The leaders of the five remaining dome settlements that make up the People of Dreamland, these are the Honoured Elders. Their faces heavy with the weight of responsibility from many years of decision making, exposure left them scared. continue reading

Honoured Elders

Having faith in their Elders keeps everyone working together to create order and peace. With the survival of the people hanging in the balance, maintaining stability is crucial. The Dreamland is a place that was not well suited to the people that came there. The first people are now long gone, changed by the new world they found. They had struggled to build their new homes, and domes were a way to stay safe. There is safety in numbers.

The walls protected the settlers in their dome homes and continue to do so today, but over time each generation of people evolved. The new world had unforeseen dangers that transformed the people. In the generations that followed the first people, the physical change has been rapid. Working outdoors in survival suits converted to amour is the only way to move around the world. Those suits are no guarantee of protection, the greater the exposure the greater the change.

Their DNA had been altered changing their appearance. Scientists had limited success in preventing the afflictions as they are unsure what causes the change at first. Those exposed to the outside atmosphere see the most rapid changes. While the others protected in the domes, saw more gradual transformations.

Here, native life has evolved into sentient plants, filling every niche of the ecosystem. Plant lore speaks of ancient peoples in the Dreamland before the plants grew wise.

As time past and more artifacts were recovered, a greater understanding of the ones before emerged. It was concluded that the artifacts in orbit, could have been defensive triggered by the large ship. It could have been the two large energy fields being too alien to each other to co-exist as the colony ships neared the orbiting artifacts. Without a doubt there was a huge release of energy in the explosion, a new energy was created that was unknow prior and incompatible to our own. Moving into the proximity of the energy caused the interference with communications and further system failures on the smaller ships. Combining the alien energies and the enormous generational colony ships created a catastrophic result. The energy that changed people and plants down to their core DNA, the energy that causes the rotting disease was created because of the accidental meeting of two technologies and the incompatible energy fields that surround them.

See their tribute started generations ago in the Shrines of Elders Past.

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