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Ribblehead

Ribblehead and the City Ring




Ribblehead - Data Panel


Galactography


System: Ribblehead

Primary: Pen-y-ghent (YTS 56999 45812)

Stellar Type: F1 - comfort zone 1.4 AU

Companion: YTS 56999 45812B (class M1v red dwarf mean 450AU distant)

Region: Mutual Progress Association middle sector- 790 ly from Sol- Constellation Scorpius

Planets: Ribblehead is the third planet in the Pen-y-ghent system

AI


AI overseer:
  1. Cityring Expediter (based on Ribblehead orbital city ring- local AI power)


AI's ethos: Progressive - Experimental sociologism

Polity


Name: Ribblehead League of Nations

Symbol: Patchwork globe in patchwork field

Affiliation: Mutual Progress Association

Founded: 3499 Terraformed 4800

Psyche, Art, Culture


Metapsychology: 500 different nations in total landmass of 540 million km2 - Each nation originally founded as a single clade culture, with access to electronics or mass production technology forbidden by the Cityring Expediter - one Net terminal per original nation

Religion/Ideology: Each Nation originally had one state sponsored religion or ideology, which has been subject to subsequent historical events- this being the primary purpose of the planetary experiment.

Since the experiment started, the nations have fought, merged with, suppressed and exterminated each other, until now the largest but least fertile continent (#23) and the free city-state Jefferson (Enk- Mrprk) have become a haven for the dispossessed, cultural refugees who have begun to forge various polysyncretic cultures. At each Tenyears end the Cityring allows the brightest products of the new cultures to copy or migrate into the Progress milieu. Continent (#23) has since 7897 become accessible for monitored tourism.

Culture and Art: Permitted for export: much handmade pottery, jewellery, religious articles, furniture,weaponry. Also fine music, choral works, hymns, martial music, literature, poetry, and samisdyat.

Languages: Anglish, Galanglic, Penglaiese, demotic Coronese, Esperanto, Ameslan, Creole, Amerind language family, !Xhosa, classical Greek, others

Territory and Population


Population:
  • Ribblehead 15 billion
  • Ribblehead city ring 30 billion including virtuals
Population breakdown

Immigration:
Zero immigration to Ribblehead
100 million emigrating to all vectors per tenyear


50 million immigration to Cityring per annum mostly virtuals
200 million immigration to all vectors mainly to Sagittarius expansion direction

Government and Administration


System

Government Type: Mutual Progress Association- individual worlds have sovereignty except Ribblehead (social experimental status) and Cityring (AI Direct rule)

National holidays: Founding day- Terraforming Day- Bluesky copyday- others.

Constitution: Ribblehead League of nations has limited executive power- all nations otherwise have nominal sovereignty subject to technological embargo enforced by the Cityring Expediter.

Legal system: Local legal systems apply, subject to oversight by the Cityring Expediter

Economics, Local Infrastructure


Currency: Local currencies, most powerful Swiss Franc

Major Industries: Agriculture, Limeslaking, Ironsmithing, Forestry, Biomass fuel production, wine production, Weapons production,

Angelnetting: Cityring and sociological monitoring of surface (total)

Major Orbitals: The Cityring is a dynamically supported continuous habitat with several cybercosm nodes.

Travel


Stargates:
  1. Glory Hole to Kepleria
  2. Escape Valve to To'ul'h


Major Spaceports: City Ring: -
  • Zero port
  • Ninety port
  • One-eighty port
  • Two-seventy port

Hazard Rating:
  • Continent #23= 1.0
  • Cityring = 0.0


Visa Restrictions: All tourists to be security cleared and subject to total surveillance cliology on Continent#23
City Ring subject to angelnet

Freedom of Movement: No access to any land outside Continent#23

Environmental Requirements: Swimming only permitted in pH regulated water bodies

Sites of Interest: Caves of Belegost, Jefferson(Enk-Mrprk) Free City

Appendix A
Additional Documents


extract from the Encyclopaedia Galactica entry (Baseline Anglish ed.)


Ribblehead _____A 16000 km diameter neogaian terraformed world in MPA space orbiting the star Pen-y-ghent (YTS 56999 45812), with a mean density of 4300 kg/m3 and a surface gravity of 0.98 earth standard. Originally with a carbon dioxide/ methane rich runaway greenhouse atmosphere, this large planet was desired by several clades of extremophile adapts, but after some strife was terraformed by the Bluesky company (MPA) following their success with the Jakerekk worldhouse. Carbon from the atmosphere and surface weathering was removed via lofstrom loop to orbit where a geostational cityring was built, incorporating several diamondoid computronium cybercosm nodes.

The surface of Ribblehead has 30% water cover, the land forming 23 continental landmasses totalling 540 million square km. Most continents are joined to several others due to the relatively small oceans. Tectonic activity is low. Elevated dolomite and limestone mountains often have large cave systems and underground water courses. Most water bodies are weak carbonic acid solutions, but neutralisation processing continues to allow a more varied aquatic ecosystem to develop.

High tech equipment is banned on the planetary surface, and all transportation is by animal drawn vehicles or bicycle, with each of the five hundred nations essentially isolated from each other. The phenotypes of the inhabitants were originally different in each continent, coming from tweak, splice, baseline and rianth populations all over the civilised Orion and Sagittarius arms. Communication with the Cityring and the Known Net is allowed only at one terminal per nation state. Consequently a rich and "interesting" political history has developed over the last two thousand years.





Extract from Biography of Benedita Bluesky


__________A severe conflict arose in 3499 over a rare very large chondritic world Ribblehead, rich in carbon and aluminium but depleted in iron. The venusian tweaks, Clade Leda and the titanian adapts, the Methanoids both claimed the planet, but the Bluesky processors leapt in (DalethBenedita was elsewhere) and seeded it with nanobacilli and poikilotrophs (accidentally infecting and killing some tweak survey teams), scooping the carbon compounds out of the atmosphere with Lofstrom loops for technologies in orbit, and creating a terraformed world by 4800. Ribblehead has the largest land area of any neogaian world in MPA space, with carbonic acid seas and rocks rich in calcite, blodite, diamond, graphite and dolomite as well as siderite, but an earthlike gravity due to the planet's low density.




Appendix B
Major Ribblehead nations by race and religion

(These two nations are often bitter cultural enemies)
  • Lapiths- (neogen centaurs) Grek
  • Ashanti (baseline) animist
  • German Swiss (baseline) Negentropism
  • Hyhyoinimn (Horse provolves), Universal Splice and Provolve Church
  • Kender (neogen) Abundance Theory
  • Yangko (ex penglai baseline approximates) Taoism
  • New Hoa Chen (ex penglai baseline approximates) entry level keterist, Taoist
  • New Chin (baseline approximates) Confucianist
  • Amish (baseline) Dissenting Christianity
  • Zarathrustan (baseline) pragmatist
  • Cervine Rianth (deer humans) Buddhist
  • Coronese greenists (Baseline) neopaganism
  • Troglodyte (moderate tweak) neonordic revivalist (many nations distributed in extensive cave systems)
  • Cyclopes (moderate tweak giant) entry-level keterist
  • Xhosha (baseline) Universalism
  • Shoshone (baseline) animism
  • Haitian (baseline) neovudun
  • Ursus Terriblis (Polar bear/Grizzly splice provolves) Abundance Theory
  • Cimmerrian (baseline) role-immersion paganism
  • Manganese (neogen) neomanicheaian
  • Sindar (neogen/su/ mild tweak) Tolkeinism
  • Minoan (baseline revivalist) Grek
  • Languedoc (baseline revivalist) Medievalists
  • Raxx (rodent provolves) Abundance Theory
  • Gharial (crocodilian provolves) Church of St Marx
  • Sioux Nations (Baseline) Undyoism, animism
  • Pan's People (Goat Provolves) omegism





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