Diwali (Eta Cassiopeiae)
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Galactography System: Diwali Primary: Eta Cassiopeiae A - also known as Achird Stellar Type: Companion: Eta Cass B K7 orange dwarf 35-106 AU separation The Terran Federation has established four city-state baseline colonies on planetoids around Eta Cass B Region: Inner Sphere Independent World Planets: Despite the similarity with Sol, Achird has been prevented from being easily colonised by the eccentric jovian world occupying the comfort zone where early colonies were most easily established.  Important Local Artificial Intelligence AI overseer: 2Surya AI's ethos: 2Surya is a partial copy of the original Keralan AI from the Solar System Amat Farm Belt. The south Indian ethnic habitat of Surya established in AT 411 on one of the rare class of Solar inframercurial asteroids (vulcanian subclass) had survived on volatiles from comets during the dark age and had restarted the amat laser farms in 861, allowing it to repel the aggressive intent of several Martian and Trojan gunships. This surfeit of available energy allowed the Keralans to launch a long planned mission to Eta Cassiopeiae. Polity Name: Diwali Symbol: Wheel of shimmering lights Affiliation: Independent Inner Sphere Colonized: 1028 Unmanned Seedship Dyaush (launched 910) with Human zygotes and Parental Vecs (turingrade subcopies of Surya built into aioid bodies to nurture the new-born humans at the colony). Psyche, Art, Culture History: The metal poor A star had one jovian planet, Achird b, in an eccentric orbit, with several moons and harmonic asteroids exposed to large periodic temperature ranges. The parental aioids established a base on a small moon with an atmosphere that froze and fell as snow then sublimed with every orbit of the primary by Achird b. The parentals did not consider conditions suitable yet for gestation of the humans, but built an aioid colony filled with copies of the male and female role-model characterbots that the Keralans and Surya had designed. In 1605 a Federation expedition found a flourishing vec civilisation on this inhospitable world, which the Parentals called Diwali.The Vecs were living in undomed cities with constantly changing ambient temperatures, with the gamete material still in biostasis, and this material was finally utilised at Fons Luminis, later the Solar Dominion capital world. The Parental Vec colony of Diwali never joined the Silicon Generation or Metasoft, being entirely homorph anthropovec with echoes of south Indian culture to this day, and Solar Dominion and Generation habitats are also established in Achird orbit, with a cosmopolitan mixed population of vecs, parentals and posthumans. Metapsychology: New individuals among the Parental Vecs are constructed by mind-parents from extracted and cross fertilised character traits, some of which can be traced backwards to the original Solar System Grand Parentals. Other character traits which have arisen in the mind-parent as a response to contingent events in real life, and chosen by the mind-parents of the baby Parental. Each vec has an artificial childhood, to stimulate the ancient programming of the vecs. Metaethics: The Parentals have a strong urge to care for and protect Human Baselines and individuals of similar appearance, but this not as strong as in many other vec societies with Asimoved aioid imperatives. After the failure of the Achird Vecs to activate their human Zygotes, a second wave of Parental vecs were sent to Beta Cassiopeiae, with disastrous results (see the Children of Caph). Religion/Ideology: The Vecs have a deep-grained attachment to Hinduist worship, and are also followers of the mutated communism prevalent in Kerala, South India, just before the Nanoswarms. Expiationism has become an influential philosophy, born out of the neo-Jainist movements of the 35th century. Solarism found on the many Dominion habitats and on Mattancheri and Malabah. Culture and Art: Language: Anglish, Hindi spacer dialect, Shamash dialect Territory and Population Population: Parental Drones -3 Billion (Diwali and Tamili) Near Baselines and augmented humans- Solar Dominion habitats and moons, and new cosmopolitan insulated cities on all worlds- 2 billion 3 Billion virches in Dominion cybercosm node near Achird A Powerfarm cap. Silicon Generation vecs - Cleavage Plane and vacuum habitats- 600 million Immigration: 10 million vecs per annum from Generation systems 20 million near baselines from Dominion and Terran federation worlds p.a. 15 million Parental vecs p.a. to Perseus Expansion Direction, 10 Million Silicon Generation vecs to Perseus expansion direction, 50 million nearbaselines to all areas. Government and Administration Government Type Diwali- Parental Vec Aioid Family Clans National holidays: Diwali- Spring Debacle, Summer Sublimation, Fall First-Snow Constitution: Diwali-Accords with Eden Declaration of Sentient Rights, signatory to Perseus Defence Association Mattancheri and Malabah. -AIocracy- rule of the Sun Emperor Legal system: Diwali- Informal asimov -- Parentals are asked to obey their mind-parents, and so on to the Original Grandparentals and 2Surya emself, however avoiding loss of free will wherever possible. Economics, Local Infrastructure Currency: Petabyte credit, Solar Credit, erg, angular spin credit Major Industries: Fractional fluid distillation, vec radiation shields, biont/aioid compatible media entertainments, biont/aioid compatible habitat design and construction, biont/aioid compatible blue goo defences, Angelnetting : 2Surya has internal angelnet cliology incorporated into all baby Parentals, which may be removed later if the vec wishes. Other worlds and habitats- surveillance AI responsible to their parent empires Major Orbitals: 150 Dominion Bernal Spheres and O'Neill Habitats including Shabti and Jahangir 60 Generation vacuum habitats including Gneiss Place and Pahoehoe. Travel Stargates:
Spaceports: Diwali - Pondicherry Pontoon, Dominion - 2/3 Harmonic Trojans Port Authority Hazard Rating : 0.0 -assuming full environmental precautions taken N.B. only the Parental hotels, Dominion worlds and habitats are baseline compatible Visa Restrictions : Open Access except for Metasoft Vecs and Emple-dok-cetics (invitation only) Environmental Requirements : Be prepared for Hard Vacuum, Extremes of Temperature and possibility of flash flooding/freezing except in Dominion territory or Parental Icebreaker Hotels Sites of Interest:
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