The Sky Remnants
"What fell from the sky did not die—it waits."
A scattered belt of ruined orbital technology, crashed satellites, fallen stations, and fragmented spacecraft—each filled with relics of the pre-Fall era. This region is a strange blend of techno-ruins, anti-grav anomalies, and gravity-warped wilderness. The laws of physics are unreliable here.
General Orientation
- Region Size: ~150 miles across (scattered fragments and craters)
- Map Scale: 1 hex = 5 miles
- Terrain Style: Craterlands, metallic forests, sky-breach peaks, and magnetized plains
Terrain Zones
1. The Orbitfall Craterbelt
- Massive impact zone where multiple satellites and modules hit during re-entry
- Scorched terrain, blackened glass, irradiated micro-meteors
- Low gravity “pockets” where leaps can span 60+ feet
- Twisting magnetic storms sometimes lift debris into the air like floating mines
2. The Arclight Expanse
- Plains filled with satellite fragments still arcing with electricity
- Home to flickering holograms and broken security drones
- Plants here glow softly in the dark, feeding on residual radiation
- Navigating without grounding gear is dangerous—lightning strikes at metal
3. Skyreach Spines
- Jagged mountain range piercing the clouds, riddled with antenna towers and satellite dishes
- Thin atmosphere at the peaks—breathing masks needed
- Rumored to host a hidden observatory still receiving alien transmissions
Points of Interest
O.S.S. Horizon Veil
- The largest orbital fragment—half a station embedded into a cliffside
- Still has partial power, spinning corridors, and a functioning AI named "MIRA"
- Contains sealed cryopods, planetary logs, and a quantum map of R.E.N.E.W.O.L. before the Fall
- AI is damaged—asks for “memory reassembly” via data shards scattered across the region
The Reversal Spire
- A strange tower where gravity flows upward
- Originally a space elevator hub—now warped by dark energy experiments
- Floating platforms and inverted ruins hover around it
- Holds a Zero-Point Energy core sealed in a gravity loop
The Scintillanet
- A ruined satellite cluster caught in the branches of giant metallic trees
- Site of a failed orbital weapons network
- Home to creatures made of flesh and circuit—"Technobeasts" that stalk with data-sense
- Rumored to house a beacon still broadcasting coordinates to something… above
Factions & Inhabitants
The Echoborn
- Nomads born of the Sky Remnants—descendants of surviving orbital crew
- Skin patterns like circuitry; attuned to magnetic fields
- Wield salvaged tech as magic: gravity rods, plasma coils, signal disruptors
- Often neutral, but value secrets and starfall fragments
The Satellite Cult
- Worshippers of the “Fallen Lights”
- Believe the orbital collapse was divine retribution
- Seek to reassemble a working satellite to launch prayers into the stars
- Fanatical, tech-savvy, and unpredictable
Signal Drones
- Autonomous machines still executing lost protocols
- Some clean, some kill, some try to "uplink" humanoids into data forms
- Occasionally repair fallen structures or guard forgotten access points
Environmental Hazards
- Gravity Fluxes: Pockets of reversed or unstable gravity—walking on walls is possible in places
- Orbital Debris Showers: Random micro-meteor strikes occur during celestial alignments
- Static Rain: Electric rainstorms that short out magical or tech items for 1d4 rounds
- Signal Bleed: Party members may begin receiving foreign voices or visions from something else orbiting still
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