Solar System

Entering an
abandoned building, you discover that it's some kind of museum of Solar System
History, looks like it's abandoned for years now, there's some strange computer
in the center of the room with a button that seems to hum with a little life.
You imagine that just pressing that button can reactivate the entire museum, or
least the tour guide.
   Upon clicking a
holo-projector Monitor, lights flash for a moment and a figure that looks like
some kind of 50's commercial for a 'better tomorrow' pops up, it seems to be
glitching here and there but for the most part it's coming through clearly.
   'Hello Future Space
Explorer! And W-w-w-welcome to YOUR Solar System-tem-tem-tem *static* Solar
System! Where we tell you about the Planets, Moons, and Inhabitants that you
share it with!'
   'Hahaha I know what
your saying Space Explorer [YOUR NAME HERE], why do I have to share 'my' Solar
system with 'these' other things? Well it's simple Space Explorer! You don't
have a choice!'
   'It all starts with
the Cen-Cen-Center of our Solar System the Sun! If you don't know what this is
then your some kind of idio- You must have been living under a rock! The sun is
our chief source of life, and is the reason why our planets aren't haphazardly
floating into black holes and super novas!'
   'What's that you
say Space Explorer [YOUR NAME HERE]? You couldn't give two flips about your
life bringing sun? You heartless monster, but warranted! It's just some boring
star with no hopes of life on it! So let's focus on the Planets and their
moons!'
   The track your on
begins to move but then fizzles out from all the sand and malfunctions - so you
just walk to the next display.
Mercury Display
   'Mercury! First
planet to the sun, and a melting pot of mineral sources that you sentients deem
required! It's too hot even for the Drevii to live on and there's just no solid
surface, of course that hasn't stopped the Drevii from extracting from it
through their Magi-Colonies for Magika Stones!'
   'What does Mercury
have to do with Magika stones? Well Space Explorer if I knew that I'm sure this
would be a completely different guide wouldn't it?'
   'Current there are
no 'Organic' inhabitants of the planet simply orbital colonies of teraforming
cybernetics with sanctioned rights to trade amongst other races and the
majority of MagikaTek Labs.'
Venus Display
   'Venus! Home World
of those damn arrogant sons of- *static noises, a long beep noise a display
saying 'Reformatting' and then* Home of those Wonderful Drevii! You humans
might call them 'Space Elves' which isn't completely inaccurate, but they
prefer you show them respect and call them Drevii!'
   'This planet is
nothing but a molting and freezing planet that's usually inhabitable but
somehow Drevii have found a way using that universal phenomenon 'Magika', more
specifically through floating palaces using Magika based Technology! Brought to
you by MagikaTek Labs! If it's not inexplainable, it's not from MagikaTek
Labs!'
   'When approaching a
Drevii one should always show them some form of respect! Their high regard for
themselves is something to be. . . er. . . admired. . . so be sure not to be as
vulgar as we're comfortable with. It is unknown 'how' the Drevii came to be,
Humans have quite a lot of theories, but currently only two races in this Solar
System may have 'any' idea of what that is! All we know for sure is they are
here to stay, and bring their form of order to this universe!'
   'By Venus Law A
person wishing to move into one of the flying magika palaces that is 'not' a
Venus Born Drevii or a Drevii Period must fill out approximately 8365 Documents
stating that your giving up your citizenship of all other planets and moons in
our system, submitting to accepting the governmental standing of the Drevii,
and that if your not a Drevii are lower than the dirtiest of worms and must
bathe at least twice a day to ensure that you are less than filth!'
   'Final notes of
Venus and it's inhabitants is that this is supposedly this system's origin of
Magika! And so during the Solar War was targeted by the Humans as well as the
Shivans to try and take it over for their own purposes!'
   When you tried to
ask a question about the 'Solar War' or 'what's a shivan' or 'why were Shivan
attacking venus' the tour guide computer system stated
   'All Questions will
be answered soon enough Space Traveler! And any questions that have yet to be
answered can be asked at the end of the tour!'
Earth Display
   'Welcome Home Space
Explorer [YOUR NAME HERE!], It has been awhile since you've been back and MANY
things have happened! What use to be the 'Blue Planet Of Life' back in the good
days, is now the 'Dusty Ghetto Planet That People Come To Die On'! AKA Earth!'
   'Originally
inhabited by the Humans, this planet was already on it's own way to killing off
it's planet! So it was high time that the great and mighty Humans decided to
work on deep space teraforming! Stop gazing at the stars and finally do
something with their slowly choking out lives!'
   'First thing was first!
They had to get resources, and the first stop on their list was 'Mars' of all
places! Needless to say after very expensive ventures to make a few ships, and
one immaculate structure known as 'Colony Isis' which still hovers the Earth
Today, still gleaming with it's untouched Glory!'
   'The mission was
simple, Go to Mars, Terraform it, return the resources to Earth, make more
colonies, Happy Ending! This is where the snag raised, soon as they landed on a
certain quadrant of Mars they discovered a very curious sight, Relics of
'Ancient Technology' of the Foreign kind. . . It made one wonder 'Now what left
all this neat stuff?' well Of course it being Mars and Humans being as they are
thought 'Must Be Martians Seeking to steal our brains and our women!' Well they
were 1/3rd Correct!'
   'Regardless, they
found technology like none they had ever seen nor could they comprehend! It was
all fossilized as well which is like one big middle finger to the explorers,
but what 'could' be understood of the technology made things 'much' easier for
the Humans!'
   'Namely - the
relics that 'could' be understood, were the 'Warp-Gate-Technologies'! As you
may or may not know Warp-Gate-Tech is nearly impossible to master, in fact
there is only one known species that has even come close to perfecting it, and
even they reluctantly admit that they have yet to perfect it.'
   'This however would
mark the start of an explorer and politicians DREAM come true! First of all the
Humans would have to figure out their Warp-Gate-Tech system and give it the
appropriate power source. Fortunately whoever abandoned Mars had left in what
we could only assume was some form of 'Black Box' translatable instructions and
a strangely functioning power source for this advanced science. It was reported
that the explorers that were going through these ruins always felt as though
they were being watched. . .'
   'It would be years
before we translated the instructions, and longer still before we managed to
get our first Warp-Gate and to our amazement the first thing we see when we
open it? The Drevii! Can you imagine how humans felt looking at these flawless,
tall, pointy eared Magika Flinging people? It was a Let down!'
   'Needless to say
this opened up a NEW universe to the two species and shaking everything they
believed in once before! Soon to follow was the negotiations and politics that
would form the two races into exploring the rest of what the Solar System had
to offer.'
   'This would mark
the start of of the 'Deep-Solar-Exploration-Guild' A Guild with a terribly long
name formed to do exactly as it's name implied. Explore through the Warp-Gate
technologies with the Aid of the Drevii and their newer more powerful Magika
aid source! Thus the beginning of Magika Tech!'
   'But before we could
do ANYTHING it was then that a ship would come into our orbit and to EVERYONES
surprise watch it come crashing down to Earth! It would be to even more of our
surprise that it was full of strange cat people.'
   'We thought the
drevii were a let down for another alien, but cat people? that took the cake.
They were VERY Xenophobic, didn't trust a single thing about us Humans or
Drevii, armed with some strange yet strangely tribal looking tech, spears and
shields and what not.'
   'We couldn't
exactly have them roaming free, and they didn't exactly want to blend in with
our races so we sectioned off their ship with a huge fence and a new border
patrol to keep them in and people out. This didn't smooth our relationship with
the species one bit. In fact we may have been the ones at fault that made
Native Mytharii hate entering cities and making camps outside of city limits.
Can't say we blame them, the ones that weren't kept in their settlement prisons
were used as free labor to help advance our own technologies for deep space
exploration.'
Mars Display
   'The red planet and
4th planet in the inner asteroid belt! As you already know this Planet was
first discovered to have ancient relics of an ancient people that neither race
knew about. It seems however it wasn't completely abandoned! *Gasp* You heard
me there was life on that red rock of all things!'
   'It was during a
deep mining exploration attempt that some miners discovered more recent
technologies and a colony of two races. The Amoi, the sea slug people piloting
giant robots, well giant for them, and the true owners of the Planet Mars, the
Shivan.'
   'Now let me tell
you something, those Shivan terrified all who saw them, to use they were
nothing more than robotic zombies slowly falling apart and doing weird weird
experiments.'
   'Amoi on the other
hand were surprisingly friendly and more than willing to help the Miners back
to the surface. It was through the Amoi's help that the Humans, Drevii, and
Mytharii slaves were able to convince the Shivan to aid them in solar system
exploration.'
   'Of course you can
read up more about this in history decks in other parts of the Museum, you
likely want to know 'what's there now' right? No problem!'
   'After the Solar
War when the Shivan were run out of their home planet, TeraCo took it upon
themselves to make this their home base, which in short means the Humans own
Mars.'
Asteroid Belt Display
   'Currently it's
unknown if anything lives in this danger zone, all that is known for sure is
that it's currently being used as a mining source for TeraCo and other mining
companies, moving on!'
Jupiter Display
   'Ah the Biggest
Planet In Our System! Jupiter itself is basically a giant gas planet that we
have yet to find the center of! Or rather we found it but it's too small and
the gravity is too high to live on! So we avoided being 'directly' on the
planet! Currently it's the MagikaTek Labs that control Jupiter itself, but what
they're using their floating palace ships there for is still unknown to the Solar
Alliance.'
Jupiter's Moons Display
   'Of course Jupiter
is 'great' and all but not as interesting as it's Moons which we 'have' natural
life on! More specifically Titan and other Mytharii claimed moons! It was
discovered that Titan among other moons of Jupiter were controlled by the
Mytharii, and it wasn't until years that we could return the Mytharii home only
to discover that their own people didn't want them!'
   'Why did this
happen? what could have caused the mytharii to reject it's own stranded Earthen
People? Just that, they were no Longer Tribal! They were in a sentience level
form of 'Domesticated'! Now that sounds much much worst than one might expect,
but it's easy enough to explain with an example!'
   'Back on Earth
during the 1950's give or take, African Americans were of course no longer
slaves, but were still treated like dirt! So when they decided to return to
Africa and back to their roots, you know what their people said? 'We don't want
them back'! This was because the African people and the African American people
had through time and social standards become completely different people!'
   'This is the case
with the Mytharii, there are now two types of Mytharii in this system! Titan
Mytharii, a tribal group that live in packs surviving off the lands, and
Earthen Mytharii that live in cities and settlements or just outside of them
living off of credits, and freelance work!'
   'It was devastating
for the people to see their own kind reject their entire people after finally
coming all this way back home! What could they do now though? Their proud
people had become a different people!'
   'Eventually when
the Solar War came the Drevii took claim of all the Mytharii and used them on
their side, guaranteeing them freedom if they aided in winning the war,
reluctantly now without a true home, the Mytharii agreed.'
Saturn Display
   'Ah Saturn, they
say these days this planet with it's distinguishable rings is now one of the
biggest tourist traps in the solar system. The most curious thing about this
planet besides the fact that it makes for a wonderful honeymoon spot, has
amazing Casinos, and water parks galore is that it's also an Excavation sight
for Explorers of many kinds, more specifically, Paleontologists.'
   'Besides many many
MANY vacation spots with beaches for the rich and famous, there is a college on
this planet for 'Future Space Explorers' who have a whole course simply for
Paleontology, because someone miraculously dug up some old 'alien dinosaur
bones'! It's also said this is one of only a few places where there are Shivan
Educators!'
   'Besides some
'space dino bones' this place tends to have a 5 Star Ratting on EVERYTHING
vacation! Even the Verga'an and Shivan can't help but enjoy themselves here!
That's saying something!'
Uranus Display
   'Ha I bet you
thought this would just be a Butt on a Stick didn't you, or that there would be
a lot of graffiti with a lot of butt jokes on the wall behind! Well get that
sick idea out of your head!'
   You avoided
mentioning anything about the spray painted butt on the wall behind with the
Graffiti as mentioned, it felt inappropriate for this tour.
   'Currently Uranus
is home to the largest collection of junk shops, mechanics, and Machine factories
in this system, one of the most prestigious mechanic colleges is stationed on
this planet. The planet is owned by the Cybernetics but it's been noted Shivan,
Amoi, and Verga'an reside on this planet.'
   'The College would
like to note the Verga'an on this planet are 'Casteless' and should not be
approached as they have no honor what so ever.'
   'Uranus's moons are
also owned by the Machines, in fact there are several moons that have been
terraformed and replaced with mechanical colonies of unknown purpose.'
Neptune Display
   'This planet is
said to be where the Amoi originated from, and thusly is co-owned by Amoi and
Humans. The Amoi on this planet are just as friendly as they ever were on any
other planet, but it's said the Humans that Co-exist on this planet are all
Extremist Cult types.'
   'Specifically the
'Cult Of The Matron' is a military based cult of same gender Human females that
believe if it is not 'pure' or if it's a heretic in their Gods eye it must be
exterminated. It is currently impossible for the Solar Alliance to do 'anything'
about this cult in question as they have somehow gained far too advanced
technology and combat prowess to simply counter act them.'
   'They have yet to
make a move, but they rarely let anyone onto Neptune that isn't there for the
'purist' of reasons or not of their gender or race.'
   'Despite this if
one is lucky enough to get on Neptune, than one will find that it is a genetic
gold mine as it seems to have with it the code of life, as example of the Amoi
native to this planet.'
Pluto Display
   'Ah Pluto you
Wannabe Planet, we still love you, so much so that you are home to some of the
most prestigious colleges in this entire system! Having some of the greats
teach at your mini-planet sized colleges! But other than your strive for higher
education you also serve as a neutral point for negotiations! Wonderful! What's
that? What other praise do you get Pluto? JACK-SHIT! Your great for
negotiations and education - but short of that your just that little brother
rock we reluctantly bring along because Mama Sun said so! Now get while we
smoke some space we-'
VP113 Display
   'What's that Space
Explorer [YOUR NAME HERE] you don't recognize this planet? And you call
yourself an Explorer, this is VP113, also recognized as the home planet of the
Verga'an. Though to be fair it's no surprise you don't recognize this planet,
it only comes into our orbit every 400 years! Give or take!'
   'VP113 is said to
be a gigantic Dwarven fort with technology far beyond our comprehension! No
explorer is welcome on their planet, not after the Summer of [DATE AND
INFORMATION MISSING - FILE CORRUPTED - RUNNING BACK UP FILE 33BA530DKL]'
   'Did you know it
was thanks to the Verga'an that we had people like the Huns, Vikings, The
Romans, Aztecs, and other groups of humans of War? Of course it was mostly to
counter the Shivans with their 'science and education' policy with the
Egyptians, Atlantians, Mayans, Greeks, and other societies that believed in
education and information? It seems the two races would form certain societies simply
to see how they would be pitted against one another. Mind blowing when you
think of it!'
End of Tour
   'Well
congratulations future Space Explorer [YOUR NAME HERE] you have learned some of
the basics of these planets in our system! And there are more yet to be
explored, so go out there, be brave and Discoveeerrrr theeee
fffuuuutttuuuuurrrre-'
   The display
suddenly fizzles and the museum goes completely dark, you find yourself turning
a flashlight on and finding your way to either the next exhibit or the gift
shop, probably something worth of value in one of those two directions, be it
knowledge, or snow globes to sell back in your own shop.