Cheers all and point taken; while I still have the 3d models and all the pic files there is no backup outside my computer. I am copying the files to CDs now.
I have a rough outline as to what the universe will look like:
The year is 3680 old count or 1499 NE.
The Year 2181 marked the expansion of the human race too the stars. Hyperspace travel had been discovered a few years before and earth entered a golden age, the first Jenova station was built in orbit around Jupiter in order to better utilize the resources of the asteroid belt, and Titan was colonized in order to study the life found there. On the moon the Advanced Propulsion labs worked on more efficient ways of travel. Engineers from the mars missions consulted on the development of the habitats for the new worlds and on the day of July 27 2181 the St. Maria and Newton, two colony ships, both entered orbit around New Cordoba and New Stockholm respectively.
There are three Terran core worlds, with nine colonies; these planets are locked into alliance with one another but also compete with one another economically.
The core worlds are earth type planets, planets within their systems enjoy diffused prosperity and people live their lives in luxury, the corporate centers of many industries are located here and most jobs are in business ITs and politics. Colonies are more specialized, orbiting Alpha Centari the planet Gilgamesh is home to a crack medical research community who have made many breakthroughs and have increased the life span of all humans, though the planet is an arid radiated rock a mineral found here and only here is the reason for many of the discoveries.
The core worlds practice their own form of colonialism over their individual colonies/protectorates, New Cordoba, orbiting Tau Ceti practices direct colonialism educating Cordoban diplomats in the ways of colonial governance, then sends them to their assigned planets. On the other hand New Stockholm, orbiting Epsilon Indi practices indirect colonialism creating fissures in the people of it's colonies by elevating specific ethno/religious groups to positions of power, in most cases these elite groups are minorities. Earth's method is similar to New Stockholm's method. Throw in a abundance of neocolonialism, a paranoid patriarchal ruling circle, and the diminishing of freedom and the rise of surveillance in the name of Democracy and you have the Triaxis alliance.
The Triaxis holds hegemony over human space their vessels are crushing Behemoth Warships capable of leveling cities from orbit in minutes if conventional weapons are used. Weapons today get quite unconventional.
Other core worlds will not be so prosperous; New Saqqara in the Procyon System will be a desert world suitable in atmosphere to be a agricultural world. the people of this world are pretty much serfs, uneducated, farm workers along with a lesser number of managers who are educated off world in agriculture, and a ruling class.
To the galactic west Truency in the Leipz system is a mineral rich, near earth, but largely ice world who is independent do to the covert colonization of the planet about a hundred and fifty years ago, and the announcement of the hyperspace coordinates, by the Regal Nebula only five years ago.
Human space is surrounded by impenetrable nebulas but the nebulas have never been breached
Hyperspace routs are important, as there is a factor of a maze to this universe.
Thats all for now hope to have wet you appitite.
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This post has been edited by Imhotep : 31 May 2008 - 12:26 PM
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