Reynold's work, you'll also know that hostile AI wiping everything sentient out is a common theme of his. In Rimworld, it's used to represent spacers. In regards to its socio-political organization and importance in the fields mentioned previously, the Glitter Band strongly resembles Classical Greece.Įssentially it means a culture with nanotech. Once a player constructs a research bench, and selects a project from the list of available research topics, a researcher will work at the bench to generate research points. Certain buildings require research in order to be built. It was also a place of cultural, philosophical and physical diversity and a central hub of business and trade in human space. Research is the primary method through which players can enhance and expand the abilities of their colony.

One of the most famous locations in human history, it was the home to billions of people from across the galaxy. Glitter Band / Rust Belt, a conglomeration of 10,000 exquisitely unique orbital habitats around Yellowstone. Some combinations can go both ways, so for example a bearalope is different from a boombear, and you will get one at random.

War between the Demarchists and Conjoiners erupted as a result of the plague. Hybridization: Extract genes from Bears, Chickens, Boomalopes, Muffalos, Wolves, Reptiles and Insectoids, and create hybrids of these species. Only the Conjoiners were unaffected by this disaster, which devastated the civilisation around Yellowstone. The Belle Epoque was terminated by the advent of the Melding Plague in 2510, a nanotechnological virus that destroyed all other nanotechnology it came into contact with. With the exception of an attempted takeover on Yellowstone, no major incidents affected humanity during this time.

Technologies developed included the Conjoiner Drive, a gift from the Conjoiners (who resumed contact with humanity at an unknown time), advanced nanotechnology, and numerous other devices. The most successful planet of all was Yellowstone, a planet orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, site of the Glitter Band and Chasm City. The term is taken from Alastair Reynolds, a science fiction writer.įor the next few centuries, the so-called Belle Epoque, humanity enjoyed a period of relative peace and prosperity, with several planets being colonised.

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