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The Tide Will Return (Space, Nation, Fantasy)

There are a people in the "southern" quadrant of the Galaxy who are possessed of large, leathery wings and scaled bodies. They come in many varieties, but the ones most often encountered outside of their space are bipedal and approximately person-sized. As an empire, they managed to come out of the Black Year having fared much better than anyone else. They did have their hands full, and they certainly suffered their own losses, but they were not set back in the same way other empires were. Even so, they are a people that keep to themselves, and prefer to be left alone. Draconian ships have been a very rare sighting since the Black Year, when they all retreated to their own territory. More of a legend, these days.

Our story will focus on the eastern and northern quadrants, to start.

The Tide Will Return (Space, Nation, Fantasy)

@WolfHorns mmm. Hmmm. Yes, I see... Well, they are related, certainly. I should be able to fit your character into the narrative, although we might need to hammer out a couple things. I'll hit you up with a narrative and see what you think.

Nice ship. @HEAVY METAL

@Lurking Shadow That's certainly something a chunk of Scourge could do. A strong enough mind and spirit might even be able to control it for a while. I'm thinking about, maybe, Scourge-corrupted Luminium. I'll need to think about the implications of that.

Edit: oh, I got a message

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I suppose I'm just after some particular detail. What is it made of, how does it work, that kinda thing. We can discuss this over PM or discord. Maybe I'll put a server together, too.

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I'm not saying no immediately, but we'll talk about it. On that note, I'll describe my space crystal a little more.

Dubbed Luminium for it's considerable, slightly blue glow, one kilogram of this crystal gives off a constant, low energy signal, and results in high yield in a starship's reactor. It is not radioactive, and instead of experiencing a half-life, the crystal tends to grow after harvest. Not much has been discovered about the crystal's properties beyond it's use as fuel, though it doesn't seem to grow much in the barren, dead places it has been found.

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@Lurking Shadow Sounds pretty interesting, but there's a few problems some things I've yet to reveal have with that. Specifically the crystal. I already have a space crystal I'm going to introduce, and perhaps we can discuss your crystal in some more detail, but might I suggest a chunk of Scourge tech, or an entire crashed ship, perhaps? Of course, that introduces its own problems, but that may also give us some interesting options in the future.

Oh, wait, I think I did mention it. Haha, I threw myself off because I described it as a mineral.

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One scavenger and one, ah, undecided. Waiting for more juicy lore? Well, you shall have it.

The after effects of the apocalypse on galactic civilization have been far-reaching. Such wide-spread destruction and death set manufacturing and engineering back centuries in some places, introducing an era of technological decay. Some planets have enough old ruins that entire industries develop around salvage and repair, lacking the knowledge or technology themselves to reproduce the things they can find. Old space ships, from before the Black Year, are extremely valuable, and powerful, supposing the systems are in good repair.

Some planets have been sent back to pre-space eras, which spelt the doom of some settlements without sufficient agricultural or ranching infrastructure, or the natural resources to support a population. These graveyard worlds have been giving curious energy readings, but superstition keeps folks away, those stories if vengeful spirit and such that have been cropping up recently.

Edit: Oh, hello.

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I shoulda clicked on the user when I check the notification. Tsk.

@WolfHorns@HEAVY METAL you folks still there? Great to hear some interest. Did you have anything in mind for what you wanted to do?

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I swear someone else gave the thread a like. I wonder where they went?

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Spirits and ghosts have begun to make their way through the rumor mills once more, and with a prevalence that cannot be overlooked. Ancient legends find their place in the conversations at bars, some poor soul claiming his hauler got eaten by a dragon come from the ground or some such, or to have seen a ghost ship, or have been swarmed by a clot of wraiths on the trade lane and managed to escape in a pod. Many stories, maybe even some true ones.

In recent years, deposits of a peculiar, prospectors began to discover deposits of a previously undiscovered mineral on certain planets. Such planets typically teemed with life, and lacked heavy urban development. The deposits would be found in the forest or deep in a mushroom grove of many glowing colors, itself within a cave. At the floor of an ocean world, and some gas giants have even begun to give strange readings.

The mineral seems to be some kind of crystallized energy, though scientists are still trying to figure out how to work with it.

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The Scourge. Horrendous abominations of flesh, metal and mineral, it absorbs all in order to make the most efficient machine possible. Impossibly ugly, but indeed incredibly efficient, the Scourge ravaged the civilized universe before vanishing, almost entirely and all at once. This was not before it had wrought unprecedented destruction, especially to the Terran Empire. For all accounts, it had been outright destroyed, leaving any humans still alive without an ancestral homeworld, or an empire of their own kind.

Though most of the Scourge has gone, remnants remain. Incapable of production on any meaningful scale, Scourge forces only grow when fed, doubling the importance of keeping people away from known Scourge zones. Not much is known about the Scourge, beyond its horrifying nature. Some fools try to use it for prosthetics, seeking the ridiculous power of the hideous force, but such ideas inevitably turn against them.