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But all that is yet to come...
But all that is yet to come...


Right now [[Bernice Summerfield]] is 21 years old and living hand to mouth and drink to drink. Offered a job beyond her qualifications she is lured out to the backwater planet of [[Jaiwan]] where nothing has ever happened -- ever.
Right now [[Bernice Summerfield]] is 21 years old and living hand to mouth and drink to drink. Offered a job beyond her qualifications she is lured out to the backwater planet of [[Jaiwan]] where nothing has ever happened ever.


There she joins a disparate team of [[archaeologist]]s who have just discovered that the planet of Jaiwan may have been just a tad more interesting than people thought. This could be Benny's big break and her ticket to a proper career in archaeology.
There she joins a disparate team of [[archaeologist]]s who have just discovered that the planet of Jaiwan may have been just a tad more interesting than people thought. This could be Benny's big break and her ticket to a proper career in archaeology.
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=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
* [[Bernice Summerfield]] is twenty-one when she arrives on Jaiwan.
* Pinky and Perky were two [[artificial intelligence]]s.
* Whilst on Jaiwan Bernice:
:* Gets her foot ripped off by a pot fish spider. She gets a new one on her second birthday.
:* Is nearly drowned.
:* Shot in the back (she had a lined protective jacket on).
:* Escapes a nuclear blast.
* Bernice is known to the spiders (after fist contact) by the name "Fools Rush In".
* Bernice kills Lola; this is the first time she's killed anyone.
* Pinky and Perky were two [[artificial intelligence]]s, one built the railways (Perky) and the roads and town plans (Pinky).  They fell in love and started to share programming.
* [[Mariela Ankola|Professor Mariela Ankola]] is known as '''the Professor''' by everyone.


=== Foods and beverages ===
=== Foods and beverages ===
* [[Krill]] is part CO2 scrubber, part additional protein source. Benny 'slings' it (and more notably knows how to make it taste palatable) to travel on spacecraft for free.
* [[Krill]] is part CO2 scrubber, part additional protein source.  
* [[Vodka]] is [[Russia]]'s greatest contribution to interstellar travel (in Bernice's opinion).
* [[Vodka]] is [[Russia]]'s greatest contribution to interstellar travel (in Bernice's opinion).
* There is a [[Kwik-Kurry]] at General Layfeyette's army base.
* There is a [[Kwik-Kurry]] at General Layfeyette's army base.
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=== Organisations ===
=== Organisations ===
* Benny dropped out of [[Spacefleet]] and is now on the run from it.
* Benny dropped out of [[Spacefleet]] and is now on the run from it.
:* There is a draft in place.
* TMF (Too Mad to Fight) is a suffix pertaining to the draft, meaning psychologically unfit for duty, Bernice has a fake one on her passport.


=== Planets ===
=== Planets ===
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* Benny calls her group of archaeologists [[Combat Archaeologist]]s.
* Benny calls her group of archaeologists [[Combat Archaeologist]]s.
* [[Nuclear dampeners]] create a field inhibiting chain reactions.
* [[Nuclear dampeners]] create a field inhibiting chain reactions.
* Nuclear blasts have some sort of effect on hyperspace.


=== Species ===
=== Species ===
* [[Ice Warrior|Martians]] are known as some of the best archaeologists in the galaxy.
* [[Ice Warrior|Martians]] are known as some of the best archaeologists in the galaxy.
* A team is sent to discuss the ramifications of the spiders being [[sapient]]. It is made up of a [[human]], an [[Earth Reptile]] and a [[Ice Warrior|Martian]].
* A team is sent to discuss the ramifications of the spiders being [[sapient]]. It is made up of a [[human]], an [[Earth Reptile]] and a [[Ice Warrior|Martian]].
* Benny still calls [[Draconian]]s 'Dragons'.
* Benny still calls [[Draconian]]s "Dragons".
* [[Silurian|Earth Reptiles]] never forgave humans for usurping them and taking over their planet.
* [[Silurian|Earth Reptiles]] never forgave humans for usurping them and taking over their planet.


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* {{dwrefguide|bs_n15.htm|Genius Loci}}
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