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On the planet of New Texas the mining town of Fort Kerium has grown from a small town into a city. Kerium was no longer as easily found anymore, and large mining companies are now running most of the kerium mines. The prospectors had either left for other mining planets or have taken up jobs with the mining companies. Few of the mines are independently own anymore. With the mine companies came more law and order to the planet of New Texas. The outlaws now didn't just have to face Marshall Bravestarr and his deputies but also a real police force.
New Texas was no longer a backwater planet but a spaceport trade planet. For the new spaceport that could send ships without a hyper drive to other star systems has open the planet up to more ships. Now passing ships would land on the planet and resupply, paying in credits instead of raw Kerium. Which brought more growth in businesses, as the credits flowed into New Texas and new businesses open up. Which got more people to settle on the planet, for the jobs those new businesses created and to make a life for themselves on the planet.
The wild untamed spirit of the frontier planet was slowly being tamed as more and more people settled on the planet. The Prairie People have also changed as their planet was being changed around them. They setup their own mining company as they claimed most of the kerium mines. They also hired themselves out by working with the other mining companies, and have invested much in turning their desert planet into a greener place to live. They did this by towing ice floating in space to processing space ports where they're broken into smaller pieces and flown down to the planet. There are now lakes on New Texas besides the wetlands.
In Fort Kerium, Marshall Bravestarr and his deputies Fuzz and Thirty-Thirty now work with the New Texas police. They have moved out from the small building into the new police station with their very own department. Another change was that Bravestarr married judge J.B. Mcbride and have a young daughter Windstarr. Fort Kerium could still transformed into a fortress that's been upgraded but with more lawmen to help out in enforcing the law, it now serves as a shelter for the city in case of pirates. As with larger settlements on the planet now invited space pirates to attack ships or make raids on the planet.
Tex Hex and his outlaws had been driven into the badlands away from the settlements. With more lawmen and larger settlements the days of the roving outlaws on the planet are coming to a close. The outlaws under him still make raids for kerium but unlike a couple of years ago the shipments are better protected and more lawmen that gets in their way. Stampede is still able to give the outlaws who serve him amnesty as few lawmen wanted to come into his domain. But as with Bravestarr's law and order gaining strength in numbers so did Tex Hex's outlaws numbers have grown as well.
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Above the planet -
Coming out of hyperspace the Beluga came to a stop facing the planet of New Texas. Peyj sat at the controls while Jade was out back looking after their guest. He had marked down the location of the new star system and the planet that has kerium on it. In fact after he took the ship into orbit he did a quick scan of the planet and couldn't believe what he found. The planet was covered in kerium, he has never heard of a planet having that much concentration in kerium like this before. Sure there are space rocks that are full of kerium found on asteroid belts but never a planet. Space mining is mainly done by large mining companies who could afford to build a space mining station. Other had to do it the old fashion why with space suits and fill their ships as much as it could carry. Which makes them an easy target for outlaws and space pirates.
He had found a large chunk of kerium just laying there on the shore of the lake. He had gathered as much as he could before he put what he found into the ship and refueled using a small piece. He would had like him and Jade look for more till that boy burst into the clearing. Jade acted and shot the man who had stab the boy dead. With more on their way they had to leave. He also discovered that the planet has been settled by a human generation ship that's thousands of years old. The Beluga found the signal of the blackbox of the ship and had uploaded the data but it's so old that his computer couldn't translate it and most of it has been damaged by years being underwater, where the ship had landed. Those Marv ships were built to last and last, seeing that it could take generations for the ships to get where they're going before kerium and the hyperdrive was discovered by the humans who built those ships could get them there faster.
"Peyj, I did a scan on our guest and found something very interesting," Jade said as she enters the bridge.
"What?" Peyj ask as he waited for clearance from the spaceport to land on the planet. While he could just land anyplace, he was heading for Fort Kerium the main city of the planet and needed to log in to use their space port.
"His body has kerium in it. Not just trace amounts of it but it's in his blood," Jade said showing Peyj the medial data. On the medical data pad showed that much of the iron that is supposed to be there which gives human blood the red coloring, has been replaced with kerium.
"How did that happen?" Peyj ask. As having trace amounts in a body is normal for miners and others who work with kerium. But never to what he's seeing, the only thing that came to mind are the drug users of spin. Which uses refind kerium that is injected into a users blood. Which using too much kills the users. The amount he's seeing should have killed the kid a long time ago.
"I'm guessing because of the amount of kerium on the planet that all the plants and animals on it have trace amounts in them. The humans on that ship much have picked it up by eating them. And done it at a slow rate that their bodies just adapted to all the kerium in their bodies," Jade said listing off the top of her head. (1)
"We'll know more after we get the kid to a doctor," Peyj said.
"This is Fort Kerium spaceport you're clear to land on landing pad 6," the radio on the ship transmitted. "There be a medical squad ready to meet you."
"Hear you loud and clear," Peyj said as he flew the ship down to the planet.
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Starr Peak -
On the fossilized spaceship that serves as the home of Shaman. He sensed something he had never felt before. Something was coming to New Texas that would bring much change with it. And with it his old foe, Stampede would also make his move. Both of them are train in the magical arts, and like him would sense what's coming as well.
"Shaman hows this?" a high pitch voice ask as the young daughter of Bravestarr, Windstarr learned to use magic from him. She's currently making hat float in the air, revealing her dark hair like her father's and skin tone, while having the looks of her mother.
"Yes that is good," Shaman said walking up to his young student. After she was born he saw great magic within her and ask her parents to let him teach her.
"What's the matter?" ask Karen Mcbride stepmother of J.B. and grandmother of Windstarr. She's looking after her granddaughter while her parents are working. Her husband Angus still runs the newspaper which has moved to data pads. With the spaceport built by the mining companies life on New Texas has improved as they no longer have to wait for cargo ships to come to them that use to take months even with a hyperdrive. The hyperdrive gates of the spaceports only took a couple of hours. (2)
"I sense something is coming. It's heading to Fort Kerium," Shaman said opening up his senses to locate where the thing is headed.
"We better get going and tell Bravestarr," Karen said as she takes Windstarr's hand in hers leading her to her hovercar.
"Yes we should," Shaman said following the two to the hovercar. Hoping to reach the city before the outlaws under Stampede do.
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Author's Notes -
1 –The chakra users are only able to do what they do by the large amounts of kerium in their bodies, the same with the summons and demons. As the show has people like the Shaman and Stampede able to use and give magic to others. Chakra is more magical in nature in this fic. By having kerium in their bodies the ninjas are able to tap into magical energies but using their own energy to do it. Which is the result of breeding people with larger amounts of kerium together, which explains why people from non ninja families sometimes are able to use chakra.
They found an easier way to use magic but are less powerful then the real thing that needs to be taught and learned. Like the magic staffs in Skyrim, that anyone can use as long as they refuel it once the soul gem is all used up. The ninjas are powerful but simply can't last as long or use as much power as the real magic users. As for the summons, same thing only that unlike the humans they been on the planet longer and have changed from the common animals. To the point they could create their own pocket world. As for the demons follow the manga storyline but they're made out of kerium energy instead of chakra and are able to restore themselves thanks to all the kerium on the planet. Take them off planet and blast them enough they're dead no kerium to restore thmesleves they just have their own energy stores to use till they're all gone, end of story. As like salt in the oceans, kerium is just everywhere on the planet.
2 - Bravestarr was aired in the 1980s. So, I'm updating most of the tech as it's been a couple of years since the last show was aired. And since New Texas was a small mining town setup by people instead of a real government, reflected the technology level of a small mining town on a backwater planet. Now that it's a major trade port with it's own spaceport with a hyperdrive gate, alot of new tech has been shipped to the planet. As how some planets in the Starwars universe have a low tech setting while others have high tech gear everywhere. As old tech that was seen on the show was just easier to maintain and make then waiting for the next ship carrying the parts needed to fix something far from civilization where they make it. Seeing that much of the food and water has to be imported in the show, the settlers had to make do which what they can do on their own on the frontier. As they funded themselves for the trip to New Texas.
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