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'''Arthurians''' are humans from the [[Ark Ship]] [[Arthur (Ark Ship)|Arthur]]. After arriving at the planet "[[Avalon_(Arthurian_Myth)|Avalon]]" ([[New Iowa]]) in [[2367]], they were involved in [[The Arthurian Incursion]]. | '''Arthurians''' are humans from the [[Ark Ship]] [[Arthur (Ark Ship)|Arthur]]. After arriving at the planet "[[Avalon_(Arthurian_Myth)|Avalon]]" ([[New Iowa]]) in [[2367]], they were involved in [[The Arthurian Incursion]]. | ||
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| + | ==History== | ||
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| + | Little is known of Arthurian history, but British researchers have been able to put together something of a narrative from what Arthurians themselves have reported, and scraps of information given to them by those citizens who underwent [[Taliesinn|Taliesinn-2]]'s [[wetware implant]] process on [[New Iowa]]. | ||
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| + | Moreoever, as the Arthur travelled at sub-light speeds, despite being absent for 235 [[Earth Standard]] years, the time that passed for the Arthurians was considerably longer. The Merlin Server calculates that the Arthur reached its destination in year 463 of the journey - a difference of 228 years. | ||
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| + | ===The Cataclysm of Year 125=== | ||
| + | The [[Arthur]] left Earth orbit in March 2132, passing beyond Pluto in late 2133. In 2140 contact was lost. The logs of the [[Merlin Server]] report nothing untoward until year 125 of the journey. An encrypted file on the server holds the key to some sort of cataclysmic event, but as yet nobody outside the Arthur has discovered its nature. It was in about year 132 of the journey that the founding seats, Arthur, Colgrevance, Taliesinn, Gawain and Galahad, were formed, from the already existing Command, Engineering, Server Maintenance, Medical and Life Support Systems teams on the Arthur. The exact reasons for renaming the teams thus is also kept from Earth researchers. | ||
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| + | ===The splitting of Merlin=== | ||
| + | In about Year 142, it was decided that the Merlin Server's many Decentralised Processing Units (DPUs) would be shared out in small numbers to individual 'Seat' servers, one for each seat. The Merlin Supercomputer seems to have been upgraded by this point by Taliesinn Seat to its unprecedented and unexplained capacity, and could thus easily compensate for the lost processors. Each Seat was given an autonomous and encrypted server, to serve only its members. Oddly enough, a discrepancy in the number of DPUs shows that three are unaccounted for, which is odd as each Seat server contains only two DPUs. Researchers either believe that they were lost in the cataclysm, or that some quirk of Merlin's upgraded architecture required a prime number of DPUs. | ||
== Arthurian Houses == | == Arthurian Houses == | ||
Revision as of 23:03, 26 November 2007
Arthurians are humans from the Ark Ship Arthur. After arriving at the planet "Avalon" (New Iowa) in 2367, they were involved in The Arthurian Incursion.
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History
Disclaimer
Little is known of Arthurian history, but British researchers have been able to put together something of a narrative from what Arthurians themselves have reported, and scraps of information given to them by those citizens who underwent Taliesinn-2's wetware implant process on New Iowa.
Moreoever, as the Arthur travelled at sub-light speeds, despite being absent for 235 Earth Standard years, the time that passed for the Arthurians was considerably longer. The Merlin Server calculates that the Arthur reached its destination in year 463 of the journey - a difference of 228 years.
The Cataclysm of Year 125
The Arthur left Earth orbit in March 2132, passing beyond Pluto in late 2133. In 2140 contact was lost. The logs of the Merlin Server report nothing untoward until year 125 of the journey. An encrypted file on the server holds the key to some sort of cataclysmic event, but as yet nobody outside the Arthur has discovered its nature. It was in about year 132 of the journey that the founding seats, Arthur, Colgrevance, Taliesinn, Gawain and Galahad, were formed, from the already existing Command, Engineering, Server Maintenance, Medical and Life Support Systems teams on the Arthur. The exact reasons for renaming the teams thus is also kept from Earth researchers.
The splitting of Merlin
In about Year 142, it was decided that the Merlin Server's many Decentralised Processing Units (DPUs) would be shared out in small numbers to individual 'Seat' servers, one for each seat. The Merlin Supercomputer seems to have been upgraded by this point by Taliesinn Seat to its unprecedented and unexplained capacity, and could thus easily compensate for the lost processors. Each Seat was given an autonomous and encrypted server, to serve only its members. Oddly enough, a discrepancy in the number of DPUs shows that three are unaccounted for, which is odd as each Seat server contains only two DPUs. Researchers either believe that they were lost in the cataclysm, or that some quirk of Merlin's upgraded architecture required a prime number of DPUs.
Arthurian Houses
Arthurian society is divided into a number of houses, or 'seats'.
- Arthur Seat - Administrative and political house, the 'gevernment' of the Arthur.
- Taliesinn Seat - Communications and media operators, in charge of maintaining the Merlin Server.
- Percival Seat - Seat tasked with spaceborne defences of the Arthur.
- Lancelot Seat - Combat seat, formed to command the Arthur's ground troops.
- Bors Seat - Newly-formed seat, made up of shocktroops and combat engineers.
- Colgrevance Seat - Maintenance and engineering seat, in charge of maintaining and adapting the Arthur.
- Gawain Seat - The small seat charged with medical duties. Also manages manufacture and implanting of wetware implants.
- Galahad Seat - Seat entrusted with maintenance of the agricultural and life support systems on the Arthur.
Events
Important events the Arthurians have been involved in:
Spacecraft
Being a space faring people Arthuriruans have no planets as territories. Instead they live on spacecraft
- The Arthur
Current Arthurian Characters
Rumours
Rumours involving the Arthurians:
This page is about a Faction that exists in the game. It has been added to the wiki, but needs more details.
