Sunday 7 January 2024

A new destination

Awaiting my friends' help with the biodroid, I am continuing my exploration in Aridia. It could take a while for them to assemble a team, and even longer to actually get to the abandoned station and help me implant the controller device in the droid.

Meanwhile, I have set my sights on Anath in the Fabai constellation. I have been there once, brought by the Directrix who spent her youth there, in a domed colony on a storm world in this system. Unfortunately it was sacked by the Blood Raiders, who killed our Directrix's parents...

To this day, she keeps a colonist's storm world garden as one of the exhibits in her famous "Gardens of the Empire" display, and it is based on her parent's home. I am keen to get more time to explore this planet, and to see how it moved on after being ravaged by Blood Raider attacks - even if it does not lie directly on the Blood route to Delve.

Anath does not have any space station where I can dock the Indigatrix, but neighboring Naga has one. A Genolution Biotech Production facility. It offers "DNA therapy", I'm sure they'll explain that to me. Genolution also produces implants, skins, tactical goggles, and combat suits. But, most of all, they are known for their outstanding cloning facilities. 

They were a former Jovian Directorate organization and are now operated by Jovian associates: the Society of Conscious Thought. They have... four stations in the Fabai constellation, but no other stations anywhere in Aridia. Or anywhere even remotely near.

What the heck are the post-jovians doing here in this outback? Why do they focus on this constellation?