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Background Topics

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<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ae/4f/8c/ae4f8cd97aef7f9fc0dcc4490e54574f.jpg" alt="Background Topics">Background Topics Orion’s Arm combines futuristic technology with aristocratic culture. Due to the great <a class="internal" href="/wiki/Plague">Plague</a>, human society became fragmented and retrogressed, but not until after about a millenium of social, economic and technological development from our time during the <a class="internal" href="/wiki/Net-Ages">Net Ages</a>. So, certain aspects of life that we take for granted today do not exist in Orion’s Arm even though they live in our future. They have the ability to travel across planets but no way to communicate directly between them. Certain human beings do not age, yet there are billions of people who toil under theocratic rule. These odd juxtapositions of new and old are reflected in the politics, economics, aesthetics and cultures of Orion’s Arm.
Cambie Territories

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<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ae/4f/8c/ae4f8cd97aef7f9fc0dcc4490e54574f.jpg" alt="House Gresham Symbol">[House Gresham Symbol ???] At the time of the Plague, Clark Gresham was part of a survey team for the Canadian company Exeter returning from the Sagitarrius Arm. Clark Gresham met Christy Omaki, among the group of survivors assembling on Juneau and it was love at first sight. They quickly married and became involved in the efforts to build the ICRCT. When the organization of governance on Juneau started to lean in a distinctly (European) Union direction, he and Christy made up their mind to resettle another planet along with Christy's brother Amel Omaki once the opportunity arose. After a lot of discussion about the various different planets they had seen while working with the ICRCT, the three were drawn to the vast redwood forests of Merritt.
Charles Tiverton

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<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f6/f1/be/f6f1bea7665175da05f3ab6531543beb.jpg" alt="Lord Charles Tiverton">Lord Charles Tiverton Lord Charles Tiverton is a <a class="internal" href="/wiki/Lord-of-the-Republic">Lord of the Republic</a> of Juneau, the Lord Chief Commissioner of the <a class="internal" href="/wiki/Justiciary-of-the-Republic">Justiciary of the Republic</a> and a member of the <a class="internal" href="/wiki/Society-of-Gentlemen-Scholars">Society of Gentlemen Scholars</a>.
Conclave Of The Order

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<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ae/4f/8c/ae4f8cd97aef7f9fc0dcc4490e54574f.jpg" alt="Orion Prophecies Logo">Orion Prophecies Logo Even though each grand master has his own autonomy based upon the direct authority granted to him by his appointment by the Council, a conclave of grand masters meets every other year to discuss matters inside the order. The conclave is significant because it requires every grand master to submit of report of activities and it ultimately assigns the budget. But many grand masters have independent revenue sources to support their on-going projects and endeavors. The nature of these revenue sources varies in their legitimacy.
Connor MacLauren

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<img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/f4/ca/af/f4caafbdb574df060fcac4b327fb8092.jpg" alt="Connor MacLauren Image">Connor MacLauren (front-left) Connor MacLauren, or just 'MacLauren', is a 30 something freelance private investigator and hard-boiled detective whose base of operations is Rockford's capital city, Durham. Jaded by unseemliness which comes with his line of work and heartbroken by the one dame who got away, MacLauren has grown dispassionate and unflinchingly realistic over the years. He pursues his quarries with such tenacious persistence that his reputation for reliability has spread among clients and marks alike. He is connected to a vast network of underworld contacts and insatiably curious. MacLauren is known for his discretion and ingenuity. He is the man to call on when you want the job done right. However, he is also callous, misogynistic and occasionally condescending. All but his most high-born clients seem to receive diminutive nicknames within fifteen minutes of meeting him. MacLauren is dragged into the unfolding events when he is hired by Lord Sedgwick to help him recover the Lord's wayward teenage daughter from what appears to be an elopement with a local boy. When the two went missing, MacLauren is called in to find Miss Sedgwick and 'solve' this problem of star-crossed love.
Council Of Governors

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<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ae/4f/8c/ae4f8cd97aef7f9fc0dcc4490e54574f.jpg" alt="Orion Prophecies Logo">Orion Prophecies Logo There are 37 seats on the Council of Governors and they are all occupied by immortals... some are the ambassadors officially appointed to the council from their respective government (such as Sassari and Juneau), others are rulers of large multi-planetary populations (like <a class="internal" href="/wiki/Jean-Duvillard">Jean Duvillard</a> and others are independent actors with significance to the council based upon the various different activities it oversees (like <a class="internal" href="/wiki/Alessandro-Genovese">Alessandro Genovese</a> overseeing the <a class="internal" href="/wiki/Order-of-Mercury">Order of Mercury</a>). All have titles and possessions as would be fitting someone of stature and renown in the immortal community.
Cybers

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<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7a/e4/bb/7ae4bb90bf72086966887a3984b3652b.jpg" alt="Cyber Personality">Cyber Cybers, or ‘Cybernet Clones’, are the algorithmic duplicates of people living during the later years of the <a href="The-Great-Expansion.md">Great Expansion</a> who used the quantum cloud with their cybernet devices. Although there was a long-standing prohibition against the creation of sentient algorithms, a number of hackers found a way to copy the entire throughput of the neurological processes of their cybernetic devices to create a virtual clone of themselves. When their human counterparts died in the Plague, these cybernetic clones survived, living as virtual, but identical, ghosts of their dead counterparts. As faithful copies of the real hackers and visionaries that died, Cybers were split down the middle by the formation of The Establishment. Utopian minded Cybers joined The Establishment, envisioning a world that was finally free of the need for a corporeal existence. While many of the personalities that already had a problem with organization/authority joined with those who still identified themselves as partially human to support the Exiles. After the Shakeout and the dissolution of these allegiances, cybers found themselves once again able to embrace the beliefs and friendships of their former selves, though in a Scape much different than the one they were used to. To adapt to these new conditions, a variety of different factions in the Scape sprung up with both Cyber and <a href="Sents.md">Sent</a> membership based upon their prior worldviews and previous allegiances. Some of the most fervent Cyber supporters of the Establishment formed the Core, while diehard Exiles joined Central Command. But both groups represented only a small percentage of all the newly created factions, which found themselves in a scramble for the repositories of data and algorithms now hidden by the Shakeout.

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Cambie Territories

Charles Tiverton

Conclave Of The Order

Connor MacLauren

Council Of Governors

Cybers