The ST's Musings

Houston, Texas, the Awakened community is recovering from the last Wizards War nearly 5 years ago. The conflict lasted for 4 years as Magi factions fought over the mystical leylines and hallows within Lake Sabine. The forces of the Houston Consilium were defeated, suffering extensive casualties and the ruling council was forced from power. In its place the Free Council has risen, promising to rebuild from the ashes and usher in a new age for the Awakened. Much was lost in the war, the power and influence of the Awakened being most evident and the mages no longer the dominant power in the region. Other forces stir in the shadows to fill the power vacuum left after the war. The Faerie Freehold and the Vampire Court are locked in an intricate power struggle as they extend their influence into the mundane and supernatural worlds. Fighting over control of entertainment venues, mortal politicians and drug trafficking routes. This secret war is waged in the shadows of the mortal world, occa...

Major Sector Worlds  Haxby, population 22 billion The beating heart of the Zeflan sector, Haxby is a large urban planet home to over 22 billion souls. The planet that never sleeps is famed for its technological, industrial and media exports to the rest of the Imperium. Haxby has three moons in orbit, each is large enough to sustain its own atmosphere and all are inhabited. Rippon, population 800 million The growth of Haxby over the past two centuries has been uneven, concentrating wealth in the hands of a few and creating billions of impoverished citizens. The overcrowding of the planet has sent its poorest citizens offworld to Rippon, a moon covered in slums. The slums, called favelas by system locals, are a largely lawless place run by gangs that control vast swathes of territory. Passage between Rippon and Haxby is strictly monitored and controlled by officials. Ascension, population 50 million Originally founded as a mining outpost for titanium and palladium, the sceni...

The Cleopatra is a former trading vessel converted to a luxury yacht by the second Count of Grantham and it has been in the family ever since. It is used mostly to ferry family members around the sector on important business and to host diplomatic meetings, it has come to be a home away from home for the family members. Stats Hull Code A Streamlined Crystal Iron Armor (Armor 4) W-Drive Class P Rating 4 M-Drive Class P Rating 4 P-Plant Class P Rating 4 150 tons of fuel Bridge Computer Model 4 Basic Civilian Sensors Staterooms x 24 (8 for crew, 16 for family) Fuel Processors Escape Pods Hangar (contains 2 air cars that function as shuttles) Luxuries (10 tons) Turret 1 (Beam/Beam/Beam) Turret 2 (Beam/Beam/Beam) Turret 3 (Beam/Beam/Beam) Turret 4 (Beam/Beam/Beam) Turret 5 (Beam/Beam/Beam) Intellect: Jump Control/4 Fire Control/4 Evade/2 Auto-Repair/2 Library/0 Manoeuvre/0 Common Rooms (Library, Drawing Room, Dining Room, Gaming Room, Gym with a Pool, Indoor Ga...

The Zeflan Sector is home to proud and ancient families who have forged places for themselves on the borders of imperial space near the Zagreb Kingdom. The oldest worlds in the sector were colonized nearly a thousand years ago and have weathered many changes, some better than others. At the founding of the Imperium when communication between worlds was slow and ponderous, the nobility was created to rule the empire on behalf of the Emperor, as he could not exert his will far from the capital. The majority of the empires nobility is descended from those chosen by the emperor to govern in his stead, with occasional titles created to reward exemplary military or scientific service. With the advent of FTL communications orders from Capital can be quickly relayed to all corners of the empire easing the administration of government. With the central government able to exert its will the old monopoly on political power the nobility had was broken. The nobles find themselves in a precar...