Glace Verte

{will return to finish on 25/10/18}

Glace Verte is a planet inhabited by humans descended from the survivors of a spatially displaced train that was travelling from France to Belgium in 1854. Its culture developed independently and divergent from that of earth until they once again made contact in 2183, and joined the Federation in 2224.

Glace Verte maintains one of the largest and most sophisticated ground-level railroad networks in the Alpha Quadrant, and also holds the rare distinction of being permitted to implant its citizens with cybernetics, despite being human, due to the deep religious significance of the specific variety of implants utilized.

Exodus
In 1854, a train from Amiens to Mons carrying 270 passengers of mostly French and Belgian nationality was derailed and found itself in a strange territory none of the survivors could identify. 27 died in the crash. The cause of the derailment was unclear, and the tracks were nowhere to be seen for many kilometers in every direction. When night fell a farmer noticed the constellations were even different.

Over the first several weeks, they lived out of the less damaged train cars. No trees were found, so they rationed out their coal supply best they could to cook the food they foraged. But when the coal ran low they finally had to risk eating the roots, leaves, and berries raw. Later that year they moved their settlement to under an overhanging mountainside.

In 1861, they found a coal deposit close enough to start mining. And by the mid 1870s they'd created a rudimentary railway connecting the three settlements. The forming church organization took a leading role in this process, and increased greatly in influence after.

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Graine
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First Contact
In 2140, Glace Verte launched its first starship. Nine years into their journey, an Andorian vessel intercepted them and asked if their Warp engines had broken or been stolen. Upon discovering they didn't have Warp drive, the Andorian commander gifted them the technology and escorted them back to their homeworld to deliver it after it was installed.

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Reunion
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Religion
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Trinity of Soul
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Trinity of Heaven
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Trinity of Death
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Technology
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Graine
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Rails
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