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Created on 2006-10-15 16:08:07 (#11392445), last updated 2009-08-19
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Basic Info| Name: | TaHa Celestin's Cloud milieu |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1975 |
| Location: | Atlanta, United States |
Bioبسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Cloud of Ascent was the title of a science fictional world-building project. Now it is a legacy title for general roleplaying game world-building.
WARWICK Continuity
1925. The western world recovers from the shock of the Great War; the Long War continues, as it has since man first spoke, sang, and prayed. Conflict and degradation always draw parasites and thieves to Earth, but more alien beings from more factions and species are now active than ever before. What knights tilt with these dark windmills? A few scholars, adventurers, mystics, and magi. They have no name, though Orders, Sanghas, and Turuq have fought the Long War before them.
Shorthand: science-fictional pulp horror with conspiracy, occult, and supers elements.
CLOUD Continuity
The Cloud is an open star cluster orbiting outside the disk of a spiral galaxy.
The 200-odd stars of the Cloud have been long since colonized by humans and their client species. How long? 90,000 years, give or take; long enough for that most details of the colonization are legendary.
Did the Fleet of Ten bring the terraforming sky-seed with them, or was it a local invention? Not only have the cluster's hudreds of thousands of rocky and icy bodies been settled with these plant-like devices that allow controlled transformation of any solid mass, but many comets and deep-space objects as well. Estimates of the Cloud's population range into the trillions.
Did the Firsters flee a disaster elsewhere? The Cloud was an obvious choice for colonization: numerous G, F and K class stars, abundant organic compounds and heavy elements, and a high density of natural wormhole connections (allowing for inexpensive interstellar travel). However, wormholes are very short-lived over long distances: the Firsters either made an incredible gamble, trusting a jump into the cluster, or they devoted millenia to travel under sub-light drives.
After many federations, leagues, and empires, ASCENT now directs the Cloud: an Enochic order militant whose gravitic weapons are the wonder of the age. One Hand of ASCENT can take the offensive against a conventional battle fleet; a squad of Hands can defend an entire developed star system... or destroy it utterly.
(C) all contents copyright TaHa Celestin.
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About the author: I'm pursuing a PhD in Islamic Studies at Emory University, focusing on Sufi litanies in Arabic. Long time fictive world-builder, reader of SF & speculative fiction, roleplaying and computer gamer.
Cloud of Ascent was the title of a science fictional world-building project. Now it is a legacy title for general roleplaying game world-building.
WARWICK Continuity
1925. The western world recovers from the shock of the Great War; the Long War continues, as it has since man first spoke, sang, and prayed. Conflict and degradation always draw parasites and thieves to Earth, but more alien beings from more factions and species are now active than ever before. What knights tilt with these dark windmills? A few scholars, adventurers, mystics, and magi. They have no name, though Orders, Sanghas, and Turuq have fought the Long War before them.
Shorthand: science-fictional pulp horror with conspiracy, occult, and supers elements.
CLOUD Continuity
The Cloud is an open star cluster orbiting outside the disk of a spiral galaxy.
The 200-odd stars of the Cloud have been long since colonized by humans and their client species. How long? 90,000 years, give or take; long enough for that most details of the colonization are legendary.
Did the Fleet of Ten bring the terraforming sky-seed with them, or was it a local invention? Not only have the cluster's hudreds of thousands of rocky and icy bodies been settled with these plant-like devices that allow controlled transformation of any solid mass, but many comets and deep-space objects as well. Estimates of the Cloud's population range into the trillions.
Did the Firsters flee a disaster elsewhere? The Cloud was an obvious choice for colonization: numerous G, F and K class stars, abundant organic compounds and heavy elements, and a high density of natural wormhole connections (allowing for inexpensive interstellar travel). However, wormholes are very short-lived over long distances: the Firsters either made an incredible gamble, trusting a jump into the cluster, or they devoted millenia to travel under sub-light drives.
After many federations, leagues, and empires, ASCENT now directs the Cloud: an Enochic order militant whose gravitic weapons are the wonder of the age. One Hand of ASCENT can take the offensive against a conventional battle fleet; a squad of Hands can defend an entire developed star system... or destroy it utterly.
(C) all contents copyright TaHa Celestin.
***
About the author: I'm pursuing a PhD in Islamic Studies at Emory University, focusing on Sufi litanies in Arabic. Long time fictive world-builder, reader of SF & speculative fiction, roleplaying and computer gamer.
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age of plenty, ancient secrets, anti-gravity, astrography, astronomy, blasters, brotherhood, bruce sterling, charles stross, chi, chivalry, cinematic storytelling, civilization and its discontents, client species, cosmic forces, david brin, deep time, dragons, empire, exotic matter, fascism, feudalism, force fields, fractal geography, fractals, fudge, futuwwa, gaming, globular cluster, gurps, h. p. lovecraft, heroism, horrors what lurk beyond, iain m. banks, imperialism, knighthood, larry niven, leigh brackett, lois macmaster bujold, mecha, mental powers, mutants & masterminds, mysticism, neal stephenson, peace, planetary romance, postcolonialism, poul anderson, pulp, pulp fiction, ray guns, religion, robotech, robots, robots gone bad, rpg mechanics, rpgs, science fantasy, science fiction, sense of wonder, space colonization, space migration, space opera, space pirates, squirrely science, stable civilization, star cluster, star wars, stephen baxter, sufis in space, super powers, supers, t.a.z., temporary autonomous zones, terraforming, uplifting, uplifts gone bad, vernor vinge, vigilantes, william gibson, world-building, wormholes, wuxia
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