Seeds of Fire in Dream

Below is the backstory to the Fireseeds Theatrics special in-world roleplaying event, “The Lazarus Transform”

The era of faster than light travel has not yet arrived, but we can get pretty close to that speed.

However, humanity has done a lot of growing in the interim. The Distro movement, the Biogen continuum, and the Simplicity Paradigm are all schools of thought that have made life on Earth five hundred years from today an interesting proposition.

Life on Earth in this century is very much overcrowded. The Death rate has slowed, the Birth rate is still climbing.

We are running out of room.

Cryosleep is an option: people can be stacked like cordwood then. First the technology was tested on criminal elements, then on people who paid for the privilege. Cheap energy sources can keep them frozen indefinitely. But without a place to go, some promise of the future to fulfill, it’s just a long, slow journey towards suicide.

So, the Colony Project began.

Like massive messages in a bottle, ships were flung into the void towards “likely” planetary systems. The truth is, nobody ever expected to hear back from them.

But hear back they did, some as early as 50 years later, courier boats arriving with messages of new colonies needing people. Successful, thriving other homes of humanity.

This gave rise to long haul tramp freighters, set to travel the spaces between the stars, delivering their cargo load of cryoslept corpsicles along with supplies.

The Infinite Prophet is one such freighter.

Packed with cultural refugees, the Prophet is on route to Hawking, Mendel, Thoreau and New Australia colonies with resupply stops at Von Neumann I and II.

Everything is on target for their first rendezvous with Von Neumann I, when the ExpSys triggered the crew out of cryosleep. Mysteriously enough, a score of passengers somehow also were awakened.

Off course, the Infinite Prophet has drifted near the event horizon of a Class 5 “Sunkiller” style black hole.

And now their only hope of further survival revolves around a complicated, highly theoretical mathematical model called “The Lazarus Transform.”

The Lazurus Transform. Coming soon from Fireseeds Theatrics.

If you’d like to keep up with more about The Lazarus Transform or any of the future Fireseeds Theatrics roleplaying events, subscribe to “Seeds of Fire in Dream,” a virtual world roleplaying blog by Sam Chupp, co-designer of the White Wolf Game Studio roleplaying games “Changeling: the Dreaming” and “Wraith: the Oblivion.”

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