The Plot of Rim
Posted: Aug 19, 2012, 6:21 PM
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From the Journal of Dylon Archer
Staff Sergeant, 1st FIST Chief
22nd Marine Assault Unit
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They call it Rim. They also call it the arm of the galaxy. Neither statement is really accurate, per se. Not in a literal sense, at least. Those are just nick names smeared onto the gigantic outer portion of the galaxy that extends past Earth and her core colonies. Rim though…it’s something else. Imagine the United American civil war when Mexico tried to secede. Plenty of civilized interaction near the populated areas…and plenty of fighting out near the shit hole spots where no one wanted to live. It’s like that out in Rim, too. There are a lot of big colonies. Populations into the hundreds of millions in some of them. But there are also a lot of really under populated areas as well. Kind of like…big ass galactic ghettos. Yeah, there’s a lot of people in them, causing problems. Being hellions. Rebelling. There are also the menagerie of other sentient beings too, and they cause just as much trouble as the humans do. Arcturians, Greens…a few other lesser known assholes that only pop up once every few years…but they are out there.
Point is…Rim isn’t so much a rim. It’s more like…the greater portion of the circle with the civilized human area closer to Earth and her core colonies. We know about all there is to know when you get close to the home world. Out here, though, it’s like the wild wild west. People fighting people. People fighting the uh…”galactic residents”. And you know what sucks the worst about it? We’re like the new kid in school…getting bullied pretty much by everyone. It’s pretty easy to see why they need Marines when you venture out into this mess.
After all, someone has to be here to lay hands on some of these bastards…
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From the Journal of Dylon Archer
Staff Sergeant, 1st FIST Chief
22nd Marine Assault Unit
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They call it Rim. They also call it the arm of the galaxy. Neither statement is really accurate, per se. Not in a literal sense, at least. Those are just nick names smeared onto the gigantic outer portion of the galaxy that extends past Earth and her core colonies. Rim though…it’s something else. Imagine the United American civil war when Mexico tried to secede. Plenty of civilized interaction near the populated areas…and plenty of fighting out near the shit hole spots where no one wanted to live. It’s like that out in Rim, too. There are a lot of big colonies. Populations into the hundreds of millions in some of them. But there are also a lot of really under populated areas as well. Kind of like…big ass galactic ghettos. Yeah, there’s a lot of people in them, causing problems. Being hellions. Rebelling. There are also the menagerie of other sentient beings too, and they cause just as much trouble as the humans do. Arcturians, Greens…a few other lesser known assholes that only pop up once every few years…but they are out there.
Point is…Rim isn’t so much a rim. It’s more like…the greater portion of the circle with the civilized human area closer to Earth and her core colonies. We know about all there is to know when you get close to the home world. Out here, though, it’s like the wild wild west. People fighting people. People fighting the uh…”galactic residents”. And you know what sucks the worst about it? We’re like the new kid in school…getting bullied pretty much by everyone. It’s pretty easy to see why they need Marines when you venture out into this mess.
After all, someone has to be here to lay hands on some of these bastards…
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