04-30-2017, 10:38 AM
(04-19-2017, 12:47 PM)QwertyYerty Wrote: Are these dates consistent?The colonies in Jupiter space seem to have been extremely wealthy and capable, but also extremely scared; certain factions there cobbled together an interstellar mission in record time after the Technocalypse, and fled the system ten years later. Perhaps they had a half-built ship all ready to go, but which was no longer required by its original backers(who may have been dead).
By the fall of 541, the combination of events, in particular the Black Rot and the Malware Outbreak, is estimated to have resulted in nearly five billion deaths, either directly or as a result of deaths due to infrastructure loss, economic collapse, lack of transportation (in particular lack of medical transport), lack of potable water, and lack of medical treatment, including rejuvenation and uploading.
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/559d3b5ae17aa
Zarathustra was originally colonised by heteromorphic tweaks descended from the Nedyne Industries corporate headquarters and mining outposts in Jupiter orbit. During the Technocalypse they quickly realised the danger and hastily assembled a makeshift starship from a mass-driver, a number of fusion reactors, the main habitat and quickly nanofactured equipment. Led by the board of directors and their AI advisors Nedyne Industries fled in 551 AT towards Gamma Pavonis, judged as being far enough to be unlikely to be visited by any plague-carrying groups and known to have a habitable planet.
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46e73c1b0794b