Faction:Forsaken - Revision history

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‎Overview

Erk: /* Forsaken */

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‎Forsaken

Erk: /* Late-Period Forsaken: The Sundered */

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‎Late-Period Forsaken: The Sundered

Erk: /* Mid-period Forsaken: The Spaceraces */

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‎Mid-period Forsaken: The Spaceraces

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‎Mid-period Forsaken: The Spaceraces

Erk at 03:57, 21 December 2007

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Erk at 03:55, 21 December 2007

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Erk: /* Arrival and Relocation */ fixing some more bad wikilinks

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Erk: /* Arrival and Relocation */ capitals

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 ==Origins==
 ===Overview===
-The Forsaken are, at top level, sub-light settlers abandoned and displaced due to the [[terminology:Jump|FTL]] expansion of other entities. As a non-coherent group, the Forsaken are much more diverse than any of the [[terminology:Meme|meme-groups]], with members derived from an assortment of late embarking colonies, far ranging colony missions, and (a distinct minority, arriving quite late with respect to other groups) refugees from [terminology:Sundered|Sundered]] worlds. However, this assortment of influences actually makes them even more distinct, because of the already diverse nature of each of the subgroups that make up the Forsaken.
+The Forsaken are, at top level, sub-light settlers abandoned and displaced due to the [[terminology:Jump|FTL]] expansion of other entities. As a non-coherent group, the Forsaken are much more diverse than any of the [[terminology:Meme|meme-groups]], with members derived from an assortment of late embarking colonies, far ranging colony missions, and (a distinct minority, arriving quite late with respect to other groups) refugees from [[terminology:Sundered|Sundered]] worlds. However, this assortment of influences actually makes them even more distinct, because of the already diverse nature of each of the subgroups that make up the Forsaken.
 ===Early Forsaken: Refugees from Change===

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 A minor faction due both to the initial power gap and the consequent constant state of "playing catch-up", they were not asked to participate in the conferences that begat the [[Faction:Confederation of Inhabited Worlds|Confederation]], nor would they have accepted, having no love for the powers that had done nothing to stop the leapfrogging of colony worlds that had been slated them.  Likewise, as the dominant strains of thought at the time within Forsaken space considered the Confederations's protection would be at best hollow, and at worst a pretense for tyranny, the Forsaken declined an offer to join the [[Faction:League of Independent Human Worlds|LIHW]], and instead focused on settling the [[terminology:Diaspora|Diaspora]] sector, keeping their distance, to the best of their ability, from the developing Confederation.
-==On the origin of The Forsaken==
+==Forsaken Space==
 ===Overview===
 The Forsaken are, at top level, sub-light settlers abandoned and displaced due to the [[terminology:Jump|FTL]] expansion of other entities. As a non-coherent group, the Forsaken are much more diverse than any of the [[terminology:Meme|meme-groups]], with members derived from an assortment of late embarking colonies, far ranging colony missions, and (a distinct minority, arriving quite late with respect to other groups) refugees from [terminology:Sundered|Sundered]] worlds. However, this assortment of influences actually makes them even more distinct, because of the already diverse nature of each of the subgroups that make up the Forsaken.

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 The increasing frequency of such sub-light craft turning up led to the formation of a dispossessed settler’s union. Though ostensibly run by the displaced themselves, it was funded by the other meme-groups, and thus strong-armed at first. This group came to develop its own government, calling itself simply the Union (Forsaken being a colloquial rather than official term), and formed a heavy-handed policy of expedient removal. Those lucky enough to survive to see their erstwhile destinations from orbit met varying degrees of fortune from there. Many - the well-cared-for ones - were forced to stay on board their ships while crews outfitted them with jump drives and re-fuelled them. When such was infeasible, the less lucky colonists were crammed onto converted freight ships. The dispossessed were sent off toward what was coming to be called the [[Terminology:Rimward Badlands|Rimward Badlands]] – a zone already looking from early exploration and astrometrics to be an oddly less bountiful region of both space and [[terminology:Jump|jump network]] that the major meme-groups were willing to forfeit colonization of.
-===Late-Period Forsaken: The Sundered===
+===Late Forsaken: The Sundered===
 The final members of the Forsaken’s population base would be the smallest portion, those repatriated from Sundered worlds. Sharing only poor luck and temporal dialation from the rest of humanity with the Forsaken, most Sundered populations worth calling such were too large to repatriate en mass and may not have been particularly compatible matches with the Forsaken in the first place. A number of them, though, supplied either a one time exodus or a steady drip of persons fleeing their black paralysis off of the jump network for the only group willing to take them in.

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 The increasing frequency of such sub-light craft turning up led to the formation of a dispossessed settler’s union. Though ostensibly run by the displaced themselves, it was funded by the other meme-groups, and thus strong-armed at first. This group came to develop its own government, calling itself simply the Union (Forsaken being a colloquial rather than official term), and formed a heavy-handed policy of expedient removal. Those lucky enough to survive to see their erstwhile destinations from orbit met varying degrees of fortune from there. Many - the well-cared-for ones - were forced to stay on board their ships while crews outfitted them with jump drives and re-fuelled them. When such was infeasible, the less lucky colonists were crammed onto converted freight ships. The dispossessed were sent off toward what was coming to be called the [[Terminology:Rimward Badlands|Rimward Badlands]] – a zone already looking from early exploration and astrometrics to be an oddly less bountiful region of both space and [[terminology:Jump|jump network]] that the major meme-groups were willing to forfeit colonization of.
-====Late-Period Forsaken: The Sundered====
+===Late-Period Forsaken: The Sundered===
 The final members of the Forsaken’s population base would be the smallest portion, those repatriated from Sundered worlds. Sharing only poor luck and temporal dialation from the rest of humanity with the Forsaken, most Sundered populations worth calling such were too large to repatriate en mass and may not have been particularly compatible matches with the Forsaken in the first place. A number of them, though, supplied either a one time exodus or a steady drip of persons fleeing their black paralysis off of the jump network for the only group willing to take them in.

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 The increasing frequency of such sub-light craft turning up led to the formation of a dispossessed settler’s union. Though ostensibly run by the displaced themselves, it was funded by the other meme-groups, and thus strong-armed at first. This group came to develop its own government, calling itself simply the Union (Forsaken being a colloquial rather than official term), and formed a heavy-handed policy of expedient removal. Those lucky enough to survive to see their erstwhile destinations from orbit met varying degrees of fortune from there. Many - the well-cared-for ones - were forced to stay on board their ships while crews outfitted them with jump drives and re-fuelled them. When such was infeasible, the less lucky colonists were crammed onto converted freight ships. The dispossessed were sent off toward what was coming to be called the [[Terminology:Rimward Badlands|Rimward Badlands]] – a zone already looking from early exploration and astrometrics to be an oddly less bountiful region of both space and [[terminology:Jump|jump network]] that the major meme-groups were willing to forfeit colonization of.
-====The Sundered====
+====Late-Period Forsaken: The Sundered====
 The final members of the Forsaken’s population base would be the smallest portion, those repatriated from Sundered worlds. Sharing only poor luck and temporal dialation from the rest of humanity with the Forsaken, most Sundered populations worth calling such were too large to repatriate en mass and may not have been particularly compatible matches with the Forsaken in the first place. A number of them, though, supplied either a one time exodus or a steady drip of persons fleeing their black paralysis off of the jump network for the only group willing to take them in.

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-==Overview==
+=Forsaken=
 The "Forsaken", as they are collectively known, are the descendents of various victims of one of the more tragic eras of [[Species:Humanity|Humanity]]'s expansion into space. Six centuries ago, [[Terminology:Slowboats|slowboats]] were made obsolete by the development of [[Terminology:Jump|FTL travel]]. However, this didn't help those colonists already en route, who, upon reaching their destinations, found the worlds slated for their colonization already inhabited by settlers that had leapfrogged them in humanity's continued outward expansion. Arriving hopelessly out of synch with the rest of [[Species:Humanity|human]] society and finding themselves deprived of both their worlds and [[Terminology:Artificial Intelligence|nanite]]-based technology, these groups found they had more in common with each other than anyone else, and set out to colonize the worlds no one else had wanted to.

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 Those headed to worlds that would turn out to be on the jump network often found their planets already occupied and their presence unwelcome at the end of their flight – assuming enough of them survived re-animation in the absence of their expected nanites (should they have waited until contact to begin re-animation). Additionally, it is widely believed that there were several massacres of late arriving sub-light craft that managed to escape sufficiently detailed reporting to be able to assign responsibility to any extant parties.
-Others would arrive at their worlds, jump network or otherwise, to find it not in the state their run-ahead terraformers should have left it in, their terraforming nanites consumed by the [[Terminology:Nano-Plague|Nano-Plague]]. Still others in mixed fortune would find their destination not on the jump network at all, and remain wholly isolated. These Sundered settlers were forced to survive the unexpected nano-plague (fortunately, according to all reports, a slower onset plague experience) without human aid or intervention (except in rare cases, such as exemplified by the origins of [[Faction:Pirates|House Blythe], even if they came too late) until the invention of the [[Terminology:SPEC-(drive)|SPEC drive]] by Emilio Sofono.
+Others would arrive at their worlds, jump network or otherwise, to find it not in the state their run-ahead terraformers should have left it in, their terraforming nanites consumed by the [[Terminology:Nano-Plague|Nano-Plague]]. Still others in mixed fortune would find their destination not on the jump network at all, and remain wholly isolated. These Sundered settlers were forced to survive the unexpected nano-plague (fortunately, according to all reports, a slower onset plague experience) without human aid or intervention (except in rare cases, such as exemplified by the origins of [[Faction:Pirates|House Blythe]], even if they came too late) until the invention of the [[Terminology:SPEC (-drive)|SPEC drive]] by Emilio Sofono.
 The increasing frequency of such sub-light craft turning up led to the formation of a dispossessed settler’s union. Though ostensibly run by the displaced themselves, it was funded by the other meme-groups, and thus strong-armed at first. This group came to develop its own government, calling itself simply the Union (Forsaken being a colloquial rather than official term), and formed a heavy-handed policy of expedient removal. Those lucky enough to survive to see their erstwhile destinations from orbit met varying degrees of fortune from there. Many - the well-cared-for ones - were forced to stay on board their ships while crews outfitted them with jump drives and re-fuelled them. When such was infeasible, the less lucky colonists were crammed onto converted freight ships. The dispossessed were sent off toward what was coming to be called the [[Terminology:Rimward Badlands|Rimward Badlands]] – a zone already looking from early exploration and astrometrics to be an oddly less bountiful region of both space and [[terminology:Jump|jump network]] that the major meme-groups were willing to forfeit colonization of.