Tuesday 4 March 2014

Wormholes, shattered dreams & lost hopes

We all know the stories of corporations and alliances who make the big money in wormhole systems. There's also plenty of tales from explorers who fly around in these systems, finding riches beyond belief. Some find fully fitted Starbases all ready to be torn down and sold for big bucks, others share their tales of finding faction fit battleships and tech 3 cruisers.

All these tales have the same origin. They begin with a group of capsuleers, organized in corporations or alliances who ventures into Wormhole space, with the greatest of dreams and the highest of hopes. And yet, for reasons unknown, they falter, leaving behind unpowered starbases and  abandoned ships as the legacy of their once mighty dreams and bold hopes...

Wormhole systems trigger a primal need in many, the need to explore the unknown, to boldly go where none have gone before. To be the first to go there, the first to see that asteroid, the first to walk on this moon, the first to settle on that planet, to be among the first....
Wormhole systems also contain alot of artifacts, advanced technology, rare materials and strange enemies.
All this attracts a varied crowd of capsuleers who want to chase their dreams of wealth and hopes of renown in this strange place. Some succeed beyond their wildest dreams and highest hopes, becoming wealthier than they could imagine. But for many.... it's the same old tale... their dreams turn out barren, their hopes; fruitless.

For every successful capsuleer corporation and alliance in wormhole space, making great wealth by selling remnants of advanced technology and rare materials to the empires, dozens of such organisations find only death and disillusion...

They fail as the isolation is too much to bear, or capsuleer-raiders shatter their belief of isolation, making them realize that even in the depths of Anoikis you cannot outrun hostilities. Others just slowly dwindle into nothingness, as one after the other capsuleer vanishes into the depths of space, or returns to civilization, until nothing remains but an abandoned starbase, shimmering in the light of alien stars, and only the broken dreams and abandoned hopes of its former masters to keep it company.

So next time any of you fly to the wormhole systems of Anoikis and find a lone starbase or a derelict ship, glowing under the eerie light of distant and unknown stars, pay homage to those who were before you, and then left, leaving behind their belongings along with their forgotten dreams and demolished hopes...

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