Primer: Introduction, part 1
Based on Consortium research, it is believed that nearly all of the GASA ship’s electronic records were lost in the sacrifice. As a result, the survivors were left to reconstruct from their memories any knowledge and history they could. It is unsurprising that, faced with a battle simply to survive, only things of a very practical bent were immediately recorded. Most of the rest was quickly lost. It didn’t help that technology of most sorts – especially the complex, miniaturized electronics that modern man relies so heavily on – failed fast in the chaos inducing fey of Altaerra.
Stories and legends of the ship, and earth survived for the first few generations but after that were soon the province of only the most learned and of fairy tales. Still, the legacy of Earth thought and pricinples can be
seen in much of the human society on Altaerra. Perhaps that’s why it feels so familiar to most actors and why they find it easy to fit in.
