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Originally Posted by LadyImmortal
You are a producer.
You've just been given the green light to develop the next Battlestar Galactica Series.
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Be imaginative and have fun!
--Rhonda
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Hi All,
This is the prologue for a non-BSG game that I'm still tinkering with. Because it is too close to BSG, I'll probably have to rewrite it, but it works here quite well.
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Rebirth of Empire: The Cauldron Tapped
Prologue
Handwritten note from the Captain-General: Bill, consider this a verbal auth.: have an ISST black-bag Glen Larson's house in LA - if he was 'channeling' when he wrote BSG, I want those notes! I'm not kidding -- the last damned thing we need is the Colonial Fleet showing up, and a Lorne-Greene-look-alike talking about a "shining planet"... Moi
Translated into English from the Book of An'un'ki, completed on Day 137, 2013CE, by the Office of Information Recovery and Historical Research, Imperial Archival Service:
From a note attached to the Book of A'n'un'ki by Chief Librarian Hr'yam, Royal Archives of Hjalik, At'Landa, c.1824CE:
"...It is with great regret that we cannot locate any copy of The Book of the One Jewel anywhere in our records. We beseech the Throne to extend all efforts to locate a copy..."
"IT IS WRITTEN that in the days of the Reign of the Zepto Piton, the Great Smoking Mountains did lay great destruction upon the Home of Man, called T'Rah.
And amid the Chaos, the Warriors of the T'Rah did many great and heroic deeds, saving many, many multitudes; and the multitudes blessed the Warriors.
And the Warriors of the T'Rah did bear these Multitudes of Man by their great starships to a place called Far Home, and there did place them into safety.
And it came to pass that the Aten, he who held Kingship over all of the other Kings of Men, did from His Throne at Far Home divide the Multitudes of Man into the Twelve Tribes of Man.
And to rule over these Twelve Tribes, the Aten did place the Sixty Families, Husband and Wife, over each Tribe, and there were Five Families to rule over each Tribe.
And of the Sixty Families, Husband and Wife, the names of the twelve most honored were: Ad'am, No'tah, At'r'us, Da'v'ud, M'oy'say, M'B’ng, Chi', Am'r't'su, 'Han, Prin', Bel, and S'ing. And these Twelve Families did lead the Tribes of Man at Far
Home.
And of the Twelve Tribes of Man, so each was divided thrice into the Warriors, the Workers, and the Learners.
And in all of the Tribes of Man so divided thrice, the proportions of the Multitudes were one Warrior to every two Learners to every five Workers; and thus were the Tribes of Man of T'Rah divided.
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"...And hence, after many multitudes of years had passed, the Warriors of Man, called among themselves the Seraphim, did grow restless in peace. And thus did they quarrel with the Aten, the fifth who had ruled since the coming to Far Home of the Tribes of Man of T'Rah.
The Warriors did demand of the Aten, "Let us return to our True Home, green T'Rah, for our hearts ache to see that verdant land."
And the Aten bade the Warriors to have patience, saying thus, "The Great Smoking Mountains may have become quiet since our leave-taking, but the skies and waters will not yet have cleared. Be patient, and in time, we shall return Home."
And the Warriors did take this counsel, but in their hearts of hearts, the Warriors still yearned to see T'Rah.
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