Sunday, August 1, 2010

Lingerie and Dead People

Planet Cemetary

Once a tactic for terraforming barren planets for farming purposes, graveyard planets have become obsolete, and now there remains only one, and it is only available to the rich. Despite the fact that a grave reserved on the Cemetary Planet is a sign of great luxury, though, those that are burdened with the task of gravekeeping--the Undertakers--are looked down upon in fear and disgust.
I imagine risks involved would include things like diseases from the rotting flesh, carrion pests(like, giant vulture rat lizards or something) and maybe the air is impure, so Undertakers have to wear gasmasks all the time.
Also, thieves and gangs would maybe run their to hide fer a bit from coppers, because the cemetary planet has only very little security--no reason for people to go there unless fer funerals, and there's nothin to steal. So Undertakers have t deal wit that sorta thing too, and they carry weapons fer fightin off carrion beasties and dangerous people hiding out. There's also a few squatter colonies hanging out until they can get enough fuel to move on. I expect there could also be a few levels, deeper into the planet, a few deep levels of caskets that the Undertakers may have been convinced to exempt from their rounds for a small black market to set up shop.
Many Undertakers are exceedingly poor, so cash can talk to them pretty well, especially those with families. Children raised on the Cemetary Planet may never get off unless they take up with the black market or mercenaries or sign up to play government lapdog for most of their lives.
Exciting stuff.
...I think I had more ideas before I got distracted by visuals of Zen in lingerie.

Nuff said.

1 comment:

  1. Woo giant vulture rat lizards! This concept intrigues me.

    You and your gasmasks.

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