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Known Areas and Structures


The Plateau — An area near the edge of the theorized blast radius of the Second Sun's initial strike. Sediment surrounding the plateau indicates that it was once an island, before the thermal strike evaporated much of the surrounding ocean. It is now a section of raised ground surrounded by a vast canyon, as well as a semicircular mountain range.

Its geographical separation from the surrounding landmass, as well as its fortunate positioning relative to the former seabed and blast site, insulate it from much of the outside chaos, and give the Plateau a somewhat normal weather pattern and stable ecosystem. It is approximately forty kilometers in diameter, and its surface is something of a microcosm of the planet's former glory, containing numerous smaller biomes within its land area.

As The Plateau was the most promising area for restoration, and the area most threatened in terms of biodiversity, it was selected as the landing site for the Conservation Front Headquarters' orbital drop. It is currently considered the closest thing to a safe area that there is on the planet's surface.


The Wastes — Surrounding the plateau is utter wasteland as far as the eye can see. Hardly anything seems to live in the vicinity, and its properties are as of yet unexplored.


To be discovered...



Known Animals and Fauna


To be discovered...
The Cambria Conservation Front


"This is something that we can do. Never mistake that.
Whenever anyone tells you that terraforming a surface is infeasible, or that you can't just build planets,
tell them not to forget that we've already built three, and more than that beyond.
The only difference here is that the timetable is moved up a bit."

— Jane Hyder, CCF Head










Planet Cambria is only a shadow of what it once was. While occupied during a war too long past for any to truly remember, the Second Sun, a system-scale thermal directed energy weapon, was unleashed from orbit. The resulting ray not only completely destroyed human occupation of the planet, but stripped away critical sections of its atmosphere, leaving it near-completely unprotected from the myriad of forces of its nearby sun. The battle was won, but humans weren't the only casualties — the firing of the Second Sun constituted a mass extinction event for the once-inhabited planet.

The animals left behind began to die out, as the food chain slowly collapsed. Plants choked in an atmosphere that no longer supported their biological processes. If left alone, the planet could take billions of years to recover, if ever.

And looming over its sky, as an ever-present reminder, is the Second Sun — abandoned, but still active, and still charging. Someday, it will fire again.

The time to step in is now. We may not be able to turn back time, but we can transform the blasted planet into a place brimming with life. We can fill the gaps in the food chain. We can repair the atmosphere. We can create ecosystems for the displaced beasts. And we can take the Second Sun out of the sky.

Every animal here is endangered. The Cambria Conservation Front will change that.





Critical Point — The Cambria Conservation Front Planetary Headquarters


A single structure which was orbitally dropped to begin operations. It has enough room to house inhabitants, as well as the technology, space, and tools required for the CCF to function. Inside, animals, plants, environmental samples, and excavated artifacts can be safely detained for study and reproduction. It is also the only safe landing area on the planet for interstellar travel, with a single operable shuttle ship that can provide transport to and from the three main planets.

This singular building holds the entirety of the Conservation Front and its capabilities — if destroyed, the organization literally no longer exists. It is situated in the center of The Plateau.


Critical Point — Bioconstructors


Devices which allow for the genetic sequencing and construction of biological lifeforms. With these, animals can be designed, created, and released into the ecosystem. Jane Hyder is rather secretive about from where she obtained the technology, but admits that it was when it came into her hands that she had the idea to use it for ecological reconstruction, and transported it to Cambria to begin the CCF.

Once an analysis of a local ecosystem has been completed, and the gaps in the food chain identified, the Bioconstructors can be used to create an animal species which fills a missing role, and the created animals can then breed naturally as part of the wildlife. But foresight and caution are critical requirements when designing animals — if a mistake is made, those animals could easily become an invasive species, and only further damage the already-fragile ecosystem.

Attempts to use the Bioconstructors for human cloning do not seem to work properly, or at all. While the technology could theoretically be used for such a purpose, there seems to be a missing piece of some kind. In any case, petitions to use them for such are expressly prohibited, and in terms of sequencing and cloning non-sapient animals, they function with a high rate of accuracy. It is stressed, however, that each unit is irreplaceable, and required for the most critical function of the CCF.


Critical Point — The Second Sun


A superweapon which orbits Cambria, and caused the mass extinction event that now imperils it. It is theorized to be primarily solar-powered, and glows brightly in the planet's sky as it slowly absorbs energy from the system's true sun. Its previous controllers have abandoned it, and thus far, attempts to deactivate or reorient it have failed. As its only possible function is to destroy the planet which the Conservation Front inhabits, halting and destroying it is a primary goal for the organization. However, discovering how it works, as well as why its original creators abandoned it here after its clear success, must occur first.





Unique Ability — Cambrian Codex


All members of the Cambria Conservation Front are given a scanner. Its functions are crucial to the CCF's mission. It has the ability to DNA sequence a lifeform on physical contact, and also scan the physical makeup of nonorganic objects within a range of one meter, allowing it to identify artefacts found on the planet. All data taken by the scanner is sent to The Codex, located within the Planetary Headquarters, and is shared amongst all members of the Front.

If used off-planet, data gathered is stored and readable locally, and not shared with the Codex.


Unique Ability — Companion Microchip


Members of the Conversation Front will have ample opportunity to befriend the local wildlife. However, no animal on the planet is domesticated — in order to facilitate keeping an animal as a pet, a special microchip is needed. Each group member receives one such chip, and is encouraged to use it wisely, as new species are being discovered every day. The chip is created after a member uses their scanner on themselves, identifying it with their own biosignature. Afterwards, an animal that the Front member wishes to take as a pet must be transported to headquarters, and implanted with it.

It is important to note that the chip does not control the animal's mind — it only allows them to be convinced that the attached Front member is not a threat to them, unless action is taken to the contrary. This allows them to be handled and trained as though they were a domesticated animal, but they retain their free will, and may even see a human who is 'not a threat' as simply an easy meal.

For this reason, it is advised that voracious or especially vicious carnivores be excluded from bonding. Moreover, each Front member is fully responsible for the actions of their companion.





Territory — Cambria


A blasted planet writhing in the throes of a war long past. It no longer has anything to offer, save for the meat of starving beasts.

Its atmospheric composition is high in oxygen, as well as water vapor due to the evaporation of much of the planet's ocean. The air is humid, and the surface is covered almost entirely by clouds. While it once had two moons, they were both destroyed in the war long past, and now surround the planet as an asteroid ring, meteorites occasionally falling out of orbit. Meteor showers are a common sight on the surface, ranging from beautiful to devastating depending on their mass.

The average temperature during the day is around 50°C in most areas, and a long day cycle, as well as the presence of the Second Sun, means that comparatively little time on the surface is spent in a cool night. Its size and gravity are not noticeably different from those of the three main planets. The surface is traversible without protective gear, though uncomfortably, due to the high temperature and humidity.





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@SIGINTJane Hyder (Leader)
@NormieDr. Elenwen
Of course. The group thread isn't up yet, though.
We're still designing it, but I think what we have right now is mostly post-meteor dinoplanet + destroyed/salvageable tech from a previous humanoid occupation.

That said, you do you. The planet is supposed to be defined by the participants to an extent.

Still co-drafting the group submission.
I don't have a problem with adding in dinosaurs.

I'm starting a writeup now...


Frixion Prime — Outskirts — Canal Sector Twelve
@Antarctic Termite @Patches
"...You said that...we'd stick together..."

"But...you abandoned me...back then..."

"And you've...abandoned me...now, too...huh...?"



Mary stared forlornly up at the clouds. The same sky where she had stood and watched, while her с̶̨̛͡е͢͟͜͞с̸̡́̀т̢́́■͏͜҉а͏̴͘͠?̵̵ slowly float away from her, like a balloon that she had let go and couldn't get back.

What happened to balloons, when you lost them in the sky? Did they float out into space? Waaaay into space? Super far away into space where you had to chase after them through all the stars and suns?

Probably.


"Dingy death factory...?" The little girl was noticeably forlorn, her mind wandering elsewhere and her ears not listening, perking up at least enough to pay attention to the phrase. "Yeah..." Her brain was scattered, and there were a lot of things that she didn't understand. But she at least understood a few feelings. "...I...lost something here." She said seemingly unprompted. "Someone I...loved? I think? I feel like she's like that..." Trying the best she could to vocalize her inner thoughts, she shifted uncomfortably next to Ayem. "But...even though that's true...every time I see her, she dies, and my arms keep stabbing her. It happened over and over and over. And then she just...floated away, like it was nothing..."

...Jealousy? Envy? Was that it?

"I wanna float away, too. It's not that I don't love Papa, I really do. But I wanna be able to just float away and go places and do things, like she can...like she's doing right now." The girl frowned, with no proper measure to know how well she was articulating herself at all. "But, I'm too little, I guess. But if I'll always be too little anyway, why does it matter...?"


Frixion Prime — Main Road
@Antarctic Termite @Patches
Mary fidgeted uncomfortably, her arms swaying back and forth, but with a small element of stiffness to them. "I don't really get it, but okay..." They wanted to find her caretakers? She supposed some of them might still be alive...even then, calling Papa would be a better choice. But then she'd have to explain why she didn't call him right away instead of going off on her own. He might get mad. Well, he doesn't really get mad, but he might be all, like, displeased. So maybe it was better not to. But...if they wanted her to...but she didn't want to...then who's wants want to want when one wants want what another's wants don't want?

"So...Canally place, and then the ship?" She asked, trying to get a better sense of where they wanted to take her. "Okeydoke. I can take us there if you don't know the way."
@FrankenDaughter I wouldn't be opposed to it, but I honestly don't know if I'd be able to keep up with you two @_@ At most I can do once a day posts, and I'd probably drag you guys down...you two have a pretty awesome cadence going and it'd be awful to throw a wrench in it.


Frixion Prime — Main Road
@Antarctic Termite @Patches
"Huh? You mean all the adults that were watching me...?" Mary asked inquisitively, her eyes gazing into the far-off distance as she tried to remember — and when that quickly failed, looked up the records in her neural implant, in which the location had thankfully been taken note of. "Uhm...it was outside of the walls, like on the outskirts...umm...near Canal Sector Twelve." She spoke the words aloud as though she were reading them from something, even though there was no such source in her hands. The girl was fidgeting a bit, swinging her arms left and right. "There was a lot of fighting going on, but then a dam opened up and everyone scattered, and..."

"...Umm...am I in trouble?" The little girl asked sheepishly, her fidgeting being replaced with quiet, but telegraphed worry. "I know I'm not supposed to go around on my own, but I wanted to keep looking for her, so, and, um..." Mary frowned, holding her hands behind her back. "...I thought it would be fine if it was just for a little bit, honest..."
=D Thanks so much! I love making templates with markup stuff on forums. Sometimes people end up using them, it's totally fine~

Also, that song is really cool o_o
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