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templechacosecrets

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Ages ago, the Martians discovered the planet that would someday become the Chaco. When it was explored, the Martians uncovered a temple complex built into the cliff face of a secluded valley deep in the desert. Eventually, the temple was determined to be of ancient human construction, before the race was imprisoned on Earth. Additionally, they discovered that no known technology could open the complex, thus it was abandoned for other interests and soon forgotten. What the Martians did not know and would never discover is that artifacts of the original humans still littered the planet, concealed in deep desert caves and the heavy cover of the jungle. The strange plants of the jungle dispersed sensor scans, making it next to impossible to detect even the smallest shrine.

 

Ancient Secrets

 

The temple itself was built to worship gods sacred to the natives, depicted as a fiery winged creature and corresponding to a faraway star that appeared at indeterminable times. Behind the barriers that thwarted the Martians was a gate that allowed the original builders of the temple to move from Chaco to a similar temple on Chaco’s small moon, Jaseri Jaterei. There, the chosen would consult with the “gods” that lived there, and return home with their wisdom. At some point before the great purge of humans, and their eventual imprisonment on Earth, the priests discovered that these “gods,” creatures of living fire, were nothing more than opportunistic aliens bent on destruction, and in fact, imprisoned to their own system, far away, for crimes against intelligent life. The priests found another gateway on Jaseri that led to the creatures’ fiery homeworld. Though they were able to destroy the gate on Chaco, the one on Jaseri proved to be too powerful, and the priests were only able to seal it against further use.

 

Current Secrets

 

Flash forward to the great migration from Earth in the 1920’s and 30’s. The ALIE settled the Racimo Cluster, an area of star systems rich in Earth-like planets, of which Chaco was one. The Bolivians claimed the planet, though found little use for it, while the Paraguayans actually began to settle it. With them, they brought the native Guarani of their own lands on Earth as indentured servants and outright slaves. Their service in the Chaco War earned the Guarani their freedom, but deep in the jungles, they discovered the secret of humans past. Here they found buried cities, monuments, and strange artifacts. The artifacts proved infernal, infused with some strange energy that caused those that used to them to become inexplicably obsessed with the “fiery gods” and to become nothing more than savages. Those changed by the artifacts engaged in dark rituals of bloody sacrifice and cannibalism and came to be known as the Wañusqa (the ghouls).

 

Those Guarani that were not changed fled to the edges of the jungle and tried to communicate the danger to the settlers of the planet, but both the Paraguayans and the Bolivians were in political and social upheaval. Chaco was all but forgotten and left to its own devices.

 

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