TDW toast-> vagabonds->wanderers!
Lycaon
Location- Alaunus
King of Arcadia who tried to feed Zeus human flesh (Lycaon's own son Nyctimus) & was turned into a wolf.
Gen ship passengers were all wiped out by a contagious alien microorganism
Venusian
Location- Kitae
Dr Who reference? Two races Venusians and Thraskin/Cytherians
Dan Dare’s enemy Mekon was venusian
Dalek war against human Venusian colonists
Gen ship was attacked and boarded by a pirate fleet seeking to capture the passengers as slaves.
Hyperion
Location- Lalande 2966
A 1989 science fiction novel
Greek Titan (12 children of Gaia and Uranus. The “god above”, along with his son Helios, was a personification of the sun
Gen ship passengers began to worship a child named Zachariah as a messiah who would lead them to the "promised land", but opened all of the ship's airlocks.
Odysseus
Location- Ross 859
The original “vagabond” of Homerian legend
Gen ship passengers elected a governing council that decided to alter the generation ship's mission. Suffered a deadly disease outbreak.
Thetis
Location- Nefertem
Greek sea nymph, mother of Achilles. Saved Zeus by summoning the giant monster of 100 arms (Briareus aka Aegaeon) when 3 Olympians (Hera, Poseidon, Pallas Athena) plotted to overthrow him.
Whispering sounds, a digital signal picked up by the Gen ship's comms array, which drove passengers homicidally insane
Pleione
Location- Hez Ur
a small genus of predominantly terrestrial but sometimes epiphytic or lithophytic, miniature orchids.
Greek Oceanid nymph & Mother of the 7 Pleiades (Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, Merope). Also often said to be the mother of the nymph Calypso (meaning "to cover", "to conceal", or "to hide” & who detained Odysseus for 7 years on island Ogygia) & father was Titan Atlas.
Gen ship passengers began to give birth to only male children...
Atlas
Location- Charick Drift
Greek Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity. One version of myth has King Atlas refuse hospitality to Perseus who later kills the Medusa, turns Atlas to stone in retribution and then goes on to rescue Princess Andromeda (father King Cepheus Mother Queen Cassiopeia) from the sea serpent Cetus -parent’s grief & lover’s woe?
Gen ship was unable to brake, so course was altered and all the passengers and vital equipment launched in escape pods at the target world as the ship flew by it. The fault was found by chief engineer Tom Edwards, who volunteered to stay behind to operate the pod controls. One pod launched prematurely and exploded. Edwards’ wife Jean was pregnant. Ship continued traveling for an unknown amount of time before finally running out fuel and coming to rest at its present location
Lazarus Expedition
Location- Virudnir
Lazarus of Bethany was a biblical figure raised from the dead by Jesus. Also also the name given to the beggar in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. A mythical man who taunted Jesus on the way to crucifixion and was cursed to wander the Earth until the second coming.
Gen ship became stranded in space after a cooling system suffered a catastrophic failure & irreparably damaged the propulsion system. Ship dismantled & converted into life boats, but population had expanded beyond the life boats’ capacity, so priority given to women and children while volunteers stayed behind. The life boats were successfully launched to multiple habitable worlds within range.
Artemis
Location- Mu Cassiopeia
Greek goddess of the hunt & wilderness
Gen ship's crew and passengers were all murdered by a single serial killer (who likened himself to a wolf culling sheep) over time. The murderer finally damaged the ship's reactor, which likely killed everyone on board.
Achlys
Location- HIP 114458
Greek personified spirit of the death-mist, the clouding of the eyes preceding death; one of the figures depicted on Heracles' shield, perhaps representing sorrow.
Gen ship’s life support system suffered a catastrophic malfunction, killing all crew and passengers. Autopilot assumed control of the Achlys and ensured it kept to its default course. On arrival autopilot could detect no passengers & activated emergency protocols to develop into an AI with 92% human intellectual capacity but had no other option than to take up orbit around the planet that would have been colonised.
Given warnings about human rogue AI this may be obfuscation! Presumably it was the AI telling the tale...
Phobos
Location- Coelachi
Greek god of fear and panic, brother of Deimos (terror).
Gen ship safely reached its (unstated) target world and established 15 settlements, but indigenous flora and fauna were toxic and highly aggressive. The settlements were destroyed and survivors retreated to the ship but were also killed. Phobos reached its present position after its fuel ran out or its systems shut down.
Phanes
Location- Cephei Sector NX-U b2-0
The Greek first-born deity who came from the silver egg of the universe created by Chronos (Time).
Gen ship reached its target world but the planet was found to be uninhabitable. Ship's command decided to search for another planet but that sparked an uprising as the colonists wanted to return to Sol. Command fabricated reports that an unknown cataclysm had wiped out human civilisation, a lie which was eventually exposed & sparked another uprising. The conflict likely resulted in the deaths of all of the ship's crew and passengers.
Demeter
Location- Mizuchi
Greek goddess of agriculture and harvest. Sister of Zeus and mother of Persephone who was abducted by Hades & taken to the Underworld.
Gen ship launched with a population of 3,000. But in year 5 several vital systems abruptly failed. By year 187 the population had regressed into four warring tribes...
Epimetheus
Location- HR 2351
Greek Titan (name means afterthought) twin brother of Prometheus (foresight).
Gen ship was mysteriously evacuated with siren sounding. Sole survivor was a detainee who became insane
Spear of Hope
Location- HIP 21654
Possibly the Spear of Cassius from the film Rebuild of Evangelion?
Gen ship launched without a set destination, instead depended on long-range "Pathfinder probes" to identify prospective colonization targets. Technician Farrow departed alone in a shuttle on a year-long journey to repair a malfunctioning probe. Upon her return the entire ship was deserted. Logs reported an emergency evacuation eight months previously, when a viable planet had been identified which the ship was going to bypass. Farrow decided to try altering the Spear of Hope's course to slingshot around a nearby star in order to return to the planet. It is unknown if Farrow's plan succeeded
Golconda
Location- discovered from a distress signal in Upaniklis.
A historic fortress and ruined city in India. Also means a rich mine
Gen ship found both functional and with a living crew and colonists. Ship safely arrived at its intended destination, but the passengers elected to remain aboard and continue journeying through space indefinitely due to concerns about living outside the vessel. As time went on, the colonists developed a unique culture and religion centered on a reverence for The Golconda as a kind of benevolent caretaker. They also maintained a policy of strict isolationism for their own protection. Passing through Upaniklis in 34Cent with supplies running low and struck by an outbreak of nasopharyngitis Captain Jonathon Forester sent out a distress call. The vessel's population chose to migrate to a new orbital outpost built for them in Upaniklis named Forester's Choice. But In 3308, the Golconda was repaired by the Artificers Dredger Clan and fitted with a hyperdrive. It left Upaniklis with most of the Forester's Choice colonists on June 17, 3308 and started a new journey.
