Sycorax (planet)

Sycorax was the home planet of the species of the same name, (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"78-79","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) located in the JX82 system. (WC: Monster File: Christmas ^[+]Loading...["Monster File: Christmas (webcast)"]) An inhospitable rock world, it lay in the wastelands of the galaxy, many light years from Earth. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"78-79","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) According to one telling of a source, however, the Sycorax originated on the asteroid known as Fire Trap, (PROSE: The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded ^[+]Loading...{"page":"94","1":"The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded"}) however another telling merely said they inhabited the asteroid. (PROSE: The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded ^[+]Loading...{"page":"94","1":"The Visual Dictionary: Updated and Expanded (reference book)"})

History

The native Sycorax were split into many warring tribes before a spaceship crashed and brought them the secrets of interstellar craft. The Sycorax tribes then united to explore and exploit the rest of the cosmos, splitting their planet into an armada of many smaller asteroids which they piloted across the stars, taking over worlds by stealth or conquest. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"78-79","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"})

Centuries later, one such ship, the Fire Trap, (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"78-79","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) attempted to claim the planet Earth, only to be destroyed by an alien weapon on the order of British Prime Minister Harriet Jones. (TV: The Christmas Invasion ^[+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"])