To my players: Spoiler Alert
Alpha:
'Near' Earth; technology replaced with magic.
Timeline:
- 2011.Nov Satellite imagery shows hazy glowing space, collapsing into spherical outlines at twenty, roughly evenly distributed, locations around the globe.
- 2012.Oct Collapse of spheres makes for significant devastation in a number of locations. These created portals to another world (Beta).
- 2014.Aug Campaign begins through the Sydney Portal. All PCs are convicts who have been given the option of exile in the Beta world, or standard punishments in the Alpha world; Naturally they're choosing exile or the campaign doesn't get very far.
12 of the 20 portals are controlled, 2 are uncontrolled due to location (deep ocean floor), but monitored, 1 is believed to be another deep ocean point, but search continues. Remaining 5 are unaccounted for, at least publicly.
Land-based Portals:
- Antarctica (unfound) (1)
- Antarctica (2)
- Hawaii (4)
- Alcatraz (5)
- Peru (6)
- Brazil (9)
- New Jersey (10)
- Japan (hidden) (11)
- Indonesia (12)
- Sydney (primary campaign portal) (13)
- Arctic Russia (14)
- Kazahkstan (hidden) (15)
- Sri Lanka (16)
- Mauritania (18)
- Egypt (19)
- Zambia (hidden) (20)
Deep Ocean portals:
- South Pacific (Sea2) (3)
- South Pacific (unfound) (7)
- Southern Atlantic (searching) (8)
- Indian Ocean (Sea1) (17)
