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Quartzville Creek is known for its quartz deposits. Also, collectors can find agates, jasper, petrified wood, and gold nuggets along the 9-mile recreation corridor. Recreational mining guidelines are available in BLM, Salem District. There are private claims in the area, be careful not to trespass.
Lorville is one of the many company towns Hurston Dynamics has established for its employees on the company-owned planet Hurston. Lorville is the only important landing zone on the planet. While the city overlooks some of the larger strip-mining operations that are currently underway, it exists in the shadow of Central Tower, the corporate headquarters for Hurston Dynamics.[1]
After Hurston Dynamics purchased Stanton I, the planet was thoroughly scanned to locate the most resource rich sectors. Areas with little resource value were repurposed for factories, research centers, and weapon testing, or (in the case of one particular large swath of land) filled with cheap structures to house on-world workers. Hurston assigned this area the three letter designation LOR for "Local Occupational Residency" and required all on-world workers to live there. No one knows who first called the location LOR-ville, but the term quickly became popular among workers, many of whom were locked into long term work contracts and knew they wouldn't be leaving it anytime soon.[2]
By 2877, the Hurston family realized their vision of building large, lush estates for members of the family across the planet would significantly reduce their ability to extract resources, pollute, and/or test weapons on the land around it. Instead, the family decided to make the LOR both the business and residential center for the entire planet, and construction on the Central Tower began. By then the name Lorville was so ubiquitous that company records even used it, and as far as is known, no real consideration was given to changing it.[2]
The Lorville Mass Transit System has five main lines - Perimeter Line East.mw-parser-output .template-badgemargin:0 0.1rem;padding:0.1rem 0.4rem;border-radius:4px;background-color:#373d43;color:#fff;font-size:0.875rem;font-weight:500.mw-parser-output .template-badge--invertedbackground-color:#eaecf0;color:#131920, Perimeter Line West, Spaceport Line, Central Line and Commerce Line. There is a general no-fly zone over the city, with landing clearance granted at Teasa Spaceport and the landing pads on top of Central. Garages can be found at the six perimeter gates.
As the main access to Lorville, you must pass through Customs here. So far we are only aware of Terminal 5, featuring the New Deal ship showroom, Archimedes Flight, Vantage Rentals and the obligatory Lost & Found. The Desmond Memorial Convention Center hosted IAE West 2948. The waiting area features ASOP terminals as well as lounges including the Chairman's Club Lounge. Terminal 5 has 8 hangars. Both Domestic and Interplanetary Commercial Flights will be available from Teasa via separate gates.
As another potential access to Lorville, you must pass through Customs here. All gates have ASOP terminals and Garages for spawning ground vehicles. From outside the gates are well signposted from the no-fly-zone perimeter, and the gates themselves have blue flashing beacons atop towers. Outside the perimeter you can find Shanty Towns.
Lorville is the first landing zone implemented in the Persistent Universe. The first exterior model was shown in the keynote of CitizenCon 2017 as a part of the procedural city demo..[3] A more polished version with gameplay elements is shown in the keynote of CitizenCon 2018.[4] Lorville was originally planned for Alpha 3.3.0, but it was delayed to Alpha 3.3.5.[5][6]
Thanks Marjorie for the email and photos. It is a good collection and typical of the upland (away from the Potomac floodplain) for the area of Fairfax and Loudoun counties. Initially the thing that strikes me is that the dominant material is white quartz, a common mineral found in every farm field in the area. Quartz was easily accessible in the pre-colonial times, found in outcrops throughout the Piedmont of northern Virginia.
Your photo primarily shows a collection of quartz spear points and blades (ones that people may have hafted as knives or other tools) from the Middle and Late Archaic. There appear to be a few types we call Halifax, Slade, maybe a Poplar Island or two, and some Lamoka.
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