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+ | ====== Notable Frame Running Courses ====== | ||
+ | Frame Running is a fast-moving sport. Promotions and runners alike can make a course out of the landscape and urban environment easily - marking the route with simple beacons through hills and valleys, or building a multi-million credit magnetised circuit with grandstands and multi-storey viewscreens. The following courses are notable between the Aleph and Lorath sectors of the sport, drawing in fans and promotions alike. | ||
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+ | ===== Grade Zero ===== | ||
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+ | === Stardancer Station === | ||
+ | A Space Station built in the [[territories/ | ||
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+ | The course is a long and twisting road with changes in orientation, | ||
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+ | === Velocitor === | ||
+ | The top billing in the Lorath Frame Running scene, Velocitor begun as a dream, a course to be a course built upon the blood moon, during the early days of Frame-Running in Lor. | ||
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+ | With the collapse of the Blood Moon into Lor, the dream was dead. Almost a decade later, the Lazarus Consortium stepped up and purchased a defunded Top-Secret Government Lab project used to simulate the conditions of the black moon and its psionic storms, thousands of miles across built from the remains of the moon that struck, the lab complex housing this and its gigantic surrounding systems almost untouched for sixty years. | ||
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+ | The environment was frightening and ominous with white ash like sand which gleam a nearly blinding white under the simulated lighting conditions with vast land-masses and tall stalagmites reaching out of the floor, deep blood red copper colored oceans carrying the sun through them with incredible brightness, teeming with primordial life and a sky in almost perpetual early night, red sunset fading over the horizon into deep dark endless blue using a cloud of smart gasses to filter light to act as an artificial sky in a huge 2000 kilometer dome over the area -- all to forge this bizarre albino landscape. | ||
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+ | The simulation ran havoc with frames which would have been needed to be totally redesigned from the ground up. Years of work with architects and mathematicians went into designing a track that would negotiate the insane gravitational and electromagnetic conditions and thick atmosphere playing havoc with plasma propulsion systems, leading to the invention of induction slipstream technology: A plasma which voltage could be passed across to give frames more kick to fight the conditions. | ||
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+ | The track itself was ashen gray of a condensed regolith concrete. It was soon spray-painted in lined darker gray strips of slipstream induction-field carrier foil wired to projectors. Providing the power and keeping the whole thing stabilized in three dimensions are massive twisting scaffolds of bright red bridging in angry triangular shapes looming and brilliant ultraviolet argon lights about their tips and powerful amber halogen lamps illuminating the track: hundreds and sometimes thousands of meters both above and beneath the track' | ||
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+ | The track itself is a figure eight with complex turns and loops added as well as a corkscrew section, a massive twisting arch which rises twenty kilometers into the air and then fifty underground which constantly tried to throw frames off and a sheer drop with zero induction unless in direct contact with this deathslide -- pilots often making mach 10 on the way down 200 kilometers beneath Lor's surface along the route individual-frames of footage which become animation to the pilots while also trying to dazzle them into making a mistake and missing the tunnel entrance, slamming at top speed into the regolith topsoil. | ||
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+ | Obviously, the complex design was a losing battle with the simulation. When finally completed, only then was the OK to unplug the simulation finally given and suddenly the genius of the decision and its abuse of red-tape and funds made clear: Years of bleeding edge induction technology let raw: Excess energy arcing through the track like lightning, the polarization forming a blizzard and lightning storm that threatened to throw frames to velocities in which the air friction alone couldn' | ||
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+ | Constructor teams were forced to either try fortifying the machines (their own losing battle) or tweak and tune the components for output so highly that it came at the detriment of the frames themselves: To finish the race before the frame failed. The conditions and this peak performance making any frame used here function for one race and one race only: Passing the finishing line proud but damned, collapsing within moments of passing. | ||
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+ | With high fatalities and induction power demands matching those of a capital city, the Velocitor is the fastest experimental circuit and is reserved only for the finest pilots and most advanced teams in known space((Visually, | ||
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+ | === Lor II " | ||
+ | Noval has corkscrew open-top tunnels providing crushing G-forces before forcing pilots to dive off a sheer cliffed flat of track where plasma and gravity are disabled, to navigate the vertical drop either in free-fall or gaining induction support for plasma engines back again only by skating in contact along the 4.3 kilometer death-slide through the descent as the track beneath rolls sequenced stills of famous racing events which to drivers become living animation during the mach 3 dive. Bells along its edges are rung out only by the harsh compression shockwaves of a sonic boom and at the right speed with the right number of pilots in sequence, the Lorath national anthem can be played. | ||
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+ | === Nyli II " | ||
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+ | ===== Grade 1 ===== | ||
+ | Specially designed courses built ontop of Class-2 or deliberately into Class-3 environments (to lure big crowds) with massive custom elements of track-work. Highly regulated, often longer than Grade 2 course and featuring many iconic features and difficult obstacles to navigate. | ||
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+ | === Hici' | ||
+ | Packing an unusual atmosphere, the density of gasses on particles on this gas-giant world create a paradoxical set of solid land-masses, | ||
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+ | The course itself moves between a bridge-work of factories and artificial structures, the track itself a thin flat strip of compressed titanium carbide suspended between them, as well as many massive and long holographic portions. To make up for the intense pressure, the entire track packs an induction slipstream, feeding extra power to engines. | ||
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+ | The result is explosive track warfare: Acceleration and top-speed unusually high but manoeuvring made so much harder, causing many teams when grappling to slam into the track walls or be thrown from the track through corners, making recoveries frequent and mandatory. Skipping between vertical inlays of track is possible but the track is built between constant intense currents that can easily sweep a frame off the track and deeper into the gas-giant: The option to play catchup or lay a sneaky ambush is there but if ahead of the pack or doing well, it simply isn't worth it due to the lost speed and huge risks involved. | ||
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+ | === Pendragon " | ||
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+ | The course has two alternative routes that shorten the overall length by a couple dozen kilometres when used in tandem. The first route cuts away from the first of two hairpin turns after the first turn from the start, instead asking drivers to make a sharp left to get over the top of the T. | ||
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+ | The second is at the end of the spine of the ' | ||
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+ | === Occhestia IV " | ||
+ | A tight course on the Lorath circuit, Prua is notable for its ' | ||
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+ | === Cel Tonna, Rococo " | ||
+ | Through a few recursive spell loops and a LOT of mana capacitors, the Endless Hallway takes advantage of Rococo' | ||
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+ | Spectators are urged not to look too deep into the endless hallway, and many Frame Runners are advised to focus on themselves in the distance as a visual anchoring point. | ||
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+ | ===== Grade 2 ===== | ||
+ | Courses which re-use existing structures and mark the way with pylons or simple scaffolding, | ||
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+ | === Bias Freeway === | ||
+ | Located in the Traveller colony of [[planet: | ||
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+ | While it follows many of the same track elements, speeds are now quadrupled and infighting encouraged making what were once relaxed wide tracks now painfully claustrophobic, | ||
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+ | === Belza Skyway, “Pressure Cooker” === | ||
+ | Once a mass-transportation circuit for Belza supplies in the gas giant of Traveller, this hermetically sealed course is a gruelling, narrow hamster tunnel. Hit the corners too hard, and a dropout mechanism triggers which ejects runners out into the gas-storms, forcing them to waste time finding an airlock back into the tunnel. Brawlers and grapplers love the tight space, since these free-floating tunnels are very small and make using weapons unwieldy. | ||
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+ | === Oval Around Null === | ||
+ | Situated up and down the regolith of Orbital Object: Null in a lazy oval shape that crosses over one ' | ||
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+ | It isn't uncommon for speed records to be set on the Oval Around Null when it comes to Grade One competition, | ||
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+ | === York Trioval === | ||
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+ | The Trioval is currently undergoing upgrades and refits to become Grade One capable, but many Grade One promotions already use the Trioval as a breather course. | ||
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+ | ===== Grade 3 ===== | ||
+ | Courses which use transport infrastructures, | ||
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+ | === Sargasso Constance === | ||
+ | While not particularly legal, a blind-eye is turned to frame-running for the gambling money it brings into this [[location/ | ||
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+ | Often sweltering with heat, Sargasso' | ||
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+ | === Aleph Null Outer Ring Ramble === | ||
+ | Taking place in the western [[location/ | ||
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+ | The race's exact dimensions vary by running as the course gets plotted through the ' | ||
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+ | === Lorath Constance === | ||
+ | Taking place on and around Lor Prime' | ||
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+ | Many Lorath runners report feeling great unease being in the area for too long. Authorities keep a hands off approach to monitoring Frame Running here((There' | ||
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+ | === Acalan Catastrophe === | ||
+ | Taking place on the Acalan city-state of New Kashmir, the Acalan Catastrophe is a loosely organised rally across the outskirts of the capital city. The stratified interior of the city of New Kashmir is too claustrophobic for the speed of frame running to be shown to its full potential. | ||
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+ | Organisers of the Acalan Catastrophe generally move the starting location and route around constantly to stay ahead of the city authorities and private security groups whose clients have a bone to pick. The course is generally pinned to run up and around the sides of buildings, leaping over the main air-traffic lanes and making hard turns at the edges of buildings. | ||