I been inworld many time & in chat i have seen people finding loot in Akbal but i cant find it in maps
, is it a mission or something like "The Hub"
If like me you was not born on Calyspo you would of not dont the missions at the start. There a npc from my understanding that explains more about it. I am sure there is thread with all the history i have read once, but heres the dialog from the mission.
Dialog
Carstein Sands, Veteran, Calypso Gateway
Did you have a nice flight from Earth?
The flight was nice, but the ship was attacked by robots and destroyed, and I was revived.
If you choose 'The flight was nice, but the ship was attacked by robots and destroyed, and I was revived.':
Revived, huh? First time is the worst. You'll get used to it.
Will it happen again?
Yep. Unless, of course, you go straight back to that shuttle and set off to home and Mother again. Calypso is not the safest of worlds, but it has opportunities.
How do they do that?
I'm told that they use a quantum tunnel effect to stream your mass back to a revive terminal, then use your DNA to repair trauma and recreate your memories. But what do I know? I'm just a grunt. What I do know is that this tech has been here since the First Robot War.
Oh? How come?
Ancient history. The short story is that when the robots first attacked, we were seriously short of soldiers, and since the Gate was destroyed, we couldn't get reinforcements from Earth. So the propellorheads invented restreaming so that old dead soldiers could cease to be dead and be deployed again.
What's this robot business?
When Calypso was discovered and it was decided that it should be settled, the Odysseus probe that discovered the planet made robots that made robot factories that made more robots to prepare the place for colonization. And then the probe moved on to a star system and two giant planets, Akbal and Cimi. And all was fine and well, until we sent a ship to Akbal-Cimi to make contract with the probe. The probe found something and sent an encrypted message back.
We couldn't crack it, so we fed it to the base matrix, kind of the central computer of the place. And then every bloody robot on the planet went complemetely nuts! And that's how the First Robot War started.
What happened next?
Well, for starters, we won the war, in part because of the restreaming tech. We didn't get rid of the robots though. But the robots used nukes to make parts of the planet uninhabitable, and we had to evacuate. And the radiation triggered strange mutations among those that weren't evacuated. So we don't just have a dangerous fauna and weird robots, we have mutants as well. And that's just the start.
Really?
Yep. You remember the Odysseus probe and where it went?
Choices:
Akbal-Cimi
Alpha Centauri
Alpha Cygni
If you choose 'Alpha Centauri' :
Are you even listening, pup? You should at least have some respect to your elders. The worst thing that can happen is that you may learn something. It's Akbal-Cimi! Akbal-Cimi is on the edge of known space, Alpha Cenauri is practically next door to Earth.
Sorry.
Anyway, the probe was not entirely passive at AKBAL-CIMI! It built a robot cilivisation there, and then built new probes, but in warship configuration, called War Titans. And one of them was sent back to Calypso.
We stopped that one in one of the biggest space battles of all time. You should have seen it, it rained debris for days and the fireworks as the debris burned was spectacular.
And then you all lived happily ever after?
If you choose 'Akbal-Cimi' :
Well, the probe was not entirely passive there. It built a robot cilivisation there, and then built new probes, but in warship configuration, called War Titans. And one of them was sent back to Calypso. We stopped that one in one of the biggest space battles of all time. You should have seen it, it rained debris for days and the fireworks as the debris burned was spectacular.
And then you all lived happily ever after?
Not even remotely, young pup! See, the robots tried again in the Second Robot War, with state of emergency and invasions and news blackout and the lot. We repelled the bots again, but, well, nothing lasts forever.
Was there a Third War?
It never ends. The Robots sent another War Titan that we called Typhon...
Typhoon?
No, not ty-PHOON; it's TY-phon! A typhoon is a storm, while Typhon is a Greek mythical monster, or something. It was big, bigger than anything previously built, and plowed straight through our defenses. It smashed the Federal Imperial Navy at the battle of Hypnos, it sent an advance force to weaken our defence, and then smashed into the ground and flattened Hadesheim, the then-capital of Calypso.
There's just a big crater up there. The dust thrown up from the impact blanketed Calypso for years and caused a small ice age!
Wow. But you obviously got back.
Yep. Eventually, the dust settled, the snow melted, and we could go back. After spending five years in a tin can, it certainly felt great stretching our legs again. And wow, what a change. The Resettlement is not nearly finished, but it's looking great already! And new colonists like yourself are pouring in through this spaceport to settle the place.
And what parts did you participate in?
Most of it. I've been here for ages. even met General Carramone once, before he got flattened by the bots in Zychion and his brat of a daughter got in charge of the Defense Force.
Something tells me that thers a lot more to this story.
A lot more. Yes, a lot more indeed. But I don't think I'm supposed to tell it. This is your story now, pup.
What I'm supposed to do?
Tell you what, you've been a good listener. You've humoured an old git like myself, and I like that. I don't think I'll get out much more. I don't have that long time left in this life. Here, take this ammunition. I think you'll need it a lot more than me.
Thanks. I appreciate it.