War and Trash
World
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People spread out across planets via stasis in the short window of time (About a century) before FTL travel was popular
- These planets were eventually reconnected and had developed their own cultures in the meantime
- The UU and TCA developed once FTL allowed more groups under their jurisdiction
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On a planet where all waste is dumped (the skip planet), lives groups of people who scavenge and, in some more unethical groups, retrieve information they shouldn’t.
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Sections of the planet are cordoned off into zones of varying security levels, ranging from least concern (like organic waste) to top security, (hard waste from government organisations and companies).
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There should be some consistent measure of how close to the destination Devin is
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Ships and people use standard gunpowder weaponry (set in the KIS universe woOoOoOo)
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Devin has a friend from the union days?
- ESTABLISH THIS EARLY
- “The fortieth survey division? Do you know a Arn Terry?”
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The Grand Union of Unions
- Brutalist architectural style
- Hilariously huge apartment buildings
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The Commerce Alliance
- More obsessed with the accumulation of wealth and size of things
- Cities of opulence and privatisation
Characters
Devin
- Cynic
Billie
- Idealist
Plan
Devin works on the garbage planet
BUT he finds a tablet buried in the ground
THEREFORE he quits his job and heads to the DUMP-1 Transfer Station to look for a former buddy who could decrypt the contents
BUT the station gets put into lockdown in response to the crisis
THEREFORE, Devin enlists the help of a smuggler who assures Devin they can get through the blockade
BUT when they escape the station guards chase after them
HOWEVER, this is seen as a provocative move by TCA and they back down
THEREFORE they escape to the Union Directory
They arrive at Buddy’s place
BUT he’s not there anymore
THEREFORE Billie decides to perform a search for him at a nearby public directory for what might have happened to him
BUT she discovers that he disappeared eight years ago on fraud charges, presumed dead,
BUT Devin thinks about the booze that had disappeared as well and knows where he has gone
THEREFORE, he heads to the Freighter Holiday Bar and Inn and busts into the backroom finding Buddy
BUT Buddy can’t decrypt shit until he has
- You’re gonna need to get me (DECRYPTION THING) and (PERSONAL ITEM(mayhaps for/to the fam))
- Billie is a smuggler, damnit
- Supply of several things is disrupted, including the plot essential thing
- Arrive at another garbage planet