Line #9 Literature/TheReclamationProject


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:A new world, built atop the bones of the old one.]]
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4	-->“The humans were amazing, in their day. Our world is layered over theirs, and the bones of the old one still poke through. On a clear morning you can see what’s left of one of their cities out in the bay… Huge buildings, tens or hundreds of stories high, standing precarious and mostly-uninhabitable, their flooded streets under twenty feet of water. But the humans’ day has passed. Oh, there’s still a few of them out there, trying to take back the world they squandered. But without claws? Without fur? Without scent? Heh. Good luck to ‘em.”
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6	[[https://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=1081 The Reclamation Project]] is a SharedUniverse [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] anthology edited by [[http://johnrrobey.com John "The Gneech" Robey]] creator of ''Webcomic/TheSuburbanJungle'', and published by [[http://furplanet.com/shop/ Furplanet]]. [[http://gneech.com/reclamation/ The setting]] revolves around the city of Ambara Down, a former [[FloatingContinent flying city]] that crashed to the ground forty-five years ago, and is now occupied by scavengers and opportunists, looking to dig up the city's secrets, while the human led Reclamation Project tries to exploit the furry population and regain control of the ground.
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8	As of December 2022, Book Two/Year Two is currently seeking submissions, with a deadline of March of 2023.
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11	!! Book One/Year One provides examples of:
12	* AfterTheEnd: At some point in the distant past, civilization on the surface collapsed and the humans retreated to the floating cities, leaving various furry races to dig through the wreckage and build their own societies.
13	* AIIsACrapshoot: Pax Machina, which controls an untold number of robots pursing Pax's unfathomable goals. Any peaceful meeting with the AI's minions can rapidly turn into a firefight, and vice-versa. All anyone really knows is that Pax is completely nuts.
14	* AngerBornOfWorry: Hamia briefly chews out Ali, after she runs off to infiltrate a Pax Machina facility by herself.
15	* ApocalypseHow: Earth suffered a Planetary Societal Collapse over a thousand years ago. It's gotten better since then.
16	* ApocalypseNot: Ambara Down has a functioning government, as do the flying cities, and there are several other furry nations.
17	* ArchaeologicalArmsRace: The Reclamation Project and the furry nations oppose each other as they dig through the ruins of Ambara Down and beyond to recover old tech.
18	* BarbarianHero: Hamia in "Silence and Sword". The story's protagonist, Joe, is nonplussed to see Hamia depending on just a sword for combat.
19	* BerserkButton: Punched twice in "Silence and Sword" as Joe mistakes Hamia for a slaver, and Hamia likewise gets massively pissed off, as this isn't the first time it's happened.
20	* BrainComputerInterface: In "Piece of Mind" Pax Machina uses brain implants to plug a raider gang into its' surveillance network and manipulates them into kidnapping the prefect of Ambara Down so it can make a deal with her. While in "Insecurity" Kerick Strong has an implant salvaged from a dead 'Claimer that hosts a more BenevolentAI named Rick.
21	* BreatherEpisode: "The Underground Star" and "Sewer Tea", have their dramatic moments, but they're mostly quiet stories about growing up and having a good time with friends respectively.
22	* BuildingOfAdventure: The Damselfly, a bar/nightclub where many in the city come to cut deals or just have a good time, 'Claimer humans included.
23	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: In "Piece of Mind", Pax Machina allies with and betrays several different people in order to try and climb the rungs of authority.
24	* CityOfAdventure: Ambara Down.
25	* ColdSniper: Played with. The sniper in "Dark Garden Lake" [[spoiler: allows his cybernetics to take over his body and make the shot, because he's too conflicted to trust his own skills.]]
26	* ColonyDrop: What happened to Ambara before it was renamed Ambara Down.
27	* ElectronicTelepathy: In "Post-Mortem Telepathy" a pair of scavengers accidentally become MindlinkMates after an encounter with a Pax robot.
28	* TheElitesJumpShip: Humanity fled to floating cities when the surface became less inhabitable centuries ago, leaving the furry races behind to scrape out a living downbelow.
29	* FantasticRacism: Reclamation Project humans regard themselves as superior to the furry races. The furries aren't too impressed by humans either.
30	* FloatingContinent: Ambara was one of several flying cities that humanity built, held aloft by massive anti-gravity generators.
31	* GreyAndGreyMorality: Though the Reclamation Project are often the antagonists, there are factions and individuals within the Project who genuinely mean well for the Zoomorphs, and some furries oppose the 'Claimers with outright terrorism.
32	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Hamia and Ali, a [[LizardFolk Wazagan]] and vixen mercenary team. Hamia is over eight feet tall, and Ali is maybe four and a half.
33	* HumanPopsicle: Persephone, a human girl from the time before the fall of civilization, who is retrieved from nanostasis along with her RobotBuddy.
34	* ImprovisedArmor: Hamia's armor in "Silence and Sword" is made out the hull of a vehicle or warbot.
35	* IronicName: The so called "Sewer Tea" shop is called that because it's built inside the opening of a huge sewer pipe [[spoiler: which is connected to a functioning Old World water purification system, making the tea brewed there extraordinarily tasty.]]
36	* LargeAndInCharge: Prefect Durgavati, the leader of Ambara Down, is a very tall lioness.
37	* RuinsOfTheModernAge: A common theme. See the color text at the top of the page.
38	* ScavengerWorld: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] Much of Ambara Down's wealth comes from digging through its warrens and the surrounding wilderness for useful tech, but there are furry nations outside of Ambara, and humans seem to be doing fine in their floating cities.
39	* SettlingTheFrontier: One of the Reclamation Project's many goals. The furries already occupying this "frontier" rather disagree.
40	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Definitely on the Idealistic side. Though sometimes it's hard going, the bad guys almost always lose.
41	* TheSpeechless: Ali, thanks to her ShockCollar zapping her if she ever tries to speak.
42	* WholesomeCrossdresser: Mama Bill in "Star of the Savannah," a male bearmorph who dresses in a skirt and provides the survivors of his village with a place of refuge.
43	* WholePlotReference: "Star of the Savannah" which borrows several plot points from ''Film/TheAfricanQueen''.

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