Viking movement

Viking Movement

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While most humans of Terra embraced the rapid development of new technology that was accelerated after the visit by the Sarans to an unprecedented speed. There were those who felt overwhelmed by the new technology and those who wanted to go back to a simpler way of life. Such people often looked for answers in the past. In the real past as well as in the mythological one. One such group was a movement started by a Swedish National named Lars Erikson. He found that the Vikings (a real group of Scandinavian and Norwegian people of the past) lived a rugged, self sufficient life without the need for machines and robo kitchens. Where the word of a man meant as much as written law. However Lars did not draw only from historical sources but also from the romanticised version of the Vikings found in films, Fiction books and stories. His Vikings had horned helmets even though real Vikings did not wear those. His Vikings threw axes at the braids of girls (he had seen that in a Hollywood Film). However he managed to gather quite a following and when the Second Exodus begun and every group that wanted to leave Earth was given the chance. The Colonist Bureau would give Arks, Equipment and perform Genetic tailoring to make the Colonists better suited to their new worlds. Lars Erikson who got in trouble with the Law as he started burning Churches in Sweden and bashing those across the head who didn't see things his way, was given the choice: New Planet or Prison. Lars chose to leave Earth and he and several thousand of his followers left Earth in six Ships and arrived on the new world Nilfeheim. Three of the Arks and the settlers inside got in argument with Lars and went on to settle the World New Sweden. ( they called themselves Church of Odin Followers rather than Norse) The Settlers with Lars did not use the word Viking but called themselves “Norse”. Lars was killed in the first year on Nilfeheim by a Fangsnapper.