[PBEM News] Selistryr Weyr, something out of the ordinary.

From: bodiorm@online-dot-no.no-spam.invalid (Shadow)

Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:05:11 +0000

The turn 1278 brought with it changes well beyond the imagination of
most pernese.

For several turns, Pern had been observed by scientists from other
worlds, having found their way there after discovering dragons in the
sub-dimension also known as Between by the pernese.

However, it was not until a great object of metal fell to the ground
in the territory of Southern Hold, that it all began. Crashing with
enough force to cause a brief, but far-reaching earthquake and
causing numerous fires, its arrival was impossible to miss. But what
caused many to worry, was the strange creatures found nearby-- one
like a large dolphin with black and white hide, and the other like a
frightening cross of a human and a snake.

Back in the society of the offworlders, a war had started, and
communications with their people in the Rukbat-system were severed.
This event also stranded a number of offworlders at Pern, most of
them young human candidates and weyrlings, but also a few
non-humans.

But it was not until one of the creatures that had been found close to
the crash-site, killed those who had been set to watch it once it woke
up, and using the weapon-systems of the damaged ship it had arrived
in-- it turned them on the Hold and the Weyr. Lacking the
capabilities to deal with such a threats, the pernese might have
suffered tremendous losses, especially since the attempt by several
dragons to take it Between failed terribly.

In the end, the offworlders at Pern had little choice but to reveal
themselves, several substaining horrific injuries when disabling the
defensive shield of the ship to allow a number of dragonriders to
deal with it in the way their comerades had attempted earlier. Still
lacking any means of communicating with their true home, the
offworlders had little choice but to extend a hand to the pernese--
revealing their true identities and purpose for being at the planet.

In the time after, quite an uproar went across Pern as it was revealed
that the planet had been watched for quite some time by offworlders,
when they decided that it was time for them to come out into the
open. No small part of it was one of the main projects of the
offworlders-- who had taken dragons away from Pern for tens of turns,
through presenting offworlder humans as candidates. And once they were
old enough, each of these people and his or her dragon left Pern, all
of those who had known them made to forget through a form of
telepathic programing.

To begin with, there was no lack of distruct among the pernese towards
the offworlders, for sound reasons after their past decisions. But
still, the offworlders had still provided enough proof for the
pernese leaders to realize that they would need someone to give them
advice and guidance if they were ever able to re-establish contact
with the intergalactic society, or if a less amiable race decided to
drop by.

And in the end they made a request for the offworlders to create a
base for themselves on Pern, a place for those who wished for it to
learn more about the offworlders what would be waiting for them out
there.

Thus Selistyr Weyr was created, taking its name from the offworlders
word for 'star'.

Founded on the Western Continent after it had been altered to support
the flora and fauna a Weyr would need, an extinct volcano at the
southern coast was chosen as the site for Selistyr. And after a joint
effort by the offworlders and the pernese, the Weyr was opened for use
in turn 1280-- its residents enjoying a mix of the traditional pernese
and certain things provided by offworlder technology to make life
easier for the residents.

Initially, one hundred dragons and three hundred people from all over
Pern were sent to Selistyr Weyr, sharing their home with fifty
offworld dragonriders and seventy offworlders. In the turn since then
however, the total population of the Weyr has grown to seven hundreds
total. Recently, the leaders of the Weyr-- Weyrwoman Lerril of gold
Otath, offworlder Weyrleader V'ryn of bronze Danshyuth and offworlder
leader Lretsayet, have also considered the possibility of open a Hold
within the Weyr territory.

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