The Dreamer Stones
“Book of Sages Merrix was an average-sized world in the Robinson Galaxy.
It had no distinguishing features, being rather flat. Six large landmasses fit together like a giant jigsaw with strips of ocean dividing them. The seas were so salty they were sterile, but the planet made up for the lack of seafood with freshwater variety. Lakes, dams, rivers great and small, festooned the landscape and gave seemingly endless bounty.
Offworld export was top of the range and much sought after. This held... true not only for water produce, but also for crops harvested by a race of expert farmers, as were their butters, cheeses, preserves and wines. It was a rich world by any standard, one that Beacon attempted to annex, with other worlds coming to Merrix’s defence, but life was wholesome and laidback. Merrix thrived as a pure communist society, the only model of its kind to work well anywhere.
Cities were anathema to the rural mind-set of a prosperous people, with small towns in the folds of hills and alongside waterways, the latter to facilitate water transport by barge to the numerous and busy little spaceports, where large warehouses dwarfed the concourses.MoreLess
It had no distinguishing features, being rather flat. Six large landmasses fit together like a giant jigsaw with strips of ocean dividing them. The seas were so salty they were sterile, but the planet made up for the lack of seafood with freshwater variety. Lakes, dams, rivers great and small, festooned the landscape and gave seemingly endless bounty.
Offworld export was top of the range and much sought after. This held... true not only for water produce, but also for crops harvested by a race of expert farmers, as were their butters, cheeses, preserves and wines. It was a rich world by any standard, one that Beacon attempted to annex, with other worlds coming to Merrix’s defence, but life was wholesome and laidback. Merrix thrived as a pure communist society, the only model of its kind to work well anywhere.
Cities were anathema to the rural mind-set of a prosperous people, with small towns in the folds of hills and alongside waterways, the latter to facilitate water transport by barge to the numerous and busy little spaceports, where large warehouses dwarfed the concourses.MoreLess
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