Despite the expense of keeping her operational, Morlich was a favourite posting for young men and women wishing for a taste of life in space. However it came to be orbiting Seonaidh's Folly, the people knew her as Loch Morlich, though in respect for her history she kept the heraldry of the Domain Navy. Of similar vintage to the venerable Legion and Onslaught, where those ships were the pride of fleets even to this day the Tyrant was an oddball at best, a mistake at worst. It was joked that the Tyrant class Fast Battleship was won in a drinking game with a Domain Sub-Commander who detested having the relic in his fleet. Nearly all is not all though, for one ship remained intact and under power in orbit. The fleet of civilians vessels and decommissioned warships they arrived on were nearly all scrapped and converted into housing and other necessities. the reasons why are lost to history as the people are. They named the world Seonaidh's Folly, perhaps because naming the planet with oceans buried beneath kilometres of ice after a sea spirit was suitably ironic. The people who called it home had fled from civilized space and travelled an incredible distance to land on this frozen hellhole. On the very edge of the habitable zone, sub-zero winds scoured the tundra that composed the thin strip of barely-liveable land around the equator. The planet was never named by those who discovered it, represented on bureaucratic records as merely an alphanumerical string. there exists a body orbiting a red dwarf. Beyond systems where the remnants of Tri-Tachyon's drone fleets roam, where automated beacons provide navigational data for worlds long fallen silent, where the hulks of lost ships tumble through the void. What people nowadays know as the 'Core Worlds' represents at most a tenth of the planets, moons and habitats colonized in the Perseus Sector. As the years passed, wars were fought, blood was shed and worlds died, begging the uncaring void for help that would never come. when the Gates shut down with no warning, the Sector was cut off from the very things that let it survive. Supplied by the megastructures known as the Gates, the worlds of the Sector grew and prospered, their appetite for manpower and tech fed by the corporations who'd established breach offices there. Just like any other colony expedition, the Perseus Sector was established on the worlds chosen by the Domain, people shipped from across the galaxy to colonize these untapped systems and their resources. Reality couldn't be any further from the truth, most worlds were airless rocks tumbling through space, surface lashed by meteorite impacts and scarred by the lashing tongues of the solar wind.Įven the Domain of Man, who's technology was capable of terraforming entire worlds in a mere century more often than not chose worlds close to the result they wished for. Most Grounders never understood that fact, media and fiction presenting the incorrect assumption that planets were abundant, even the rare Terran types. It's a nugget of wisdom that's been passed down ever since humanity took their first steps into the void, on Long Lost Earth.
Space is, funnily enough, mostly empty space. Something I'm posting on another site and I figured I might as well throw it here too.
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