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The Star Pirate's Folly

📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 10: Gravity
Historically, rates of piracy closely mirror working-class levels of economic opportunity.
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 9: Launch
The comets Orpheus and Eurydice have traveled their tragically-fated path for thousands of years.
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 8: Orpheus
The Fated Lovers' Festival began with the arrival of the Founders and has continued ever since.
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 7: Periapsis
Gate technology allows for instant travel between two paired gates, the power required scaling by distance.
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 6: Expedition
Fabricants built most of the foundational infrastructure required for colonization on Surface before the first settlers arrived.
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 5: Commission
Gate-based wormhole travel between stars was commonplace until the war.
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 4: Bounty
Privateer, pirate, bounty hunter... the lines get blurrier out past the Core planets.
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 3: Swashbucklers
Free-spirited merchant spacefarers are often victims of piracy... or accused of it.
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 2: Midtown
For many, life on Surface requires overcoming the everyday brutality of neglect.
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 1: Providence
In a thriving dome-city like Overlook, survival means feeding around the edges.
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | Prologue
Out past the Core planets, before everything else, the Styx Belt flows.
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