But there are other humans out there, too. The descendants of the Technocrats who were able to flee the planet in time have settled on Thule, one of Windswept’s four moons, exporting the pyramidal architecture of their colony to this much more modest place. They no longer have the means to build huge warships, but they often raid the ship Windswept for supplies, technology… and to break free as many slaves as they can cramp into their small, fast and deadly combat ships. They need to refresh their gene pool as often as they can, as they’re not a numerous people.
The other, larger group still free, the descendants of the Earth-children, are always in space. They live aboard their huge, organic ship, the Leviathan, that can house at least twenty thousand people – not that they’d come near to that number. They have managed to salvage the hibernation technology of the old Windswept, and extracted the still cryogenically frozen embryos, only a third of which had been used to populate the colony centuries earlier. From time to time, they add new individuals to their population from those storage units, to keep the gene pool healthy. They, too, often raid the Windswept, but their main goal is the freeing of the slaves. Some of them have a thin trace of Fury blood in their veins, but it’s usually not visible.
The two groups have agreed in a truce, as long as the cyborgs of the ship Windswept still are a serious threat for both. They also both intend to gain back the northern continent of the planet, but for that, they’d have to eradicate the Kraken from the ocean, which is a questionable task, both ethically and from the point of it being physically possible or not. There are no real guarantees that they’d be able to coexist in a peaceful manner, should any of those common threats be removed.
That's basically it. There is a short character list, too, but it's all in a very rough state yet.
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Winswept outline, Part 3
Date: 2009-02-25 10:52 pm (UTC)The other, larger group still free, the descendants of the Earth-children, are always in space. They live aboard their huge, organic ship, the Leviathan, that can house at least twenty thousand people – not that they’d come near to that number. They have managed to salvage the hibernation technology of the old Windswept, and extracted the still cryogenically frozen embryos, only a third of which had been used to populate the colony centuries earlier. From time to time, they add new individuals to their population from those storage units, to keep the gene pool healthy. They, too, often raid the Windswept, but their main goal is the freeing of the slaves. Some of them have a thin trace of Fury blood in their veins, but it’s usually not visible.
The two groups have agreed in a truce, as long as the cyborgs of the ship Windswept still are a serious threat for both. They also both intend to gain back the northern continent of the planet, but for that, they’d have to eradicate the Kraken from the ocean, which is a questionable task, both ethically and from the point of it being physically possible or not. There are no real guarantees that they’d be able to coexist in a peaceful manner, should any of those common threats be removed.
That's basically it. There is a short character list, too, but it's all in a very rough state yet.