It is highly suspected by many academics that the closely-guarded secrets of Baramor’s ability to produce higher-grade steel are owed to the knowledge of some Antiquities that they refuse to share with the outside world.
Countless efforts have been made by other nations and non-sovereign forces to convince Baramor to either share their knowledge, or allow a tour of their workshops. But so far, they ain’t budging.
Raptie does character colors/shades
I wonder if this would count as advertisement for Baramor?
I also wonder how many ‘Year 0’ have happened im this timeline.
And I wonders if anozhers name for Baramor iz Krupp… O_o
*walks up to ze counters… reaches up… and pushes rusted piece of metals zhere*
It is ze Great Philosopher’s bottles-cap. Oohhhs… aahhhs…
I gets many clams now… yes yes?
Year 0. A colonization spaceship arrival date?
A fast start as technologically advanced civilization that can fail and vanish in an instant with few traces remaining.
For example, The Chronicles of Pern book series.
Terry Pratchett mentioned a race whose calendar numbering system was counting down TOWARDS zero. they refused to discuss with outsiders the implications of such a calendar or what it entailed.
In the comic book “Zot!” it is always 1965 in the alternate reality.
Like, on New Year’s Eve, they count down to the end of 1965, and then when the ball hits the bottom, it becomes…1965! And then when you’re confused and ask around, everyone is like, yeah we just ended 1964 what are you talking about everybody knows that. Even the history books change!
I love me a good dark history plot line, looking forward to the discovery of that time period and whether this is an alternate earth or maybe a colony or something.
With the night sky shown previously, a colony or perhaps smaller mission like an exploration ship.
Well you can actually get an extremely accurate model of a solar system using just a telescope, or by very careful use of wood and string. The main limiting factor for most of human history was a refusal to acknowledge a sun-centric model, and a refusal to give up the idea of perfect circular orbits. A civilization seeded with these two concepts can rather quickly figure out their whole solar system with surprising accuracy.
dat “Big Dipper” tho
Fun fact: Due to a phenomenon called “Precession,” the North Star actually changes over time. It’s a cycle that takes 26000 years, though.
http://astro.wsu.edu/worthey/astro/html/lec-precession.html
Not only that, the stars themselves move slowly over time. By the time an entire precession cycle has completed, the stars from the original constellation will be in different positions.
Well it sort of looks like a plow. So. The Plow.
Wall of text, can’t get myself to read it.
in short lore wall of text. also im now finding my self a wonder for i fed up in a palce and now stuck. oh moralls failed me.
TL;DR: There are two types of things called antiquities: advanced knowledge by people of the past (often the sort of thing we might consider modern knowledge, like metallurgy, how solar systems work, and what germs are), and objects that are currently un-reproduceable or straight-up incomprehensible by the people of the world of Out-of-Placers (like solar-powered light displays or taser-prods).
Also, the world of OoPs is currently in the year 1359 (by human reckoning), counting from a “year 0” that nobody knows about because of a 650-year stretch that does not appear in any historical records.
Kinda implies that humans in Out-of-Placers might have come from somewhere else, or that the world might be post-apocalyptic in some way. My money’s on this being a lost colony ship sort of situation, since Earth doesn’t have a giant nebula in the night sky, the biology of Valsalia’s world is rather alien, and (like that Craylor guy was saying a couple pages ago) even the most basic of structures leave behind evidence that they were there; since there’s no evidence of prior ruins, then there probably weren’t any.
This feels like one of the colony worlds in 30K that the Great Crusade was meant to reintroduce into the empire. Humans on an alien world, with a scarce few pieces left of our tech, and only legends of “angels” from the past speaking to our ancestors?
Yea. That sounds like The Imperium to me.