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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


  • 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


  • 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.