Thread:Dark dwarves 2/@comment-26295802-20160622234211

I really wanted the Rin to be in my novel, however I've already decided against having alien species. This is a bit of an impass. I realize how special they are to you, and I'm sorry for messing around with their lore for the purposes of my novel, but it was nessessary

In the end, I decided to make an alternate Rin history for the purposes of my novel. I'll keep the culture and names and things like that, but I've made an alternate history to make The Rin entirely human.

This story takes place roughly 1,000 years in the future. In the year 2121, the earth was abandoned due to pollution and overpopulation. FTL engines had not yet been invented, so humanity united in building the next best thing: The Ark.

The "arks" were huge space ships, and humanity's final hope. They contained the resources to make each one self-sufficiant for a vertually perpetual time, and thus the human race could last forever. The final goal, however, was that someday they might find a new planet, a new home.

The UN granted one ark to each nation, and it was up to each country to evacuate their best and brightest people. The passangers were kept in suspended animation, only to be awoken once the ship's computers found a habitable planet.

When all was ready, with grand cerimony, the arcs left, each in a different direction.

Just 234 years after the exodus, the Italian arc found a habitable planet. Unfortunetly, the ship's computer malfunctioned, and when the people awoke from suspended animation, they had no memory of earth's history. As they paniced, the ship crashed into the planet, afterwards called New Rome.

Desperately the Italians searched for answers onboard their ship. The jar from the crash, however, destroyed the history databanks they were supposed to be equiped with.... all, that is, except a single disk containing the history of The Roman Empire.

With nothing else, the Italians used this as the template for their society. They considered the disk a gift from the gods, a sort of prophesy of how they should fashion their government.

And what would they name their empire? They looked at the outside of their ship (which they considered to be fashioned by the gods) to find the answer. The ship was built by Rome Industries National, and three letters were stamped in huge black magnitude upon the ship's side: RIN.

A sign from the gods. 