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The Lands Of MultiMUD : Sci-Fi
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In an altogether separate dimension from the so-called Ancient lands, SciFi provides more difficult terrain for high-level players to refine their techniques, gain experience, and explore new places. Completely isolated from the Ancient lands, explorers must use portals to travel back and forth, and are often banned from taking high tech items back to the Ancient lands. Due to this isolation, few visit SciFi alone, instead finding it to be the ideal place for a group to travel together.
"May I have your attention please. Shuttle 8379 to Naboo will depart in five standard minutes. All passengers must report to the boarding gates at this time. This is the final boarding call for shuttle 8379 to Naboo."
- Pre-recorded announcement in the Mos Eisley spaceport
Although kept separate from the Ancient lands, SciFi does share that dimension’s diversity in land styles. Explorers begin in the Mos Eisley spaceport, a dry, arid desert city with high technology, and not-so-high secondhand technology. Patrolled by stormtroopers, but home to markets both legal and illegal, Mos Eisley serves to prepare explorers for their travels. Shuttles and rift portals are available from the spaceport to the lush forest world of Naboo, the sterile technology of the Kadar Space Station, the casino colony of Cloud City, and the unusual mining outpost known as New Hope City. Those with less money to spend may venture out into the Tatooine desert from Mos Eisley, but travelers speak of wandering bandits hoping to make any excursion into the desert a one-way trip.
"Sure, the troopers are only here to keep the peace and enforce the laws. That’s why they haven’t figured out where the real markets are. It’d also explain why they cordoned off part of the spaceport and converted it to “Military Use.” I see some mighty strange things coming off of those shuttles, and I could swear I heard one mutter about some ‘Killing Sun’ the other day."
- Smuggler passing through Mos Eisley
The lands of SciFi contain forces so hostile and stubborn in their refusal to die that characters below level 30 cannot even attempt to switch to that dimension. Those of an evil mind can slay peaceful farmers, oblivious droids in Mos Eisley, harmless wildlife on Naboo, and hospitable Gungans in Otoh Gunga. Meanwhile, good-aligned heroes may take the battle to Tusken Raiders and stormtroopers in the spaceport, disgusting bugs bent on swarming across all worlds, and gang members in the forgotten realms of the AtomicGarden.
The foremost cartographer of the universe has painted the primary of city of Sci-Fi, Mos Eisley. Above are fragments of his map, the full map can be accessed by clicking on the minature to the right (note it is a large(400k+) file).
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