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[Lancer] Hey who wants to hear about Ludra's world?
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All of you, right!
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Here's the deal
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Ludra's World was formerly called Sanjak
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It was the moon of the capital world of the House of Stone
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A great house of the Karrakin Trade Baronies
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The House of Stone is well known for being the biggest military provider for the Baronies, and for being the most conservative house
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Some of the great houses have restructured themselves into Republics and Democracies
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Not the House of Stone
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In the House of Stone, some people are just born better than others and so it is natural that the better, noble people rule over the ignoble masses
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SO SANJAK
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Is a large rocky moon with a barely survivable biosphere
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The indigenous population lived in deep canyons and craters and in a planet spanning network of tunnels
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where there was enough air
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the surface was...technically livable? But not very pleasant
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so Baron Evian Ludra showed up one day with a new technology she wanted to try out
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the COMMENCER terraforming nanites
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This sounds like it can only go good places
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She warned the indigenous population that the process would be dangerous to anyone on the surface, and that they should all retreat to their underground shelters, but that they would receive regular supply shipments from Khayradin (the planet they orbited, and the HQ of the House of Stone)
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So don't worry everything will be fine
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And when the process finishes, your world will be an endless paradise
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So everyone evacuated to underground shelters and the COMMENCER nanites were unleashed to do their work
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And here's the thing
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it WORKED
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Sanjak, now called Ludra's World after the Baron who saw to it's rebirth, was transformed into a tropical paradise of shallow seas and lush forests with a mild climate
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Good news for all the people living underground, right?
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Well
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Not exactly
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See, the Barons loved their new beautiful vacation world
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So they didn't immediately let all the underground people out
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Rather, they set up an emigration and reintegration system that slowly let out a trickle
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Uh-oh
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And lots of security checkpoints to keep everyone else underground
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A black market formed, smuggling people to the surface and luxury goods underground
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Ludra's security forces noticed and, citing this flagrant disrespect for the law as a sign that they were RIGHT to be careful about who to let out underground, increased security and cracked down on smuggling
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This set up a horrible feedback loop that benefited Ludra
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We'll call the underground society Sanjak
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So the Sanjaks would riot and complain and push back against the new security
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Ludra would shake her head and decree that to stop the violence MORE security was needed and enact harsher checkpoints
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Causing MORE unrest among the Sanjaks
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Until, functionally
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all Sanjaks were slaves who worked in the deep-core mines that were the REAL source of Ludra's wealth
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Not the paradise vacation resorts of the surface
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but the vast mineral wealth of the mines that fed the inudstry of the House of Stone
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Ludra used EVERY dirty trick in the book
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She brought in flash clones to act as "overseers" in her mines
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Who were really just as oppressed as the Sanjaks, but they were like 1% higher on the totem pole
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So the Sanjaks didn't trust them and the Flash Clones thought of themselves as "better"
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and so the oppressed turned against each other
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In a now famous speech, Baron Ludra described the people of Sanjak as "a mass of lazy ungratefuls"
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and the label took off, but not in the way she thought it would
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The angriest of the Sanjaks took the label as a source of pride
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You're DAMN RIGHT they're ungrateful
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WE, THE UNGRATEFUL, SPIT ON THE HAND THAT FEEDS US BECAUSE IT IS NOT OUR OWN HAND, BUT THE HAND THAT STOLE OUR FOOD FROM US AND RETURNED WITH CRUMBS.
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WE THE UNGRATEFULS WANT THE WEALTH OF OUR OWN WORLD, WHICH WE HAVE EXTRACTED BY OUR OWN HANDS.
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WE THE UNGRATEFULS ASK YOU ABOVE: ARE WE NOT FREE PEOPLE TOO?
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TO OTHERS JUST AS UNGRATEFUL AS WE: IT IS TIME WE STRUGGLE FOR A NEW ERA.
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Shit was getting heated in the mines
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strikes were starting up
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The House of Stone sent in security forces to "defuse the situation"
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Which they did by opening fire on protestors with live ammunition
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Prompting a planet wide revolt
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The Sanjaks new the tunnels infinitely better than the security forces
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knew*
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And they had sympathetic help from various outsider movements
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most notably
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HORUS, the anarchist hacker collective, sent them code that they could inject into mining rigs to turn them into combat ready HORUS KOBOLDS
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https://images.plurk.com/7rXh7AZkmQdJSCEpWVxU8D.png
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Fighting spread to the surface
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With a long bloody campaign between the House of Stone and the Ungratefuls
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The House of Stone (and the Baronies as a whole) had just suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Harrison Armory
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and weren't at their best
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And the Ungratefuls had SO many Kobolds
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eventually, Union stepped in and forced open negotiations
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Ludra had long been killed in the fighting
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Her death is mentioned in the main Lancer rulebook
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it went a little something like this
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but Union was able to broker a peace, of sorts
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Ludra's World was renamed Free Sanjak
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the House of Stone has built a massive blockade around the planet
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ANYONE trying to leave or land on Free Sanjak is immediately shot down
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But meanwhile
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In the streets of former vacation resorts for wealth nobles
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The children of miners laugh and play
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Those who grew up working every waking moment can now take time off and have a snack, drink some coffee, hang out with friends
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Unlike what they were told growing up
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If you stop working all the time, the world doesn't collapse around you
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And the word is spreading, despite the best efforts of the Barons
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Ungrateful cells are popping up across the galaxy
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They don't have a set uniform, really
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But in honor of the Sanjaks who lived and died underground
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They have a fondness for using Sky Blue
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IN CONCLUSION
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The revolution is coming motherfuckers
Rama
I love the Ungratefuls so much
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Liberation means this: not simply seeing the sky, but knowing that there is such a thing as land without stone above you. And then knowing that there are those who put you there.
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I love the ungratefuls
Echo
The Ungratefuls are my favorite faction in this entire game, I think.
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They’re certainly very sympathetic
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