Post by Bellatora on Nov 19, 2011 22:18:38 GMT -8
..::Before the World Fell: Pern::..
Our purpose was to protect Pern. We were a refuge. Where thread would only fall but six months of each Turn. And for three and a half months a Turn, there would be nothing but night and snow... While the remaining three and a half months of the Turn... The sun would never fully set. The Holders who had gone before had thought that this would be the end of Thread for them. But they were wrong. And so dragonriders went to protect them from it.
But as time went on, Pern turned to us to take in those who caused trouble and our Weyr and our Holds grew strong, tough... and dangerous. It was, however, many many Turns in the past now. Long before AIVAS. But it is important even now. It is probably why we have survived the longest of all the Weyrs of Pern... But...
Now. We ARE the last Weyr on Pern. We are a handful of Riders who are now slowly being rebuilt by those who have come from the stars above us.
..::Our World Ended: Earth::..
Earth became incapable of supporting humans any longer many years in the past. The Earth Alliance made a hard choice... and set the last of its inhabitants into the stars to new planets. We of the E.A. Apollo were sent to a planet designated P.E.R.N.
Other colonists had settled there before... but something happened. They weren't heard from again.
As we traveled, we watched an asteroid hit a red planet and send it into a new orbit... nearer our new home and as pieces of the red planet... and the entire black meteorite, once asteroid, now in pieces... fall to Pern...
We crash landed on Pern... on the Northern Continent... And made our way to safety as something changed and turmoil broke loose on Pern.
..::A New Threat Awakens: Intertwined::..
We watched as a black star came closer and closer to our home. The Starcraft who watched the stars also watched as another star, or... rather, what is a meteorite... fall past the red star, nicking it and bringing down pieces of it and itself to crash over top of AIVAS itself, rendering what was becoming an advanced Pern into something else. something wild and feral. Large, porsperous cities were abandoned. We are the best left. We, Northern Aurora Weyr. We are the only safe place. Little do we know of the world outside...
But with the help of the people of the Apollo who's ship crashed to Pern and the people who fought there way here, we are learning and we are rebuilding the dragons... to protect us from the threats invading from the outer more unknown Pern and from Thread, which has once more returned and in greater fury, the Red Star closer than ever before.