Flight Of The Albatross
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
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