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Formula

Current year 1904 A.D.


Formula looked like an Echo when Infinity found it.
And the explorers noticed something very strange: the vast majority of the outwardly normal inhabitants act and react according to very predictable, almost scripted patterns. Dull stock conversations, parroted mindlessly, echo around the train stations, workshops, and parlors. Only a few individuals show greater variation, zest, and agency. Researchers have noticed that the artificial quality of life extends to native literature, as well: novels read as if they were run off on a lathe. Newspapers sometimes run blank pages, or strings of nonsense, but none of the natives seems to notice this.

Formulaics
No set point value

No single template but Hidebound or Dull show up very often.
Destiny also appears, as do Luck and Cursed.










Dreck

Current Year 1977 A.D.


POD – Unknown, but may have been at least as far back as 4th Millennium BC.
Junkyard cities litter the polluted surface world, inhabited by increasing mobs of scavengers. In underground vaults, deteriorating automated defenses and protect vast stores of food, medicine, consumer goods, etc.
TL 7 with higher TL artifacts

Dreck Squatter
 Unattractive Appearance [-4]
 Reduced Consumption 2 (Cast Iron Stomach) [2]
 Scrounging at PER +1 [2]
 Increased fecundity [0]
Appearance varies: Unattractive (to most humans) is typical.
An advanced urbanized industrial civ once ruled Dreck, but it seems to have died out within the last century.
The Squatters don’t appear to be natives, although some out time researchers hypothesize that they were created through genetic engineering.