Arthurians

From Acw

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.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Disclaimer 1.2 The Cataclysm of Year 125 1.3 The splitting of Merlin 2 Arthurian Houses 2.1 Founding Seats 2.2 New Seats 3 Events 4 Spacecraft 5 Current Arthurian Characters 6 Rumours

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, Palamedes, Taliesinn, Gawain and Galahad, were formed, from the already existing Command, Administration, 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, while others postulate that it was some quirk of Merlin's newly upgraded architecture.

Arthurian Houses

Arthurian society is divided into a number of houses, or 'seats'.

Founding Seats

• Arthur Seat - Head of the Arthur's government.
• Colgrevance Seat - Administrative seat, in charge of resource allocation and logistics.
• Palamedes Seat - Maintenance and engineering seat, in charge of maintaining and adapting the Arthur.
• Taliesinn Seat - Communications and media operators, in charge of maintaining the Merlin Server.
• 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.

New Seats

• Percival Seat - Seat tasked with spaceborne defences of the Arthur.
• Lancelot Seat - Created to command the Arthur's ground troops.
• Bors Seat - Created since the arrival to oversee settlement and integration on the ground in the CAS.
• Sagramore Seat - Newly-formed seat, made up of shocktroops and combat engineers.

Events

Important events the Arthurians have been involved in:

• The Arthurian Incursion at New Iowa

Spacecraft

Being a space faring people Arthuriruans have no planets as territories. Instead they live on spacecraft

• The Arthur

Current Arthurian Characters

• Percival Prime
• Taliesinn Prime
• Lancelot Cavanaugh
• Colgrevance Stoss

Rumours

Rumours involving the Arthurians:

• The Covenant Keepers
• 3G - Jul 10, 2367 - The Arthurian's Propaganda