Kiyoshi

 

The Kiyoshi system was actually colonized before the founding of the MPA itself by various groups of ‘second generation’ colonizers.  These set out from the original colonies founded prior to and immediately after the Nanodisaster.  The multiple stars of Xi Scorpius 5 drew a number of colonizing missions due to the expectation that such a system would have extensive asteroidal and cometary resources available to support orbital habitats. 

The arrival of several such missions, all within a 50 year span, might have lead to social and even military conflict, but after somewhat strained relations initially, the colonists soon settled down to developing their respective colonies, each around different stars of the system.  Over the next 2000 years the colonies developed an advanced and loosely unified civilization built around extensive orbital bands encircling each star.  When the MPA was founded in the third millennium AT, Kiyoshi was one of the first systems to join. 

Over the next 1500 years Kiyoshi would develop into one of the primary systems of the early Alliance.  When, 500 years before the bi-millennial of the Alliance, it was suggested that the event should be commemorated with a grand construction, the Kiyoshin population of the time vied with several other systems for the honor of being chosen as the location where the great project would take place.  Even despite the realization that the construction of the Kiyoshi Pentad would result in the eventual destruction of their orbital homes, the population overwhelmingly supported the proposal.  Construction of the complex was timed to be complete on the 2000th anniversary of the founding of the Alliance and, despite various setbacks and events that threatened that deadline, construction was completed on time. 

Kiyoshi would come to symbolize the Mutual Progress Alliance for millennia afterwards and until the construction of Kepleria was considered the ‘jewel’ in the Mutual Progress crown.



Over 67% of the population of the Kiyoshi system identify as adherents to the memetic known as the Vagabond Way (although critics point out that of these, perhaps only a third live in complete accordance with the principles of the Way).  According to the Vagabond Way, the thrill of travel and finding new places to experience is a defining factor of a well-lived life.  Staying in any one place for too long is boring and leads to societal decay. 

As a result of this view, the population of Kiyoshi is almost constantly on the move.  Using advanced multifunctional omnicraft able to operate equally well in any environment whether land, water, air, or space, most citizens of Kiyoshi spend their time traveling in small nomadic communities ranging in size from a few to a few thousand individuals or family groups. 

The exceptions to this lifestyle are the Oasi and the Caravansari.  The Oasi are stable, stationary communities whose members consist of that portion of the Kiyoshi population who choose not to practice (or not to practice for a time) the Vagabond Way.  Oasi communities generally range in size from a few thousand to several million sophonts each and can be found scattered across the entire Kiyoshi complex, both on the four habitation structures and at various points along the mass-stream network connecting them.  In particular, the largest Oasi communities can be found at those points where several mass-streams pass within close proximity to each other.  These ‘High Oasi’ may be supported by several mass-beams simultaneously and support populations into the hundreds of millions. 

In direct contrast to the Oasi, the Caravansari often see themselves as ultimate expressions of the Vagabond Way.  They are huge, mobile communities of millions of sophonts, constantly on the move.  They travel in great fleets of omnicraft, moving across the seas, skies, and plains of the various Kiyoshi nodes and occasionally using the Transport Net to shift their entire populace from one node to another.  Their populations are themselves highly fluid and ever changing with various smaller groups splitting off to go their own way, joining up from the general Vagabond or Oasi population, or shifting from one Caravansari to another when two or more groups come together in the course of their travels.

Both Oasi and Caravansari share a mutually symbiotic existence, with the Oasi providing points of stability and community for the Caravansari (and their smaller cousins) while the Caravansari provide an ‘escape valve’ and source of excitement and adventure for the Oasi population.

As a result of its vast size, mobile and highly adventurous population, and MPA proclivities the Kiyoshi Pentad is in a state of virtually continuous Megastructural Migration and reengineering.  At any given moment, large sections of the habitats surface and interior layers are undergoing reconstruction into some new, complex, and exciting environment for the delight and adventure of the inhabitants.  For an up and coming Environmental Engineer a well-received work can mean centuries of adulation, while a negative review by the Kiyoshi population can lead to just as many centuries of shame and ridicule.  Only Djed itself is considered a greater challenge (and a greater honor) to the practitioners of the art of habitat creation.

 


The one major exception to the Kiyoshin ethos of continual habitat modification is the Museum of the Worlds. Located on the Kiyoshi Alpha component of the system, the Museum dates from the initial construction of the Kiyoshi complex and an earlier, more settled phase of Kiyoshin history.

The Museum aims to replicate in one-to-one scale all of the ‘interesting’ terrestrial class worlds that have been discovered to date by Terragens civilization.  This includes all of the Garden World ecologies known to exist, be they terrestrial, halogenic, or even cryonic (the latter two contained by environmental barriers), as well as various non-Garden World planets that have been found to contain interesting geologic, climatic, or even nanotechnic phenomena.  Critics are quick to point out that the Museum is not strictly accurate in its renditions of some ecosystems and worlds due to the difference between Kiyoshin gravity and the natural world that is being replicated.

Kiyoshin natives dismiss these claims by pointing out that their renditions of planetary ecologies are carefully crafted to produce life forms of virtually identical appearance externally even if internal modifications may have been made to accommodate the higher or lower gravity of Kiyoshi.  The critics, in the meantime, remain unconvinced.

 


Metapsychology, Art, Culture, Society, Ideology, Language: See main
entry on MPA

Government, Legal system, Constitution: See main entry on MPA



Major Industries:
Tourism, environment design and construction, habitat design and construction, megascale architecture, aesthetics theory, transapient design services


Angelnetting: Ubiquitous throughout the Kiyoshi system but generally kept to a low profile.  Most angelnet functions are fulfilled by small, personal net systems rather then the large-scale global systems.  Exceptions include the various climate and habitat control systems which maintain and separate the various elements of the Museum of the Worlds, the general maintenance systems of the overall Kiyoshi complex, and many of the larger Oasi, inside which angelnetting may be expanded up to virtually total coverage.


Major Orbitals: 

At least 50,000 High Oasi are scattered across and between various parts of the mass-beam Transport Net connecting the components of the Kiyoshi system.  Many are magnetically coupled to the mass beams and ride along them much like the transport capsules and omnicraft that use them for transport.  Traveling craft may match velocities and dock with an Oasi and their passengers spend a few hours or days enjoying the various entertainments and luxuries that these large communities have to offer. 

The Oasi often compete among themselves to see which can produce the most enticing and enjoyable entertainments, resulting in a vast outpouring of art, music, and culture, as well as some of the most famous hedonics centers outside of the NoCoZo.  For this reason, even the most impatient traveller will usually try to move between the Kiyoshin components via ‘The Scenic Route’ at least once in the course of a lifetime.

 


Travel

Stargates:
· Hop, Skip, Jump – to Medius (550m)
· The Trains Always Run On Time – to Greylag(Negentropy Alliance)(285m)
· Street of Dreams – to Long Haul (MPA) (180m)
· Like Clockwork – to Monostheria (Metasoft) (150m)
· Enlightened Self-Interest – to Branswerg
· Shortcut – short range gate connecting the Scorpius A&B binary system  to the D&E binary system. (30m)

Spaceports: Virtually anywhere a spacecraft or transfer pod can dock is considered a spaceport among the High Oasi.  Simply taking up a complimentary velocity vector or linking into an approved spot within the cluster is usually considered sufficient among the Caravansari.  
The primary Kiyoshi habitats employ extensive traffic control systems to both assign orbital slots and to direct shuttlecraft and incoming omnicraft to Transport Net access points as well as local Oasi landing ports.


Cycler Routes: 14 beam-lines with 8 lines expanded to handle particularly heavy beamrider traffic.  At any given time over 100 beamrider craft are operating within, or within a light-year of, the Kiyoshi system.


Population: Total system population of the Kiyoshi complex is currently some 148 trillion sophonts ranging across a broad cross-section of clades, types, and species.  It is sometimes claimed that examples of nearly every race that is can be found somewhere within the Kiyoshi system.

Hazard Rating: 0.0 – 0.5 depending on where in the system a visitor is at any given moment.

Related Pages The Lifts- transport between the shells of the Kiyoshi Dysons

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