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The World of the Falling Eagle. Its first inhabitants were the survivors of battle, and all of their descendants have since followed suit. From the geography to the people, the history of this place has been shaped by violence. It is likely that its future will hold more of the same.
Order and chaos intermingle among peaks reaching towards the sky and the valleys that wind between them. Bandits clash and revel in the name of mighty warlords whose legacies are built on foundations of sand, their names lost to the test of time. In the brief interludes of peace, when gunfire rattles to silence and blades are sheathed, these outcasts gaze to the horizon. They dream of distant
Nueva Cuauhtémoc is cast between extremes. Continents clad in high desert and barren mountains dominate the surface, giving way to humid and tropical oceans at the planet’s poles.
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===Sun and Atmosphere===
Nueva Cuauhtémoc circles the A-type star of Mentta, which bathes the world in a white-blue light and oppressive heat. At night, three moons hang in the sky, and the light they reflect from Mentta means even the darkest hours never fade below a dusking
These gasses, while acting as a major impediment to urban expansion, provide stunning views when electrified in the roving storms common to a warm water climate. Arcing bolts of lightning charge the atmosphere, leaving behind jagged afterimages of glowing neon that dissipate into the open air. During the night, the land is cast in vivid halogen luminescence as solar winds from Mentta flare the dark air with sudden bursts of color, a more violent and spontaneous cousin to the auroras of other worlds.
Above the storms and colors, the three moons of the world circle and spin – Alcis, Re, and Cern, caught forever in their cycles. Alcis, small and feeble, circles the planet once every eight days or so in a tight orbit. Re, the brightest and largest of the moons, makes rotations of thirty-two days. The loyal hunter, Cern, is always close behind in the outermost orbit of the three with a forty day rotation. Alcis and Cern are more so glorified asteroids pushed and pulled in the wake of Re, yet the searing brightness of Mentta sets all three alight - staring directly at the lunar cousins of Nueva Cuauhtémoc leaves spots in one’s eyes, and their glowing
===Terrain and Climate===
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Nueva Cuauhtémoc boasts massive untapped reserves of radioactives and rare earth metals below its dunes, while countless ruins from its tumultuous history are constantly subsumed and unearthed by shifting sands. Despite the heat and sand, hundreds arrive in Aguamalan voidports every day to descend down the gravity well for a chance at riches.
Many industries have devoted themselves to the support of incoming prospectors, from the provision of exploration equipment to speculative investment firms offering predatory loans. These businesses rise and fall like the tides, yet the flow of refined
This is to say nothing of the dangers that prospectors face on their own. Radioactives are highly toxic in their own right, and most miners don’t have sufficient protective equipment for long-term excavations. Many prospectors leave Nueva Cuauhtémoc wealthy, sterile, and riddled with cancers, forced to burn their riches seeking medical treatments among the experienced oncologists of the Syndicate’s medical facilities. Buried ruins have their own dangers, of course – dormant defense mechanisms, traps, and architectural instability are only a few of the perils faced by mercenary archaeologists in the field.
Meanwhile, the human element of these operations is fierce and untamed. Prospectors are often killed in disputes over lucrative mineral-claims. Archaeologists spend more time hunting down their rivals than actually exploring the continental highlands. Armed and belligerent claim-jumpers clash with desert bandits as the sun beats down, and a settlement can go from a boomtown to a burnt-out ruin in a week. Despite the smoldering homesteads that leave pillars of smoke on the horizon, despite the mines collapsed with explosives and the lead staining the sands, the poor and the desperate still continue to come. After all, where else can you go from rags to riches with a handful of bullets and a dream?
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