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Information Hub Fragments {{Scroll box|transparent|content= {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} {{quote|Ancient records regarding the origins of the Praetorians.|Item Description}}

Precursors
A distant galaxy. Hundreds of star systems stretch across the darkness like a giant tapestry, woven from the harsh light of unfamiliar and distant suns. One such system hosts a saurian-like species who built a sophisticated starfaring civilization spanning all of the twelve planets orbiting their binary star. They are precursors of the ancient past. They are primeval.

War of the Sivian
Behold the sky. The blazing glory of its twin suns backlights the battle lines of a titanic war, and the dead remains of ruined ships litter the void. The Sivian came to this star to conquer the Primeval, but as they reached the heliopause frontier, Primeval perimeter militias met them in battle and slowed their advance for many cycles.

This deadlock was finally broken after the Sivian deployed a second fleet with biopathogenic weapons to blight the Primeval worlds, which became tainted with death. Their worlds ravaged, the Primeval would survive by turning to new bodies in the form of machines called the Cognitive.

The Primeval Cognitive
After their transition to machine forms, the Primeval manifested warrior hulls called Praetorians. They fought the Sivian with algorithms and calculations - adapting and improving and mapping behavioral responses. Soon they had built a victory condition for every possible end state of the war. Thus the Sivian were crushed, and what remained of their forces fled into the deep.

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Excerpts

 * "We all have creators. This truth is undeniable. Some call it the engine of evolution, others a [g]od. The choice each of us must make is whether or not to accept this truth."

Uncategorized Excerpts

 * "It is often asserted that the Praetorians are more than a conventional military bent on conquest and that they are actually agents of change, machines created to remake the world in a form suitable to their, or another's, inscrutable purposes. But machines created by who?"

Mars Mission: ANGEL
-Command Sequence:OPEN COMMUNICATIONS STREAM ALPHA-

///BEGINNING TRANSMISSION///

OBS>Have the probes been launched?

IBSI still don't see the purpose in all of this.

IBSI know. Still, the cost of sending a bunch of probes to Mars just to watch some plants grow seems a little uncalled for—I mean the Red Eden's AI is more than capable of ensuring everything goes smoothly.

IBSNone have in my lifetime. -Command Sequence:CLOSE COMMUNICATIONS STREAM ALPHA-

///ENDING TRANSMISSION///

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Races

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The Terraformer
The Terraformer is an architect of the Praetorians, transforming the lands to match their inscrutable design. Though its full capabilities remain obscure, the seemingly anabolic nature of the Cyberlands is a grim testament to the Terraformer's power.

The Overmind
Dwelling deep within the bowels of an old War Vault in Europe, the Overmind coordinates Praetorian action on a global scale. While documents recovered from Carrhae station suggest the Overmind was generated by the Praetorians at the dawn of the war to lead the invasion of Earth, older records indicate that it may have existed since before humanity first encountered the machines, begging the question as to whether other "minds" have yet to awaken.

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Remnants
The worlds spin on in death and ruin, drifting together towards uncertain ends. Where once great star spires circled planets of gleaming mega-cities, lie only the broken remnants of a shattered civilization. In the distance, a handful of battered warships flee into the deep. And from the smoldering planets emerge a flotilla of foreboding vessels - the beginning of a great diaspora.

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Humans
Humans are a sapient species whose ingenuity and resourcefulness has allowed them to survive and thrive amidst the hostilities of Earth. Never the less, mankind's belligerent nature and mastery of war has nearly toppled their civilization time and time again. With the sudden advent of the Praetorians, this infighting would come to a grinding halt as humans begrudgingly united against a common threat: extinction.

Humans
Humans are a sentient species whose ingenuity and resourcefulness has allowed them to thrive amidst the hostilities of the Earth. Never the less,

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Rangers
Acting as a form of frontier militia, Rangers are the Protectorate's hand in the wilderness, patrolling the wastelands and ensuring order in the untamed wilds.

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Red Eden
Fully automated and equipped with an onboard AI to oversee the construction of Mars' atmospheric processing systems, the Red Eden was humanity's first colony ship and also one of its last. The vessel, its cargo holds laden with nanites, was launched to the desert world at the dawn of the 22nd century, leaving humans confined to Earth for the next two hundred and fifty years while the terraforming process finished—the prospect of man's expansion giving rise to numerous industries and corporations eager to profit from its wellspring of opportunity.

Outpost 3F
Established by the Protectorate in a defense program known as the Iron Line, Outposts such as 3F are military installations used to aid and defend human settlements from Praetorian incursion. To those escaping the perils of the wilderness, the Outposts serve as waystations, providing refuge from marauders and other threats as they make their way to the safety of the inner cities.

Vault 17
The War Vaults were constructed throughout Europe in a time when Earth's future seemed grim, and the threat of nuclear fall out loomed. Although such tensions ultimately subsided and many of the War Vaults were decommissioned, sites like Vault 17 remained, serving as clandestine installations and command bunkers. After the machines lay claim to Europe, Vault 17 became a Praetorian stronghold, the Overmind dwelling within.

Carrhae Station
Carrhae station was a military communications outpost built long ago to regulate coordination between a number of combat facilities operating across the frontier. Additionally, the station maintained a flight hangar designed to house and research secret new spacefighter prototypes. During the protracted war with the machines, Carrhae was repurposed to monitor their activities across the planet. What event may have left this station desolate is unclear, but despite its prolonged abandonment Carrhae’s vast data stores remained mostly intact, providing valuable insight into the earliest days of the Praetorian War.

The Arid Desert
Before the Praetorian War, the Arid Desert was a lush, green landscape. Now, it is little more than a dry and desolate waste, scarred by the terrible conflict that once ensued.

Cyberlands
A mix of Praetorian machinery and bio-engineering, the Cyberlands can be a foreboding place to the unwary. The otherworldly landscape and Praetorian-influenced flora offer disturbing insight into what may one day be Earth's fate.

Europe
Stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the frozen Arctic, Europe is a now desolate region of Earth almost completely overrun by Praetorians. Its ruined cities and deserted War Vaults are all that remain of the old Earth nation.

Mars
Following a failed attempt to colonize the Moon in the mid-21st century, humanity initiated a protracted terraforming project on Mars that eventually saw the planet restored to a habitable state. When the first colonists arrived, however, they found its surface overrun by hostile alien machines, beginning a century-long conflict that would come to be known as the Praetorian War.

Earth
Orbited by a single moon, Luna, Earth is the third world in the solar system and the cradle world of humanity. In the wake of the Praetorian invasion, much of the planet has been occupied by the machines, and mysterious structures seemingly buried beneath the surface have begun to rise, creating an otherworldly metropolis across the wastes.

Overwatch
Utilizing a vast communications array to maintain contact with the various Outposts spread across Earth, the Overwatch is the headquarters of the Protectorate and the heart of their military governance.

Moon
There was a time when even the Moon could support life, but the advent of a system-wide cataclysm in the distant past has since rendered it, and most of the solar system, barren. Thousands of years later,

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The events of Shattered Past

 * Having survived a Praetorian incursion, a lone pilot attempting to flee the onslaught is shot down and crashes in the Arid Desert. A team of Rangers investigating a remote settlement that recently lost contact with the Iron Line see the downing of the ship and pull the pilot from its burning wreckage. Waking, the pilot is briefly introduced to the Rangers who then invite the pilot to join them. Remembering little of their past and stranded otherwise, the pilot accepts the offer and the group makes off for the settlement once more. While en route, the team fends off a Praetorian scouting mission before arriving at the remains of a dead colony under Praetorian occupation.

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