Rennaissance of Flesh: The Gallean Moons

                        

GALLEAN MOONS

The Gallean Moons were a fundamental terraforming tool used prolifically throughout the 2nd Age of Solar Expansion. The ‘Moons’ are in fact large scale stations, built out from autonomous seed ships which form the core of the station, by docking together in orbit of a world. The seed ships of a Gallean Moon then get to work deploying simple drones and other machines to build out vital components of the station, starting with fabricating processing and refinery bays to allow for the station's autonomous hive to steadily grow the moon into a cavernous megastructure which can serve to efficiently terraform the Solar systems moons and planets as well as hold a fledgling population of colonists, who can steadily adapt to the slightly modified environmental conditions of their new home as the Gallean Moon steadily processes the atmospheric gases, magnetic field, crust density and all the other essentials to support Terran (Earth) life on a new world. For some worlds in the solar system this process went faster than others. Mars for instance was terraformed by several Gallean Moons in only two generations, while Venus never proved fully hospitable to Humans.

As Humanity began to spread across the Solar System at an exponential pace under the demanding and hungry expectations of incredibly powerful NatComs. Other more elegant options for Terraforming began to present themselves, leaving the eerie megastructures of the Gallean Moons to gradually fall into disrepair, a testament to early Human Interplanetary Colonization.

In the modern day, the Gallean Moons sit off the shoulders of several worlds and ‘true’ moons, their surfaces scarred by centuries of stellar radiation and the impact of small particles bouncing off the miles of hull plating. Many still have thousands of miles long atmospheric exchange umbilicals linking their drifting bulks to the eddies of their world’s atmosphere, causing them to list slowly about like vast buoys.

 

While in the past the Gallean Moons’ supported cities full of colonists eager to one day tread on the surface of a newly terraformed world. Many of the Gallean Moons now play host to outlaws, communities of the poor, diseased or otherwise rejected by society, along with much worse. Biomancers, Talosii Deathclades and all manner of others use the deepest recesses of these decaying stations as bases of operation for their own goals. Authorities occasionally sweep through such stations when they are able depending on resources to hand or to the potential threat offered by such stations, but the prospect of committing enough military or navy assets to clearing an entire moon sized structure of pirates, political dissidents or hostile gangs can be daunting for most organizations.

For the populations of many worlds which host a Gallean Moon there are a great deal of cultural myths about the structures, the Stormriders and Terrestrial cultures of Venus for instance have many religious practices and stories based on the Gallean Moon in orbit above their world which they name ‘The Forked Moon’, for its many surface scars. One particularly interesting myth held is that of the Red Man or ‘Crimson Warrior’ which is said to be the harbinger of the Kironikanmen, or ‘Period of Redress’ when Venus will finally be fully terraformed, its people unified and elevated from their long centuries of hardship. Those who have ventured far into the Forked Moon’s inner depths will know that this myth’s origin is likely based on a now non-functional Eidolon Class Warmech, its towering chassis now forms the heart of a heavily protected shrine in the bowls of the crumbling station, built by Stormrider Clans who bartered enough to salvage a ship off of Venus’ surface.

                                              

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