Aug 26, 2008
Alien World, 2954: The Guild of the Old Earth
Among the colonists of Lalande, once the long trip was over and that they were settled in their Moon base “habitat”, a group formed that was advocating a return to Earth as soon as possible in order to share the technologies they could salvage from the Alien world. The group called themselves the Guild of the Old Earth, and rose to power quickly among the colonists.
As years passed, it became evident that communication with the aliens was all but impossible, and that the technologies they used were very closely linked to their distributed computing biology, and was hardly understandable, and even less applicable, by humans. The Guild held true to it’s aim, however, and became a major driving force behind the university research centers, trying to crack the communication barrier with the aliens and to understand their technologies, in order to stage a return to earth and a transfer of technologies for the benefit of all mankind.
As the colony grew, and new moon bases were built by the aliens, multiplying the university centers, diverging opinions started to form. Some wanted to sever the ties with earth completely, some wanted to use the alien technologies they were deciphering to rule the solar system and a third group wanted to keep true to the original aim of the Guild: using the Alien technologies for the benefit of all.
What stared as diverging academic opinions became bitter disputes, and almost degenerated into civil war as the Guild was split into three factions. Moon base copies were isolated, each under one of the factions of the Guild, and armed conflict was averted when the Council of Mayors dissolved the Guild and reuniting the Moon bases.
To this day the Guild is outlawed, but rumors of secret societies surface once in a while, and the three factions are still reflected in the opinions of populations and academicians.
