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But with less retardation and an actually decent story. And some very welcome assistance from Sexual White Chocolate. Even fukken better.
It's several centuries into humanity's future; they've terraformed and colonised multiple worlds in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way and and have by this stage unlocked the secrets of superluminal travel. Midway through the 21st century, a star surrounded by a nebula was noticed, and over the course of human expansion into space, the properties of the star never seemed to waver. It maintained mass, brightness and temperature over centuries, as though being perfectly fed with matter despite still ejecting so much. Eventually, investigation was decided upon. And thus the star turned out to be the first-discovered 'white hole' and was dubbed Æterna.
Fed by the steadily-infalling matter of a black hole elsewhere in the Milky Way, the central 'star' is a seething mass of bright-blue fusion, while similar material is ejected out from the poles, similar to the axial ejecta from a black hole. The path of this ejecta is curved the strong gravitational and magnetic field of the sun to eventually curve around completely, where matter from either pole collides roughly in line with Æterna's equator. Stretched out in an energised disc billions of kilometres long, the tilted orbit of each planet results in them passing through this disc at regular intervals. The sky, seen from a world orbiting Æterna, glows a brilliant, ethereal blue.
The star carries around it a rather large assortment of planets, which begin their lives as hot-Jupiter worlds near to Æterna, but have the vast majority of their gaseous matter blown away until only the core and a thin atmosphere is left which, given its decreased mass, migrates outwards. Thus, the oldest worlds are the furthest out, the youngest closest. There are around two dozen worlds currently around the planet, one of which is a yet-to-be-stripped gas giant near the star; the rest are rock-and-metal worlds. Similar to Earth.
For some worlds, their passing through the energised ring is every couple years; for others it might be centuries. These events result in brilliant auroras that blanket the world weeks in advanced and after the passing. This process drenches the world in massive doses of radiation that would kill unshielded non-native life. The local flora and fauna, however, are hardened against harmful genetic and cellular mutations manifesting themselves in macroscopic forms. Because of this, mutations that occur either give rise to a wider variety of species, or change and benefit an existing species. So, life on each world remains fairly stable (or hectic in the event of a ridiculous amount of variation) until a passing comes around, after which life blossoms in all its voluminous variety.
Another unusual effect in the Æternasystem caused by the white hole is an inverse to the time dilation experienced by observers at a black hole's event horizon. In the Æterna system, time flows faster, though it returns closer to 'normal' the further out you move from the star. As such, when the first expedition of humanity crash-landed on a planet due overestimated shielding that failed to protect much of their electronics from the chaotic effects of passing through the disc with all its ionised matter. For those survivors, it was centuries before humanity's backup expedition came better prepared, though on the outside it was only a matter of years. The humanity that now lived in the Æterna system found themselves upon a world bathed in green flora and with very few natural predators. Free to roam around naked and safe if they wanted, they named the world Elysium - after the paradise that awaits beneath the ancient Greek underworld after one has passed their afterlife trials.
Aside from physiological changes in the people, something much more bizarre began to occur. Something akin to magic - telekinetic control over certain aspects of the world - were gained by a few individuals at first, though that number steadily grew with successive generations - even those with non-gifted parents. With dead electronics, the small fleet that they arrived on was repurposed as scrap metal that would later become armour, swords, and so on. Soon, the human race present on Elysium could hardly be called human anymore, and was so populous and various that several of the largest races set out to reach other worlds in the Æternasystem. By the time the second fleet arrived, 'humanity' held seven worlds, and was traversing to an eighth when the intruders arrived.
And the roleplays themselves occur a few decades later, when Neo-Humanity and Classical Humanity have entire worlds to themselves, and fight a war for dominance with magic and technology both so fantastical as to be in many ways indifferentiable.
It's several centuries into humanity's future; they've terraformed and colonised multiple worlds in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way and and have by this stage unlocked the secrets of superluminal travel. Midway through the 21st century, a star surrounded by a nebula was noticed, and over the course of human expansion into space, the properties of the star never seemed to waver. It maintained mass, brightness and temperature over centuries, as though being perfectly fed with matter despite still ejecting so much. Eventually, investigation was decided upon. And thus the star turned out to be the first-discovered 'white hole' and was dubbed Æterna.
Fed by the steadily-infalling matter of a black hole elsewhere in the Milky Way, the central 'star' is a seething mass of bright-blue fusion, while similar material is ejected out from the poles, similar to the axial ejecta from a black hole. The path of this ejecta is curved the strong gravitational and magnetic field of the sun to eventually curve around completely, where matter from either pole collides roughly in line with Æterna's equator. Stretched out in an energised disc billions of kilometres long, the tilted orbit of each planet results in them passing through this disc at regular intervals. The sky, seen from a world orbiting Æterna, glows a brilliant, ethereal blue.
The star carries around it a rather large assortment of planets, which begin their lives as hot-Jupiter worlds near to Æterna, but have the vast majority of their gaseous matter blown away until only the core and a thin atmosphere is left which, given its decreased mass, migrates outwards. Thus, the oldest worlds are the furthest out, the youngest closest. There are around two dozen worlds currently around the planet, one of which is a yet-to-be-stripped gas giant near the star; the rest are rock-and-metal worlds. Similar to Earth.
For some worlds, their passing through the energised ring is every couple years; for others it might be centuries. These events result in brilliant auroras that blanket the world weeks in advanced and after the passing. This process drenches the world in massive doses of radiation that would kill unshielded non-native life. The local flora and fauna, however, are hardened against harmful genetic and cellular mutations manifesting themselves in macroscopic forms. Because of this, mutations that occur either give rise to a wider variety of species, or change and benefit an existing species. So, life on each world remains fairly stable (or hectic in the event of a ridiculous amount of variation) until a passing comes around, after which life blossoms in all its voluminous variety.
Another unusual effect in the Æternasystem caused by the white hole is an inverse to the time dilation experienced by observers at a black hole's event horizon. In the Æterna system, time flows faster, though it returns closer to 'normal' the further out you move from the star. As such, when the first expedition of humanity crash-landed on a planet due overestimated shielding that failed to protect much of their electronics from the chaotic effects of passing through the disc with all its ionised matter. For those survivors, it was centuries before humanity's backup expedition came better prepared, though on the outside it was only a matter of years. The humanity that now lived in the Æterna system found themselves upon a world bathed in green flora and with very few natural predators. Free to roam around naked and safe if they wanted, they named the world Elysium - after the paradise that awaits beneath the ancient Greek underworld after one has passed their afterlife trials.
Aside from physiological changes in the people, something much more bizarre began to occur. Something akin to magic - telekinetic control over certain aspects of the world - were gained by a few individuals at first, though that number steadily grew with successive generations - even those with non-gifted parents. With dead electronics, the small fleet that they arrived on was repurposed as scrap metal that would later become armour, swords, and so on. Soon, the human race present on Elysium could hardly be called human anymore, and was so populous and various that several of the largest races set out to reach other worlds in the Æternasystem. By the time the second fleet arrived, 'humanity' held seven worlds, and was traversing to an eighth when the intruders arrived.
And the roleplays themselves occur a few decades later, when Neo-Humanity and Classical Humanity have entire worlds to themselves, and fight a war for dominance with magic and technology both so fantastical as to be in many ways indifferentiable.
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