for further inpeth reading on timeline issues related to this topic:<br />http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/5895#comment-23223<br /><br />I've come to a conclussion on how I plan to handle Zebulon and the eorna hence forth in the future<br /><br />Since Zebulon still has a govenor at FY105, presumably appointed by the COW of the UPF it is a UPF territory much like something form Earth history, Peurto Rico comes to mind but perhaps another historic model might turn up that is better.<br /><br />The eorna dying race or reviving race, it doesn't matter, are a minor race numbering, at best, less than 100,000. they will be a soverign nation kind of like American Indians and have a reservation or micro state centered on Volkos but controlling significant portions of the land around it (pretty much most of the origingal volturnus map areas which is only a miniscule swath of the planet) <br /><br />The eorna had a great mission and this is what they have been focused on for 900 years but suddenly they discover they are not alone and that there are many other species already at the point of effectively opposing the sathar. So where does that leave their great mission and the primitives they jump start evolved on Volturnus? I think the eorna race and their view of the Great Mission will undergo a mid life crisis in the years following the Batttle for Volturnus. Complicating that will be the fact that mega corps will clearly want to move in and exploit Volturnus and since it has a government appointed governor that official might set up a Native Protective Agency to look out for the best interests of the natives and guard against mega corp exploitation. this agency will have its own agenda and may not approve of further experiments on the natives by the eorna. the eorna might be perturbed by the NPA butting their noses into the eorna's life's work of centuries. Thus the status of the natives will be up in the air- the eorna no longer need to evolve them as replacement species to fight the sathar and there is conflicting authority over them and possible mega corp exploitation of them here and there. I think the eventual outcome is they will be left as natives on the reservation for years and decades- poor, and primitive where tech is concerned, though not necessarily primitive in other areas like culture and or Psionics as the touch telepathy of the Ul-mor should excite scientist everywhere.<br /><br />Star Law, as a government agency of the UPF will have a major base here of personnel and equipment<br /><br />there will be a star port with mega corp enclaves clustered around it<br /><br />areas will be under mechanon controll though that will be a de facto control not a de jure control and since the mechanons are not recognized as a sapient race or as a political entity this leads a mega corp to stir things up by attempting to mine areas under mech control ignoring the warning to not do so and leave them alone but it plays the "George Contanza" of that's open land we can mine there and scream to high heaven for star law to save them when the mechanons get pissed. issues leading to the Mech Revolt have been simmering on many fronts but this becomes a match to light the fire.<br /><br />PS I like the idea of Once Far offs space elvator and a tech transfer from the eorna to the CFM so I like the idea of a space elevator being built at volkos and that the mechanons target it during the revolt- a space elevator coming crashing down seems like a fun catastrophie to throw in, besides STREEL is the underwriter of the insurance policy on it so it will get rebuilt. However, images of this catastrophy slow the spread of this tech into the UPF proper for a couple of decades.
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