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And the server is offline now so you carnt play it but a fan based dark sun online is being made. It wasnt like sam peckinpahs the wild bunch, but it couldve been close. Dark of the sun 1968 novelist wilbur smith, bestselling author of adventure and internationalintrigue stories, has written a number of books centered around the diamond or gold trade and usually set in africa. Wake of the ravager in 1994 seemed to be the end of the road at ssi for tsrs apocalyptic dark sun setting, but they had also begun work on an mmo based on the desert wastes of athas called crimson sands.
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Dark of the sun also known as the mercenaries in the uk is a 1968 adventurewar film starring rod taylor, yvette mimieux, jim brown, and peter carsten. The world of the dark sun, athas is a desert world. Under a savage western sun, they must fight for their love. The game was rereleased in 2015 on with support for windows, macos, and linux. Crimson sands, was released in 1996 and hosted on the t. It is the primary world of the sphere, and is detailed extensively in the dark sun line of products from tsr. Crimson sands movie by crimson sands team kickstarter.
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