• Type: Site (cemetery)
• Location: 500 m east of Hope, in the Farmbelt zone
• Elevation: ≈ 30 m above town level on gently sloping farmland

By popular petition, the 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 edicts ended terrestrial interments. In its five-year span the cemetery received 80 graves (30 Volunteer Army of Man soldiers, 50 civilians), offering a solemn counterpoint to the surrounding grain fields and Arla River vistas.

• Established: 1 July 2626
• Council Vote: 1 May 2626
• Clearing Work: ≈ 40 hardwood trees and underbrush cleared by two Manual Labor Bots
• Footprint: 1 200 m² (≈ 30 × 40 m)
• Operational Period: 1 Jul 2626 – 8 Apr 2631
• Interments: 80 (30 soldiers, 50 civilians)
• Peak Burials: 20 in 2629 during the Great War
• Status (Gamma Age): Abandoned; saplings and prairie grasses now carpet the grounds

• First Earth-Return Ceremonies: Cemented Hope’s shift from shipboard composting to sacred soil burials.
• Frontier Solidarity: Soldier graves from wartime years became a focal point for communal remembrance.
• Treaty Landmark: In the Gamma Age “forbidden farmland,” the site symbolizes tensions between Individualist nostalgia and the regulations of the Federal Confederation.

Harvest Rest sits amid waving Zelor Grain stalks under a veil of Arla River mist and the distant silhouette of the Atrana and Tijonara ridges. Neat rows of simple basalt headstones line wood-plank paths; each grave is crowned with a small Mirel Leaf wreath. The air carries the scent of damp soil, ripening grain, and faint incense from memorial tokens. 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.

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.

• Creation: Designed and laid out by the settlement of Hope
• Closure: Peace Treaty prohibition on burial grounds (April 2631) forced shutdown and reversion to ship-era protocols.
• Rewilding: Tropical Forest edge species reclaimed the site within five years, transforming it into a quiet meadow used only by clandestine mourners.

Beta Age Hook

• Mourners’ Masquerade – A notorious fugitive , wanted for homicide, has faked his own death — his kin staged a solemn burial at Harvest Rest only to bury an empty coffin. The Federal Council deputizes the PCs as detective agents: they must unravel the family’s deception, and track the murderer …

Gamma Age Hook

• Unquiet Grave – Farmers employed by the Federal Food Plant stumbled upon members of the Jane Mendoza Gang attempting to pry open one of Harvest Rest’s newest graves under cover of mist. When alerted, the Outlaws fled into the surrounding fields. Deputized by the Local Sheriff, the PCs must carefully open the undisturbed grave, discover what the gang was searching for — be it hidden contraband, secret letters, or buried loot — and decide how to pursue the culprits across Hope’s farmbelt …

• Beta Age / Gamma Age
• Hope
• Peace Treaty
• Volunteer Army of Man
• Manual Labor Bots
• ExoHuman Funeral Rites in the Beta Age

Known Sites in the Asari Region:

• Fisherpoint
• Tijonara Field Station
• New Horizon's Rest Cemetery New Kourou
• Harvest Rest Cemetery Hope
• Mistfall Rest Cemetery Morningstar