I've long considered having an epic work in my setting called, "Legends of the Lost Homeworlds" as well as "Legends of the Lost Worlds" and "Lament for the Lost Hives" in the Vursken translation.<br /><br />which would be a dustly neglected epic detailing the loss of 4 home worlds for four space faring species with chapters devoted to parrallels and alignments in the stories of the loss of these homeworlds much like how stuff seemed to line up between the Lincoln's and Kennedy assassinations. the last chapters have some very mystical overtones hinting at the possible influence of these events by some sort of unknown and powerful progenitor race. <br /><br />This book is not actually that popular as for the most part humans, drals, and yazerians have adopted a very forward looking world view after the trageties their races suffered. For the vursk though the loss of the first hive has impacted the race with a sense of sadness and loss hence their renaming this book the Lament even calling it simply, "The Lament" (the vursk and dralasite homeworlds are two of the plague planets in my setting and a 3rd plague planet is New Earth the first human colony in the frontier which is some times refered to as the 5th home world). The yazerian homeworld was destoyed when its moon's orbit decayed and collided with the planet. The yazerians had seen this coming and this lead to the Great Exodus to the Stars and as a side effect allowed the Family of One rise to power and gain control of Araks, the first yazerian colony in the frontier.<br /><br />the yellow journalism rag sheets of the frontier from time to time carry shallow davinci code and Nostrodamus style predictions and revelations supposedly based off of the "Legends of the ..." or they make claims that a lost original copy has turned up with missing chapters that no one has seen which is false as the original bound monograph is in a special research collection at the Port Loren Public Library. <br /><br />I would use this book as a hook to start a Plague Planet campaign.<br />a rich old vursk has become obsessed with this book and is looking to steal the original he also desires to end his days on the surface of the first hive. so there would be a high speed blockade run into that system or a stealthy sneak in. <br />thats it for that adventure so far plus a very sketchy idea about a mission to recover something form the surface of new earth-maybe the flight computers form the original colony ships that left Old Earth which are in a museum on the surface of New Earth.<br /><br /><br />
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