Nightborn Peloran

by on May 30, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art, The Races of Humanity

The Peloran are generally regarded as the best gengineered soldier race in existence. They are certainly the most successful at surviving after the war they were built to fight came to an end. The Albion created the Nightborn as special forces operatives, built to watch from the shadows and strike without warning. Assassins and infiltrators who seamlessly blend into their surrounding environment. The greatest mistake of their plan was in making the Nightborn too cool under fire. To the point that they do not generate an adrenalin rush in combat at all. They simply do not like to fight. They do not want to kill. They do not even want to hurt people if they can avoid it. But outsmarting people? Tricking people? Learning secrets? Those missions they enjoyed above all others, and the chameleon-like skin they were designed with made them exceptional at those.

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Nightborn Peloran

by on May 29, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art, The Races of Humanity

I met my first openly-Nightborn Peloran during The War. I say it that way because if you don’t pay attention to the exact capabilities of the various Races of Humanity you might have missed what exactly these particular people can do. There’s not a whole lot of them compared to the others. I’m not entirely certain on the reasons for that. I’ve heard people suggest that there are a lot more of them than we never notice. I really can’t say if I went to school with any of them back in the day. I like to think I would have noticed eyes like that at some point in time if I’d known any. They’re pretty unforgettable. Though if I’m being honest, my adolescent eyes didn’t raise as high as the eyes as often as may have been appropriate. Now I can say that nobody I knew went to school wearing coal-black skin, though that’s less of a definitive statement on the matter than many would like considering their capabilities.

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Nightborn Peloran

by on May 28, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Races of Humanity

The Nightborn Peloran proudly number themselves as one of the Albion’s greatest successes and greatest failures. In a race of gengineered warriors, they’re the least likely to seek out combat. And you’re not going to find them in a little home in the forests, retiring after the wars are over. They actually treat most of the gengineered mental controls as mere suggestions rather than rules. It’s one of the reasons other Peloran consider them the most disreputable members of their entire race, you know. And it’s why they get along with Earthborn humanity better than just about any other Peloran out there. They act the most…human…of any of the Peloran. Which is the secret to their success.

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Memorial Day

by on May 27, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Numerous members of my family have served the military over the years. We’re farming people, but not everybody wants to be a farmer for ever. So every generation has had members who served in the military. My cousins have served. My parents generation has served. My grandparents. My great uncle went to Europe during World War II, came back and married the girl he was writing letters to the whole time. He grew old with her. Had children and watched them grow up. My uncle went to Iraq in the First Gulf War and came home to a less welcoming wife. He survived the divorce and found a wife who understood good times and bad. He had more children and watched them grow up. And then he lost the Battle of the VA.

On Memorial Day we remember those who died serving our nation. I was just listening to a veteran talk about his walk through Arlington the other day. His reaction when he realized he knew thirty of the men buried there. How it brought home to him what Memorial Day was really about. And that’s it in the end.

Freedom isn’t free. For us or others. Brave men and women will sacrifice their lives for it again and again. We must promise to remember them, and do everything we can to make certain it was not in vain.

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Waterborn Peloran

by on May 26, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art, The Races of Humanity

The Waterborn Peloran are based on the standard Peloran genetic codex with heavy modifications to operate underwater. Their lungs include the ability to filter out unhealthy levels of nitrogen and other gases, and to keep them from bubbling out in potentially damaging ways. This makes them mostly immune to most pressure ailments and decompression issues. Their skin is designed to blend into and better survive the underwater environment, and their eyes can detect wavelengths only seen far beneath the surface. They do still need to breathe air though, which limits their dive durations to what the air supplies in their armor can support. Despite this limitation, they were deemed fully functional as warriors and the Albion kept their genetic codex in full production until the very end.

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