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The planet Rell was a place of harmony between nature and souman. Though there were a few centers of technology and science, most of the planet lived much the same way since they took over the planet, seven thousand cas ago. Small villages, housing no more than ten thousand, made up the Rell landscape. These villages were based around the natural resources they could harvest—fishing, agriculture, mining. Children had become a rare occurrence, so new housing was rare, and expansion of the village was unheard of. The average Rell had little use for technology, as worship was the center of most non-work activities. Animals still pulled wagons; farming was done mostly by hand. The only aspect that technology dominated was medicine. As such, the Rell people supposedly enjoyed a life free from pain or disease, yet filled with faith and contentment.