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Forged in the fires of an 8-person and 6-hour game of Microscope and co-developed later, The Pearlescent Expanse is a shared universe for games of Beam Saber (and possibly other games in the future).

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A Primer to the Pearlescent Expanse
''An age ago, the Seven Representatives brought an end to an era of conflict; they swore the Coalition vow on their blades, and swore to stand together, presenting a unified front to a galaxy vast and mysterious. Earth, the coveted cradle, was declared off-limits to the Seven, left to the people who called it home. Weapons of awesome strength and unimaginable terror were disavowed and disassembled. Dreams became reality as the greatest minds of the Coalition worked hand-in-hand to push the boundaries of what was possible - and that work only accelerated with the discovery of the Singing Deep, an alternate dimension of pressure and harmony that enabled travel to the furthest stars for those brave enough to face its alien gravity.''

''The Coalition was not invulnerable, though, and even scientific wonders cannot hope to stop simple human greed and ambition. Colonization efforts established new worlds across the Silver Frontier, where lives hard but free were only a single ‘wriggle’ through the Deep away. Communities turned to new faiths and to one another to survive, turning the Frontier into a rough home its people could be proud of… until the Coalition came to consolidate and ‘organize.’ Borders were drawn, laws enacted and enforced, and this edge of space became the Pearlescent Expanse, merely one of many distant corners of the Coalition’s imperial sprawl.''

''Efforts are made to preserve the unity of the Coalition even as its member bodies drew closer to open war, personal gain increasingly less-hidden until ostensible allies face brazen conflict. The Nadezhdan homeworld is bombed from orbit by a Tyranon fleet, and in response Nadezhdan partisans retaliate by destroying a Coalition vessel in orbit above the neutral world of Aureate, killing several heads of state in the process. A crackdown on religion and spirituality across the Dodonan Tribunal’s space sees the Thousand Moons’ Creed forced underground and the Choir outright persecuted - nevermind the Coalition laws to the contrary. The Tyranon Dynasty bomb the famously multicultural Havzhiva Academy, scattering its scholar-errants, while the Peacock Conglomerate uses technology stolen from the Choir not for their intended terraforming beauty, but as weapons on a scale unseen since the Coalition’s birth.''

When the Coalition is formally dissolved - a formality at that point - the six remaining swords of the initial vow are melted into six crowns for six petty empires, and the hopeful ideals of the past are cast into those forges as fuel.

Worldbuilding Credit
The Pearlescent Expanse world and lore was, and is, developed collaboratively by:


 * Briar: Valentina Variscite.
 * Callie: Base lore, Banner Post, Fugue worldbuilding, Garden worldbuilding, Bergamot Uldrath.
 * Ditey: Base lore, Symbol.
 * Elagabalus: Olenka Electrum.
 * Hazel: Base lore, Universal Choir, Skoryy Feldspar, Stock, Diaphenes Modi, Noyade Vidhava, wiki management.
 * Ida Ailes: Teter worldbuilding, GM for Nacrine Tide, Zoya Gabbro, Apollinariya Wolfram, Auxesia's Acantha, illustration, wiki management.
 * Mallory: Lan Keino-Beryl.
 * Memory: Meory Virgo.
 * Mint: Base lore, Anil Zosime, C.
 * Nausicaä Enriquez: Base lore, Dodonan Tribunal, elements of the Tyranon Dynasty, Nandi Tin and the Taimu, Sinagtala Luningning, Yushkep Fordite.
 * River: Base lore, Satellism, Iskra Garomedon, Astor's Cabre, Sylphe Marigold, Lim Freejoy, vexillology, wiki management.
 * Selene: Base lore, Faraway worldbuilding, Mera Bereswek.
 * Thursday: Base lore, Aureate worldbuilding, GM for Gilded Sands (+ Gaiden, Cobalt Revolt, A Sign of Zeta), Kuksha Coal, wiki management.
 * Zoey: Aydris of Karvic, Danica Arkose.

''Identities here are left vague for the sake of privacy. If you wish to expand your name or add a link to it, please only do so for your own name, don't touch anybody else's. However, feel free to expand on or correct specific credits for anyone; I (Ida) don't have the full picture here so I've just put down what I know.''



Campaigns

 * Gilded Sands: Remi is the GM for Spearbreak, with Hazel, Ida, Nausicaä, and River. Concluded.
 * The Breach: Sunshine is the GM for the Argonauts with Cooper, Kii, Laudines, and Marie, formerly including Cherry. Ongoing.
 * Nacrine Tide: Ida is the GM for the Muted Requiem, with Ditey, Memory, Mint, and Zoey. On hiatus.

One-Shots

 * Gilded Sands: Gaiden: Remi is the GM for The First of Many, with Briar, Callie, Mallory, and Selene. Concluded.
 * Gilded Sands: Cobalt Revolt: Thursday is the GM, with Glory, Ida, Nausicaä, and River. Concluded.
 * Last Flight Out of Osstok: Nausicaä is the GM for the crew of the Korobka, with Glory, Mint, River, Thursday, and Zoey. Concluded.
 * Gilded Sands: A Sign of Zeta: Thursday is the GM for the crew of the Cobalt, with Glory, Ida, Nausicaä, and River. Concluded.

Lore

 * Timeline


 * Factions
 * Banner Post
 * Dodonan Tribunal
 * Nadezhdan Exiles
 * Peacock Conglomerate
 * Tyranon Dynasty
 * Thousand Moons' Creed
 * Universal Choir


 * Mech Manufacturers


 * The Galaxy


 * Worlds (Planets & Moons)


 * Religion