This takes place on Cetalon, a planet located 20,000 lightyears from any known inhabited planets, hidden in a nebula inside of the Artometus galaxy. Cetalon is surrounded by an extremely thick asteroid belt (nearly 5,000 miles in every direction), making space flight incredibly difficult in the area, to the point that getting a spaceship here is impossible. The climate of Cetalon is much like Earth, but it is a fair bit colder, and the sun casts a red, dying-looking light, and long shadows. Cetalon is impossible to find by space travel.
In the year 301 AR (AR means "Advanced Rail", the time period where information began to flow more freely round the planet of Cetalon, due to the modes of transportation that were introduced. Also known as the Second Age), a planet was discovered by an astronomer, using a telescope. It was named Cebathalus 2, after a philosopher from long ago.
Then, in the year 2996 AR, A group of astronomers were watching belt of asteroids surrounding their home planet (Cetalon), and they just so happened to peer at Cebathalus 2 through a very high-powered telescope. In awe of what they saw, they dropped their mission, and peered at it for months on end, gathering data from the sights they saw, studying the clouds and gazing at it with thermal telescopes. The telemitry indicated that it was incredibly similar to Cetalon (the home planet of all known races), and the next generation of Boolean astronomical robots (3011 AR onward) attempted to use the flight to their furthest moon as a stepping stone to get there. They failed, however, due to the under-developed technology of spacecraft, but a corrupt government reported that it had a more hospitable climate, and was rich in resources. A new sensation swept throughout the people of Cetalon, one that had not been felt ever before. That of a new kind of exploration. There was a race to construct huge ships, capable of long distance travel, and that sparked a war. It was a most violent conflict, and new machinery was needed. The planet was industrialized, and covered in machines, even moreso than it was before. Once the war was won, in 3031 AR, (the victors being the Sileans), and the ships constructed, a peace treaty was signed by the major powers, and most of the civilizations left their planet in the great Colonial Ships, bound for Cebathalus 2, leaving behind their homes and work, and the planet was settled when the ships supposedly reached it in 3056 AR. They had no way of communicating with Cetalon though, and the ships overpressurized and blew up once they cleared the asteroid belt. The supposed landing of the ships (which was observed through a telescope) was actually a dust storm on the surface of Cebathalus 2. The travellers left behind vast industrial civilizations on their home planet, however, and Cetalon started to reclaim its lost land. Most of the areas that were once occupied by cities are now forests, filled with lost buildings and interesting machinery left to rust. This planet, once named Cetalon, is now called Rustland. Those who couldn't get on the ships (very few people were left behind), stayed on Cetalon and formed into their own little groups.
The year is now 3087 AR, 31 years after society left Rustland. Some alliances/clans have been formed. The planet has retreated into a state of feral wilderness.
Most, if not all of the land remains abandoned, filled with broken and rusting machines and cities. The total count of people on Rustland is somewhere around the mark of 60,500.
The largest of these groups is known by the name "Kratal's Fists". It is a coalition of the people who rejected the peace treaty, and they are hostile to anyone who has left the planet, or who has proven to be dangerous. They are very territorial, and are known to start wars frequently. Their main goal is to get off Rustland, while breaking up the peace pact.
Most people tend to stick together in smaller groups, such as families, although there are other, smaller factions. Many people still hang on to the old ideals, such as chivalry and honor. Although, there is no honor in war.
There is now an ongoing war between factions, and many people are hostile. Most, if not all of the land remains abandoned, filled with broken and rusting machines and cities. Civilization is carried on by very small towns, and vast tracts of land remain wilderness, and full of danger. The towns are still surrounded by the vast walls left over from the Exodus War (The name for the conflicts which determined who constructed the ships), many people living in them seem to be fearful of strange creatures out of folklore, which supposedly lurk outside the walls of their city.
The shadow of the Wicker Men shall come again!
The technology is a mix of dieselpunk and steampunk, with the former excluding hover-cars. There are combat walkers, fire-arms tend to be WW1 era, and tanks and WW2-era planes exist. There are combat walkers, and occasionally an Ironfather (a 7-story-tall metal mechanization) will be used.
In the year 301 AR (AR means "Advanced Rail", the time period where information began to flow more freely round the planet of Cetalon, due to the modes of transportation that were introduced. Also known as the Second Age), a planet was discovered by an astronomer, using a telescope. It was named Cebathalus 2, after a philosopher from long ago.
Then, in the year 2996 AR, A group of astronomers were watching belt of asteroids surrounding their home planet (Cetalon), and they just so happened to peer at Cebathalus 2 through a very high-powered telescope. In awe of what they saw, they dropped their mission, and peered at it for months on end, gathering data from the sights they saw, studying the clouds and gazing at it with thermal telescopes. The telemitry indicated that it was incredibly similar to Cetalon (the home planet of all known races), and the next generation of Boolean astronomical robots (3011 AR onward) attempted to use the flight to their furthest moon as a stepping stone to get there. They failed, however, due to the under-developed technology of spacecraft, but a corrupt government reported that it had a more hospitable climate, and was rich in resources. A new sensation swept throughout the people of Cetalon, one that had not been felt ever before. That of a new kind of exploration. There was a race to construct huge ships, capable of long distance travel, and that sparked a war. It was a most violent conflict, and new machinery was needed. The planet was industrialized, and covered in machines, even moreso than it was before. Once the war was won, in 3031 AR, (the victors being the Sileans), and the ships constructed, a peace treaty was signed by the major powers, and most of the civilizations left their planet in the great Colonial Ships, bound for Cebathalus 2, leaving behind their homes and work, and the planet was settled when the ships supposedly reached it in 3056 AR. They had no way of communicating with Cetalon though, and the ships overpressurized and blew up once they cleared the asteroid belt. The supposed landing of the ships (which was observed through a telescope) was actually a dust storm on the surface of Cebathalus 2. The travellers left behind vast industrial civilizations on their home planet, however, and Cetalon started to reclaim its lost land. Most of the areas that were once occupied by cities are now forests, filled with lost buildings and interesting machinery left to rust. This planet, once named Cetalon, is now called Rustland. Those who couldn't get on the ships (very few people were left behind), stayed on Cetalon and formed into their own little groups.
The year is now 3087 AR, 31 years after society left Rustland. Some alliances/clans have been formed. The planet has retreated into a state of feral wilderness.
Most, if not all of the land remains abandoned, filled with broken and rusting machines and cities. The total count of people on Rustland is somewhere around the mark of 60,500.
The largest of these groups is known by the name "Kratal's Fists". It is a coalition of the people who rejected the peace treaty, and they are hostile to anyone who has left the planet, or who has proven to be dangerous. They are very territorial, and are known to start wars frequently. Their main goal is to get off Rustland, while breaking up the peace pact.
Most people tend to stick together in smaller groups, such as families, although there are other, smaller factions. Many people still hang on to the old ideals, such as chivalry and honor. Although, there is no honor in war.
There is now an ongoing war between factions, and many people are hostile. Most, if not all of the land remains abandoned, filled with broken and rusting machines and cities. Civilization is carried on by very small towns, and vast tracts of land remain wilderness, and full of danger. The towns are still surrounded by the vast walls left over from the Exodus War (The name for the conflicts which determined who constructed the ships), many people living in them seem to be fearful of strange creatures out of folklore, which supposedly lurk outside the walls of their city.
The shadow of the Wicker Men shall come again!
The technology is a mix of dieselpunk and steampunk, with the former excluding hover-cars. There are combat walkers, fire-arms tend to be WW1 era, and tanks and WW2-era planes exist. There are combat walkers, and occasionally an Ironfather (a 7-story-tall metal mechanization) will be used.
