[Angel tilts her head curiously. Someone actually interested in the history of Pandora? Even on Pandora people didn't automatically want to know.]
I guess if you had to pick a point to start at? You start when the first corporation took a major interest, and that goes to Atlas, over eighty years ago. [Her eyes take on a slightly faraway look as she pulls up her own notes on the events to go off of.] Atlas made the first headways in taking a stab at the myths around Pandora--there was a rumor that somewhere there was a vast store of alien technology somewhere, and Atlas was pretty keen on finding it. Still, even though they didn't find anything, word got around, and that brings in the treasure hunters who want it for personal reasons.
Here's something they didn't expect. They had come in winter. So summer came, and Pandora woke up, and she struck back against those that sought to colonize. Atlas brought in their army of mercenaries to keep their interests safe, and so everyone wasn't totally wiped out. This is when people began to understand just what kind of planet they had come to, and how much she would not be tamed.
Then came Dahl some decades later. They professed they weren't looking for the technology, just the opportunity to mine on Pandora. Atlas left them alone, and Dahl brought in convicts to work as their slaves in mining and processing the various ores. Things were as peaceful as they were ever going to get, until someone from Dahl found something hinting at the technology that had driven Atlas to colonize in the first place. Atlas heard and sent in a massive squad of mercenaries, Dahl fled and left nearly everyone and everything behind, including their workers and their slaves. Disaster inevitably struck the Atlas soldiers in the next few years, and the corporation decided to cut their losses and leave them to rot.
And they never found the technology they were looking for in the first place.
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I guess if you had to pick a point to start at? You start when the first corporation took a major interest, and that goes to Atlas, over eighty years ago. [Her eyes take on a slightly faraway look as she pulls up her own notes on the events to go off of.] Atlas made the first headways in taking a stab at the myths around Pandora--there was a rumor that somewhere there was a vast store of alien technology somewhere, and Atlas was pretty keen on finding it. Still, even though they didn't find anything, word got around, and that brings in the treasure hunters who want it for personal reasons.
Here's something they didn't expect. They had come in winter. So summer came, and Pandora woke up, and she struck back against those that sought to colonize. Atlas brought in their army of mercenaries to keep their interests safe, and so everyone wasn't totally wiped out. This is when people began to understand just what kind of planet they had come to, and how much she would not be tamed.
Then came Dahl some decades later. They professed they weren't looking for the technology, just the opportunity to mine on Pandora. Atlas left them alone, and Dahl brought in convicts to work as their slaves in mining and processing the various ores. Things were as peaceful as they were ever going to get, until someone from Dahl found something hinting at the technology that had driven Atlas to colonize in the first place. Atlas heard and sent in a massive squad of mercenaries, Dahl fled and left nearly everyone and everything behind, including their workers and their slaves. Disaster inevitably struck the Atlas soldiers in the next few years, and the corporation decided to cut their losses and leave them to rot.
And they never found the technology they were looking for in the first place.