Shoreline Gamers

Flight of the Albatross is a space game set in the far future, and being played using the Shatterzone system. We set up the background of the game using Microscope. The Microscope notes are in a Vue file, Albatross.vue.

Planets / Systems

• Earth - The cradle of Humanity
• Procyon - An early colony
• Restus 9 - Early colony where first FTL drive created
• Centari System - Seat of the Centari civilization
• Flag - Seat of the Thetans civilization
• P7 - Seat of The Union
• Spencer's World - Planet where the first alien artifact was found
• Kartis - Planet where the Seigfeld Box was discovered

Aliens

• Zorgos - Alien species known for their media broadcasts
• Spinners - Alien species that stores their conciousnesses
• Mopers - Aliens known for their isolationist writings

Alien Artifacts

• Shields Artifact - House sized artifact found on Spencer's World
• Seigfeld Box - container for many Spinner conciousnesses

Groups

• Slow Boats - The first wave of colony ships to leave earth at sub-light speeds
• Chillers - A ludite tribal civilization
• Centari - A large civilization that ruled the galaxy for a time
• Thetans - Descendants of scientologists - Masters of Creepy Biotech
• 5th Autonomous Fleet - The last fleet made up entirely of AI ships
• The Union - The current 'galactic government'
• Fleet - A giant space fleet. Semi affiliated with The Union
• Amalgamated Geo - Megacorporation
• Ministry of Alien Artifacts - Ministry of The Union, concerned with alien artifacts

Non Humans

• Augie - People who have genetic Augmentation
• Thetan - Group of people who have developed in 0 g

Technologies

• Temporal Flux Drive - First FTL drive
• Augmentation - Genetic augmentation of humans
• Five Senses Translator - Automatic translator that can handle non verbal communication
• Centari Drive - Early FTL drive
• Creepy Biotech - Biotech from the Thetans
• Portable Genetic Scanner - Device to scan peoples genomes, and it's portable!

Ships

• The Albatross - The PCs ship
• The Plowshare - A heavily armed, but harmless looking ship
• The Inquisitive - Centari exploration vessel
• The Flag - Historical home of the Thetans

AIs

• LeGace AI - First type of AI
• The Decider - An early military AI

Historic Events

• Staking of the Stellar Territories - Robotic exploration of the galaxy
• First Colonial War - War that lead to the irrelevance of Earth as a political force
• Augie Plague - Plague that killed off almost everyone who was Augmented
• Years of Isolation - Time during which there was no interstellar travel
• Reduction of Biodiversity - Many species are allowed to die
• Rum Runners - Resistance to the Centari government
• P7 Concord - Signing of the document that creates The Union