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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.
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