From 163b8c8386c942e3cf004a406ca93709939b47eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Brian S. Stephan" Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:13:01 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Xi Tauri updates, mostly general setting info --- pages/cypher/black/index.md | 13 +++++--- pages/cypher/black/xi-tauri.md | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 pages/cypher/black/xi-tauri.md diff --git a/pages/cypher/black/index.md b/pages/cypher/black/index.md index f131f80..41c1534 100644 --- a/pages/cypher/black/index.md +++ b/pages/cypher/black/index.md @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ the initial settlement of the system still drift in orbit, latent. * Characters: "mercs fighting the good fight"? * Think about if any of you is going to need piloting skills. +### The Xi Tauri System + +A separate page organizes the emerging detail of [the Xi Tauri system](xi-tauri). + ## Character Creation At their basic level, characters are defined as *NAME is a [adjective] [noun] who [verbs]*. Adjectives are @@ -50,13 +54,12 @@ small sidebar summarizing the steps to take to create a character. ### Sources The majority of the options below are found, and best described, in the *Cypher System Rulebook*, with an open gaming -version available via the [Cypher SRD](http://www.cyphersrd.com/). Most others come from *The Stars Are Fire*. -Anything homebrew we'll write up and link to here. +version available via the [Cypher SRD](https://screwtapello.gitlab.io/cypher-system-reference/). Most others come from +*The Stars Are Fire*. Anything homebrew we'll write up and link to here. I skipped listing a lot of the core content, because there's no point in repeating that everything in the core book/SRD -are fair game --- the exception to this are the foci, which are tailored below. - -*...* +are fair game --- and you can probably grok the appropriate foci or come up with a plausible explanation for anything +weird. ## Science Stuff diff --git a/pages/cypher/black/xi-tauri.md b/pages/cypher/black/xi-tauri.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1be241e --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/cypher/black/xi-tauri.md @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +Title: The Xi Tauri System +Footer: Numenera, the Cypher System, No Thank You, Evil!, Invisible Sun, and their respective logos are + trademarks of Monte Cook Games, LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries. All Monte Cook Games + characters and character names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof, are trademarks of Monte + Cook Games, LLC. Content derived from Monte Cook Games publications is © 2013-2022 Monte Cook + Games, LLC. Full Disclaimer. + +# The Xi Tauri System + +The Xi Tauri star system consists of four stars in a hierarchy system. + +* **Xi Tauri Aa** and **Ab:** two B-type stars in a binary pair. These stars, and their respective bodies, make up the + *core worlds*. The corporatocratic Ring is most prominent in these worlds, though their reach is incomplete. +* **Xi Tauri B:** A third B-type star which orbits the binary pair. The most massive of the stars in the system, it was + nevertheless at its distant aphelion when the arks reached the system, leading to its many worlds being less explored + and populated than the core worlds. The planets and et cetera of Xi Tauri B are sometimes known as the *wastes*, + despite being more uncharted than anything else. +* **Xi Tauri C:** A F-type star orbiting the other three stars, the worlds of the *rim worlds* are more likely to support + natural life with less terraforming effort, and are generally held to contain more exploitable resources than the core + worlds. The Ring is best positioned to forcefully export these resources, despite their minimal involvement in + governing this far out to the black. + +# Persons and Government + +## The Ring + +Forming from a variety of surviving corporations, The Ring is the dominant government and culture in the core worlds. +Their dominance of resources, media, and infrastructure has guaranteed them financial and political monopolies, +despite the core worlds (and whole of Xi Tauri) nominally being a democratic republic. The core worlds move to the tune +of the Ring. + +## Rimworlders + +# Known Worlds + +# Lost History + +## The Arks + +Were it not for cryosleep, humanity would have never survived the unknown thousands, if not tens of thousands, years +necessary to reach Xi Tauri. + +## Marauders + +It's not known from where those who were men came, but their appearance between worlds heralds nothing but ravage. + +## Old Cultures of Earth + +When Earth collapsed, its states scattered ships throughout the cosmos. Others may have survived long enough to find a +new home among the stars. The details of Earth's failure, or those who escaped it, have been largely lost. + +## Intelligence Beyond + +Worlds that support life had nevertheless produced only bacterial life before humanity arrived to the system. Genetic +mutation and biosequencing has introduced forms of life familiar to us on those worlds, though many believe (or fear) +that there is still unexpected intelligent life soon to be discovered. Or encountered.