![]() But if the ships are being hoarded by their corporate owners and taking them by force is the only way that the revolutionaries might survive, suddenly the morals of the situation become a lot murkier. Without such a threat, rebels that invade a spaceport and steal its ships might be considered callous and evil. ![]() ![]() One of our driving motivations for creating a universe with a central narrative like the Maelstrom is that the factions are forced into difficult decisions to survive. Maelstrom's Edge is ultimately a wargame, and conflict between the factions is important to explain why the factions and armies are fighting each other in the battles we play on the tabletop. As the Maelstrom expands, it disrupts the flow of the cybel tunnels nearby, making them impassable to ships - cutting down the routes that people can escape from a system threatened by the Maelstrom and increasing the chances of armed conflict as factions fight for access to the choke point. The Maelstrom travels slowly as it expands through empty space without anything to react with, but moves increasingly more rapidly as it reaches the star system and begins to react with the mass contained within. After this initial frenzy, the expansion of the Maelstrom slowed to a fraction of its initial speed as it left the matter dense Capital World systems, its coruscating red and purple blight on the sky becoming a harbinger of utter destruction to nearby worlds. It ripped apart the centre of humanity, destroying worlds in instants and leaving no time for escape. A colossal energy storm spanning light years, the Maelstrom expanded ever onward, traversing dozens of light years in mere hours. When the Maelstrom erupted from humanity's Capital Worlds a millennium ago, it destroyed hundreds of parsecs in the blink of an eye. The Maelstrom's implacable advance on the worlds of the Spiral Arm is what feeds the conflict of our universe, sets friend and foe against each other and forces everyone in its path to fight for resources and survival. That's ultimately what Maelstrom's Edge is all about, that monumental catastrophe causing previously stable galactic civilisations to tear each other, and themselves, apart. The Maelstrom is the core, central idea to our entire setting.
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