drink, or even a particular peculiar talent.  Even now, the mantra share and share alike can be seen posted above many of the doors in most of the major cities.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Nature is precious, keep it intact.</li><li>If you eat it first, it can't eat you.</li><li>Share and share alike.</li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Zeos</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Zeos</strong>T2,E2,R2<br/>Zeos is an artificial world created by an advanced synthetic intelligence of the same name. Humans and machines live in harmony in Zeos and it is the economic, and cultural capital of the trailing fringe.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Ancient machine</li><li>Check your privilege meat bags</li><li>Ever learning curiosity</li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Cartell</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Cartell</strong>T0,E-2R2<br/>Cartel is a world rich in mineral wealth. When humans first came to Cartel it was a lush planet filled with dangerous megafauna. Scientists studdying the planet soon realized this was the result of a previously unknown crystal with unusual properties. The Cyrstals caused the native life forms to grow to impossible sizes, and gave the human colonists enhanced endurance. However it was the crystal's ability to store and release large amounts of  These properties also made C-materia ideal in power cells for handheld energy weapons. With investment from the nearby system Zeos. The Ra-Shin company began to mine Cartel and export the Crystals across the cluster.<br/>Unfortunately mining the crystals had disastrous effects on the planet's environment. Eventualy the planet's ecosystem became unstable and poluted, killing off most of the native life, and forcing the colonists into domed off cities. The Company however continues mining as usual, feeding the cluster's demand.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Killing the planet</li><li>The company owns this mess</li><li>C-Materia</li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Free</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Unnamed</strong>T?,E?R?<br/>Somebody can claim this system!<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li></li><li></li><li></li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Amaterasu</div><div class="spoiler_body">Amatasu T0,E0,R-1<br/>The people of the Amaterasu system lived on a small misty planet with low gravity. For thousands of years they lived in isolation in a culture resembling feudal japan back on old earth. Feudal warlords battled for control while the peasants lived a simple life tending the rice fields.<br/>This changed however shortly before the Human Che'e war. Wanting to form a Balwark against the expanding Che`e empire, the Union visited Amatasu and gave modern weapons to one of the larger clans. The Clan was then able to subjugate the others and modernize it's military in just a few short years. With the entire planet now under control of the newly formed Yamato empire, the Union then sold them a fleet of cheap mass produced space battleships from Zeos, and sent them out to battle the Che`e. Although not as well equipped as Trinity's Espatier corps, the Yamato fleet provided the numbers necessary to mount a successful defense in the system that would later be re-named death. There is some concern however about the aggressively expansionist nature of the Yamato empire, with the war over, they have been trying to expand there sphere of influence into neighboring systems.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Samurai honor</li><li>The Floating World</li><li>Rapid industrialization</li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Eden</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Eden</strong> T0,E-1,R1<br/>Eden was first generation colony fist established hundreds of thousands of years ago. For reasons unknown the colony ship's AI went rampant and overloaded the teraforming device, turning the entire planet into a dense jungle. The surviving colonists regressed into tribal hunter gatherers, adapted to the new world. Eden remained isolated for ages until it was rediscovered a few hundred years ago and re-colonized by the Polyspora corporation. Polyspora is the cluster leader in biotechnology, and they have taken an interest in studying Eden's unique and unspoiled ecosystem. Unfortunately outside influences are rapidly encroaching. Many of the native plants can be processed to make powerful narcotics, making Eden a popular destination for smugglers. The nearby Human Che`e war has also brought in an influx of refugees hoping to make Eden there new home. The jungles of Eden are quickly becoming a war-zone.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Savage jungles</li><li>Company Property</li><li>Drugs and whores</li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Death</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Death</strong> T0,E-4,R1<br/>The final battle between the Union and the Che`e happened here. Desperate to stop the Che`e advance, the union bombarded all the planets with nuclear and anti-mater warheads until they could no longer support any form of life. Before the war two of the planets used to be prosperous colony worlds, now they are just spheres of black glass. The plan worked however, the Che`e were convinced that humanity was insane and that prolonged conflict was inadvisable. The war ended shortly after and this system, which the Che`e now call death, is designated as a neutral zone between the two species. The millions of human refugees who escaped before the bombardment now flood into nearby systems forming a distrusted underclass of refugees.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>There is death here</li><li>Demilitarized zone</li><li>Refugee go home!</li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">First</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>First</strong> T3,E1,R0<br/>The Che`e lived on first for millions of years before meeting humanity. By then they had completely subjugated there entire ecosystem and spread to the far reaches of there solar system. Only there lack of FTL travel prevented there expansion. This changed when humanity discovered the slipknot to there homeworld and sent it's first exploration ships. The Che`e captured the ships, and began to study the crew. In a few short years they were breading a species of human hybrids capable of Telepathy and Slipknot navigation. War between the two races was inevitable. The Che`e considered boarder skirmishes and capturing slaves to be normal interaction between neighboring hives, humans considered it an unspeakable act of war.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>The mother hive</li><li>Swarm beyond numbers</li><li>Feudal ecosystem</li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Tree</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Tree</strong> T2,E-1,R3<br/>The first non human system colonized by the Che`e. Lots of gas giants, with even a few habitable moons, but no earth-like planets.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Fruit of the stars</li><li>Lonely moons</li><li>Crossroads of the swam</li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Alone</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Alone</strong> T1,E-3,R1<br/>Alone is a planet at the end of the che`e sphere of influence. There are no habitable planets and few humans, if any, have ever been here.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>peace and quiet</li><li>Unseen by human eyes</li><li>This is the end</li></ul></div></div>