Values
Arkbound’s core doctrine is simple: no civilization survives long without resilient ecologies to feed it, buffer Rift-Taint, and anchor culture, so living systems must be treated as primary infrastructure. They negotiate conservation covenants on worlds and stations, build or refurbish orbital ark-habitats, and quietly enforce “no-take” zones around key Rift-Burg ecosystems, backing their contracts with legal leverage, targeted embargoes, and, in extremis, bioengineered denial weapons.
Devotion
Arkbound most commonly exhibits Green–White–Blue devotion: Green for living systems and long-cycle thinking, White for hard conservation law and treaty enforcement, and Blue for data-driven ecology, terraforming models, and bioinformatics. Radical cells sometimes lean into Black (willingness to crash local economies to save a biome) or Red (eco-saboteurs using dramatic, high-impact actions), but the official line frames such acts as “emergency quarantines” rather than terrorism.
Organizational Favor
These actions may improve your standing with the organization.
Minor Favors:
Delivering medical and agricultural supplies to a Conservancy outpost in a famine‑stricken region.
Escorting an Arkbound survey team through pirate‑infested drift lanes.
Providing hard evidence of illegal poaching, bioweapon dumping, or unauthorized terraforming to local wardens.
Moderate Favors:
Leading operations to dismantle or reconfigure a harmful industrial site without triggering famine or economic collapse.
Stabilizing a Rift‑twisted biome without resorting to orbital bombardment or mass extinction.
Negotiating a binding compact between a fief, Commission agents, and the Conservancy to protect a key watershed or migration route.
Major Favors:
Orchestrating the evacuation and reseeding of a world on the brink of total ecological failure.
Exposing and stopping a corporate or cultic scheme to deploy galaxy‑scale bioweapons or ecocidal Metronome experiments.
Delivering a new “arkseed”—a portable, self‑propagating biome designed to restore entire regions—to the Verdant Caravan and defending it through the inevitable attempts to steal it.
Conservancy Disservices
These actions may harm your standing with the organization.
Minor Disservices:
Ignoring clear Arkbound warnings about local hazards, causing preventable ecosystem damage.
Trophy‑hunting or harvesting rare species for vanity or black‑market profit.
Publicly dismissing Conservancy findings as superstition to curry favor with exploitative patrons.
Moderate Disservices:
Guarding or operating facilities that dump toxins, Rift‑reactive waste, or untested bio‑nanites into local biomes.
Smuggling poached genetic samples, eggs, or saplings stolen from arkships or protected zones.
Using high‑yield weapons or orbital strikes in declared Arkbound sanctuaries without attempting alternatives.
Major Disservices:
Participating in the deliberate extinction of a sapient or keystone species for strategic gain.
Assisting in the sabotage or hijacking of a living arkship, especially to weaponize its biomass.
Leading campaigns whose explicit plan is “scorched earth now, rebuild later,” against Arkbound objections.