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 This blog is the fragmentary remains of part of an effort to create something that will now most likely never achieve manifestation. So be it. We're leaving it up and available for anyone curious enough to poke around in the old online bones of dead projects from over a decade ago. Welcome to the meager pile of digital potsherds. Thanks for your interest. We've since moved on and encourage

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The Astronaut Shrines of the Northern Wastes Intro: The Astronaut Shrines of Ain 4 Sizzlers Bloat-Puffer Reducing Blob Bio-Adaptive Armor (Autonomous) Lost Races & Survivors of Ain-4: the H'lannikariAIN4: Rootworld of the TrarkkuAIN4: Griffsilv CraterUtility Robot Warbot Mk III Robot: Infiltration Unit Mk II AIN 4: A Rogue's Gallery of Humanspace Empires NPCsAIN 4: Broken Dome,

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Who built the colossal derricks and hoists and all the abandoned superstructure that extend down, down below the surface of Ain 4, deep down for mile after mile? Were they building something that extended down to the core of the world, or were they trying to reach the surface? How many levels are there in all these dark, dismal and heavily polluted areas? Where are the builders? What happened

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Deep below the curdled and scorched crustal wastelands of Ain-4, beneath even the fetid shade-swamps and crag bubblements there are deep tunnels and abandoned mine shafts left-over from the hey day of wildcatters and geological exploitation that ripped millions of tons of raw kiloov crystals and other riches from the uneasy bedrock of this world. Many of these places have been sealed-up,

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Event Sub-Table for Dimsheen Section of Dome collapses, exposing everyone in 4d100' to massive glare, heat and dessication effects. Dust Blow-out at Smelter. Most of the explosion is contained by makeshift barriers. This time. Dust Storm surrounds the entire dome-plex. No one is going anywhere for 1d6 hours. Sumps back-up, cause flooding in alleys. Takes 1d4 days to get cleaned-up and drained

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Common Encounters within Dimsheen (1d4) Dusters going on-shift (1d6) Latchkees (1d2) Prowling Limb-Bandits (1d4) Dust Handlers (1d6) Proles (1d4) Robots going to next workstation (1d4) Dusters coming off-shift (1d4) Doxies (2d4) Roustabouts (1d6) Mercenaries (out of work) (1d8) Bully-boys (1d4) Slidge (1d6) Domerats (1d4) Drop-Slugs Scav-Swapper Cymek Peddler Cymek Customizer Wandering

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There is only one viable settlement within the entire Griffsilv Crater Region and that is Dimsheen, a tumble-down series of scored, pitted and constantly malfunctioning domes squatting on the very lip of the crater-rim at the South-most point.  The dust smelters and alloy-works are the only industry in Dimsheen, not counting the usual service-sector professions that always spring up

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Roughly 800 miles in diameter, the Griffsilv Crater is located near the equator of Ain 4. The entire central region of the crater is one massive hyper-xeric-desert composed primarily of a peculiar silvery titanium-aluminum dust that is suspected of being left-over from the Second Imperium, at least according to the cybertribes and Dust Trawlers who know this place better

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H'lannikari Alien Degenerates of the Deep Regions No. Enc.: 2d4 (6d20) Alignment: Inimical Movement: 120' (60') Armor Class: 6 (some specimens have been seen to wear crude forms of armor) Hit Dice: 2 Attacks: 1 (weapon, claw or psychic attack) Damage: by weapon, 1d4, or by ability Morale: 11 The H'lannikari are tall, lanky, and incredibly pale. Their hearing is on par with shaft bats and

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Due North of Griffsilv Crater there are several clusters of mostly abandoned and decaying Astronaut Cult Shrines where ancient girders groan and flake away under the cruel ministrations of the acid rains and howling winds whipping through these ruins like remorseless banshees. Few of the scavengers and scrap-gatherers ever go to these contaminated and haunted places. The necessary

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They were meticulous in their attention to technical details. Each of their Sacred Sites dutifully recreated the ancient structures of their scientific brethren down to the very rivets, girders and other visible aspects of the Gantries and Pits and Towers. But beneath it all, just behind the carefully compiled facade of scientific adherence to the Stated Principles, hypocrisy lurked. Everything

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They came to Ain-4 for the exotic and abundant mineral and metal resources that protruded from the curdled crust as if eager to leave this place behind. Even the ore wanted to get out of here. We should have taken the hint.

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