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    Lore provided by OP

    My headcanon is that this far in the future, mankind has spread to the stars to such an extent that many/most of us have lost knowledge of where Earth is/was. After a certain point in history, the optimism fades, people start getting nostalgic for their roots, and there’s a sudden resurgence of interest in recovering what was lost. The Harkema Salvage Combine was founded with that mission, recovering and reassembling what’s been lost, specifically with a focus on lost ancient technology, but their mission has drifted somewhat to include all lost wisdom and knowledge and lore generally. This world, Aphros, was among the first colonized by the out-pouring wave of human settlers, and the crew that founded Aphros Station is hopeful they’ll be able to find hints as to Earth’s whereabouts among the layers of ancient technology found here. Each of the original crew were misfits of various sorts. Ethan Noir, the leader, comes from an untrustworthy and greedy itinerant merchant class, and left because he grew fed up with their treacherous ways. Octavian, his second-in-command, was a member of a deeply insular spacefaring society consciously modeled on pagan Rome, with pagan Roman gods, dress, and Latin; this society is so insular that until Octavian left and joined up with the Combine, the Combine had forgotten the meaning of its own motto (“Ignem Portamus” - “we carry the flame”), of which Octavian had to remind them. Anne, the tech chief, was a member of a nomadic glitterworld-style fleet of ships that experienced massive civilizational collapse when she was 14, plunging them into Balkan war-style conditions practically overnight. She escaped and joined up with the Combine solely because they were the first ones to wander past her hellship when she figured out a means of escaping. Bitter and untrusting and hard as hell, her time with the boys (good and honorable men both) eventually softened her up. Others joined later, after the Station was founded, but the three share fond memories of living in a tiny square hut erected over a steam geyser while they tunneled out a base into the side of the mountain.

    All this I mean to write as a book some day. The ultimate artifact they find is a digital recording of Morten Lauridsen’s “O Magnum Mysterium”, which they hear, listen to, and are moved by, even though none of them understand what it means (not even Octavian, and it’s written in his own language). When they are able to date it to just a few centuries before the start of the Stellar Diaspora, they realize they must be close to Earth, and set off full of hope, eager to find out the meaning of this “Great Mystery” of which the choir was singing.

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      Modlist (I’m playing on version 1.4 with Royalty and Ideology only). I think most of these are used in this play but can’t guarantee that they all are.

      Vanilla Expanded Framework

      Alpha Animals

      Dub’s Bad Hygiene

      HugsLib

      Hospitality

      Vanilla Furniture Expanded

      Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Security, Architect, Art, Farming, Medical Module, Props and Decor, Spacer Module, Memes and Structures

      [FSF] Growable Grass

      Uncompromising Fires

      [LTS]Systems

      [WD] Expanded Floors

      Vanilla Expanded - Ideology and Royalty Patches

      [LTS] Furnishing

      [SYR] Processor Framework

      [NL] Facial Animation - WIP

      [NL] Facial Animation - Experimentals

      Vanilla Fishing Expanded

      Various Space Ship Chunk (Continued)

      Alpha Memes

      Amnabi’s Flags (Continued)

      Apparello 2

      Auto-Cut Blight

      Beautiful Outdoors

      BetterVents

      Blueprints

      Bridgello

      Bulk Components

      Caravan Mood Buff

      Character Editor

      Common Sense

      Designator Shapes

      Door Mat

      Doors Expanded

      [JGH] Doors Expanded retexture

      Dub’s Paint Shop

      Dub’s Skylights

      EdB Prepare Carefully

      Epitaph

      Erin’s Decorations

      Fences and Floors (Continued)

      Fish Traps

      Fishing Boats (Continued)

      Flags and Banners (Continued)

      Cash Register

      Gastronomy

      GloomyFurniture

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        High Tech Laboratory Facilities (Continued)

        Incident Tweaker

        Infinite Reinforce

        Just Put It Over There

        Keep Bed Ownership

        RimFridge Updated

        LVM’s Deep Storage

        Mad Skills

        Map Designer

        Map Reroll (1.4/1.5)

        Mechanoid Drops Full Reversion

        Mechanoid Power (Continued)

        MendAndRecycle

        More Planning [1.5]

        Nackblad Inc. Rimhair

        No Job Authors

        Performance Optimizer

        Pick Up and Haul

        Prepare Landing

        Remove Tutorial Button

        Rimsential - Spaceports

        RT Fuse

        Seamless Embrasures

        SF Grim Reality

        Signs and Comments

        Simple Utilities: Ceiling

        Simply More Bridges (Continued)

        Smart Speed

        Smarter Construction

        Smarter Destruction and Mining

        Snap Out!

        SRTS Expanded

        Stonecutting Extended

        Stop, Drop, and Roll! [BAL]

        Tabletop Decorations

        TD Enhancement Pack

        Toxic Resistant Power Armor

        Trade Ships No Matter What

        Trade UI Revised

        Trading Options

        Tilled Soil

        Cyber’s Miniaturization

        Ugh You Got Me

        XML Extensions

        Vee face for Facial Animation

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          Wall Vitals Monitor

          WeaponStats

          What’s Missing?

          What’s That Mod

          Windows

          World Map Beautification Project

          Zoological Orbital Traders

          Removable Mt. Rock Roof Patch

          [KV] Configurable Maps (Continued)

          [KV] More Trait Slots [1.4]

          Vanilla Traits Expanded

          Vanilla Weapons Expanded - Heavy Weapons

          Rimefeller

          Dub’s Rimatomics

          Glass+Lights

          RuntimeGC [1.4] reuploaded

          [GMT] TicksPerSecond 1.5

          Dub’s Performance Analyzer

          RocketMan - Performance Mod

          Androids for RW 1.5

          GlitterNet

          CyberNet

          Cut Everything in Zone

          Progress Renderer

          Trait Rarity Colors

          Un-Limited

          Wall Light

          Holograms and Projectors

          Turrets Hate Prisoners

          Better Message Placement (Continued)