Outcasts History

Posted on Mon Jul 19th, 2021 @ 5:59am by Captain David Tonelly [Reece]

Mission: MISSION 0 - History Speaks
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OOC Bill: Hey Ya'll! Here is a brief history of the Green Colony, to give you a little perk into their current mindset.


2195: Green followers arrive on New Canaan. Initial colonists set the first cornerstone of the capitol building in Viridey.

2196: Birth rates skyrocket as the colonists begin to have families

2201: James Devillin, one of the original colonists, is injured in a rock slide. It is deemed that his injuries are not repairable, so, following bio harvest, he is euthanized and his remains are composted. He is the first Human to die on New Canaan.

2210: Medical teams discover a bacteria in the soil that can cause minor developmental disorders in the growing First Gen Children. It is discovered that, once infected, the DNA is irrevocably altered, allowing for more mutations to occure.

2212: The Viridey Council sends two teams out, in an attempt to create new settlements. One, made up of seven families, heads northwest, to where a massively large lake was discovered during drone scans. It would be named the Green Lake Settlement.

The other, consisting of ten families, went into the mountains northeast of Viridey. Their settlement would become known as Emerald Peak. Both satellite settlements would send half of their discoveries back to Viridey. In return, they would recieve the various essential services required from the capitol.

2220: While birth rates continue to climb, more and more birth defects are being seen. In accordance with the laws, all children born defective in any way are immediatly euthanized. Also, it is decreed that any parent who either disregards this ruling, titled Law One, or keeps a pregnancy and birth secret, will loose all rights, be sterilized and then expelled out into the wilds, to fend for themselves.

Medical scientists have finally finished construction on artificial gestation and birthing centers. While the technology proves successful, it is determined that a faster maturation cycle is required, if the colony is to survive. Thus ordered, the work begins in earnest.

2222: Micheal and Heather Paterson, both First Gen Children, are the first to be found guilty of breaking Law One. Following their trial, as per the law, they are osrticized, sterilized and taken far out into the wastes to the south of Viridey, where they are released with no provisions or clothing. They last time they are seen was as the shuttle lifted off and flew away.

2250: Advanced maturation systems prove a success as William Fairchild and Sarah DeWinter are both born as fully grown adults. Their DNA is the purest mixture available on the entire planet. It is hoped that along with this new technology, natural birth will begin to exhibit fewer and fewer defects, now referred to as Outcasts.

2260: New Canaan's population explodes three fold with new reproductive science. However, the occurence of birth defects has not decreased. There are so many, that the governmental euthenologists cannot keep up. It is an tightly held secret that more and more Outcasts are being made every week, as criminal parents hide their defective children from the authorities, then release them into the wild when they are able to care for themselves.

2274: Law Two is passed unanimously by the Viridey Council. It specifies that any Outcast found will shackled in the public square and tortured. They would then be crucified and left on the cities outskirts, as a warning. Should the Outcast's criminal parents be discovered, they would share the same fate.

2280: The Outcasts, now numbering in the hundreds, found their own home, deep in the wastes. It is called simply, Home. They are a wild bunch, at first. However, as the years continues, they begin to coalesce and form their own councel. Unfortunately, as they must remain hidden, for threat of being discovered by the aerial drones that constantly hunt them, they find refuge underground, in vast caverns connected throught the crust of the planet. These caverns have remained undiscovered by the colonists, so, it is decided that the Outcasts would claim it as their own.

Now that they have shelter, they also discover an abundance of everthing else they would need to not only survive, but thrive.

2295: On the centennial of their arrival, the surface dwellers, as the Outcasts now call them, finally achieve faster than light travel. Though, as they have no desire to intermingle with the unclean aliens that surround them, they instead leave what ships they can build as an orbital defense force only. They then begin research into weapons technology and to build a communications relay powerful enough to contact Earth, directly.

2301: The surface population continues to grow, all the while children that are born deformed are being secreted out. There are but a mere handful of officials that know this truth, yet, are unable to quell this disobedience without the entire population collapsing into chaos. Several examples are still made on a weekly basis, with the hope that all lawbreakers will be found and eliminated.

2310: Diected energy weapons are fielded for the first time. They act as a disintegrater of material when used on full power. Prodution is expedited when several alien craft are suddenly seen in the skies. These grotesquely deformed aliens had enlarged heads and ears, clearly a sign of their unholy nature. Before they even set foot on the planet, their ships are shot out of the sky by both the obital and ground-based defenses. Warship production is increased.

2324: More alien craft appear in orbit, only to be completely destroyed before signals can be sent out. The colony's technological development had advanced in leaps and bounds, due primarily to the rich materiels found in both the lake and mountain regions. Soon, more defensive emplacements are installed in the planet's four moons, each with enough power to eliminate any force that threatened them. As each installation was completely automated. Control rested solely with the Colony leader.

2350: As the population continued to grow, so did the settlements. Were it not for the scientific and medical advancements, the settlements would still be little more than small camps. In the beginning, the colony started with 150 people. Now, 155 years later, the total surface population was near 10000. Rumors among those in the know, put the Outcasts somewhere around 200, possibly 300, but it was difficult to know for sure as the Outcast camp or camps could never be found.

2367: A young Outcast, calling himself Gregor, achieved dominence over the rest of the Outcasts and truly united them for the first time. With his intellect and strength, he is able to defeat the few warring Outcast chieftens and bring them all under one rule. While most outcasts suffer from physical handicaps, mental issues or some other internal malformation, Gregor's deformity, which would have seen him euthanized, was simple albinism. His parents were able to hide him for nearly fifteen years, until one night, a short circuit cased their home to catch fire. Gregor, alone, survived. This was due to the fact that his father had built an escape hatch for his son to use, should the authorities discover their crime.

For the next thirty years, the Outcasts lived in peace, bringing in their brethren that had been discarded by the surface.

2395: Construction was nearing completion of the subspace communications facility. Gregor had heard of the structure from his scouts that went to the surface at night. Learning what the structure was for, Gregor quickly started to plan on how to send his own signal.

2396: After stealing the needed parts, Gregor and the other highly intelligent Outcasts began to build a crude wireless device, whose design was to pirate the signal sent by the surface dwellers. While they couldn't hope to overpower the core signal, they might be able to hide their own message inside the signal itself.

2397: A week before the signal was scheduled to be sent, the device was finished. Gregor was told that he only had enough power to send a single message, only a few words in length. He thought about it for several minutes, finally deciding that it would be as simple as, "Please, send help."