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[Rynn]

Welcome to the project!

So for right now, that works for starting to create my setting; not that I can use up a whole sector, but there's plenty of room to grow.
I'm going to set my sector in The Outer Volumes, or The Periphery.
My populated worlds will be connected by routes facilitated by wormhole generators, or is that no good?
Until today, I couldn't imagine myself setting a private eye story in a scifi setting but this happened today...

The setting is certainly big enough that you could write your own region in. A couple of points to keep in mind is that OA doesn't really use the generic SF term "sector" and the wormhole Nexus thins out quite substantially towards the edge of the middle region. It's certainly not impossible that there would be a branch of the Nexus that far out but it connectivity also means that the area is unlikely to be a backwater (if that's what you're going for).

Here's some information on wormholes in the setting and the wormhole nexus in general:

http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48545a0f6352a
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48fba16bdae54

I woke up in my new clone with that awful backup/restore headache. I would take a good old fashioned migraine over one of these any time.
Worst headache ever, but not near as bad as that time someone killed me during the copying process.
The folks at Consciousness Recovery had to do a fresh backup and trim my memory. Otherwise I couldn't recover from the resulting PTSD.
I got that from my medical records, because I couldn't remember.
Imagine that.
Yet that wasn't the most important question throbbing in my mind at that moment.
Who killed me?
More over, why would anybody want to kill me?
I went and got some recovery meds to ease the pounding in my skull.
There wasn't enough time for my murder to be in the news yet, so I decided to go get some food.
It occurred to me that I must have been getting close to something, or they wouldn't have risked killing me. It seemed that The Covenant had assumed I couldn't afford to keep a clone and a backup. They wouldn't have taken a chance, committing an act as desperate as murder.
I fell into line in the medfac cafeteria and began to pile bad hospital food on my tray.
I was so hungry, I would have chewed the leg off of an ostrich at that point.
One of the draw backs of awakening in a fresh clone

There are a few little things that would have to be changed to fit this in the setting, but aside from the wordsmithing a bigger issue is that this passage implies a level of technology and social organisation much less sophisticated than what is the norm for OA. Newly engenerated (not cloned) bodies don't suffer from any form of physical aches or pains, will be awoken at an appropriate state of satiety rather than hungry and nothing like a hospital really exists anymore (there being no reason most of the time to have a big centralised building when injuries are rarely life threatening and can be taken care of by some strategically placed autodoc clinics). Most newly engenerated people likely wake up at home or some other nice location, possibly just in time to see the engenerator seeing itself out like some sort of animated wardrobe.

Murder depends on the region. Most places in OA operate angelnets that would prevent such a thing but not all do (and even those that do may have deliberate hazard zones as a matter of personal choice). Essentially what I'm saying is there aren't any show stoppers to you writing a region into the setting, or telling this sort of mystery story, but it will probably take a bit more discussing what it is you want to do to see how it could work with the setting

Some EG articles that would be useful to be familiar with:

http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a3d78dc77e6f
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/51489caa8ecad
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4e9acfae0a72c
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/45f4886ae0d44