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Abe Sargent · 12-31-2014, 05:53 PM

December 23, 3063 – We have taken New Home.

(In real life, the Word of Blake were welcomed as liberators after ousting the Regulars from New Home. They were embraced. So we should be as well. What’s good for the Blake is good for the Essex, right?)

More about New Home –

New Home was one of the first colonies of humanity. The planet was very similar to Terra, so it was an obvious choice as an early colony. Because of how old it is, a lot of non-renewable resources are long since used up. In particular, fossil fuels and ores were used up at a very fast clip in order to push the early colonial explosions.

There aren’t a bunch of unused ores just waiting to get tapped, nor a lot of valuable fossil fuels. All of the stuff people wanted was long since used up. Numerous geological surveys arrived, and the most advanced survey teams and instruments all the way through the height of the Star League have uncovered everything there is.

As a result, New Home is about sustainable economies. It has solar, nuclear, and hydro power. People fish and farm. New Home makes enough food to sell it abroad. It also raises plant and animal based things like rubber, textiles, and wood. In fact, there’s a strong plastics industry here too.

There’s still some modest ores around that are of lower value minerals, like cobalt and nickel. But not much.

There’s also a solid amount of industry on the world. Nothing military, but a lot of supplemental industry like clothing manufacturing, processing food, and there’s a decent artisan based economy of people that make things out of bone and leather for decorations.

So New Home has a diverse, Terran like economy, except that it’s best stuff is long since gone, and none of the heavy industry of the military-industrial complex. New Home is a strong economy though, and it’s a positive to the Coalition – it brings in more money than it will take, long term.

Although again, New Home will get some investment in rebuilding after the long war. But the infrastructure here was respected more by combatants, and the area is not nearly as badly damaged as many others. Even places that had war ended quickly, such as Capolla and Terra Firma, were hurt worse than New Home was.

Luckily, New Home never suffered that much from the Amaris Wars or Succession Wars, save for the destruction of stuff in space. It had no major industries to raid. (There were some satellites and stations built that were destroyed)

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Abe Sargent Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Catonsville, MD	December 23, 3063 – We have taken New Home. (In real life, the Word of Blake were welcomed as liberators after ousting the Regulars from New Home. They were embraced. So we should be as well. What’s good for the Blake is good for the Essex, right?) More about New Home – New Home was one of the first colonies of humanity. The planet was very similar to Terra, so it was an obvious choice as an early colony. Because of how old it is, a lot of non-renewable resources are long since used up. In particular, fossil fuels and ores were used up at a very fast clip in order to push the early colonial explosions. There aren’t a bunch of unused ores just waiting to get tapped, nor a lot of valuable fossil fuels. All of the stuff people wanted was long since used up. Numerous geological surveys arrived, and the most advanced survey teams and instruments all the way through the height of the Star League have uncovered everything there is. As a result, New Home is about sustainable economies. It has solar, nuclear, and hydro power. People fish and farm. New Home makes enough food to sell it abroad. It also raises plant and animal based things like rubber, textiles, and wood. In fact, there’s a strong plastics industry here too. There’s still some modest ores around that are of lower value minerals, like cobalt and nickel. But not much. There’s also a solid amount of industry on the world. Nothing military, but a lot of supplemental industry like clothing manufacturing, processing food, and there’s a decent artisan based economy of people that make things out of bone and leather for decorations. So New Home has a diverse, Terran like economy, except that it’s best stuff is long since gone, and none of the heavy industry of the military-industrial complex. New Home is a strong economy though, and it’s a positive to the Coalition – it brings in more money than it will take, long term. Although again, New Home will get some investment in rebuilding after the long war. But the infrastructure here was respected more by combatants, and the area is not nearly as badly damaged as many others. Even places that had war ended quickly, such as Capolla and Terra Firma, were hurt worse than New Home was. Luckily, New Home never suffered that much from the Amaris Wars or Succession Wars, save for the destruction of stuff in space. It had no major industries to raid. (There were some satellites and stations built that were destroyed) __________________ Check out my two current weekly Magic columns! https://www.coolstuffinc.com/a/?action=search&page=1&author[]=Abe%20Sargent Last edited by Abe Sargent : 12-31-2014 at 05:54 PM.