<i>Life is fragile. The galaxy is littered with dead worlds where life once prospered. This truth was felt deeply by the Solarians and the Riso-Tecetians, who in their foolish histories had each endangered their living worlds. In the first century of contact between these two peoples, a celebration known as Cataclysm Day began to emerge.</i> -An excerpt from <u>Words We Said Before Sol, A Primer on Terran Anthropology</u> What is Cataclysm day? Originally a series of informal traditions that marked kinship between humans and kepori, Cataclysm Day has become celebrated widely across the known galaxy. Codified in some way by every major political power, Cataclysm Day centers reflections on the fragility of life, and celebrates the persistence of living things in the face of adversity. In its strictest sense, Cataclysm Day commemorates the <b>Solarian Night of Fire</b>, <b>the Tecetian Environmental Collapse</b>, and a handful of other events which either eradicated all sentient life on a world, or came close. Cataclysm Day is broadly celebrated by many different people in many different ways.

What is Cataclysm day? Originally a series of informal traditions that marked kinship between the Riso-Tecetians and the Solarians shortly after the two peoples made contact, Cataclysm Day has since evolved into a holiday celebrated widely across the known galaxy. Codified in some way by every major political power, Cataclysm Day centers reflections on the fragility of life, and celebrates the persistence of living things in the face of adversity. In its strictest sense, Cataclysm Day commemorates the Solarian Night of Fire, the Riso-Tecetian Environmental Collapse, and a handful of other deliniated events which either eradicated all sentient life on a world, or came close. Though different peoples observe the day with very different traditions, Cataclysm Day is the celebration most broadly observed by the modern galactic community. Terrariums People build self-contained terrariums on Cataclysm day and try to keep them alive as long as possible. The difficulty is supposed to engender an understanding that all life is equally precarious. SRM Hunting Ban The SRM bans hunting on Cataclysm, and members hold a bread and water fast while engaging in ecological restoration activities. Ashen Mark

Skill systems serve primarily as a way of differentiating player characters, making some people better at tasks than others. Goals Allow for intresting character creation Encourage crew to fufill specific roles (engineers doing surgery at the same level as the doctor) Non-goals Encourage any type of xp grinding You get a set of points to allocate towards diffrent skills and stats, these remain functionally static for a round, I dont even think jobs should give major bonuses, your inital character selection should have much more impact then an arbitrary role would. I think any behavoir we want a job to have should be selectable from character creation.

Core Goals Expand the variety of melee weapons to hopefully not be completely overshadowed by guns Give factions more interesting and unique weapons which gives players a reason to play them Implement replacements for bone weapons, the only viable melee weapons despite not really having the right vibe and being far too strong for how easy they are to craft. Minor buffs to certain melee weapons, primarly tools that currently are pointless to use in a fight Highly reusable components for creating cool weaponsMinor rework to two-handed weapons Transforming Charged Concussive/Bone Shattering (might end up as a generic "apply trait" component) Duel wielded

"Gezena belongs to the people, to us. We need to do everything we can to protect it." — Excerpt from former Prime Minister Azazos' Inauguration Address, 1550 KCE. The Pan-Gezena Federation (P.G.F. or PGF), sometimes referred to as simply Gezena or the Federation, is a nation on the planet Kalixcis in the Bezuts system. The polity is a federal republic, consisting of states and unincorporated holdings. Gezena is considered to be one of the largest and most powerful nations of the modern day, with a military consistently ranked as the strongest in the known galaxy and a highly developed economy. Governmental Structure The Pan-Gezena Federation consists of many states of varying sizes and numerous holdings, which are unincorporated colonies, stations, and uninhabited planets in several locations. Though these states have some degree of self-governance, federal-level legislation is enforced across the entirety of the Federation. The nation is split into two branches, the Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch. Both are located at Federation City, a purpose-build administrated complex at the heart of Gezena with a city built up around it.

Kalixcian Dating System: Historical Eras Rather than picking one specific year to be "year zero" and making the years before it count down and those after it count up, on Kalixcis, as far as history can remember, time has been counted with a system of Eras. Whenever a new Era begins, the year number resets to 0, with the words Current Era (or CE) in front of it, while the previous Era is given a new name that encompasses what defined that era. The exact naming of each Era is typically a subject of major debate among historians, at least for the first few decades after the end of said Era. For convenience, this timeline has each date listed with both the date using the Kalixcian Eras Calendar, and the same date in SolGov's Federal Standard Calendar. The Timeline Creation Era The Creation Era is the term used for the Era in which Kalixcis was first formed and which includes all time before the emergence of sapient life on Kalixcis. The exact length of the Era, and thus final year, is unknown and subject to debate. CE 0 | ~AAA 7,000,000,000 | [[Creation of Kalixcis]] - According to leading scientists, this is around the time when the planetary body now known as Kalixcis was formed from asteroids and space dust orbitting the binary system Bezuts.

A Problem of Scale Approximately ten years prior to the public outbreak of the Inter-Corporate Wars, Nanotrasen subsidiary Matahari Pharmaceuticals was given a simple task: near-complete control of the modern medical market, by any means necessary. While Nanotrasen-affiliated electronics and mining enterprises remained profitable despite allegations of stolen patents and repeated strikes by workers protesting poor living conditions, its biomedical acquisitions were staunchly unable to turn a profit, largely due to a lack of infrastructure. Matahari clinics were largely non-present outside of major cities (where they were often overlooked due to a minimum of staff or proximity to other, more reliable healthcare providers), and brand-name medications repeatedly failed to meet consumer metrics. Rather than accepting that their background in computing technologies and energy weapons left them largely unequipped for the problems of modern biomedical development, Nanotrasen decided to adopt its usual approach: throwing money at the problem. Project Maka-Wanaharo The problem, of course, lay in a few factors. First of all, the handful of established Matahari laboratories were fairly small facilities consisting mostly of newly-hired staff without much in the way of experience in the field of complete-market-domination-of-the-healthcare-sector between them. These labs were also established inside the jurisdictions of nations such as the Solar Confederacy and the Antechannel League, which featured sharp regulations on medical experimentation. Matahari Pharmaceuticals chose to combat the problems simultaneously: they needed a medical laboratory of incredible size outside the operating space of most conventional authorities, preferably in a zone of space with ready access to the base materials necessary to synthesize a variety of modern medications, medical devices and biological utilities. The ideal place for this sort of construction was, of course, the Frontier. Noting its proximity to a handful of recently-surveyed planets rich with precursor chemicals and its suitable distance from inhabited space, Matahari worked closely with N+S to ship nearly-unparalleled quantities of industrial-grade construction materials into a sparsely-populated region of space. Rather than constructing a lab on the surface of an uncolonized planet, Nanotrasen elected to construct a huge biological research and development station in the orbit of an orange dwarf star known as Raxichiarachix’s Beacon on most star charts. This served to minimize the risk of biological contamination from local flora and fauna while also ensuring that any outbreaks of pathogens or otherwise would have great difficulty escaping the station. Satisfied that their investment would be kept safe from legal oversight or biological pollution, the Matahari Pharmaceuticals board dubbed this station was dubbed the Raxichiarachix Installation. In order to keep the location of its investment hidden, funds funneled into the construction project were publicly marked as being devoted to “Project Maka-Wanaharo”, allegedly a Matahari-backed charity for victims of Meliz-Nolan Syndrome. But Why The Privacy? With the advent of most modern medical technology, i.e. advanced medical scanners, chemical sleeper beds and the elimination of most medical allergens, profit margins on much of the healthcare industry have become much thinner. This has led to a variety of developments:

General No-Nos Murder Kidnapping Theft Arson Destruction of Property Assault Vigilitas Internal Policy Torture: Price of doing business!

General Thoughts Rations should be sealed boxes of various components, including mains, sides and accessories (utensils and condiment packets, for example). Ideally, a given unopened ration pack should be small enough to fit in a bag. These rations can be added to ships as a food supply, substituting or replacing entirely the longstanding mainstay of canned beans and donk-pockets (which are both monotonous and cause disgust for a fair number of popular species, i.e. Sarathi). Rations should have multiple components which appeal to different species' food preferences. Most likely, items could have their sprites simplified by creating a series of pouches and other containers that are simply opened with a small interior color change to indicate different meals. For example, the pouches for a container of chili with beans and a container of tortellini in red sauce would be essentially the same or identical, aside from taste and food type. Ration Concepts https://www.mreinfo.com/mre-menus-2021/ Ration 1: Vegan Chili With Beans Vegan Chili with Beans - VEGETABLES Cheddar Cheese Spread - DAIRY Vegetable 'Crackers' - VEGETABLES

Kalixican Cultural Values: Mexapix The Mexapix Sotagak-Bakamax, or The Festival of Fallen Leaves, is a traditional Kalixican festival celebrated in early autumn, around a similar time of year as the Solarian Tagdertoten or Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Dating back several hundred years, Mexapix is a harvest festival that commemorates the ending of the summer and the coming of the winter, with a mix of joy and grim determination. It is characterized by a variety of ritual activities associated with the holiday, as well as a handful of specialized garments and food items. Core Ethos Generally, the Mexapix Sotagak-Bakamax is a holiday of two halves, which coincide inversely with the day of the celebration itself. During the day, proceedings pertain to the coming winter, with many practices related to the gathering of food, preperation of accommodations for Elzuosa who may have difficulty acquiring sufficient ground-soil nutrients or sunlight, and others. After sunset, however, the festival becomes far more jubilant, celebrating the wonders of summer and the memories of its passing. Activites switch from active work to passive leisure. This serves to mirror the actual lived experience created by the fall and winter seasons – heavy work during the light hours of the fall in order to provide safety and comfort during the darkness of the winter. Even with modern conveniences and technology reducing the practical necessity of such practices, Mexapix has cultural significance as a cooperative activity, emphasizing the importance of community in the public consciousness. Mexapix is a national holiday in every state on Kalixcis, bar the modern Zohil Explorat. Rituals As previously stated, The Festival of Fallen Leaves is bifurcated based on time of day, with differing moods, customs and activities based on such. Daytime Rituals

The following is an excerpt from <b><U>Words We Said Before Sol</b></u>, a multi-author primer on Terran anthropology read widely across the Most Serene Solar and Intersolar Confederation. Chapter 3: Africa’s Omboka Authored by: Kris Iyambon, PhD- Professor of Anthropology at the University of Gabora, African Canton Zaoki’Tor’Char’Sephic’Er- Matriarch of the Reh'himl Institute of Human Studies, Syebenaltch System Satura, PhD- Professor of Linguistics at the University of Venus Canton, Eros Station, Venus Canton

Articles from Across the Universe: Galactic News “THE SLENATA SLASHER BROUGHT TO JUSTICE” SEPTEMBER 13TH, FS 503 - In a daring raid by law enforcement in the city of Slenata in the Pan-Gezenan Federation, the man known as the ‘Slenata Slasher’ has been brought into custody. Identified as 38-year-old Rasek-Vinatok, the Slenata Slasher is suspected to be responsible for anywhere between 12 and 23 murders and disappearances over the course of the last four months. The ‘Slenata Slasher’ started his spree killings in early June, with the deaths of Steps-With-Grace and Filez-Monark, aged 23 and 25. The couple were found dead in their apartment in the West Mona neighborhood of Slenata, each missing their eyes, tails and left hands. The killings initially perplexed investigators – cameras in the hallway outside their department did not show anyone entering their apartment in the time before the killings, or departing after. Later forensic evidence indicated that the killer had rappelled onto their second-floor balcony from the alley behind their building. Upon entering his home, police found several alarming pieces of evidence, including a small Velako-branded backpack filled with body parts wrapped in synthfiber shopping bags. Among them was the severed head of Hans Greyoll, a Solarian immigrant who went missing last month and was last seen driving home from his job as a construction worker at a new naval installation in Mekabak. Other items found in the killer’s home include a large collection of weapons (a switchblade, three hatchets, a chainsaw, one bolt-action rifle, two handguns and an energy gun), a well-used compact motor vehicle and a large supply of liquid plasma stored in jerry cans. Rasek-Vinatok was employed as a cashier at a local 24-hour supermarket, usually working the night shift. Our publication reached out to his manager, Lost-In-Thought, for comment. “He was an odd fellow, in retrospect,” she commented. “He was always kind of a spaceshot, especially when we’d go long stretches without any customers. Most of the other cashiers would sit at their kiosk and read or something like that, but he’d always just stare into the middle distance. I guess he musta been fantasizing, or something.” Other employees refused to comment. Prior to his employment at the supermarket, Rasek-Vinatok was a private in the PGFMC, before being discharged due to failing his psychological examinations.

MISSIONS: We need to reinforce our gameplay loop. The "loop": Go to the outpost, get gear from the outpost, go out and do Things, come back to the outpost, repeat. It is important that you have to LEAVE THE OUTPOST!! Requiring more trips back to the outpost is good: gating more stuff like the rewards from mining fights behind the outpost somehow, further removing ORMs, etc. With regards to missions and bounties:I want to somewhat discourage ways of getting money that boil down to "turn in this item" -- because you can collect the item before. certain special items can be turned in (unique items found in ruins?) as bounties, but most should not be easily acquiredthese items should not be turned in as missions, but rather turned in at a separate "bounty" console. it may have different pricing rules Even still, payouts for these should be small. it should be an EXTRA bit of cash, but hard to make a lot of cash out of Produced items have a similar issue: you can make them FROM YOUR SHIP on the outpost. This is why i'm wary of e.g. chems / mechs / research items. Again, if they depend on HIGHLY LIMITED items FROM PLANETS AND RUINS, it's okay Keep an eye on "foraged" cash, from legions, survivors, and ruins. This can slip under the radar as an income source but can serious effects.

The Public Library of New Dresden Catalog Welcome to the catalog for the Public Library of New Dresden. Situated in the heart of one of the Solarian Confederation's oldest cities, the PLND is home to hundreds of thousands of media items, ranging from books to film rentals to games. Membership is free to citizens of Sol, and also provides access to our other services, which include public-access galnet terminals, career consultation sessions and rentable gathering spaces. Unfortunately, due to an ongoing restructuring of our database software, our listings are currently limited! If you would like to find an item not listed in this catalog, please consult one of our highly-trained librarians and research technicians for assistance. Thank you for your patience. INPUT QUERY: BOOKS Pseudopol: The City Beneath by SID-COM.9 Pseudopol is a science fiction novel about the discovery of an entire society of discarded manufacturing robots underneath the city of Mekabak in the Pan-Gezenan Federation. The protagonist, a programming technician sent as an envoy to the newly-discovered city – dubbed "Pseudopol" by early sensationalist journalists – learns of their customs and attempts to understand their society, while the city above debates its fate. The Orchard In Orange by Vale Mathers

Core concept This concept focuses on adding more content for SRM ships that utilize fermenting and harvesting ingredients from planets. It allows players to incorporate the fact that these ships hunt fauna and use their loot. When a player drinks a Trick Wine, it will provide a small buff related to the drink's theme. However, when thrown, it will temporarily apply a debuff, the severity of which scales with the volume of the wine. Additionally, these wines should have the ability to affect most simple mobs to some extent, even if it's just causing damage. Crafting these wines should require more than just a chem dispenser; it should involve at least one drink obtained through fermentation and one ingredient from a planet. These ingredients can be gathered through the garden system, by collecting fauna drops, or by harvesting resources from lavaland planets, such as cactus fruit. This feature will also be introduced alongside the Barrel-class in a separate PR, which will provide brewers with all the necessary tools for their brewing endeavors. Breakaway Flasks

Research and Development, in the context of SS13, generally refers to the process of discovery or unlocking of designs one can manufacture or technologies one can utilize. Many existing iterations and systems of R&D in and outside of SS13 have numerous flaws which compromise the system in some major way, whether it be killing the feeling of "researching" new technologies or by making a system that can be completely cleared in under half an hour. In Shiptest, R&D has evolved to be non-existant yet gating alot of content (mostly cruft). While it used to be the main progression loop of SS13 we have evolved away from the research station we orginally forked from. Our modern loop is focused on ruin diving and missions and science should reflect that Goals Rework R&D to require engaging in our existing loop like finding design disks from a ruin or gating some missions behind research equipment like a ruin analyzing mission requring a prebuilt machine that comes with research vessels. Provide more options for loot in ruins Design disks with limited uses are the prime example Provide a sink for some resources aquired during a rounds. Most ores like silver and gold are virtually garbage. Implement something that clearly aligns with Shiptest's thematic goals. Exploring what's familiar yet hostile and unknown in search for treasure... rebuilding after disaster and such... in general this one just means give the feeling of scrapping together things for survival.