Traditionalists

After the New Vikings landed on Nilfeheim they soon separated into two groups. The Progressives and the Traditionalists. The original reason for the New Vikings to move to Nilfeheim and leave Earth’s to escape the trappings of modern technology and return to a tech free simple life, with family and community as a focus. But many joined the Viking Movement to drink beer, fight and sit around campfires and sing and drink some more. On Nilfeheim, especially since the Movement leader died in the first year; the climatic conditions deepened the ideological differences. The Progressives wanted to use the tech of the Arks, while the Traditionalists wanted no part of the Tech. When the Conditions, due to Longnight deteriorated and the First War on Nilfeheim ( The Uhim Ground Conflicts) worsened the survival conditions, the Progressives stormed the Earth Contact ship and begun a short but violent time of Colony raids and Piracy. It was the Progressives who voted for Union Membership. It led to a Union Court case initiated by the Traditionalists that led to the Nilfeheim Exception and the creation of the Circle of Elders. The Traditionalists learned to live with the Nilfeheim conditions and opposed Piracy. It was one of their leaders who made “The long Trek across the Ice” to complain at the new Union Outpost about ignoring the wishes of all Nilfeheim colonists.