History from Hugh Cook's Oceans of Light.
Category: History
Act Of Thunder - A historical.disaster where a metapsychic storm destroyed much of Lexis. Long, long before Panjalo was ever born, back in the year Belta 2230, the Year of the Pelican in the 548th Chalakanesian...
Beacon Football Riots - A historical disaster. In Heaven, of course, students do sometimes fight each other on account of trivial sporting rivalries (and here one remembers the famous Beacon Football Riots, in which 54...
Black Flood - Historical Disaster. After that annus mirabilis (which included not just the Act of Thunder but also the Black Flood, the Blue Plague and the Great Fire), the good people of Lexis tried to redesign...
Blast of Belta 2365 - A blast caused by La Lantis experimentation with Omagulous Toads. The Metapsychic Faultline responded to the experiment by an incredibly strong blast killing many and destroying buildings. A major...
Blast Of The Year Of The Hog - See: Blast of Belta 2365
Blue Plague - A disaster. After that annus mirablis (which included not just the Act of Thunder but also the Black Flood, the Blue Plague and the Great Fire) [IMoL Ch0]
Breakup Of Unlox Brocade - An actual or mythic event where the third Island of Chalakanesia was converted into Cocaine making the Islanders rich. The Breakup of Unlox Brocade, the Third Pearl, bulks large in Chalakanesian...
General Disjunction - A disaster Kudan Kita means small horse in Indonesian? But - please understand - there is a difference. In Heaven and Hell alike, Projective Science is an exact science, an integral part of war and...
Great Fire - A disaster After that annus mirabilis (which included not just the Act of Thunder but also the Black Flood, the Blue Plague and the Great Fire), the good people of Lexis tried to redesign their city...
Jimbocho Catastrophe - A catastrophe involving vodo projectors? But - please understand - there is a difference. In Heaven and Hell alike, Projective Science is an exact science, an integral part of war and peace alike. So...
Lost Treasure Of Rikitus Tavitus - Lost Treasure of Rikitus Tavitus, the feudal ruler who fled from Midas Makorum with all his wealth after he was overthrown A more sober theory claims that Unlox Brocade was undermined by the...
Restoration Period - And it was, too, being a very nice facade in the Periwinkle style, complete with ornate wooden mockturtles which demonstrated the transition between the severe Representationalism of the Praetorian...
Salty Ox - A sunken vessel 'He was a thief and he stole,' said Atlanta. 'He thieved one, two, three adaptive skins. He kept them in a cave on Magelus Spur while he was diving on the Salty Ox. That was a wreck,...
Wazington Incident - An incident when a ship named the Wazington full of tourists was shunted into the air, killing the passengers. In former days, many tourists used to do just that, and the weapons shop had been one of...