Nyna
2012-10-21, 02:20 PM
Turn 0
December 20th, 2090
Global News:
As the sun rises on the East Asian spaceport, a satellite broadcast reaches all ten Townships simultaneously.
This is a message from the Alliance of Lunar Colonies. If you’re reading this, we’re glad to see that there’s still some people alive down there to receive our signal. At least, if you’re not one of those Marked.
We’ve been intercepting general communications from the spaceports for the last few months, and as we understand it, some of you may be launching in the next few months or so. We would like to make it clear that Luna belongs to the ALC. The ALC understands that the best source of resources in the immediate vicinity of Earth is Luna, but this is of little concern to us. If you aren’t interested in paying, you can always head to the asteroid belt.
In addition, we are willing to send supplies and aid down if the price is right. You can communicate with the ALC via this satellite. We assure you that all communications will remain confidential.
The ALC is clearly a new organization of some sort. Before the chaos began, many nations had colonies or facilities of one sort or another on the moon, but when governments collapsed, they lost contact with them. Apparently, in the last two years or so, those colonies banded together to form an alliance of sorts. Or at least, that's the most obvious conclusion. Given the facilities and colonies that were on Luna previously, it's safe to assume that, if the ALC does indeed control all of them, they have a powerful mining operation and a fairly sizable population, though the exact amount is up in the air. Many people fled to space initially, and not all governments were exactly forthcoming with figures for their space projects.
Work continues on the Townships as New Year’s approaches. The Marked have been relatively quiet as of late, but that doesn’t guarantee that they aren’t massing for an attack on the spaceports. All hands are working nonstop to get the Townships up and running as soon as possible to ensure an emergency line of retreat in case of just such an attack, with the bare minimum of guards on the walls to keep watch. More refugees continue to stream into the spaceports, some arriving in large trucks filled with useful materials, and others with only the clothes on their backs. The news they carry is ominous across the world: The Marked are still out there, and many refugees never make it to the spaceport alive.
And they seem to be building strange devices. Refugees that managed to escape from cities or large towns report that buildings and debris are being deconstructed to build strange, somewhat alien looking structures. Descriptions vary wildly between those who saw them, but no one really seems to have any idea as to what they might be for. Some refugees speculate that they might be weapons meant to destroy us all, or giant lasers or missile launchers to shoot down the Townships when they launch, while others guess that they might be Marked spawning or cloning facilities. No one is really sure, but they’re almost certainly not good news, and it may very well explain why they haven’t been bothering with the spaceports themselves as of late…
December 20th, 2090
Global News:
As the sun rises on the East Asian spaceport, a satellite broadcast reaches all ten Townships simultaneously.
This is a message from the Alliance of Lunar Colonies. If you’re reading this, we’re glad to see that there’s still some people alive down there to receive our signal. At least, if you’re not one of those Marked.
We’ve been intercepting general communications from the spaceports for the last few months, and as we understand it, some of you may be launching in the next few months or so. We would like to make it clear that Luna belongs to the ALC. The ALC understands that the best source of resources in the immediate vicinity of Earth is Luna, but this is of little concern to us. If you aren’t interested in paying, you can always head to the asteroid belt.
In addition, we are willing to send supplies and aid down if the price is right. You can communicate with the ALC via this satellite. We assure you that all communications will remain confidential.
The ALC is clearly a new organization of some sort. Before the chaos began, many nations had colonies or facilities of one sort or another on the moon, but when governments collapsed, they lost contact with them. Apparently, in the last two years or so, those colonies banded together to form an alliance of sorts. Or at least, that's the most obvious conclusion. Given the facilities and colonies that were on Luna previously, it's safe to assume that, if the ALC does indeed control all of them, they have a powerful mining operation and a fairly sizable population, though the exact amount is up in the air. Many people fled to space initially, and not all governments were exactly forthcoming with figures for their space projects.
Work continues on the Townships as New Year’s approaches. The Marked have been relatively quiet as of late, but that doesn’t guarantee that they aren’t massing for an attack on the spaceports. All hands are working nonstop to get the Townships up and running as soon as possible to ensure an emergency line of retreat in case of just such an attack, with the bare minimum of guards on the walls to keep watch. More refugees continue to stream into the spaceports, some arriving in large trucks filled with useful materials, and others with only the clothes on their backs. The news they carry is ominous across the world: The Marked are still out there, and many refugees never make it to the spaceport alive.
And they seem to be building strange devices. Refugees that managed to escape from cities or large towns report that buildings and debris are being deconstructed to build strange, somewhat alien looking structures. Descriptions vary wildly between those who saw them, but no one really seems to have any idea as to what they might be for. Some refugees speculate that they might be weapons meant to destroy us all, or giant lasers or missile launchers to shoot down the Townships when they launch, while others guess that they might be Marked spawning or cloning facilities. No one is really sure, but they’re almost certainly not good news, and it may very well explain why they haven’t been bothering with the spaceports themselves as of late…