1 post tagged “jump points”
This is a little map of how jump
points connect in the area close to Earth... which is a quite
peripheral area indeed. Basically, Earth has only one exit, that to
Ōran. (This has its own in-story reasons, should I tell them right
now?) Eren has two exits, which is why the country could secede from
Emek to begin with - an Emeki embargo would have been useless. (Eren
has always had good relations with the Alaraf Commonwealth, who
otherwise try to be on friendly terms with all their neighbors - does
wonders for business, you know.)
Emek, or as its own flashy name goes, the "Empire of the Three Stars", used to be a much larger empire - the ruins on Hīawan are one of the remainders of a bygone era. This Empire was one of the earliest spacefaring civilizations, but fell into chaos for millennia - its current rulers trace their origins back before the "Dark Ages", but such links are tenuous at best, and indeed other civilizations might actually know more about the Empire's downfall than the rulers of Emek themselves. (Those other civilizations watch current Emeki developments with amusement and the occasional cryptic comments that are to be expected.)
The "Three Stars" used to stand for the Empire's three central planets, only one of which, Saīa, is currently inhabited by the Emeki. (The other is Ōran, and no one knows about the third... some say it was Alaraf, which would certainly make sense given the jump point locations.)
The post-Dark Ages government claimed the Three Stars were Ōran, Saīa and Alaum; a quite transparent lie, since Alaum was only settled after the Emeki ventured out into space for the second time. Then with the independence of Eren, which will be discussed in tomorrow's update IY"H, Ōran was lost again - nowadays, the Three Stars are claimed to stand for Saīa, Goion and Alaum, and the establishment tries to pretend it has always been so.... with an uneasy feeling, because the only inhabited planet in the Goion system is nothing but a holiday resort. (well, at least it's a popular resort! Not too majestic, but y'know, it could've been worse.)
Eren was a quite unsuccessful mining colony orbiting a planet in the Ōran system, its only reason for existence being that it made Emek available to still claim Ōran for themselves. Even then, it was abandoned approximately 320 Earth years ago, mostly because it was constantly plagued by accidents, equipment breakdowns and the like. (Some of the miners claimed they had seen malicious spirits, and they spread many stories when they returned.) 20 years later, the moon was turned over to one of the factions in a bloody Emeki civil war as part of the Alliance-enforced peace negotiations. It declared independence, which the Alliance promptly recognized, and thus the modern-day State of Eren was born.
We're going to talk about the civil war in quite some depth pretty soon, but tomorrow IY"H I will post stuff about Eren, why the miners saw ghosts, what the new inhabitants did about them, and what does David Chalmers have to do with all this.
A final note: this map uses the Ereni names for everything, but those might not be the more commonly used names on Earth - Ereni phonotactics is quite restrictive (see the previous post...) and does away with most word-final consonants. Alarafu is called "Alaraf" both by its inhabitants and Earthlings. Maybe next time I should just use Alliance Standard... :P
Emek, or as its own flashy name goes, the "Empire of the Three Stars", used to be a much larger empire - the ruins on Hīawan are one of the remainders of a bygone era. This Empire was one of the earliest spacefaring civilizations, but fell into chaos for millennia - its current rulers trace their origins back before the "Dark Ages", but such links are tenuous at best, and indeed other civilizations might actually know more about the Empire's downfall than the rulers of Emek themselves. (Those other civilizations watch current Emeki developments with amusement and the occasional cryptic comments that are to be expected.)
The "Three Stars" used to stand for the Empire's three central planets, only one of which, Saīa, is currently inhabited by the Emeki. (The other is Ōran, and no one knows about the third... some say it was Alaraf, which would certainly make sense given the jump point locations.)
The post-Dark Ages government claimed the Three Stars were Ōran, Saīa and Alaum; a quite transparent lie, since Alaum was only settled after the Emeki ventured out into space for the second time. Then with the independence of Eren, which will be discussed in tomorrow's update IY"H, Ōran was lost again - nowadays, the Three Stars are claimed to stand for Saīa, Goion and Alaum, and the establishment tries to pretend it has always been so.... with an uneasy feeling, because the only inhabited planet in the Goion system is nothing but a holiday resort. (well, at least it's a popular resort! Not too majestic, but y'know, it could've been worse.)
Eren was a quite unsuccessful mining colony orbiting a planet in the Ōran system, its only reason for existence being that it made Emek available to still claim Ōran for themselves. Even then, it was abandoned approximately 320 Earth years ago, mostly because it was constantly plagued by accidents, equipment breakdowns and the like. (Some of the miners claimed they had seen malicious spirits, and they spread many stories when they returned.) 20 years later, the moon was turned over to one of the factions in a bloody Emeki civil war as part of the Alliance-enforced peace negotiations. It declared independence, which the Alliance promptly recognized, and thus the modern-day State of Eren was born.
We're going to talk about the civil war in quite some depth pretty soon, but tomorrow IY"H I will post stuff about Eren, why the miners saw ghosts, what the new inhabitants did about them, and what does David Chalmers have to do with all this.
A final note: this map uses the Ereni names for everything, but those might not be the more commonly used names on Earth - Ereni phonotactics is quite restrictive (see the previous post...) and does away with most word-final consonants. Alarafu is called "Alaraf" both by its inhabitants and Earthlings. Maybe next time I should just use Alliance Standard... :P
