Iapetus is the current director of Celestial Mechanics, and is the one responsible for benching Saturn from piloting duties.īefore String of Pearls' intel had been leaked, Memorial Foundation loyalists and Cradle's Graces rebels were too invested in one another to notice Celestial Mechanics' suspicious operations. So let’s see how much less than 100% we can get. We can be sure everything will be in place there.Įarth or space, we are just short of 100% human. Whoever controls that place controls human access to space. It’s hard to believe they’re really onto us.īring our final piece, the prototype Ship-Self String of Pearls we made in the atmosphere of planet Cronus, which will never be Saturn, to the Lunar Gravity Well, where Memorial Foundation and Cradle’s Graces are already headed. Their justification? We are technically less than 100% human, just not-human enough to be something else. While the kids are fighting, Earth is getting ready to list the humans remaining in space as part of the Existential Threat, and when they do, they’ll send real weapons, and end this war fought with plastic toys. They have good reason to believe that the Existential Threat posed by a divided humanity in space is much greater than any theoretically malevolent entity outside the Native Sphere. Memorial Foundation and Cradle’s Graces have been having fun for a little over a year, and nothing is breaking the stalemate.Įarth is getting impatient. Celestial Mechanics, as led by Iapetus, is intent on embracing the classification of humans in space as aliens and aims to sever ties with Earth.Īt the beginning of the game, the player is shown a sequence of documents regarding the stance and progression of the three factions following the onset of the war in space. An internal report dated January 25, 1981, reads:
The ideology of Celestial Mechanics is based on the inevitable existence of a new Existential Threat, as humans (on Earth) will find someone new to designate as non-human. Classified information of the project was leaked by an "anonymous test pilot" (Saturn) as retaliation for being benched from test piloting the prototype, and ultimately the mech was forcefully acquired by Saturn. Rather than performing its official duties, the lab orbiting Cronus developed the "existentially horrifying" Interloper Prototype String of Pearls. 2.1 Private communication from Celestial Mechanics researcherĬelestial Mechanics is intended to advance human thought and potential, and charting the future of humanity.
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