Richard "Lord British" Garriott is back safely on earth. The creator of the Tabula Rasa for NCsoft(Ultima and Ultima Online earlier) spent the last ten days orbiting the earth in the International Space Station, courtesy of of a Russian space tourism company.
Garriott came back to Earth via a Soyuz capsule which landed in the Kazakhstan steppes earlier yesterday. During his 10 day flight Garriott performed a number of experiments aboard the ISS for both NASA and the European Space Agency and left a hard drive filled with digital DNA codes from a number of people in the hope they would be preserved forever.
At the same time, Tabula Rasa also announces a return to Earth. We believed that was not mere coincidence.NCsoft have been hinting for a while that Tabula Rasa players will have a chance at taking the fight back to Earth and the latest Friday Feedback reveals that Deployment 15 is all about that!
Earth is alive, though she is far from well. The Bane continue to destroy and ravage the planet, bombarding it, infesting it, and populating it with new and vicious troops suited to the terran environment. The men and women we left behind, those not fortunate enough to die in the initial attack, have organized their own fight against the invaders. They are strapped for resources, scraping to get by. For the survivors, "Hell on Earth" has become day-to-day reality.
How do we go home? Who are these survivors? Why are the Bane unable to wipe out Earth and Humanity as they've done to so many other galactic civilizations? To learn the answers, you'll need to join us as Tabula Rasa returns home to Earth in Deployment 15. In addition to taking the fight back to our home turf in one of the most iconic cities on Earth, the first Tabula Rasa Earth map will include:
* Epic instanced control point gameplay for level 48 to 50 players
* All new setting and art design
* New monsters, including new Epic creatures and mini-bosses. These new Epic creatures are designed to be a greater challenge, requiring the efforts of coordinated squads with excellent weapons and gear to be defeated.
* PvE Mech gameplay opportunities
* New armor sets available only on Earth.
