The Heritage Range
Small mountain range on the southeastern edge of Feynman
Bay
The Heritage Range of mountains, showing the carvings of Hawking and Einstein
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The Heritage RangeSmall mountain range on the southeastern edge of
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The mountains of the
Heritage Range rise sharply out of the lowlands around the Bay and
present a series of steep faces looking out over the waters.
Beginning in 4874, the Superior artist Lebodon Banx set about carving
the likenesses of the great scientific minds of terragens history (up
to that point) into the face of the mountain range.
Working alone and with minimal robotic assistance, it took Banx some
three hundred years to complete eir great work. Where sheer
rocky mountain slopes had once stood there was now a long line of
faces, each 100m tall, carved into the rock. Beginning with
such notable ancient figures as Archimedes and Galileo and continuing
on through various faces both famous (Einstein, Hawking,
Duorkin) and almost unknown (Enduring Blue of the Summer Light),
Banx’s masterpiece gained em instant celebrity and not a few
followers. At the same time e also became the target of a
number of naturalist, Bioist, and Caretaker leaning factions who
objected to the ‘spoiling’ of the natural beauty of
the original mountains. Even at the time this was largely
seen as something of an empty argument given that Corona itself was the
product of ‘unnatural’ processes having been
terraformed. The protesters never really gained any
significant following and largely fell into silence and obscurity in
short order.
In the modern era, the Heritage Range is seen as a proud symbol of
Coronian scientific prowess and history. Most tourists to the
Corona system make it a point to visit the range and it is a favorite
backdrop for concerts, sporting events, and similar
occasions. In 5310 a microlayer of nanodiamond was laid down
over each face and stabilizing carbon nanoweave was injected into the
mountain’s underlying substructure to protect it against the
ravages of time in the form of weather and geologic shift.
