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Old Grove Sector (MRZ-11)

Old Grove stands as a stark testament to MUD's cautionary tales against ECOS.

Overview

Old Grove stands as a stark testament to MUD's cautionary tales against ECOS. Once ECOS's envisioned utopian paradise — now a verdant nightmare of uncontrolled mutation.

Key Lore

ECOS's Failed Eden

  • ~2401: ECOS dissidence happens; dissident group leaves MUD and retreats towards Old Grove Sector
  • ~2435: After failing to reach an agreement, ECOS destroys the civilization occupying Old Grove and begins experiments to "rebalance natural life"
  • Public Knowledge: This genocide is known across the galaxy. ECOS spins it as "a necessary step where the technology accidentally spiraled out of control." MUD uses it as propaganda.

What Went Wrong

  • ~2439: ECOS terraforming goes wrong — Old Grove's central planet ecosystem spirals out of control; enormous verdant monsters start to spawn from forest-engulfed ruins
  • ~2439: ECOS gets overwhelmed and flees to Hanging Gardens (MRZ-16)
  • Whether from nascent flaws in ECOS's then-new terraforming technology or unexpected reactions with residual industrial contaminants — the outcome was catastrophic

Current State

  • Abandoned by ECOS. They retreated to safer domains: Hanging Gardens (MRZ-16, ECOS MRZ stronghold) and their true base: Earth Prime in the HRZ.
  • ~2465: Small mining colonies begin forming on outer ring planets, where the verdant nightmare is still under control
  • Relentless mutated wilderness threatens to consume all traces of intervention
  • Only a handful of fortified outposts endure — on borrowed time
  • Mutations contained within the sector — for now
  • ~2552: A group of MUD entrepreneurs attempts to create a settlement on the main planet, but after months of activity they are completely overwhelmed by the mutated flora and fauna — further cementing Old Grove's reputation as an impossible frontier

Political Influence

  • Alignment: Abandoned (MUD uses as propaganda against ECOS)
  • ECOS Lesson: Cautionary tale of ecological hubris

Systems & Locations (To be populated)

Cross-References

  • ECOS: Minor faction (eco-radicals, split from MUD humanity)
  • High Garden: ECOS MRZ stronghold (TBD)
  • Earth Prime: ECOS true base in HRZ (TBD)