Welcome to my Relics of Earth fanpage!

This is a place for me to gush all my fan-related drool over my favorite TV show, Relics of Earth (on SHtv channel downstairs on Sundays at 2pm.) If you haven't seen this show yet, you SHOULD. But, of course, if you found my page, then you must know all about it!

Just in case you don't, here's what you need to know:

The show is set a long time after the Earth was evacuated and distant planets were colonized. It happens so far in the future, in fact, that mankind has evolved into a huge array of subspecies, from the warlike Dragons to the golden-eyed heretics of the Unity systems.

Many of these offshoots of humanity claim to be the only living examples of "True Humans" in the galaxy. At least, Unity and the Centrals, do and this may be leading up to another war.

There have been many wars over the past few centuries or so, it seems, including a devastating one where the Unity conquered the Dragons and made this fearsome warrior species into their pet shock troops.

In the meantime, however, the Earth has remained quarantined. A group of life-protectors known as the Cradle Monks have come to inhabit a huge "ring station," surrounding the ravaged and abandoned planet, creating a neutral but forbidden region of space caught in between the machinations of the Unity and the seething hatred of the Centrals.

As our story opens, a rogue crew of dangerous customers approaches the remains of Old Earth and is rescued by the Cradle Monks from certain death at the hands of one Warden Alabaster.

It turns out that certain sinister fractions have discovered that a "sleeper ship" full of cryogenically frozen evacuees from the disaster which claimed Old Earth may have crash landed on the very world they fled all those centuries ago! Although ordered to kill anyone with a connection to this crashed ship on site, Warden Alabaster seems to have scruples enough to let the rogue crew reach the sanctuary of the Cradle Monks.

Among the survivng members of the rogue crew of the illegal transport shuttle Chaucer are Captain Raylin Key, the exotic golden-eyed skipper and her tough-as-nails second-in-command, M'Kain the Dragon. The laid-back ship's engineer, Selano, also survives.

One of the sinister figures who chartered the Chaucer in the first place, Dr. Cullen (who resembles a lizard-monkey, both inside and out, in my opinion) has survived Warden Alabaster's law enforcement missles as well. By the end of the first episode, he confesses the real reason he's come to Old Earth. He knows of the crashed sleep ship full of original humans and hopes to get to it before more sinister forces do. Although he doesn't tell his companions, it's also clear that Dr. Cullen also has plans to profit personally from this discovery.

Watching the crew during their exploits on Old Earth are two of their rescuers, the Cradle Monks Brother Narat and Brother Rush. Brother Narat has the instincts of a killer and Brother Rush is some kind of idiot. While Narat can talk battle plans and weapon statistics like a seasoned pro with M'Kain the Dragon, Brother Rush is the guy who asks the stupid questions most of the audience needs answered. (Although I wish he'd asked what Rambunctium was.) I'm looking forward to next week's scene where Brother Narat lets fly with an automatic laser weapon!


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Unity - A large system of habitable planets known as The Unity. Everyone from this system has the same large golden eyes (cat eyes) with horizontal slit pupils; as over the generations this has enabled their race to better cope with the rapid light changes on the planets. Most planets have at least 2 suns and all planets rotate faster than 24 hrs around their sun(s). On The Unity systems there is no clear identifiable race (as was known on old earth) but instead due to generations of intermarriage, all people exhibit various features of all old earth races which varies from person to person. In a ethnocentric way, a Unitar (person from The Unity) will fixate on people not having eyes like them, even when they have hair/skin like or the same color as them; because there is no discernible race on The Unity. The Unitar are approximately 20% taller, heavier and more muscular and live approximately 20-50% longer compared to the legendary old earth humans due to subtle differences in the planetary environments.

From the Unitar's perspective, the concept of a "pure human" is considered to be at best just folk lore and at worse a conspiracy designed to undermine the Unity religion. The traditional and overwhelming belief held by The Unity people of their origins is that life was given to their people by the God Lothcar and Goddess Salrynn, it was the union of the two that gave forth life on the planets Coreevin and Mandeesha. The Gods made humans in their own image and over time humans on the two planets became more technology advanced. When they were able to develop external planet communication and then space craft the two civilizations on the separate planets discovered each other and The Unity was founded.

Over the centuries other habitable planets in the system were settled, including Raylin's home world of Algomir. It was the Unitar's belief in "we are united as one" that caused a very even expansion on all habitable planets in the Unity sector over the next hundred yrs; making them a very powerful force to be reckoned with. As The Unity's constantly expanding territories started to encroach on other race's worlds, small skirmishes and then wars began to break out. For the last couple of hundred yrs, the Unitar have been at war with someone for territory, prior to 20 odd yrs ago they where on the losing end of battle with the Dragons for many yrs, since then they have been winning. Raylin enlisted in the Unitar Royal Flight Service 15 yrs ago and was honorably discharged 3 yrs ago with a commendable record, after serving in 3 wars. She requested a discharge as upon completing an assignment she was injured and although it was only temporarly, she was plain tired of fighting and seeing the bloodshed over land.

Since the "beginning of time" there has been folk lore of the "pure human" and that life came from the stars rather than from the God and Goddess and developing in the Unity sector but that was considered by most people only a legend and by many as heresy. There is always the occasional zealot individual or group that from time to time tried to undermine society by confusing the weak of faith with such fool hardy nonsense. Most all Unitar believe that they are the true pure humans and they are made in the God's image; however they are not all in agreement on how the other humanoid races have come into being. The majority of the time when someone dares to speak about "pure human", "origins from the stars" or most recently the possibility of "origins from old earth" they are quickly hushed as trouble makers.

According to Shannon Liska, one of the head writers for the show, Captain Raylin is a perfect example of the average Unity citizen. She has never had any reason to question her devout belief in the traditional religion. The idea of life originating from some where other than the two Unity planets and/or that her own race is not THE pure human race, would be quite "Algomir shattering" to her. Indeed, it has always seemed obvious to her the fact that her Unity race was somewhat superior to the other races due to their golden eyes and often times the slightly larger than average size and length of life span of the Unitars in comparison to a majority of other humanoids. Despite being some what ethnocentric and religiously devout, the Unitar have treated and gotten along with other races pretty well excluded being at war over territory space continually since they have expanded from the Unity sector.


The Centrals - Unlike the relatively laid-back, if deceptive, faithful of Unity, it is clear that the Centrals are religious fanatics. Although they haven't shown up in the series much so far, it seems clear to me that the Centrals pose a greater threat than the Unity peoples. The Centrals clearly beleive themselves to be the only remaining examples of "True Humanity" left in the cosmos. This is ironic, since it has been implied that the Centrals aren't even humanoid! I think the Centrals may be a futuristic parallel to fundamentalist muslims, or perhaps just fundamentalists in general. Staff writer Rp Bowman has said that the Centrals, when they appear in the show, will pay more attention to Psychic Holy Men than their own War Leaders. What this means for the Cradle Monks and their refugees remains to be seen!


The Cradle Monks - Although it has been hinted that the Cradle Monks are more than the life-affirming peaceniks that they seem, including hints that there is a whole seedy underbelly to the giant ring station surrounding Old Earth that they inhabit, it's clear to me that the Monks only have real influence in the Earth solar system.

The Dragons - Not really a faction, more of a sub-faction. The war-like Dragons are feared soldiers throughout this sector of space. M'Kain has been shown bristling under Captain Raylin's authority and, by extension, that of the Unity. Some people are betting on a big revolt in the show's future, but a lot of these guys are the ones who call the Unity faithful the Unitards, so I'm not crossing my fingers just yet! Besides, a Dragon Revolt story arc would probably be a long way down the line. Right now, we still have to deal with M'Kain's quest to recuit defenders for the ring station (which I'm assuming the Spin Off will mostly concern itself with - I'm so sorry Justin had to leave the show!!)

I'm still wondering about the lost sleeper ship full of original humans they keep mentioning this season! I want to see inside.

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