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 ====== HARVEST REST CEMETERY ======
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   * **Type:** Site (cemetery)
-  * **Location:** 500 m east of [[hope|Hope]], in the Farmbelt zone
+  * **Location:** 500 m east of [[hope|Hope]], in the [[tropical_forest|Tropical Forest]]
-  * **Elevation:** ≈ 30 m above town level on gently sloping farmland
+  * **Elevation:** ≈ 30 m above town level
 ===== Overview =====
-By popular petition, the [[settler_s_council|Settler’s Council]] approved a soil-burial ground on 1 May 2626, and Harvest Rest Cemetery opened on 1 July 2626. Spanning 1 200 m², the plot — ringed by young groves of Mirel Leaf trees — served Hope’s 4 000 residents until 8 April 2631, when [[peace_treaty|Peace Treaty]] edicts ended terrestrial interments. In its five-year span the cemetery received 80 graves (30 [[volunteer_army_of_man|Volunteer Army of Man]] soldiers, 50 civilians), offering a solemn counterpoint to the surrounding grain fields and [[arla_river|Arla River]] vistas.
+By popular petition, the [[settler_s_council|Settler’s Council]] approved the creation of a soil-burial ground on 1 May 2626. Harvest Rest Cemetery opened on 1 July 2626 as a clearing carved directly from the surrounding tropical forest, rather than a formally landscaped site.
+The cemetery was enclosed by a protective fence to shield it from local wildlife and creeping vegetation. Within this boundary, graves were placed pragmatically along the terrain, following roots, slopes, and natural clearings rather than strict rows.
+Harvest Rest served Hope’s roughly 4 000 residents until 8 April 2631, when [[peace_treaty|Peace Treaty]] edicts prohibited terrestrial interments. During its five-year use, the cemetery received 80 graves — 30 [[volunteer_army_of_man|Volunteer Army of Man]] soldiers and 50 civilians — standing as one of the earliest permanent human imprints on the land beyond Hope’s settlement perimeter.
 ===== Facts and Figures =====
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 ==== Beta Age (2626–2631) ====
-Harvest Rest sits amid waving [[zelor_grain|Zelor Grain]] stalks under a veil of Arla River mist and the distant silhouette of the [[atrana_mountains|Atrana]] and [[tijonara_mountains|Tijonara]] ridges. Neat rows of simple basalt headstones line wood-plank paths; each grave is crowned with a small [[mirel_leaf|Mirel Leaf]] wreath. The air carries the scent of damp soil, ripening grain, and faint incense from memorial tokens. [[hoos|Hoo]]-drawn hearses creak over furrowed earth, mourners pause beside field-stone benches, and the only sounds are low prayers and the whisper of tropical breezes through stalks.
+Harvest Rest lies in a humid forest clearing under perpetual twilight. Dense tropical vegetation presses in on all sides — broad-leaf plants, hanging vines, and mist-darkened trunks looming just beyond a rough perimeter fence of wooden posts, wire mesh, and salvaged metal struts from the [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]].
+Graves are marked primarily by weathered wooden headboards, carved by hand and darkened by moisture and fungal bloom. Some markers are reinforced or replaced with repurposed ship fragments: cut alloy plates, stamped identification panels, or scorched hull shards pressed into the soil. Names are written in a mix of scripts — Latin letters, Cyrillic, and Chinese characters — sometimes uneven, sometimes partially eroded.
+Paths between graves are narrow and muddy, occasionally bridged with loose planks. Small memorial offerings — braided leaves, cloth strips, carved symbols — hang from fence posts or rest at grave bases. The air smells of damp earth, resin, and rotting leaves. Insects hum constantly, and the forest never fully quiets.
 ==== Gamma Age (post-2631) ====
-Without caretakers, prairie grasses and saplings have blurred the grave rows into gentle humps. Headstones tilt beneath vines; moss weaves over carved names. Sunlight filters through drifting mist casting dappled light across the rough-hewn logs of a weathered entry gate. Insects trill where Hoo hooves once trod, and the hush is broken only by the distant rush of the Arla River and the sigh of wind through young woodland.
+Without upkeep, the forest advances. Vines creep through fence gaps, posts rot, and roots buckle grave markers. Wooden headboards tilt or split; metal plates corrode and stain the soil beneath. Moss and lichen obscure inscriptions in every language.
+The fence still stands in places, but animals have pushed through weakened sections. Twilight filters through a thickened canopy, casting a green-blue gloom over the clearing. What was once a maintained burial ground is now a contested space between memory and wilderness — avoided officially, but quietly visited by those unwilling to forget.
 ===== History / Legacy =====