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| | Topics pertaining to the [[Reach]]. |
| |image1 = Sunless Skies Reach KS.png
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| |caption1 = How wild the Reach has run, with no sun to govern it. Concept art from Kickstarter.
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| |allegiance = Disputed
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| |music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/the-high-wilderness The High Wilderness]<br>[https://soundcloud.com/user-494952164-692477239/reach-inner Verdant Reach]
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| }}''"The wide, wild frontier. A sunless domain, but impossibly verdant – with gargantuan vines, cathedral-sized bronzewoods, and livid fungal archipelagos."''
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| The '''Reach''' is the vast frontier of the [[High Wilderness]] that lies beyond the bounds of [[Albion]], the British Empire's spacefaring domain in the 20th century.__forcetoc__
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| ==The Final Frontier==
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| Perhaps the only Sunless Sky, the Reach's [[Judgement]] died long ago. With its death, the plants of the Reach have grown wild, making the Reach a crowded and claustrophobic region of space. However, the plants of the reach emit a form of bioluminescence, keeping the region well-lit regardless.
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| While the [[New London|Empire]] 's great trading companies - Murgatroyd's, the Windward Company, and Leadbeater & Stainrod - seek to exploit the Reach's vast natural wealth, rebellious settlers have begun banding together and agitating for independence. This resulted in a divide between '''the Stovepipes''', who seek to tame the Reach and bring it under Imperial control, and '''the Tacketies''', who fervently oppose them. The Reach's main hub, [[New Winchester]], is a hotbed of politcal intrigue and conflict between these factions. The Reach is linked to the rest of space via the '''Singh-Jenkins transit relay''', an accelerator of sorts that transports locomotives "via a loophole in some cosmic mandate." Notably, the Reach is the only region to link to the other three.
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| ==Locations==
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| *[[New Winchester]]
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| *[[Magdalene's]]
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| *[[Polmear & Plenty's Inconceivable Circus]]
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| *[[Port Avon]]
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| *[[Titania]]
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| *[[Carillon]]
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| *[[Hybras]]
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| *[[Leadbeater & Stainrod's Nature Reserve]]
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| *[[Lustrum]]
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| *[[Port Prosper]]
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| ==The Garden of Heaven==
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| ''"The flora of the Reach is improbably fecund. Its seeds grow quickly, even violently, into crops that sustain London’s settlements in the sky."''[[File:Verdantseeds.png|thumb|Verdant Seeds. Art from Sunless Skies.]]
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| The Reach is home to many impossibly fecund and ebullient flora of the High Wilderness. Seeds from the Reach became a commodity for those who want to build their own garden in the Wilderness. Greenhouse-engine trade seeds between port or region.
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| Trading seeds does not came without its own risk. Skyfarer who carry sack of seeds should be careful in storing seed where there is no light nor water. Tales are told about incautious captain whose locomotive are choked full of ferns because they put their seeds in the wrong places.
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| ===Bronzewood===
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| ''"I took architecture classes back in Port Prosper. This stuff's hewn from trees thrice the size of an American redwood. They use dynamite to fell 'em. "''
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| [[File:Bronzewood.png|thumb|left|Hollowed from the vast trees of the Reach. Art from Sunless Skies.]]'''Bronzewood''' logs came from the giant tree in the Reach. Its log are dense enough that you need a dynamite or drill to hew it. The new British Empire found many use for this gleaming wood, ranging from cabinet to locomotive plating. Particularly [[Scrive-Spinster]]s are made out of bronzewood, and the wood from their senior scrivener are used to made a pen for Her Renewed Majesty.
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| It is inadvisable to use bronzewood log for fueling your locomotive, as its dense enought that it would be useless to do so. Its heartwood on the other hand are less resilient and can be burned, but would spontaneously combust.
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| [[Category:Places]]
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| [[Category:The High Wilderness]]
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Topics pertaining to the Reach.
