Post by Gigan on Apr 13, 2007 14:39:07 GMT -5
Location: In the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of the South American continent and a territory of the Confederation of Latin America, with ties to other nations as a scientific resource.
Population: The native Rapanui people's descendants make up about half of the island's miniscule population, much of the rest being of Euro-Chilean descent. Certain villages have reverted to the old communal lifestyle, while the new but slightly outdated population center is where the remainder live and tourist centers are located.
Description: Easter Island has remained an eerie, almost mystical location despite the current state of humanity. Still relatively undeveloped aside from the ports, Easter Island was still a beautiful and untouched paradise, until the arrival of Melba. The space beast carved its own niche on the island and claimed it as its home, much to the shock and ire of the government. Due to Easter Island's landmark status, measures had been considered to drive off or destroy the monster, but some consequences of Melba's presence proved to be beneficial to the CLA. More importantly, funding to upgrade city defenses were higher-priority, though some native people preferred to take their chances and rebuild what they could of the old ways.
While not beyond most degrees of understanding with the technology of 2154, Easter Island still holds some sort of unknown, mystical or alien aura about it, not helped by the presence of the moai around the island. The archaic, ridiculous theories of aliens being related somehow to the enormous rock carving refuse to be forgotten entirely. Is there something about the island that seems to attract the attention of daikaiju from space like Melba and, more recently and only speculated, Watcher?
Population: The native Rapanui people's descendants make up about half of the island's miniscule population, much of the rest being of Euro-Chilean descent. Certain villages have reverted to the old communal lifestyle, while the new but slightly outdated population center is where the remainder live and tourist centers are located.
Description: Easter Island has remained an eerie, almost mystical location despite the current state of humanity. Still relatively undeveloped aside from the ports, Easter Island was still a beautiful and untouched paradise, until the arrival of Melba. The space beast carved its own niche on the island and claimed it as its home, much to the shock and ire of the government. Due to Easter Island's landmark status, measures had been considered to drive off or destroy the monster, but some consequences of Melba's presence proved to be beneficial to the CLA. More importantly, funding to upgrade city defenses were higher-priority, though some native people preferred to take their chances and rebuild what they could of the old ways.
While not beyond most degrees of understanding with the technology of 2154, Easter Island still holds some sort of unknown, mystical or alien aura about it, not helped by the presence of the moai around the island. The archaic, ridiculous theories of aliens being related somehow to the enormous rock carving refuse to be forgotten entirely. Is there something about the island that seems to attract the attention of daikaiju from space like Melba and, more recently and only speculated, Watcher?