I guess, I may post it as well. So here is it, the story behind New Haven as it was originally planned for the op3 that Stellarwave worked on years ago. I took it without modifications (except formatting) from the NHCS.
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Outpost 3: Hidden Past
You have heard the story of the Conestoga....
You have read how the colonists splintered into separate colonies....
Now hear the story of what really happened to the Conestoga....
A story so shocking that mankind's history has been rewritten....
A story of the colonists hidden past.
As the asteroid approached earth, tensions mounted -- people became desperate. Those operating the fueling station orbiting Jupiter, developed a plan to save themselves – a fanatical plan to take over the Conestoga. Just before its departure from the fueling station, a group of people forcefully removed the colonists from the ship. They removed everyone from the Conestoga except for a few key colonists. Afterwards they assumed control of the interstellar spaceship, and departed the solar system with almost all of the original colonists left behind.
When an earth-like planet could not be found, the people on the Conestoga were awakened. They chose a Mars-like planet to settle on. They called it New Terra, and they quickly established a colony there and named it Eden. The colony prospered and grew, however not all was well in the colony. The colonists who had been allowed to remain on the Conestoga when it was hijacked, were guarded. Their freedoms were limited... People didn't trust them... As a result, those same colonists began devising a plan to separate from the colony and found another one. Within a short time, they succeeded in separating from Eden and in founding another colony. The called it Plymouth, for just like the Plymouth of earth, it served as a refuge for those escaping persecution. At first Eden did nothing – they couldn't do anything. Eden attempted to reason with Plymouth, but Plymouth wouldn't listen. Plymouth no longer trusted Eden. Then came Eden's plans to terraform New Terra. Plymouth immediately protested such an action, for unlike Eden's scientists, the original colonists from the Conestoga knew how dangerous the technology could be in unskilled hands. In order to get Eden's attention, Plymouth temporarily shut down the communication satellite. However, they could not reactivate it, and the colonies split even further apart. As time passed and the colonies grew, Eden began devising a way to take over the Plymouth colony and place the colonists back into Eden's control once again. Eden scientists soon devised a laser weapon based on encrypted technology from the Conestoga. Then came the development of vehicles to mount the weapons on... Within a short time, Eden would have enough vehicles to force Plymouth to surrender, hopefully without losing a single life. What happened next, however, came as a surprise to both Eden and Plymouth.
Eden's experiments with terraforming went terribly wrong. The lab where the terraforming experiments were being conducted erupted in an enormous explosion. The explosion released a microbe that slowly began to spread destroying everything biological in its path. This difficulty delayed Eden's attack on Plymouth and gave Plymouth time to prepare itself. Within a short time, Plymouth developed a weapon as well – the microwave. As time passed and the microbe growth spread, the two colonies would be plunged into a ruthless and desperate war.
New Haven
Those colonists who had been forced off the Conestoga and left behind, constructed a new starship. Adding onto the refueling station, they constructed a starship faster than the Conestoga. Somehow they found a way to track the Conestoga's path, and so they followed it to New Terra. Upon arrival to New Terra, they found numerous abandoned colonies, what appeared to be weapons damage, and most peculiar – some strange microbe growth that nearly covered the planet. They soon discovered just what the microbe was. The microbe was developed on earth as a way for the colonists from the Conestoga to terraform a planet if an earth-like planet could not be found. The proposed theory could potentially be dangerous, but just like nuclear fission, if it was used correctly, the results could be immensely beneficial. Unfortunately, the rebels who had taken over the Conestoga knew little about the microbe, much less how to control it. They had foolishly unleashed its power without any knowledge of the consequences. However, those scientists who had been trained for the interstellar mission knew how to control the microbe, and so the new arrivals quickly developed a way to do so. Once they had the materials to control the microbe, they landed on New Terra. They established their colony ironically between the original sites of Plymouth and Eden. They called the colony New Haven, for finally they had a safe place to settle down and prosper – or so they thought. With the colony established, they went about killing off the microbe, except for specifically confined areas. These confined areas, where they left the microbe, would be used to truly terraform New Terra into an earth-like planet.
Hundreds of miles away, the remaining Eden colonist watched as Plymouth launched their last module into orbit. They were alone now, except for a few Plymouth colonist who could not get to the spaceport in time. The Eden colonists returned to what was left of their base... to wait... to die.... Weeks passed, yet the blight wasn't getting closer; in fact, to their surprise, it was dying off. In this new ray of hope, the colonist formed a scouting party to find out what was happening. They headed for one of their previous bases. If the blight was in fact dying off, then they could resettle back in that base.
The number of Plymouth colonists left on New Terra was smaller than that of Eden. These colonists attempted to rebuild their last colony for whatever amount of time remained. However, they too soon found that the blight seemed to be dying off.
Both Eden and Plymouth began making plans to move back to one of their earlier colonies (perhaps even all the way to their original colonies). Who will discover New Haven's presence first? How will the colonies respond to New Haven's presence? Will the computers view New Haven as a threat because they are killing off the blight? How will New Haven respond?
Poll
