Checking to see if there is any interest for a "Lost Planet" style RP here. Now when i say style, i don't plan to have us go to EDN3, deal with NEVEC and the acrid, but rather something similar. At it's core, Lost planet was about surviving on a frigid hell hole against the elements and dealing with the not so friendly wildlife. Sure there was the underlying story of how earth was going through a catastrophic energy crisis and the atrocities that were committed on EDN3 were in the end justified to save the earth, but ya had to do a lot of digging throughout the 3 games to get that understanding. if you ever managed to get immersed in the series (lost planet 2 excluded, kinda hard to get immersed in that with all the Japanese sentai culture packed into that) it was actually a rather interesting experience, and that's something i'd like to try and touch on and recreate. So with that out of the way, Welcome to Corona.
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Corona was discovered only around two centuries ago by galactic explorers. initial readings of the planet showed that it was rather rich in water and had abundant deposits of rare ore. Now in the galactic sense of things water is fairly rare, so when you find it you take special note of that fact, especially if its in large quantities. Unfortunately for the explorer's readings, due to Corona being in the middle of a dense Nebula they were unable to get readings on the surface temperature or general environment down on the planet's surface, but they had found water, that was the important part. Nearly a century and a half later an official expedition was sent to Corona to try and set up a science station in an attempt to learn more about the planet. three Expedition ships were sent there. The Akula, The Singapore, and the Texona. In the beginning life was harsh, they literally had to salvage everything they brought with them just to survive on the planet, as they found out the hard way this was no tropical paradise but rather a frozen hell hole despite being in the fabled "Goldylocks zone" in orbit around the system's star. To make matters worse there were no decent landing zones causing the Singapore and the Texona to break through the ground upon landing, and while the Singapore was presumed lost, the Texona managed to salvage the situation despite falling into a several kilometer deep ravine. And while the Akula managed to land on a mostly stable area, the years were not kind to it. constant snow storms burred the massive expedition ship in years and constant catastrophic storms and ice shifts left the Akula buried under a dome of snow with only it's planetary antenna managing to stick up out of the mess.
All of that was around 50 years ago or so, and to be honest, Corona is still a frozen hell hole. Now though the colonies are getting an influx of people. A group of mechanized miners signed up to go to a planet not marked on any galactic map, a group of miners signed up to go to Corona. After receiving lucrative offers from a recherche institution of course. These miners didn't even know what they were getting into. Last year their RIGs were shipped to Corona to prep for their arrival, this year though, the miners themselves arrive... and all they were told was to dress warm.
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Post a comment if you're interested. Let me know what you like, don't like, or have concerns about. It's all fine and good if you just read it and want to move on, but please, leave a comment, give me some sort of feedback.
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Corona was discovered only around two centuries ago by galactic explorers. initial readings of the planet showed that it was rather rich in water and had abundant deposits of rare ore. Now in the galactic sense of things water is fairly rare, so when you find it you take special note of that fact, especially if its in large quantities. Unfortunately for the explorer's readings, due to Corona being in the middle of a dense Nebula they were unable to get readings on the surface temperature or general environment down on the planet's surface, but they had found water, that was the important part. Nearly a century and a half later an official expedition was sent to Corona to try and set up a science station in an attempt to learn more about the planet. three Expedition ships were sent there. The Akula, The Singapore, and the Texona. In the beginning life was harsh, they literally had to salvage everything they brought with them just to survive on the planet, as they found out the hard way this was no tropical paradise but rather a frozen hell hole despite being in the fabled "Goldylocks zone" in orbit around the system's star. To make matters worse there were no decent landing zones causing the Singapore and the Texona to break through the ground upon landing, and while the Singapore was presumed lost, the Texona managed to salvage the situation despite falling into a several kilometer deep ravine. And while the Akula managed to land on a mostly stable area, the years were not kind to it. constant snow storms burred the massive expedition ship in years and constant catastrophic storms and ice shifts left the Akula buried under a dome of snow with only it's planetary antenna managing to stick up out of the mess.
All of that was around 50 years ago or so, and to be honest, Corona is still a frozen hell hole. Now though the colonies are getting an influx of people. A group of mechanized miners signed up to go to a planet not marked on any galactic map, a group of miners signed up to go to Corona. After receiving lucrative offers from a recherche institution of course. These miners didn't even know what they were getting into. Last year their RIGs were shipped to Corona to prep for their arrival, this year though, the miners themselves arrive... and all they were told was to dress warm.
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Post a comment if you're interested. Let me know what you like, don't like, or have concerns about. It's all fine and good if you just read it and want to move on, but please, leave a comment, give me some sort of feedback.
