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==Overview== |
==Overview== |
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+ | The origins of the Traders Guild are lost in the mists of early Arrival in the new galaxy. Some say it all started with barrel hoops. No one knows for sure. What is known is it all started on New Canaan, the tiny planet with the perfect weather. For anyone but the Rus. The climate on New Canaan was naturally what terraformers call the 'Mediterranean' model. Mild winters, long springs and summers with just enough rain to produce abundant crops of grapes and olives, as well as lemons, limes, squash, tomatoes, onions, garlic and leeks. Potatoes grew poorly. What thrived most was the Amero corn. They would later distill this into Old Earth Kentucky style bourbon. |
"We have made ourselves Grechesk'iya (Greek) for you," was something every child heard their parents say on New Canaan. Of the two moons, one is heaven and one is hell. Ugarit, the nearer terraformed perfectly into a prime farming moon. The capital city, Ugarit, holds a banking center, and a beach, hundreds of shops, museums, restaurants, bars and other attractions. Ugarit is one of two 'resort worlds' favored by the Rus The other moon, called 'Lilac' by the Alliance, is an icy waste at the poles, poor farming in the rocky temperate zone, an inferno underneath, fit only for the subhumans who work the mines there. The Rus called it Palkha--the pit of Hell. |
"We have made ourselves Grechesk'iya (Greek) for you," was something every child heard their parents say on New Canaan. Of the two moons, one is heaven and one is hell. Ugarit, the nearer terraformed perfectly into a prime farming moon. The capital city, Ugarit, holds a banking center, and a beach, hundreds of shops, museums, restaurants, bars and other attractions. Ugarit is one of two 'resort worlds' favored by the Rus The other moon, called 'Lilac' by the Alliance, is an icy waste at the poles, poor farming in the rocky temperate zone, an inferno underneath, fit only for the subhumans who work the mines there. The Rus called it Palkha--the pit of Hell. |
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