Civilization has had many highs and lows, and to start our story we will start will the lows for there have been many but some grater than others... I've chosen to call these the grate falls.

The First Fall

  A time of gods, men, and many many other things when the earth was whole and the land unbroken. With only one massive central continent and several islands large and small the world was young and in balance at first, but all things come to an end.

  The powers that held the world together started to fall out of place and the world grew dark as events started to lead up to the first fall.... not much is known about it but in the end it came down to the three grate forces of the universe: the Weaver, the Wyrm, and the Wyld.  The stories are all different but the end is not: The Weaver captured the Wyrm in it's webs, and it tore its self into parts as it tried desperately to free itself. All heard the Wyrms cries of pain and it dug it's grate talons into Gaia, and the world was split asunder.

  This was the time of the first fall.... Gaia retracted into herself in pain and sock and grew into slumber as did the wyrm, and the people suffered as the Earth was torn apart, the continents splitting and being torn from each other far faster than any scientist would try and tell you.

  Of all the glorious civilizations only Atlantis and the Rainbow City survived, however Atlantians withdrew to themselves from then on out, and the Rainbow City resided into the inner Earth to escape the coming ice age and has staid there.

The Second Fall

  After a long Ice age the world recovered and many things prospered but civilization was shattered and was forced to start over again. But ever many centuries the first city of the new age rose, Babylon. As many know the fate of that city the second fall soon followed. In attempts to draw the alliance of fallen angels loyal to the support of humanity, they instead summoned angels long lost to the abyss now great and powerful demons that became known as the Earth bound.

  Once again Civilization fell this time to mans own folly though.

The Third Fall

  While Atlantis fell some time in this time for reasons unknown civilization in a whole worked to recover, and mostly thanks to vampires of all things, mankind started to rebuild.

  However when Gaia had awoken from her slumber and the lands thawed long ago she made many creatures both man and animal to watch over mankind, and they had grown to dispute there roles in the future of mankind.

  This is when the wolfs took to blood shed, they wiped out an entire breed of rats scattering them to the winds, and nearly drove the birds and bears to extinction before the others responded. Thus started the first war of rage and the third fall.

  This time it was those born of man and beast that brought things to the brink.

The Forth Fall

  Civilization flourished after the the third fall, most supernatural forces had agreed to keep there affairs out of human affairs, and this allowed humanity and civilization to spread to the far reaches of the old world. However humans themselves grasped a hold of grater and grater powers. When there magics started to take strange new forms, technology and science was born.

  At first Technology and science barely worked or simply didn't work at all. However the will workers behind it conspired agents the rest of the world and started a campaign to introduce the ways of science to the world.

  Grate and devastating wars of will workers between those using magic and those using science arose and tore the land apart. The chaos stirred up those that watched man and disputes lead to the second war of rage. Men in power saw the struggle between faith and science and used it to start holy wars that raged across the land. So came the Forth fall and the dark age that followed.

  This time those that called themselves mages struck the match that burned out of control.

Leading up to the 21st Century

  Mankind seamed to try it's best to bring about the Fith Fall in the 20th Century, with two world wars, economical disasters, plagues, incurable sexual transmitted diseases..... you name it through out time man keep stumbling over things they shouldn't have and stirring up trouble

  In the end mankind marched on though for longer than it ever has before, but everything comes to and end.

The Fith Fall

This is the big one, the one meant to be the end, the one prophosised by an angel of creation and spoken to many by the Emerald Lady/Phoenix.  The anti-Helios would arrive ushering in disasters that would tare the world apart and end all life when the two suns collided and the abyss opened onto all.

Thankfully it didn't work out that way.
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The Fith Fall: What Really Happened

The fallowing is an account of what is known of the Fith Fall (IC common knowledge) and written from IC perspective by RANDOM NPC #85726 =p lol



It started with Nemeses, or as it was first known: 2001KX76. The distant star appeared over the horizon for the first time in 2001, the red burning light on the horizon that grew brighter and brighter with each coming year. How could we have known what it meant, only those that hid in our shadows knew and they weren't telling us.

In late 2009 was the first sign something was wrong it was confirmed that 2001KX76 was a neutron star, and that it was in orbit of the sun.

Near the end of 2011 a horrible war broke out in India, at the same time every man woman and child on earth experienced the most horrid nightmares imaginable every time they closed there eye.... fire and the burning red eye in sky. Not much is known about the war, though many say it wasn't even a war at all, but it swept across the land moving NW through India up into Eastern Europe where on the third day it was ended by the deployment of new and terrible weapons that shook the world. What ever those weapons did it wasn't right, no one ever goes there, the area didn't recover it was unspeakable. To make things worse the nightmares lasted for four more days, and during the whole time people (apparently driven mad by the nightmares) around the world went crazy, killing left and right.

That was also the year that we found out 2001KX76, now dubbed Nemeses, was entering the solar system.

The weapons used to end the war, or what ever it was, were discovered to be weapons called 'reality bombs' they literately destroyed what held the fabric of reality together creating a null zone where there is absolutely nothing, everything around it complaining to fill in the lost space... in the middle of 2012, terrorist stole one. The resulting chaos was unimaginable, but in the end nothing ever seamed to happen... at first.

At the end of 2012 three things happened that should have been our end, but we got lucky.... very lucky... and according to some things are getting better than they were before, but what of the costs?

First Nemeses passed into the solar system, but thankfully before it could reach earth something strange happened (and had started far earlier that year) Jupiter orbit accelerated to intersect Nemeses.  Not many know what to think about that, but the spiritual type believe the would be sun grew jealous and hoped to ignite itself by consuming the neutron star. What ever the case may be, the two collided and consoled one another. The force of the impact was to much though and what fuel the two starts didn't burn out was dispersed when they collided. We nearly avoided a nova, instead what was resulted was a thick and heavily charged nebula that over the next decade pulled together around the asteroid belt.

Second stolen reality bomb was set off in the middle east inside Mount Quaf. Now I am not sure exactly what a correspondence point is myself, but apparently they hold time and space together... and all of the correspondence points on earth came together at mount Quaf. Who ever set the bomb off was trying to destroy the world, they failed but only nearly. What I am told did happen is what the will workers called the soul of storms. The dimensional barriers of earth where damaged and massive energies erupted out through space. Something terrible opened up that day ni the place of Mount Quaf, consumed by storms, and no one that has gone there has ever returned.

Lastly a large asteroid had been headed to earth, but inside the shadow of Mars we never saw it coming. Oddly enough the destruction of Mount Quaf saved us in a way, the energy released by it shattered and slowed the asteroid, and in the end only two large meteors hit the planet. But the impact was devastating and near the north pole in just East of Alaska and in far Western Russia. This is what ended Civilization as we know it in the end.

Thankfully people survived everywhere. Though the Destruction of Mount Quaf and the chucks of meteorite charged by it tore open countless rifts in the denominational walls. One of which turns out swallowed up Atlantis from the past (guess it wasn't destroyed).

However many of the rifts disrupt technology, and the only place it seams to work anymore is Northern America, Atlantis, parts of Eastern Europe, Northeast Australia , and a few scattered parts of South America and Japan.

There really isn't much left of the US, four broken nations are left in it's place... only two even a shadow of the beliefs of the original.

Thankful space had been explored despite the public's knowledge, and a thriving colony on the moon existed, as well as a few smaller ones. Sense then we spacers have thrived and spread out, sadly due to the soul storm we can't return to Earth but we still trade with the 'homeland'. Things have moved on for most though, and for most we are putting Earth in the past.

Hope full with us spreading out across the cosmos, there won't be a Sixth Fall.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:30, Mon 23 Jan 2012.

The fallowing is an account of what is known of the past 42 years and written from IC perspective of the same random NPC

  Well after everything went to hell most of the technocracy folks were cut off from there superior officers, and for the most part, they where happy for it. Most of the technocracy in space where willing to put the past behind them and work with the Traditions, I'm not saying it happened right away.... but over time they started to get along and in 2031 they came together officially to form the Central Colonial Government. (though I am not the only one that thinks that name needs to change, it don't look like the way back to earth will ever open up again, so you can hardly call us colonies anymore). True peace has lasted 11 years.

   But don't forget there are boggy men out here too, the Maruders and Nephandi were exiled to deep space, and they are still out there in the outer planets and beyond. Then there are the 'aliens' the so called umbrood, natural inhabitants of space, most seam to be opening up to us slowly and willing to be peaceful but thats not true for all.

 Back on earth they didn't exactly patch things up, the New World Order took the opportunity to seize power and took over most of central America from military bases in Texas. At the same time the US tried to heal itself in two separate ways on separate sides of the continent, while it seams a bunch of rats took over Florida with a small army and the power of the Founten of Life.... no I'm serious, it's not a joke, look this shit up.  In the end for nations grew out of it: The new world order founded the Universal Unified Ubiquitous Utopia (also known as the U4 city state by everyone else); the people on the west coast formed the New Republic of California  (NCR), and on the east coast they formed the United Libral Stats (ULS); the rats called there little nation the Magic Kingdom, but not many take them seriously until they try and take land from them then things don't turn out so well it seams.

  We for the most part only trade with the NCR and the ULS.  NEVER EVER trade with U4C those people are nuts, and never believe anyone that says they can take you to Earth.... you won't make it in one piece but your belongings will if you know what I mean. Just some words of advice from me to you.

  Life has returned to similar to the way things were on earth back in the day, good and bad.... speaking of that are gangs, drug runners, and the like... I'll leave some notes of the drugs you should watch out for that if your from Earth might be new to you.  But there is a name you probably heard of and that's the Neo Cappadocians. While I'm speaking about crime I wana talk about them, see back on earth they had mobsters and the like you might have hurd... well these guys have taken there place up here.  I don't know all the details but apparently some vampires tried to use modern tech to bring back a long dead race of vampires .... it didn't turn out so well.  The new race wiped out almost all the other vampires up here and have taken over crime for the most part.  Word is they are hideous monsters, and that's why they never leave there suits and the skulls on there masks. You can tell them by there suits and once you have seen one you know what they all look like. There rank is determined by the colorings and markings. The idea was each family would have there own color but so far none have sprouted off from the main one, thankfully they aren't that big yet, and they all have black and red symbols on them showing the markings of there underboss inside a smaller marking for there Caporegime. The Associates aren't allways Neo Cappadocians at all, some are human, but they all wear the armor none the less... Gray armor with black highlights. The Soldato are almost all Neo Cappadocians and wear pure white armor with black highlights.  I've never hurd of anything above a Soldato that didn't turn out to be a Neo Cappadocian. The Caporegime wear pure white armor with blood red highlights. The Underboss' look much like the Caporegime, but their symbol is larger lacking the lining of a Capo's mark and there armor is adorned with runes of some sort.


  I guess I should get to money considering things, we don't use any material currency anymore now credits are treasured and stored electronically. Most people do carry currency though in credit chips, they come in a few verities: The 100k chip that most people carry one or more of; Silver ten million credit security chips; Gold one billion credit chips; and Platinum unlimited security chips.  Security chips are mostly used for banking and one can, with passed security checks, access linked security chips.  Though for the most part people used a bank and are issued banking security chips that access there account at the bank. In addition to Credits we use Dram, the crystallized essence of the universe. Mages love the stuff, and is required to power or build many things now a days so many people will ask for Dram in payment.

  Travel, that's a big one. Well space ships get us where we need to go but landing on planets isn't so semple... seams not all planets exist in the same dimension and while you can just go down there and land there is no telling what will happen and the environments are hostile and with out life. To get to the 'true' face of a planet you have to travel through a gateway... unfortunately not many planets have them, you can though get shuttles with mater converters to take you down to other planets and moons from space stations in orbit. You also have to use a gate to get past the Crown Storm Nebula to the outer planets, and if you want to leave this system you need to use the interstellar gates.

  Computers have gotten rather advance but not as much as I would have thought, it seams the destruction of Mount Quaf caused a lot of damage to computers, something to do with the internet involving correspondence and being linked to the mountain some how.... I don't know really it's all over my head. But there isn't much of the internet left on Earth, and the only people with anything like it is Atlantis, U4C, ULS, and NCR I'm told.... again I don't know apparently you have to have some crazy correspondence skills to access Earths Internets.  We up here in space have developed what they call the inter-sphere, a internet of sorts that is connected to all the colonies. Most people just skim over the surface of the inter-sphere getting the data they need but a lot of people go deeper diving into it. It use to be only mages could do this but now anyone can and there are a few methods of such: Sensory Visitation, creates an avatar for you in the inter-sphere and some means of feedback ranging from just some goggles, to a suit to give tactile feedback. All in all, it's safe as you can get and a must if your playing a inter-sphere game. ;  Astral Immersion, this is the next step and while the name might suggest some people CAN do this just by sitting in there room closing there eyes and concentrating real hard... but most of us just use a full immersion rig. This is what they mean when they say 'jacking in' and it gives you full immersion into the web and all your senses and makes the inter-sphere as real as real life. But there dangers and if your avatar gets fucked up bad enough the feedback can kill you. ; Holistic Immersion, the last and most exstream methods of entering the inter-sphere, physically. This method digitizes your body and downloads it directly into the inter-sphere. I shouldn't have to tell you the dangers of this, but apparently some people need to do this for full access to there powers and mages like it because it allows them to work there magic from within the systems.

  The big thing, is all the supernaturals... we are slowly starting to learn our true history from them. But for the most part it's just Mages... people just like us that seam to have the power to shape reality.  There lots of them and integrations with them has been amassing. The average life span is an estimated 350 years for humans (not that it's been long enough to tell yet) with rejuvenation therapy, cybernetics can make full paraplegics even better than you or I, heck if you have the credits and they can get you to a reanimation specialist you can even be brought back to life if you die (though I've never hurd of it working aver 24 hours or more of being dead).  Things are getting rather interesting out here... though most of us born on Earth can't help but look back and wonder if we will ever be able to go to our true home.

I may fill in more here, in particular if requested.
This message was last edited by the GM at 15:55, Thu 28 July 2011.

Drugs:

For the most part drugs are allowed as long as they don't hurt anyone, as it's to much trouble to try and restrict them all.

Legal

Most blends of alcohol, marijuana, tabaco, and various other ‘earth’ drugs who’s side affects are not to extreme and the damage to the body is not anything that can be easily repaired.

Olympus Gonge - A hybrid of marijuana and a mushroom that grown in the ashes of Olympus Mons, it was created through life magics to force a normally imposable hybridization and is a form of marijuana with traits from the mushroom. The end result is an extremely powerful drug that induces trance like states and hallucinations.

Sprite – Part 1 of a group of drugs created by a virtual adept. This causes hallucinations where the user see’s everything in the form of sprits, the more is taken the less the resolution,  it has a set in low end limit of “8-bit graphics”

Rejuvenate -  Distilled version of a unknown fluid from parts unknown, highly guarded secret by those that proses it. When used properly the treatments from this drug can reduce the age of a person and extend there life span to 300~500 years with regular treatments.

Restricted or illegal in most planets

Various ‘earth’ drugs that are dangerous or deadly, as well as magically enhanced versions of other drugs that when amplified by magic are harmful.

Titanian Honey - While using bee's to pollinate some of the rare samples they managed to steal away from Titan they found that there honey had an odd affect of physically transporting people into there dreams. Rather if is the odd flowers or having the means of altering the bee's to survive in a methane biased environment, or a combination of the two... the end result is unexplainable... but highly profitable. The drug is rare and costly due to the means of it's production, but in wider and wider use. However many planets are trying to crack down on it's use due to the dangers involved. There are some blinds that are especially strong and have been rumored to result in one way trips or bringing something back with you. The drug makes the value of flowers from titan so high that people are willing to risk death on the planet's surface to try and obtain them.

Joy Pad – Part 2 of a group of drugs created by a virtual adept. It causes hallucinations where the user’s life becomes a video game to him/her, complete with power-ups and everything. Due to the unpredictability of this drug it is most often illegal or restricted to controlled environments as people have been known to get lost into violent ‘games’… thankfully the hallucinations are only based off live stimuli when available and if locked in a room alone someone on joy pad can generally run the course of the drug without endangering anyone.  While new versions with genre’s programed into the drug are available, they are mixed up with the old drug and drug dealers aren’t the most reliable people. Until the old drugs are off the market it’s unlikely the more controlled version will be legalized.

1-up – Part 3 of a group of drugs created by a virtual adept. If taken while on Joy Pad, 1-up “saves” the aspects of the hallucinations into the users brain so the next time the user takes Joy Pad there hallucinations will leave off where they came down off the last dose.

Bliss – A synthetic drug made to induce a state of peace and serenity while removing all fears.  No real drawbacks to it save the physiological effects and dilemmas it presents. Used often for stuff like people afraid of gate travel or the like, but abused a lot.

Tripwire – Hallucinogen simulator used by people with brain implants and mechanical/AI based constructs. In the form of a chip that burns out, causes damage to implants / neural pathways when abused or when it burns out violently.

Universally Illegal

Generally any type of poisons, steroid like drugs, or body altering life drugs (as they lead to pattern leakage and can be addictive)

Bad Date – Quite obviously by it’s name a date rape drug, this one was created with mind magic’s and weakens the will of those that take it. Depending on how well the victim can resist the affects the results can vary. While there are many people who would take such a drug willingly, it is still highly illegal in many places due to those that use it for darker purposes. The possible affects vary from mix and effectiveness on an individual and can be arousal, being more open to suggestions, mental regression, drossiness, submissiveness to strangers, and unable to identify people correctly.

Blood Honey – An little known strain of Titanian Honey, very little is known about the substance due to the fact that it’s very existence was suppressed for the longest time…. Whispers of it’s existence are out, but no one is really sure what exactly it dose due to the cover up around it… only that it is EXSTREAMLY illegal and blood red.

Frozen Sun –  A red substance usually crystalized looking like red salt. It is derived from a plant that can only grown on Venus, it’s fruit produces the substance to entice creatures to eat the fruit taking the seeds in, transporting them, and dying to provide nutrients for the seeds. The affects are intense pleasure and it is IMEDEATLY addictive, withdraw is excruciatingly painful and depending on the dose can cause body parts to shut down leading to death.  Many in rehab are forced to stay on full life support the entire time.  There is a large attempt to drive the plant responsible to extinction as synthesizing the substance is extremely hard.

Pigment (AKA black heroin / black H) - A designer drug featured that is cheap and easy to obtain, that is becoming a drug of choice of many addicts on Earth. Effects of pigment on the body include mild hallucinations, ecstasy, sexual arousal and, most unusually, the ability to see, hear, and talk to ghosts. It can be smoked, injected, swallowed (in the form of pills or of vials of liquid), or administered in a tattoo patch, in which case it becomes known as piggyback. Pigment can also be used to assist in projection; this is mostly done by amateurs without access to other, safer projecting drugs. It is highly addictive in any form. The ghosts of former pigment addicts are known as hues. Hues tend to be weaker than regular ghosts, and still carry cravings for the drug in death.

Sublime -  Acts as a much much stronger version of bliss, this can leave people caring about nothing not even there own survival or doing anything. While the affects on the person are only dangerous in the lack of will to do anything that is required to keep themselves alive, the side affects of withdraw is what makes it universally highly illegal. While many of the affects of sublime contune well after it wares off, on the level of the drub bliss, the affects of withdraw add exstream aggression. With the affects of bliss with the need for more sublime and the heightened aggression turns users in voilent, fearless, and heartless killers that will do anything it takes to get more sublime caring nothing for the lives of others or themselves.


Will add more later or if requested
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Ship Classes

Shuttles
This covers most non-military craft as well military transports. This incluids ships of all sizes, however it's usually used to talk about smaller ships.

Transports
Usually reserves for larger trade vessels to large to be called shuttles.

Fighters
The smallest of military vessels, usually armed one man attack ships.

Corvettes, Frigates, Destroyer, Cruiser, Battleship
The core and heart of fleets and are the categories of military ships organized by size with Corvette being the smallest and a Battleship being the largest.

Carrier
Usually Cruisers or larger, carriers are large military ships built to transport and deploy smaller ships. They are usually heavy armored and used to protect damaged ships while they are repaired while being protected from concentrated fire by smaller smaller ships.

Dreadnought
Massive ships of unimaginable size, usually double the size of the largest of battleships.

Sovran
These ships of small islands or largest of cities, at times even larger. They are miles long and are rather rare to see or be hurd of.

Atlas
These ships are the size of moons, of planets. Unimaginable as it may be there is at least one true atlas ship. Other flax-atlas ships exists where moons have been converted into a Mobile fortress.