Node C +18 Anshar

=='''Node C +18  Anshar'''==

This is a world where the "Fertile Crescent rose to dominance and over the last six thousand years, more or less, has kept it.

There was no Jesus on this world and no Mohammed.  The Jews are a minor sect in the levant.

The religions that dominate are the Mesopotamian dieties, but polytheism is rampant across the world.

The technology looks a lot like 1923.

Mesopotamia/Persia are the largest and wealthiest powers, and battle other world powers for dominance.

==='''Prime'''===
12:00 - Path to Alt
01:00 - (Locked) Mammoth Caves
02:00 - (Locked) Beni Mounds, Bolivia
03:00 - Blank
04:00 - (Locked) Caves of Hercules, Morocco
05:00 - (Locked) Lascaux caves, FR
06:00 - Warp to the heart of Babylon, the grand council chambers
07:00 - (Locked) Krubera Cave, Georgia
08:00 - (Locked) Mohenjo-daro
09:00 - Blank
10:00 - (Locked) Yonagumi Monument
11:00 - (Locked) Ayers Rock, Aus

==='''C +18 Prime 06:00'''===
'''06:00''' - Babylon, a spawling megopolis of 12 million people, the richest and most powerful city in the world.

The Portal here is a warp - Babylon sits on top of 10,000 years of ruins in various layers.  The Grand Council chambers sit on a hill that contains the ruins of an ancient temple and in that ancient temple there is the main portal ring.  The Mespotamians have no idea - it's been the Grand Council Cambers for 1000 years.


==='''Alt'''===
12:00 - Path to System
01:00 - (Locked)
02:00 - (Locked)
03:00 - Path to C +17 The Smurfs
04:00 - (Locked)
05:00 - Anshar Meets Gamma World (After the Bomb)
06:00 - Path to Prime
07:00 - (Locked)
08:00 - (Locked)
09:00 - Path to C +19 World not found
10:00 - (Locked)
11:00 - (Locked)


==='''C +18 Alt 05:00'''===
'''05:00''' - this is Anshar after a terrible catastrophe.  A Nuclear war devastated the whole world - among the ruins bands of desperate humans vie against Uplisted anmals for dominance and to recover some sembelance of civilization.  the Animal-Folk are not impressed with humanity and generally aggree that they need to not be in control  - the gate opens near Larkana, which is recovering from the war, 5 years ago.


==='''System: '''===
12:00 - Path to Stellar
01:00 - Luna
02:00 - (Locked) Mars
03:00 - Blank
04:00 - (Locked) Pallas
05:00 - (Locked) Ganymeade
06:00 - Path to Alt
07:00 - (Locked) Mimas
08:00 - (Locked) Miranda
09:00 - Blank
10:00 - Triton
11:00 - (Locked) Pluto


==='''Stellar'''===
12:00 - Blank
01:00 - (Locked) Bor'cha - Zombie Apocalypse
02:00 - (Locked) Arkol, Skay, Tugan, Steampunk, Wheel of Time
03:00 - Blank
04:00 - (Locked) Kynmar - Jovian Chronicles
05:00 - (Locked) Blox - Pachekki Imperium
06:00 - Path to System
07:00 - (Locked) Lyrans
08:00 - (Locked) Dabe - Warehouse 23
09:00 - Blank
10:00 - (Locked) Grexians and Fasani
11:00 - (Locked) Whurr - Ancient Greece


==='''C +18 Stellar 01:00'''===
01:00 - Bor'cha Zombie Apocalypse. the walking dead but with Bor'cha - they are not having a good time.  The gate is a warp to a rural area of rolling hills.  Not far away a small city is badly infested with the walking dead.

==='''C +18 Stellar 02:00'''===
02:00 - Lizard people travel and fight using steampunk wonders, and search diligently for the Dragon Reborn, said to herald a new end to the world. Practioners of the Old Power and Technology conflict about how to approach things and solve problems.

The Gate is a Warp along the shore of Circle Bay a free port where freebooters, pirates and rebels meet to engage in illicit trade.

==='''C +18 Stellar 04:00'''===
04:00 - Kynmar Jovian Chronicles - various nations both planet side and in space field special forces of mecha and fighter plane pilots who are dedicated to defending their various causes and making sure no other power gains ascendancy

They are about to meet the Pachekki Imperium and have things turned upside down.

==='''C +18 Stellar 05:00'''===
05:00 - the Blox and the Pachekki Imperium.  The Blox have just been contacted by the Pachekki Imperium, and is negotating for a place at the table.

==='''C +18 Stellar 07:00'''===
07:00 - Lyran cat-folk battle to stay free of the Pachekki Imperium, which  doesn't seem all that interested in a direct conflict.

==='''C +18 Stellar 08:00'''===
08:00 - A Dabe secret government group holds a warehouse that contains wonders ancient and modern,  all dangerous.  And the Ring portal, for some reason.

==='''C +18 Stellar 10:00'''===
10:00 - Grexians and Fassani The Grexians and Fasanni cohabitate on the Grexian homeworld, but not always happily.  The technology is 1941.


==='''C +18 Stellar 11:00'''===
11:00 - Whurr get chased around by mythical creatures and do their best to cope. Harpies, Cyclopses and Hydra are all understandably violent and confused.

The Pachekki Imperium - From GURPS Aliens and other GURPS Sources.

What with one thing or another, in this Galaxy the Pachekki beat everyone to the punch in discovering hyperdrives.

Now a Pachekki order rules the star lanes. It's having trouble.  Hyperdrives are too fast for their social organizations to keep up, so there is no one Pachekki central Authority - there are several who consider themselves semi-autonomous allies of the homeworld.

They're trying to limit Hyperdrives to only Pachekki in their Sphere, mainly to try and simplify the maintenance of order and control.

This is not working out so well.  Solidly colonized or dominated Pachekki worlds can enforce this embargo.  Any Non-Pachekki ship that goes there is seized. But frontier worlds, lightly populated worlds and worlds without much military punch cannot dream of enforcing the embargo.  Also, non Pachekki merchants bring good stuff.

So the Pachekki governments are getting progressively more demanding and controlling to try and get ahead of this.  Some thinkers point out that they're screwed. The numbers just don't work.  But Pachekki Control Freaks are in charge.

One group fighting Pachekki are Lyrans. Lynx people from SFB.  They greeted Pachekki demands for control like any good cat people - they killed the people making the demand and stole their hyper drives.

No node of the Pachekki Imperium can afford the war needed to bring the Lyrans to heel, So the Pachekki patrol and grab any Isolated Lyrans they find. This sets up the Lyrans to be pirates and Smugglers in the Pachekki Imperium, which they gleefully do.

And, since part of the Pachekki Imperium's attempt to control is to limit and control how many hypder drive ships are doing anything at any time, this makes a black market for Hyperdrive travel. Pachekki criminals happily do business with stolen hyperships, or allied outsiders.

The Pachekki Imperium's halo of rebels, criminals and free spirits is about to impinge on this node's known space.

And they're about to buy a complete ration of crap from the various people they're going to meet.

The Pachekki Imperium is Lawful-Neutral-Evil.  They'd rather be Lawful-Neutral but will be as evil as they can easily and cheaply be to maintain control.