#zookosmic

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Gravity on ships and space-borne structures is handled by field plates, devices that use non-mass gravity generation to adhere things to a surface. These work by attracting andsions, a mass attractive quantum particle that makes up dark matter and also is present in all other matter in small amounts. The low quantities present in people and objects leads to varying levels of effectiveness for these devices but for the most part, field plates have been a staple of technology since their invention. In very rare instances, field plates can malfunction and create an attractive field several hundred times more powerful than the gravitational pull of Kvesma, instantly flattening anything within their influence.

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Fun Lore Fact:

“Scav” is common parlance for many types of people, namely those who exist outside the boundaries of established nations. “Pirate” is often used interchangeably with “Scavenger”, though the term is technically defined as individuals who seek to illegally profit from governments and corporations. Still, scavengers are stigmatized and shunned across the system and exist in untold billions at the edges of civilization, posing major danger to anything not properly defended. Some even say that life is better on the fringe, where freedom and opportunity go hand in hand.

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Fun Lore Fact:

The Coalition was originally a state funded terrorist cell that gained legitimacy in the eyes of the Peace Court when they perpetrated concurrent successful assassinations of the Loran-Hekmel Corporation CEO, CFO, and the majority of their board. The group then claimed and used the resources of the company to grow and expand as a private military corporation until they struck a deal with the nations of Itex Ba Rya to act as their standing army in return for bringing order to the then lawless wastes (some argue that hasn’t changed).

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Fun Lore Fact

Corsic is the current record holder for the most independent nations on a settled orbiting body at a whopping 422. This is attributed to the rampant conflict over resources that has led to the rapid and continued rise and fall of nations as borders and alliances constantly shift. Corsic is also notable for being unified as a single planet for only 2% of its time being settled.

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Fun Lore Fact:

PC stands for “palm computer” but they are also commonly referred to as “personal computers”, “portable computers”, and often “piece-of-shit cocksuckers”. That latter moniker is from the last century when they were low-end communications devices, rather than all-in-one computer systems. Some of the cheaper models still suck ass though, so the name has stuck despite man companies' attempts to bury the term.