Forestborn Peloran

by on June 7, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Races of Humanity

The Forestborn Peloran were supposed to be the Albion’s ultimate fire and forget weapon in their war against the Ennead. Someone they could send deep behind enemy lines and not worry about supporting. Most died in those long missions, which is one reason why there’re so few of them even now. Another is their low fertility rate. That’s a side effect of the plant DNA embedded in their genetic codex. They eat the light of stars to live on, but bringing new life into the worlds is so very rare for them. More rare for those who subsist only on sunlight, but even those who eat normal food have children far less often than other humans. And that is why most Forestborn Peloran are born in cloning tanks rather than the old fashioned way.

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Forestborn Peloran

by on June 6, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art, The Races of Humanity

The Forestbord Peloran were one of the Albion’s more ambitious gengineering projects. They wished to have all of the physical advantages of the Peloran supersoldiers with the ability to stay in the field for extended periods of time even when resupply was impossible. The Peloran’s greatest weakness is their metabolism, you see. It takes a great amount of energy to run a body capable of everything the Peloran can do, and that translates into vast amounts of food and energy supplements. Sit next to a Peloran recovering from a major wound and you will see them shovel food into their mouths as quickly as they can and never grow satisfied. They needed soldiers who could get their energy from another source. They chose to splice plant DNA into the Peloran codex, including the chlorophyll aspects. That made them capable of gaining energy from the very suns that power every living planet’s biosphere. And that is where the green color of their skin comes in.

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Forestborn Peloran

by on June 5, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art, The Races of Humanity

The common idea about Forestborn Peloran you see in the media is that they wear little to no clothing most of the time so they can absorb the light of their natural environment. I mean, who would eat nasty food when you can bask in sunlight like you’re in some hippy socialist commune where everything is fuzzy bunnies and cute puppies? Especially when the network executives can show off a little skin for ratings and say they’re being culturally sensitive. The facts are far less exotic. They eat food like the rest of us. One mouthful at a time. Yeah, they can survive on sunlight alone, but…I once had one tell me it was like cheesecake. Just because you can survive without eating cheesecake, why would you? It’s cheesecake. They like good food as much as anyone else. It’s also quicker to eat and run than lay or sit for hours waiting for the sun to charge them up.

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Forestborn Peloran

by on June 4, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Races of Humanity

The Forestborn Peloran are probably the most ambitious genetic alteration of the Peloran race to remain…Peloran. Others are generally accepted as different races entirely and live in their own communities, but the Forestborn are not like that. They love living a simple life in nature, you see. That earned them a level of acceptance the homeworlds Peloran don’t really give to many others. They look far more exotic than other Peloran, but culturally they’re more integrated with the vast majority of the Peloran race than most other offshoots. Of course they are part plant. Considering how much the Peloran love plants, that makes a certain amount of sense.

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Normandy

by on June 3, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

A fleet of hundreds of ships left Normandy in 1066 to move one of the largest troop deployments in history and conquer England for the Normans. The English would assemble another fleet of hundreds to land thousands of troops to conquer New York in 1776. And the English would help assemble hundreds of more boats to land troops on Normandy in 1944.

The moral of this story? The English have launched three of the greatest seaborne invasions in the history of the planet. Don’t piss them off. The second moral of the story? Never try to kill France. That is an honor the English reserve for themselves. If you try to do it for them, they will kill you. The third moral of the story? The Americans learned our lessens well from England. If you think they’re crazy, you’ll just love what happens when you get us involved.

Remember Normandy this week. It was a long time coming, and it will be remembered for a long time to come.

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