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Third Level Society: First Version
Story Five: Oscar Lehman
28 June 1261

The quest was a very simple one. My avatar was form-fitted for interglobal travel. And my avatar was given quite the sleek vessel to do the job. The objective was to move silver from Planet Arturia, the original home of the Five Nations, to the nearby Planet dedicated to the nation of Gallacia. I do not remember the exact name of this world off the top of my head, but that's where I went.

I was warned that there would be bandits en route, in vessels fitted with guns to try and destroy my vessel. I traveled alone, but my vessel was one of the strongest. The bandit group was a couple of Member-backed avatars with an army of daemons having built a compound in an asteroid between the two worlds. They were a ragtag group of two Legions that my avatar had defeated before I left, but they grew stronger since.

Nonetheless, I fended them off successfully and arrived unharmed to the new Planet. Thus, the silver was received and the quest complete. The only quip I have against this system, and I voiced this to Ivella later on at 124 West Mason Street, is that even when in cruise speed, the ship seems to take forever to go from one destination to another. True that the vessel can "jump" from one point to another in the new interglobal plane, but since that is designed for hopping from one gas giant system to another, it really is "hit or miss." This, of course, would cause anxiety with new Members. So I proposed that some infrastructure be placed to guide ships into super-fast travel between the gas giant systems.

For context, Planet Arturia is actually one of six moons orbiting a gas giant, very much like our real world orbiting around Juno Major.

The other strange and fascinating thing about this is that the Steamster culture seems to have infused, and very beautifully so, with the interglobal trade dynamic here. They seem to complement each other in ways I never would have imagined. I will admit at this point that I am completely in awe. I do regret having been so opposed to Terrings, simply because I did not like the concept of change. I had fallen in love so much with the status quo that I figured that any change would not be for the better. I was wrong. Late last night, I penned a letter of apology to Terrings and sent the letter in the post this morning. I know it will take a couple weeks to reach him in Cenofan.

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