OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Media Name: Innocence Lost
- Format: Poem
- Distribution: Planetary
- Length: Medium
- Description: Deriving inspiration from sacred texts, Innocence Lost is a poem recounting the Pylantians' first contact with the galaxy in a metaphorical, religious context. Moving the action to a prehistoric, mythical era, it depicts the explorers who arrived on Pylos Satnik as evil entities who come to Pylos Satnik with malicious intentions. Disgusted by the native Pylantians, they target a young Pylantian couple who are prophesied to become the founders of a new nation. After killing the female, the entities deliberately mislead the grieving male into believing they are benevolent, offering him various gifts to win his favor with the intent of taking control of the planet. The male eventually grows wise to their manipulations and banishes them, but laments the loss of his innocence and the altered future of the world.
SOCIAL INFORMATION
- Author: Anonymous
- Publisher: The poem was first distributed on the campus of Nusquama College by members of a local baking club. When questioned, the club members claimed they had discovered a copy of the poem in one of their dorm rooms.
- Reception: Achieving massive popularity on Pylos Satnik, the poem has drawn criticism from progressive Pylantians as well as some offworlders who see it as xenophobic propaganda. "While it obscures its meaning in religious symbolism, Innocence Lost is undoubtedly about first contact, particularly the tragic death of the farmer's daughter at the hands of the frightened explorers," remarked critic Glup Shitto. "The poem paints the explorers and the galaxy at large as vicious boogeymen from outer space, arriving on Pylos Satnik for the express purpose of corrupting and consuming it. It even goes so far as to suggest that the Pylantians would be better off having never been exposed to the wider galaxy. Are we to believe that access to superior technology, knowledge, food and goods with the power to save billions of lives is nothing compared to the loss of a single family in a moment of panicked surprise?" Others found the poem effective in depicting the confusion, fear, and grief surrounding first contact, a collective trauma which was stifled and swept under the rug in the name of peaceful coexistence. And of course, there are those who agree with the author—that first contact is perhaps the worst thing to ever happen to the Pylantians as a species, and that they would all be better off if they had never lost their innocence.
FORMAT INFORMATION
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EVENTS
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- Event Name: First Contact on Pylos Satnik
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- Participants:
- Shuma Gorath - Pylantian male, farmer.
- Saya Gorath - Pylantian female, Shuma's teenage daughter.
- Crew of the Lovecraft
- Overview: "Instead of the diplomatic meeting they had hoped for, it took the place of a crashlanding in a remote region. Before the government could respond, a family of farmers approached the crashed vessel, having mistaken it for an experimental airship of some kind. The first few seconds of contact were peaceful but as the male farmer was joined by his daughter, the humanoid spacers panicked and opened fire."
CONTENT INFORMATION
In the distant past, a cosmic battle was fought. The devilish S
atha created conflict in paradise by disagreeing with the gods and refusing to compromise, leading to their expulsion from heaven. Reduced to mere mortals, the Satha convene together and decide to enslave the gods' new and most favored creation, the Pylantians.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
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