The Grove

Go ye not beyond this point For leaf and bough and blade Reign e'er over all ~Perimeter signs around New Light settlement, left by the dwarves for returning Changed

History
One of the first settlements established after the colonists came down to the planet, New Light was directly over a lay line in the network of anti-grav anchors. It was also where a number of scientists established holdings. As one of the first efforts to deal with the depredations the planet made on the colony effort was to understand the planet itself, and experiment was conducted using some of the plants with the highest concentrations of Ambrosia. Of the four scientists who escaped when the greenery overtook the settlement, three had such high amounts of Ambrosia in their systems that they died before help could be found. The last one slipped into a coma during detox. Before they went under, the scientist said "They're Underhill's now." The meaning of the words has never been fully understood, but anyone who went into New Light either never returned, or came back raving about intelligent plants. So far as anyone knows, nobody tried to return since just before the Gene Wars.

RUINED SETTLEMENT
BW 45

Type
Outpost / Base

Population
0 official, 24 suspected

Location
Colony 3/Underhill