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Algol
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The wildlife of Algol is on the whole a lot larger and more nasty than that of Earth. In most cases, humankind has been too busy trying to merely survive in the hostile environment (or stop the equally hostile neighbors) to do much more than thin out the worst animals present. The fauna of Algol is either derived from stock brought by the original colonists (like dogs, cats, chickens and horses), or native lifeforms. The native forms tend to run towards huge mammalian types (much like those of Earths own Ice Ages), or several species of warmblooded dinosauroids and reptiles. Some native forms show an ability to focus and use electrical and light energies as part of their offensive armament. All of these show a distinct inclination towards eating any small, moving creatures available.
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Algol (Beta Persei) is the name of a star in the constellation Perseus. Algol is actually a trinary star system, containing 3 stars, Algol A, a star of spectral type B (blue in color), Algol B is K-type (orange), and Algol C is A-type (blue-white). Algol is a variable star, meaning it undergoes wide variations in its brightness over time. It is one of the few variable stars that does not have its variability linked with novae. Its changes in brightness follow a fixed rhythm which repeats every 68 hours, 49 minutes. It was ... the first eclipsing binary to be discovered (a binary star system where each star can eclipse the other).
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The world of Algol has a technological level roughly equal to or higher than that of a major 20th century Terran nation (circa 1960-1990). As such, almost anything you could buy in a modern shopping mall is available to an Algolian consumer. The biggest problem isnt finding things to buy--it's getting the money to BUY things. In Elara, this is as simple as finding a well--paying career, but in Kargan, it may involve escaping serf status and the oppressive thumb of the local baron.
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With more than a century behind it, Algol has a leading position in the Finnish wholesale and distributive trade in a number of product areas. As of the 1990´s, Algol has expanded its domestic market from Finland to the Baltic States, Russia and Scandinavia.
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Algol spent the remaining seven years of her Navy career operating primarily along the east coast of the United States and in the West Indies. That duty consisted almost solely of amphibious warfare training in conjunction with marines. The only break in that schedule of operations came at the end of the summer of 1964. At that time, the attack cargo ship deployed to the Mediterranean Sea to participate in the massive amphibious exercise Operation "Steel Pike I." By early 1965, she returned to more familiar waters and spent the remaining years of her career operating along the eastern seaboard and in the West Indies. During that period, on 1 January 1969, the attack cargo ship was redesignated an amphibious cargo ship and was assigned the hull designation LKA-54.Algol was decommissioned on 23 July 1970 and was transferred to the Maritime Administration's National Defense Reserve Fleet at James River, Va. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 1 January 1977. As of the beginning of 1984 the ship is still berthed at James River.
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After being decommissioned, the Algol was moth balled in the James River Reserve Fleet in Norfolk, Virginia. According to Bill Figley from the New Jersey Department Of Environmental Protection's Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife, in 1983, the late Senator Edwin B. Forsythe petitioned the U.S. Maritime Administration to release a surplus Liberty Ship to New Jersey for use as an artificial reef. When a suitable Liberty Ship could not be obtained the Algol was substituted. On June 11, 1991, the Algol was towed from the James River Fleet to Willmington, North Carolina, where she was prepared by Eagle Island Marine to be sunk as a reef. The Algol's towers, and funnel were burned off soher relief on the ocean floor would not cause a hazard to navigation. She wasalso cleaned of all possible pollutants and all floatable material.
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