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Planet Postmoderna Background Story (V 06.2010)

Planet Postmoderna Background Story (V 06.2010)

In the not too distant future, a desperate global financial crisis left most of the inhabitants of Earth feeling hopeless and wanting for change and a new life. They wanted to find a new home. Since the discovery of the super plasma/antimatter drive, exploration efforts boomed but did not find any habitable planets beyond our solar system. The world at that time was hopeful to fine a habitable planet in the closest system of Alpha Centauri, but most efforts just ended up with bankrupt corporations who had dumped almost everything into exploring the nearest star system.

Not all the companies found themselves in crisis. New Worlds Corporation (NWC), was one that specialized in multiple technologies. Space travel was just one part. It made most of its business mark in military tech, virtual world simulations (through NWC Enterainment), and mining which, it used its space tech for. It was one of the first to set up resource and mining outposts between Earth and Alpha Centauri. NWC and a few other companies continued to pour financial resources into their mining operations and the exploration of even new ventures and technologies.

But….the people of Earth were still desperate to find a new home and living on Earth was anything but desirable. It was for this reason that NWC made a fortune in Virtual World Entertainment. The people needed NWC.

A NWC cargo transport was enroute to one of its space stations which lay halfway between our system and the Alpha Centauri system. Somewhere along its route, the transport and cargo vessel encountered an unexplained space anomaly. The anomaly gave off very strange readings that didn’t match anything encountered so far. The ship approached the anomaly and found it looked more like a tear in space. On the other side, was a blue-green planet that looked much like Earth.

The crew proceeded to investigate, firing a probe through the tear to get some additional readings from the other side and to see if they might be able to pass through. The tear was much too small for the transport but one of the 2 heavy-lifter shuttles docked to the outside of the transport might be able to. Everything seemed safe so a survey team was sent to the planet.

The new world, was covered by vast oceans and dense forests and land masses that were spread out and expansive. The crew settled on landing on the central continent in a valley that resembled an overgrown crater. Peppering the landscape were rock riddled with veins of purple crystal. Later, what the crew and NWC learn about these formations would change the course of Earth technology forever.

When the survey teams returned and made their report to HQ the New Worlds Corp Offices wasted no time getting back to the transport, Black Venture, with insistent plans for the teams to continue to explore the planet. HQ had determined overwhelmingly by the data they received that this planet would merit more study. They felt it would be just the location they needed for the corporation’s new base of operations. NWC also dreamed big. They thought a tourism and entertainment hub for this area of space would be ideal. Afterall, it was halfway between Earth and the Alpha Centauri System and workers and minors could use a break on a beautiful world. NWC saw an even bigger picture though.

NWC HQ knew people would pay big money to come here and settle on a this new world. It knew this place was a goldmine for settlers and colonists from Earth and, it was all NWC’s. They discovered it.

Lastly, this planet would also serve as a secluded location for the further experimentation and advancement of New World’s technologies, developed far from prying eyes. NWC began operations immediately.

The pair of heavy lifters were sent to the surface and put down an expandable communications tower, satcom dish and several domed structures. This site was to become NWC’s Base Camp, their base of operations. Set-up continued for a few days then upon one of the return flights, the space tear collapsed and crushed one of the heavy lifters as it passed through. The second one was forced to return to Base Camp.

The remaining supplies still need to get to the planet. After a few hours the space tear seemed to have stabilized but it was too small to send anything through but a transport pod. The pods, bulky cargo containers, were retrofitted to carry people as well. They were only large enough to contain 2-3 crew members and the remaining supplies and equipment. Unfortunately, they were not designed to be retrieved so when the Black Venture ran out of the pods and all the initial survey data had been compiled it had to return home.

As the survey teams began their exploration of the planet they found a few things very curious, artifacts and structures that resembled those from Ancient Mexico, both Aztec and Mayan in appearance. The crew also discovered more of the mysterious crystalline mineral in a canyon not far from Base Camp. The crystals clusters were much larger and were nearly unbreakable. They all emitted and absorbed energy like a battery; the crystals grew dark by day and glowed at night.

It did not take long for HQ to start sending supply convoys and cargo vessels busting at the seams with supply pods and enough workers and materials to finish the first base and continue exploration of this new planet.

There was growing evidence that this planet had been inhabited by beings somehow connected with the vanished civilizations of Earth and many more others. These creatures seemed to, when at the height of their civilization, manipulate nature and space itself. They could travel long distances without spacecraft using planetary alignments and some kind of link between them. The problem was that some of these doorways would remain open only for a few hundred years and then closed for thousands more before they could be reopened again.

These beings also created creatures, plant life, structures and machines that were a blend of mineral and organic. The life that has been discovered so far on Postmoderna seemed no more than primitive. These creatures could not have possibly engineered these mysterious alien technologies or have been been able to explore space. So where did the advanced creatures go?

NWC scientists learned more about the ancient markings and written languages they discovered. They found they resembled the ancient text from areas on Earth like Central and South America, Africa, and ancient Greece and farther back, Mesopotamia. New Worlds spared no expense to bring in specialists to translate the text. Some text they deciphered and others they could not. That just deepened the mystery. These other texts were unlike anything the scientists have seen before.

As this story develops, we will see that the creatures native to Postmoderna, the Zilthai (means Shadow of God), will stop at nothing to protect their knowledge when they return to find new hosts on one of their pet planets.