The Avalon Council

Avalon is the smallest faction in size, but the most powerful in range of influence. A shining beacon of a city meant to be the brilliant torch with which factions would lead their people towards a bright future.

Each of the seven regions, so called factions of New Horizon, is a member of the Avalon Accords, and they send a representative, called a Septumvir, to represent their people. From their number, every four years, a Septumvir is selected to become the Supreme Arbiter, the presiding ruler of the council with limited power of veto and the ability to command the intervention of Warhead in the event of any threat to society at large.

Avalon itself is but one city, one massive city. The single most progressive city in the world, save perhaps for Deep Aquilon. Avalon is a glittering paradise composed of the finest architectural wonders and technology the world has to offer. Designed to impart a sense of wonder and recapture the visual glory of Earth's ancient cities, Avalon is a visual feast of contrasting and complementary shapes and colors sporting many plazas, parks and open markets.

Avalonian citizens are very down-to-earth people with a strong belief in coexistence and justice.

Avalon, by nature, does business with all other Avalon Accord factions, although they do have reservations about Xanadu and The Port of Narehl due to the self-centered worldview of Xanadu and the somewhat seedy nature of The Port of Narehl's open market. However, they're extremely supportive of The Missive Union, who they call their backbone, and the disciplined young of Warhead, who they call their strong right arm. They also provide financial aid to all cultural reclamation zones seeking to restore lost Earth culture.

The early history of New Horizon showed that it was extremely difficult for any citizen to develop enough income to pay for advanced medical needs or to set aside a decent retirement fund. Many humans and wafans were forced by the world economy to simply work until they died. To this end, on the initiation of the Avalon Accords it was decreed that a committee would be formed to create a fair and equitable labor union to oversee a plan for improved job security and retirement savings. The result was an independent labor union working in isolated pockets all over the world. Though their operations span the world, The Missive Union is still part of The Council of Avalon.

At the very end of the 20th century, people on Earth began developing new technologies such as internet, better embedded systems, etc. During the beginning of the 21st century everything was computerized and it went so far as to the point where everything was more or less a computer. Even the toilet was voice activated and furniture in your house had small wheels and could be moved by voice control. As it is well known, such advancements in technology came at a price. People more or less stopped depending on each other. They stopped going out and meeting each other in the flesh. They became colder towards one another and cared only for themselves, which was also one of the reasons why things went so very wrong later on.

It is therefore not surprising that Trapper Town (Walk of Man) on New Horizon shuns technologies of every kind. Not wanting to repeat the mistakes of their past, the people of Trapper Town and the Walk of Man only use technology when needed, and nothing more. They are simple folk, lacking sophistication, and they are slow to accept new ideas and new concepts. Aquilon's Reach is the opposite, which causes a lot of conflicts between the two. Trapper Town hates that Aquilonians are trying to contaminate the world with new technologies and they believe that they are the proof that people can live without it and be better off at that.

Aquilon's Reach and Xanadu are well known competitors. They each have a different sort of technological path, they argue over which is best, and they clash on ideology and social values as well. Both of them develop state-of-the-art weapons, which are sold all over the world, and both want to be known as the world's prime weapons manufacturer. Aquilon favors high energy technology for its weapons, and more sophisticated technologies, like energy shielding, where as Xanadu focuses on slug based weaponry and solid state armoring. When one of them manages to develop something new and groundbreaking, the other often tries to steal it.

Xanadians are very conservative. They believe that hard work always equals success so people who aren't successful are just lazy. Aquilonians are extremely liberal individuals. They believe that many people work hard but may not be successful for a variety of reasons such as racism or classism. They believe that the government can help solve these inequalities.

Aquilonians see Xanadians as outmoded, socially repressed lunatics led by doddering old men. Xanadians see Aquilonians as lunatics without morals or scruples, pushing pie in the sky technology and eroding their social values. Xanadu also dislikes Promethean Cyborgs and Medeans. They discriminate against them in a manner not unlike racism, which more often than not becomes the main reason for conflicts.

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