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''"The best way to see the wreckplace at Tionisla is to approach it from the Sun (a reasonably safe thing to do since Tionisla, being a Democracy has few pirates in its system). Tionisla itself is a bright yellow world, and the cemetery is always between the planet and its star. As you fly close, the whole strange graveyard seems to be expanding from the circle of the world behind.'' | ''"The best way to see the wreckplace at Tionisla is to approach it from the Sun (a reasonably safe thing to do since Tionisla, being a Democracy has few pirates in its system). Tionisla itself is a bright yellow world, and the cemetery is always between the planet and its star. As you fly close, the whole strange graveyard seems to be expanding from the circle of the world behind.'' | ||
| − | [[Image:Togy_ss_oct06.jpg|thumb|right| | + | [[Image:Togy_ss_oct06.jpg|thumb|right|400px|A peek at the TOGY in progress..]] |
''The first thing you see is a shimmering, silver disc, a double spiral of tiny bright points. It slowly turns: it's a galaxy in miniature, with the same intense blur of light at its centre, because here is where the biggest tombs are to be found.'' | ''The first thing you see is a shimmering, silver disc, a double spiral of tiny bright points. It slowly turns: it's a galaxy in miniature, with the same intense blur of light at its centre, because here is where the biggest tombs are to be found.'' | ||
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== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
| − | * [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=617 | + | * [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=617 The TOGY thread] at Oolite Bulletins |
* [http://elite.hughesd.co.uk/ '''Elite''' Before the Frontier] Selezen's site with a TOGY status section | * [http://elite.hughesd.co.uk/ '''Elite''' Before the Frontier] Selezen's site with a TOGY status section | ||
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Revision as of 18:01, 18 January 2006
Legacy
"The best way to see the wreckplace at Tionisla is to approach it from the Sun (a reasonably safe thing to do since Tionisla, being a Democracy has few pirates in its system). Tionisla itself is a bright yellow world, and the cemetery is always between the planet and its star. As you fly close, the whole strange graveyard seems to be expanding from the circle of the world behind.
The first thing you see is a shimmering, silver disc, a double spiral of tiny bright points. It slowly turns: it's a galaxy in miniature, with the same intense blur of light at its centre, because here is where the biggest tombs are to be found.
Come closer and soon you can see that the stars in this galaxy are markers, great lumps of metal, heavily inscribed with the words and symbols of a thousand religions. The cemetery is a bizarre and moving sight. The markers are rarely less than a thousand feet across. There are chrome-alloy crosses, titanium Stars of David, duralium henges, and all the strange symbolic shapes of the worlds, and the minds and the faiths that have come to die in this Star traveller's special place.
Tethered below this vast, rotating mausoleum is the dodecahedral shape of a 'Dodo' class space station, the home of the Cemetery Authorites. Here you go through security checks and get your visitor's visa. And as you stand in the queue, staring up through the translucent ceiling of the Customs Hall, you can see the battered, broken ships of many of the dead, still attached to the silent tomb that contains the body."
from Robert Holdstock's The Dark Wheel.
OXP
Undeniably the TOGY.oxp is Oolite's most ambitious expansion pack ever attempted. Therefore, it's not strange that it has taken a while in the making, and the finished package not yet looking ready in the immediate future. There is, however, no reason to fear that the project will be abandoned.
External Links
- The TOGY thread at Oolite Bulletins
- Elite Before the Frontier Selezen's site with a TOGY status section
