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By the dawn of the [[23rd century]], [[human]]s have visited every planet in the [[Solar System]]. A roving mass of man-made satellites swarm about [[Sol]], and some three hundred million people do not call [[Earth]] home.
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What follows is a collection of overviews covering the setting of [[Solar Storms]].
  
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The vast majority of those who call themselves human are nearly [[immortal]]; over a billion people have entered their third century, and in the next few decades, a few will complete it. Genetic engineering has gone from curing the ills of aging and defects, to enhancing the [[human]] mind as well as the body. With each passing year, the limits of [[human]]ity's horizon seem to grow ever outward.
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=== [[Solar Storms Timeline|Timeline]] ===
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A history of the previous two centuries of [[humanity]]:
  
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Though the drums of war beat silently in space, all can hear them. The [[Solar Consortium]], fresh into its power, attempted to stamp out those that could one day challenge its might. The symbol of its failure is [[Ouranos Prime]], a gathering of whom their government would see extinct.
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* The [[21st century]] saw [[artificial sapience]], the discovery of the [[soul]], [[immortal]]ity, the [[Prometheus Accords]], the advent of [[fusion]], and the [[Great Exile]] are the highlights of this period, though it is also notable for the near-brush with [[World War III]].
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* The [[22nd century]] saw the terraforming and colonization of [[Mars]], inexpensive [[Earth]]-to-orbit propulsion, the colonization and development of the [[Moon]], the discovery [[tachyon]]s and of primitive life around [[Alpha Centauri]] and the subsequent launch of the [[Centaurus Mission]], and the [[Martian Conflict]] overthrowing the governments of [[Earth]] to give rise to the [[Solar Consortium]].
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Over a century has passed since the [[Prometheus Accords]], and the development of the [[Alpha Strain]]. This genetic modification divided [[human]]ity into two camps - those that [[exile|rejected technology]], and those who embraced it. The former cast themselves out of society, now living as hunter-gatherers, struggling alongside the common animals. For their faith, those who embraced technology, and the [[Alpha Strain]], no longer know age.
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* Though nascent, the [[23rd century]] has seen the discovery of the [[mobius pattern]]s, the appearance of [[angel]]s, [[pyrrhan]]s, and [[striatvari]], as well as [[wraith]]s and the [[infested]]. [[Human]]s complete the first true [[megastructure]]s, [[Ouranos Prime]], the [[Clark Ring]] and the [[Martian Ring]], during the first decade.
  
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With natural causes of death almost unheard of, genetic engineering is taking [[human]]ity to new heights. The [[Prometheus Accords]] called for further genetic modifications to [[human]]ity. [[Alpha Excelsior]], the [[Beta Strain]], and the [[Gamma Project]] all continue to seek a different idealized version of the [[human]] form.
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=== [[Solar Storms Developments|Developments]] ===
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Kind of the 'miscellanious' setting section, mostly linking to specific important discoveries that don't fit elsewhere, and ones that do that deserve to stand out. These have shaped the [[Solar System]] over the past two centuries. Some key ones are:
  
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Those who left refused to call these strains [[human]].
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* [[Immortal]]ity and the [[Prometheus Accords]]
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* The discovery of the [[soul]]
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* The [[mobius pattern]]s
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* The [[terraforming]] of [[Earth]] and [[Mars]]
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* The [[Great Rings]] - the [[Clarke Ring]] and the [[Martian Ring]]
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* The adoption of the [[Solar Calendar]]
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* Miscellanious points, such as [[solipsism syndrome]], [[Rare Earth]], and the [[suicide problem]]
  
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Shortly after the discovery of the [[mobius pattern]]s, the first team that worked on the [[Gamma Project]] made an exotic breakthrough, finding a similar alternate realm, and incorporating it into their work.  The official report of the [[Solar Consortium]] is that the experiment caused brutal, painful deaths for all involved.
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=== [[Solar Storms Technology|Technology]] ===
  
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Some know better.
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=== [[Solar Storms Organizations|Organizations]] ===
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During the American battle for independence, and the development of the mighty nation that arose from it, one of the founding notions has ever been:
 
  
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"All people are created equal."
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=== [[Solar Storms Systems|Systems]] ===
  
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That notion is dying, on several levels.
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=== [[Solar Storms Society|Society]] ===
  
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Are [[artificial sapience]]s people? What of people created by the hand of [[human]]ity, formed together out of organs, a synthetic fusion of flesh and machine?
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=== [[Solar Storms Constructs|Constructs]] ===
  
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Can one honestly argue that a normal, pureblood [[human]] is, in any way, equal to one of the advanced [[strain]]s?
 
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There is a desire, for many people, to move up in the world, to take this power for themselves. Outside of the songs, much of it is firmly locked in the hands of those who already had power after the [[Martian Conflict]].
 
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And, for all that, no amount of money will allow a person to find their own [[Song]].  No amount of power will make one [[Chosen]].
 
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Only one's own merits can prove worthy.
 
 
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Revision as of 17:18, 7 May 2006

What follows is a collection of overviews covering the setting of Solar Storms.

Timeline

A history of the previous two centuries of humanity:

Developments

Kind of the 'miscellanious' setting section, mostly linking to specific important discoveries that don't fit elsewhere, and ones that do that deserve to stand out. These have shaped the Solar System over the past two centuries. Some key ones are:

Technology

Organizations

Systems

Society

Constructs

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