Primer: Introduction, part 2

Recorded human history on Altaerra generally picks up from the second generation after the Sacrifice. The first generation of the survivors and their immediate offspring were too busy fighting for their very survival to have the time or inclination to record much.  The Primer, like the scholarly works from Altaerra that it draws upon [...]

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 [...]

The Altaerran Consortium’s Primer

The Altaerran Consortium carefully trains all actors it sends to Altaerra so that they fit seamlessly into whatever Altaerran society or culture has been chosen for their background. This training includes a crash course on human history on Altaerra dating from the time of the initial human arrival on the planet. This history has been [...]

Altaerra Discovered

The GASA mission to Europa – to mine the rich mineral deposits there – went perfectly until a computer glitch incorrectly fired its retro rockets during its final descent to the moon’s surface.  As a result, the craft began to spiral downward into the atmosphere of Jupiter. Desperately trying to save themselves the crew rigged [...]

The Everret Effect

Also known as the Everret Transfer or Everret Shift.
The Everett Effect refers to the re-tuning of the fundamental vibrations of the building blocks of matter so that it shifts between parallel universes. It is named for the American physicist Hugh Everret III, who first postulated the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. The effect [...]