Absolon, story, new pbem starting november

From: Flemming Pedersen <flp@vip.cybercity.dk>

Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0000

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Introduction
If you are looking for a power game with politics, diplomacy, warfare,
star exploration, empire building and perhaps an alien or two, then you
have come to the right place. Welcome to the world of Absolon.

Absolon the story
This is the story of the fall of the 2 last big empires in the world,
the Caolant and the Sanuzi.

Back in 2061 when the big breakthrough in physics came with the
invention of the first warp-drive, the inventor Marcus Conner said
'Technology can heal the world, if the world wants to be healed'.
History has shown that Conner was right, but it did take a lot of effort
before the healing came.

The first expedition to the nearest system 'Noy' was very hard to
finance, nobody really believed in the possibilities of a colonization
of another world. It was only when it became known that Conner had asked
the Sanuzi empire for help, that the government of Caolant came through.

So it was financed and the expedition went quite well. There were some
initial problem with the basic rocket systems. Some rumours say that it
was sabotaged by the infamous terrorist group the 'Tarantello', but that
is just rumours and has never been proven. Later, on the trip itself, a
mutany, started by a Sanuzi spy, was almost successful had it not been
for some heroic actions by members of the Chaos League, also an infamous
terrorist group. This was proberbly also the turning point for the group
and why they are not that 'wanted' today as they once were.

The colonization ship survived the trip and the first colonized planet
became a reality. Another factor that contributed to the success of the
first colonization, was the discovery of the Zoldium construction
mineral on Noy. With an increased efficiency of 50%, it soon became a
major trade comodity for the new Noy citizens and many new Noy families
have become quite welthy exporting this mineral to the homeworld. Even
today Zoldium is of major importance to construction corporations
throughout the homeworld and is imported in a very large scale.

This financial success also led to increased interest in financing the
next expedition and that interest escalated so fast that even the
government wanted in. Rumours of the big corporation financing the
senators soon surfaced and that really rocked the government in it's
foundation. Having 90% of the senators taking bribes is not good for a
government. That was when the evil Sanuzi empire played their final
card. That was the time when the Sanuzi started the world war.

It was a short, but terrible war. More than 35% of the total population
was annihilated and both the Caolant and Sanuzi government fell, or
actually was blown away. That didn't stop the war however. Several years
of anarchy and fighting amongst the powerfull families followed and it
was only when a young and brave man of the Halando family succeeded in
making peace with several of the most powerful families, that the war
ended.

It took several years to negotiate the form of the new combined empire.
Everybody wanted a democracy, but also to honor the brave Halando
family, who had stopped the war. A compromise was made, democracy won,
but so did the young Halando, as he was appointed the honourable
position of Emperor of the new Constitutional Empire.

The new emperor position never had any real power on paper, but the
Halando family gained a lot of prestige in the years that followed and
the Halando name is still today synonymous with absolute power. One of
the things that the young Halando insisted on establishing, was a
government controlled space agency, which took form as the Ministry of
Exploration and Colonization.

Since then the MEC has been responsible for 2 successful colonizations,
Wewa 2 and Jui 3 and the MEC research centers for numerous new
technologies in cooperation with many big corporations, under the
skillful leadership Connors grandson Gary G. Connor. Inventions like the
Garrant Reflector Shields and the Easters Space Navigation Computer
System comes from such cooperations, but the Connor team have also been
able to come up with ideas of their own, like the Warp Core Concealment
chamber and the design of the entire engine room.

Today both Wewa and Jui have been successfully been colonized and an
unmanned expedition to Tatue is being planned and the hope of finding
new fertile land is overwelming. The Jui expedition gave the new fuel
alloy Mancium, which have improved the chances of further expedition
tremendously, only the future will show us where.

Fate of Absolon
This is the early times of space exploration and colonization. The
Empire is more powerful than ever before and the time has come to
conquer the stars. You will play a major part in creating the future for
the empire as you become the head of one of the new families that has
risen to power lately.

You will decide your goals and try to get there using politics, big
business and military force when needed. Getting the organization
together, building your business empire, become popular with the
population of Absolon and so forth. You might even lead a
spaceexploration mission yourself and perhaps even pay for it. It is
expected that the first private corporation will launch their space
missions within the first 20 years of play, perhaps even before. Perhaps
someday, you will own your own planet.

You will have to face many dangers during your years of rule. Exactly
what they are, you will of course NOT know beforehand, but nevertheless
you will have to prepare yourself for whatever comes and do  prepare for
the worst!

The Fate of the Empire is not entirely in your own hands. There will be
several other players trying to do their part as well as several NPC
families who also wants total power. Who these families are, you might
discover during your turns. I will promise you however, that you should
prepare yourself for a very, shall we say, active and alive Empire.

�You can learn more about Absolon on the homepage
http://users.cybercity.dk/~dko1339/home.html

Yours truly
Flemming

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Introduction
 If you are looking for a power game with politics, diplomacy, warfare,
star exploration, empire building and perhaps an alien or two, then you
have come to the right place. Welcome to the world of Absolon.

Absolon the story
 This is the story of the fall of the 2 last big empires in the world,
the Caolant and the Sanuzi.

Back in 2061 when the big breakthrough in physics came with the invention
of the first warp-drive, the inventor Marcus Conner said 'Technology can
heal the world, if the world wants to be healed'. History has shown that
Conner was right, but it did take a lot of effort before the healing came.

The first expedition to the nearest system 'Noy' was very hard to finance,
nobody really believed in the possibilities of a colonization of another
world. It was only when it became known that Conner had asked the Sanuzi
empire for help, that the government of Caolant came through.

So it was financed and the expedition went quite well. There were some
initial problem with the basic rocket systems. Some rumours say that it
was sabotaged by the infamous terrorist group the 'Tarantello', but that
is just rumours and has never been proven. Later, on the trip itself, a
mutany, started by a Sanuzi spy, was almost successful had it not been
for some heroic actions by members of the Chaos League, also an infamous
terrorist group. This was proberbly also the turning point for the group
and why they are not that 'wanted' today as they once were.
 &nbsp;
 The colonization ship survived the trip and the first colonized planet
became a reality. Another factor that contributed to the success of the
first colonization, was the discovery of the Zoldium construction mineral
on Noy. With an increased efficiency of 50%, it soon became a major trade
comodity for the new Noy citizens and many new Noy families have become
quite welthy exporting this mineral to the homeworld. Even today Zoldium
is of major importance to construction corporations throughout the homeworld
and is imported in a very large scale.

This financial success also led to increased interest in financing the
next expedition and that interest escalated so fast that even the government
wanted in. Rumours of the big corporation financing the senators soon surfaced
and that really rocked the government in it's foundation. Having 90% of
the senators taking bribes is not good for a government. That was when
the evil Sanuzi empire played their final card. That was the time when
the Sanuzi started the world war.

It was a short, but terrible war. More than 35% of the total population
was annihilated and both the Caolant and Sanuzi government fell, or actually
was blown away. That didn't stop the war however. Several years of anarchy
and fighting amongst the powerfull families followed and it was only when
a young and brave man of the Halando family succeeded in making peace with
several of the most powerful families, that the war ended.

It took several years to negotiate the form of the new combined empire.
Everybody wanted a democracy, but also to honor the brave Halando family,
who had stopped the war. A compromise was made, democracy won, but so did
the young Halando, as he was appointed the honourable position of Emperor
of the new Constitutional Empire.
 &nbsp;
 The new emperor position never had any real power on paper, but the
Halando family gained a lot of prestige in the years that followed and
the Halando name is still today synonymous with absolute power. One of
the things that the young Halando insisted on establishing, was a government
controlled space agency, which took form as the Ministry of Exploration
and Colonization.

Since then the MEC has been responsible for 2 successful colonizations,
Wewa 2 and Jui 3 and the MEC research centers for numerous new technologies
in cooperation with many big corporations, under the skillful leadership
Connors grandson Gary G. Connor. Inventions like the Garrant Reflector
Shields and the Easters Space Navigation Computer System comes from such
cooperations, but the Connor team have also been able to come up with ideas
of their own, like the Warp Core Concealment chamber and the design of
the entire engine room.

Today both Wewa and Jui have been successfully been colonized and an
unmanned expedition to Tatue is being planned and the hope of finding new
fertile land is overwelming. The Jui expedition gave the new fuel alloy
Mancium, which have improved the chances of further expedition tremendously,
only the future will show us where.

Fate of Absolon
 This is the early times of space exploration and colonization. The
Empire is more powerful than ever before and the time has come to conquer
the stars. You will play a major part in creating the future for the empire
as you become the head of one of the new families that has risen to power
lately.

You will decide your goals and try to get there using politics, big
business and military force when needed. Getting the organization together,
building your business empire, become popular with the population of Absolon
and so forth. You might even lead a spaceexploration mission yourself and
perhaps even pay for it. It is expected that the first private corporation
will launch their space missions within the first 20 years of play, perhaps
even before. Perhaps someday, you will own your own planet.
 &nbsp;
 You will have to face many dangers during your years of rule. Exactly
what they are, you will of course NOT know beforehand, but nevertheless
you will have to prepare yourself for whatever comes and do&nbsp; prepare
for the worst!

The Fate of the Empire is not entirely in your own hands. There will
be several other players trying to do their part as well as several NPC
families who also wants total power. Who these families are, you might
discover during your turns. I will promise you however, that you should
prepare yourself for a very, shall we say, active and alive Empire.

&uml;You can learn more about Absolon on the homepage
 <A HREF="http://users.cybercity.dk/~dko1339/home.html">http://users.cybercity.dk/~dko1339/home.html</A>

Yours truly
 Flemming</HTML>

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