Planetary Government

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SPACEANJL

Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:21 AM

Yeah - an Englishman's home is his castle? Also, the 'rains a lot' bit.

Some of the dodgier areas of Outer, particularly East, London still have the remains of some beautiful old buildings. Mostly they are now given over to flats, turned into shops, basically recycled. I'm thinking of wet stone, iron railings with the paint peeling off, blistered doors and dirty windows. Lots of narrow streets and courtyards, quite probably with washing strung across.

Limehouse in the age of Dickens had a large Chinese population, mainly running opium dens for the sailors. So...dark cellars filled with dreams.

And the street food - dodgy kebabs, deep-fried anything (fish for preference) and possibly jellied eels. (you need a lot of vinegar.)

Badger is at home in that little warren of rooms on Persephone. Everyone lives up close and personal, but you always have your own front door.

SCHO

Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:20 PM

Thanks, you're an anjl.

(Nathaniel Schofield, my character is supposed to be Britsh decendent, born on Dyton.)

SPACEANJL

Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:02 PM

Well, I'm the real deal, one of the small band of British Browncoats around, so if you want any explanation of Anglo-weirdness you come across, let me know.

(Drink tea instead of coffee, don't pick up the ball in football, drive on the other side of the road, that sort of thing.)

WYTCHCROFT

Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:09 PM

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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
so if you want any explanation of Anglo-weirdness you come across, let me know.

HUSH! ThE WoRLD iS NoT YeT ReAdY...

(brilliant thread though!)

SPACEANJL

Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:14 PM

*Smiles a reassuring smile, and beckons with one finger*

Come over to the Anglo side, we won't hurt you...

'soup of the evening, beautiful soup...'

RUGER

Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:25 PM

What can be said about:
Stoketown Station
And more directly what can be said of the surrounding worlds??, have yet to locate it.
Asteroids can be like that.

SCHO

Saturday, June 28, 2008 12:08 AM

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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
...don't pick up the ball in football, drive on the other side of the road, that sort of thing.)

My best mate was English, he introduced me to soccer as football. It stuck in my mind.

TILLIESONG

Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:41 AM

Ta very much for the Alice reference. As a child, I had a recording of the book, and the Mock Turtle actually sang the song on the record. Thank you for pulling that melody out of my memory banks.

By the bye, is it only Brits and some Angophiles (or maybe only Londoners?) that know what an area is? I still have a scar on my forehead from tumbling down the area steps when I was a toddler...

SPACEANJL

Monday, June 30, 2008 6:55 PM

Stoketown Station -

A waystation for ships heading out, the original asteroid is lost somewhere beneath gantries, cranes, huge cisterns and pipework you could fly a small shuttle through. Some of them run through the rock. If there was ever any water on the surface, it has long since been turned to steam, which jets out like the breath of hell. There is very little of anything natural left here; even the noises are industrial, steam hammers, thrumming pipes under pressure, the air all hot carbon. However, the sunsets are fabulous.

WYTCHCROFT

Monday, June 30, 2008 7:14 PM

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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
Stoketown Station -

A waystation for ships heading out etc...

i see a great opportunity for a firefly/sapphire and steel crossover.

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