![]() The Eris itself is basically if someone took a space hulk and said "yeah this is mine now", stuck some thrusters on it and flew off without clearing out the xenofauna or restructuring it, so maintenance is a literal labyrinth full of loot, traps, workplace hazards and deadly creatures. Traitors and revolutionaries are Excelsior-backed. The Syndicate, as we know it, no longer exists (Ironhammer are actually descended from them) but every faction is innately hostile to Excelsior, who are hyper-expansionist communists who use implants to brainwash people into joining their communes. The factions on the ship are here at his leisure (or were hired like Ironhammer, being PMCs) and he's here to turn a profit and needs to keep the factions in check (who have their own agendas). The Eris is the Captain's personal property and he's best described as the SS13 equivalent of a Rogue Trader, being free to do what he wishes. The cruciform is highly-hostile to any implant that is not itself and will literally rip them out of your body if it must. Removing the cruciform is highly lethal and will instantly kill you if it is removed while you're alive, it is located in the chest and is visible in the skin, resembling a tau-cross. When you die, a clone is made of your body and the cruciform removed and implanted into it - effectively re-sleeving you into it with your personality and memories up to the moment of your death intact. When a Christian is first baptised, he is implanted with a cruciform - an implant that effectively functions like a cortical stack. The most important thing to know about Neotheology is that only they possess cloning technology, and only Christians may be cloned in a highly ritualised ceremonial machine - its operation is restricted only to those in the Church hierarchy. Neotheologians believe that Judgement Day is coming soon but God gave Mankind technology to create a civilisation of righteous people to fight it, as its Last Chance. To cut a long story short, Nanotrasen got taken over by religious fundies and got rebranded as NeoTheology, controlled by the Church of Cyber-Christianity. The most notable faction out of them all is Neotheology. Eris takes place in the grimdark future of the 24th century in the Canis Major galaxy (colonised by the now-defunct human Alliance and cut off from the Milky Way Galaxy) onboard the Cosmic Exploration Vessel "Eris", a privately owned vessel sponsored by a multitude of factions operating as departments upon it (Moebius Laboratories functions as medbay and research, the Technomancer League as Engineering, Ironhammer as security, Asters Guild as cargo and Frosen Star, Neotheology and the Hansa Trade League as its backers). ![]()
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