Salvage

Between the rings of Saturn, history is dismantled. Ancient and terrible artifacts resurface as the heart-engine of a new suit of Power Armour; art is torn limb from limb, and out of the detrius rises a lazarus of industry.

Salvage is the beating heart of Saturn's industry. Saturn buys the garbage and waste of other planets, and it filters through the grey markets and the chronophages until what remains can only be used as inorganic infill or organic sludge burned for fuel.
Every aspect of Kronians life is touched by salvage. The grey markets fund and arm the Merchant Princes, the agricultural machinery sustaining food production in the Scythe is built with salvage, and no part of it churns without the power plants.

Inventors and Artisans

The artisans and inventors of Saturn are the magicians that transform scrap into something useful yet again. Kronians appreciate a talent for improvisation and the ability to think quick and pivot when things inevitably blow up. Scrappers invent and create to serve the needs of their local community.
It's a stark contrast to the research-led inventions of Mars. On Mars, each stage is peer-reviewed and every component is meticulously specced and procured. Tolerances are tight and any deviations might require going back to the drawing board. On Saturn, inventors take what they get, and improvise what they need.
Despite working with salvaged materials, the sheer scale and speed at which the Kronian inventors work makes an industry that rivals the Martians, with a personal touch that Mars could never imitate. Gravity Plates and Gateway Portals were invented on Saturn, and Kronian protocols are the north star for the free Interlace. Both the Super Wide Access Network and Yggdrasil trace their roots back to Saturn.

The aesthetics of Saturn's scrapper culture is maximalist and often appropriative. Paraphenelia is used for decoration without much concern about where it's from or what it was originally for.

Jovian shrine statue repurposed as the busk of a corset

Gold-stapled porcelain arm with hot-swappable attachments

Crane with a crumpled escape pod as a counterweight

Eating History

The chronophages, the history eaters, are specialized scrappers who take things apart. The chronophage destroys what the item was. Not just materially, but conceptually. The materials are taken out of time and into an ideal state where they can be the potential part of any creation.
The destruction is sacred, but chronophages have different philosophies about what the consumption of history means. Svulstian chronophages are reknowned as material historians. They process an object's history by documenting and recording its dismantling. Mechanisms are reverse engineered and explained. While the materials are returned to their blank slate, the knowledge becomes part of the Firmament Archives.
Other, more radical chronophages do not limit their scrapping to donated scrap. Some put out warrants for historical artifacts, and some even head out on their own to tear down the false idols of material culture. Driven by ideology, and enabled by their training, these fanatic chronophases seek to recycle monuments and machinery they believe no longer serves people. If the sands of time can't break it down, they will.

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See Also

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Crystal Technology
Spacecraft Kallisti Aerospace ( Sunderer SF-1 · Sunbreaker SF-2 ) · Jupiter Stella ( Aerie O-1 · Cyklopes SSF-9 ) · Heretic GA-7 · Dragonfly Carrier · Airdocks Telepresence Interlace ( Super Wide Access Network ) · Remote Personality Cache/Display Other Bosonic Clock · Gateway Portals · Gravity Plates · Personal Computer Materials Astrallite · Aurorite · Oortite

♄ Saturn
Locations Svulst · Rhea ( Heller Cave Paintings ) Characters Antonee Benoit · Gatt Divus-Piceni · Lexi Lazarus Political Rulers ( Merchant Princes ) Society Humanoids ( Human ) · Traditions ( Universal New Years Eve ) · Languages ( Indo )

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Saturn

Important Locations

• Svulst