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Guadalcanal is fully urbanized with flood struts

the Starchild Sect of IF is a SC funded blacksite predating ASAB operating out of a port station in the frontier Gaertian system. Heavily dealing in adventure-seeking and touristy alien folks as well as astrocharters and colony ship builders, the station is saturated in the chill n calm alien presence. the short starts with totally chillen people int the surface with aliens and everything. In the shadows, however, a white shelled synth and his pale friend make a deal for a data slate. "Your data for ours. It's not like Sol uses money anymore."

"Plus, I think your boss will like the seeds he's planted."

A WOMAN. She's an upstanding solar citizen and helps a prysmi through a history museum, explaining that the 15th anniversary of the EHW's ending is coming up. People hack into the cameras and that's telegraphed by cctv footage overtaking the shots. - SMASH CUT to night. "You taking a train? Oh, no I prefer taxis. Quieter." -- Pulls up. "hey blah blah blah" -- \*address.\* Oop sry. I'm good. [put in music} - "driver comments of war after seeing museum. she tries to be chill., but she notices he's going the wrong way. she panics as he triggers the narve gas

MO, augmentation, and stuff -- conditioning n death. discovery of just how many people have tried. Patena has been piecing things together.

Sapphires and other undead are sometimes considered "Revenants" by outsiders.

Sapphire backhand, LH stabs an inquisitor in the eyepiece, it bounces off or is upswiped away, the knife flips up and out of the Sapphire's hand, she DUCKS under his backswinging LAr. She cqatches the knife in RH and thrusts it into the Inquisitor's LS lovehandle. The inquisitor PUNCHES her in the stomach, throwing her into the air. She L-KNEES him in the chin then R-KICKS him in the head, throwing him down fatally.

The Solar phrase "They dress like sheep" refers to the ability for insurrectionist elements to play to seemingly populist sentiments before performing a heel turn. As well as the co-opting of revolutionary language and disingenuous use of freedom-oriented rhetoric by powers without these values sincerely held. -- It's derided by some as useless paranoia, but praised by others as an extension of the associated concept that "the fight for freedom never stops" and that complacency to problems allows them to fester.

The GC and Many Arbitrators, Seashadow especially, use solid state gel to suspend their troops for mass landing. These can also be used as drop-pods in and of themselves, but the prospect of atmos. entry means they're often equipped with parachutes or stopjets as well.

Solar droppod technology is inspired by this after seeing it in the Expanded Horizons War, Wars alongside Opali allies, and the Blackwoods War. Non-GC or GC related powers tend not to use this permutation of drop pod tech. Seashadow is known to stuff seacreatures and dragons with this gel and keep their troops or bioforms inside while almost all other powers use some sort of mechanical hold with mechanical reentry mechanisms including all other Arbitrators. Its suspected that Seashadow does this cos they can reliably train dragons not to eat them or reject the gel and they have untold numbers of dragons to spare.

As discussed somewhere?? Solar Droppods are a slightly post-crusade semi-biological gel, lithoform, and carbon shell pod replicable by a trio of self replicator technologies. They are single use and can be recycled if recovered even if damaged. However, they are made to brace with gel bottoms that protect the occupant and impacted surface from too-significant damage. Due to their wasteful detritus, they're not rated for civilian use. -- Single occupant drop pods usually fall from patrol corvettes and sub-frigates (such as the Adalia and BS type) but purpose built drop pod grower and deployers can network with planet carriers and the like for more specialized or massive scale deployments. -- Squadpods are often used by 8-10 man squads as well as deployments of light vehicles or drones -- MODpods (Meal-Ordinance-Detatchable Pods) are smaller pods made to deliver rations, extra munitions, or man-portable tools and weapons. They're detachable from dropships and near-surface aircraft as well as spaceborne launchers. They're notably also fieldable on heavy artillery launchers with a slight retrofit. Rocket guided MODpods also have been seen. MODpods massively predate their troop carrying brethren and earlier model feature slightly outdated technology. However, they've been serving since at least the later Second Coming.