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Ozymandias (world)
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Galactography > Civilized Galaxy - Sephirotic Empires > Non-Coercive Zone (NoCoZo)
Galactography > Systems and Worlds > Systems & Worlds O - P
Galactography > Civilized Galaxy - Sephirotic Empires > Non-Coercive Zone (NoCoZo)
Galactography > Systems and Worlds > Systems & Worlds O - P
 Image from Steve Bowers |
In the constellation Vela, one third of the distance from the inner sphere to the Vela immunity outpost, is the F4 star YTS 967110.9 with its fifteen planets, the eighth planet being Ozymandias the capital of the jovian adapted Premacy tweak clade. Ozymandias is 160,000 km in diameter, with an extensive ring system and a strong magnetic field, with respectable radiation at cloud top level causing problems for non adapted visitors.
The various nations of Ozymandias are each more or less confined to an individual atmospheric Belt or Zone. The most influential is the Omeg Premacy, with its own archai intelligence Ziller, in the North Tropical Zone, with a population of twenty billion superbright floaters in the drogue cities. They believe that one day they and the hyperturings that will rule the universe in the future will cause an omegist collapse and create a new universe from the dregs.
In the South Tropical Zone live the Svantizer nation, also superbright, who only use idiot savant artificial intelligences, which they have purchased from the Omegs and their archai. Each slave AI comes with guarantees of non-conscious obedience, but many Premacy analysts are sceptical of this.
In the North Temperate Zone and the South South Temperate Zone are the Genen Premacy, relics of the clade that first created the superbright bodyplan in the Biopolity in 5700, and spread out of the Lyra worlds across Settled Space reaching Ozymandias in 6800 after the Version war. Here biological research into extremophile and hard radiation adaptations is carried out.
At the poles, in the North and South Polar Regions are two different nations of xenojovian life provolves, the Diricharks and Dayheron flyers, both discovered in NoCoZo space and increased in size to accommodate larger nervous systems. Living as guests in the South Temperate belt is a group mind Mirrored Owl embassy, providing entertainment through their cloud art.
Lastly, living in all the downwelling clearskies of the Temperate and Equatorial Belts are the Provolved Angelhairs, another xenojovian species, and the Dissembler Premacy. The Dissemblers have a cultural taboo against telling the truth in any social situation outside their immediate sibling group, and are skillful and amusing liars, especially to their angelnet ailect Contend In Vain, who apparently finds their attempts to fool em highly amusing, especially on the rare occasions when they succeed.
 Image from Juan Ochoa | |
| The Premacy are a clade of squat, strong centaur-like humanoids, adapted to the high gravity of their cloud-top homes on Ozymandias. However they are quite capable of thriving in microgravity as well. | |
Note: there is no special connection between the planet Ozymandias and the Ozymandias Institute.
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Text by Steve Bowers
Initially published on 02 September 2003.
Initially published on 02 September 2003.
