Synopsis

Hardholme was founded in Year 1 by members of the 1st Arrivals.

On Davros, 30 years prior, Cyrus Hardholme discovered the tear in the fabric of reality. This lead this first voyage to Hardholme; Cyrus created a vessel capable of traversing this tear - launching the first Voyage with 12 others.

Tragically, he was killed instantly by the impact of "landing". Initially, Hardholme was established only 200 yards from the landing site. Each year, a large metal vessel is launched through the tear to this New World from Davros; each year it arrives in the same place.

By the time of the 71st Arrival, a pile of 70 ships is there to break the fall.

The New World is a strange place; to the south of the landing site, only hundreds of feet away, the world seems to end. A dramatic drop off occurs with nothing else in sight. Simply dubbed, the End of the World. A river, flowing from the North, gently runs south directly off the edge - into nothingness.

In Year 15, Hardholme was attacked by hostile red-colored frogfolk from the West and forced to relocate. The city was rebuilt a day's travel North, nestled on an outcropped ridge along the river. Hardholme; with a population of roughly 1,500 people, it is a rugged frontier town in an strange, alien world.

The Southern portion of town, dubbed Steepridge, is home to the bottom class; the native born. The have-nots. Many that came to Hardholme did so out of selfishness - it should serve as no surprise that a population of orphans have run rampant. Bastard children of bastard children. The people of Steepridge have only two options - leave Hardholme and forge their own path, or work in the Gem Mines. Given the immense dangers of this alien world, rarely does anyone choose the former.

The rest of Hardholme is run by the Arrivals, folk who came to Hardholme from Davros with coin in their purse and a spring in their step. Little love is lost between the Arrivals and the have-nots of Steepridge. The Arrivals live out their lives as though they won lottery, which they did; a permanent vacation from their former lives. Arrivals rarely visit Steepridge, and rarely care for the goings-on within.