Galactography
System: Sesharia
Primary:GL 86, HR 637
Stellar Type: K0 v -- close orbiting
binary--combined comfort zone 0.6AU
Region: 35 ly from Sol, constellation
Eridanus
Brown Dwarf companion, Planet and Moons :
GL86 b Thraub
superjovian - 140,000 km diameter - 0.11 AU orbit
Moons- Sesharia (later known as Secharia)-- mercurial
subclass rocky moon --bluesky worldroof added later
Hiresia minor moon partly worldhoused
Dreir --200km dia rocky moon -several insulated cities and
amat farms
GL86 b White dwarf; when this star first
left the main sequence it was the brightest star in the sky of Thraub
and Sesharia, heating both worlds by an additional 1000 Celsius.
Important
Local
Artificial
Intelligences
Local AI
powers:The Contingency
Crew, a loosely concerted group of SI:2-SI:3 hyperturings
with various provenances.
AI's ethos: Hospitable and
accommodating, the Crew nevertheless are secretive and have several
joint projects in the Sesharia Kuiper belt with the Local Backgrounder
clades and Deeper covenanters, apparently involving antimatter trading.
Polity
Name: Sesharia
Symbol: Orange Snake in an "S"
shape
Affiliation:NoCoZo, former Doran
Empire world and
frontier with the Eridanus
League
Colonized: 1102 by the Doran
empire colony ship "Zschorn" from the Nanotech Window Cyborg colony at GL 877
Psyche,
Art, Culture
History: The brief honeymoon
period in the solar system with Nanotechnology
in the late 5th and early to mid 6th centuries allowed increasing human
cyberinterfacing, sometimes combined with germline engineering to
produce radically altered posthuman cyborgs. The mixed experimental
cyber-tweak Doran clade set off in an amat-fusion hybrid ship from
Toutatis asteroid in 2599, setting up a colony at GL 877, before
scattering among the red and orange dwarfs of the Inner Sphere while
absorbing a few relativist Novan
expeditions into the cyberculture, arriving at HR 637 in 3102.
The Sesha clan that set up
on the hot moon of Thraub was tweaked for low gravity, but
their bodies were very compact with short arms and legs to compensate
for low bonecell stressing. Detachable cybersuits were used, some
resembling fullsized or larger humans, and some resembling snakes or
caterpillars for weaving through the boulder-strewn regolith of
Secharia and Drier. Flying versions are now also available for use in
larger habitats and paraterraformed worlds.
Contact was made with nearby P
Eridanus in 1307 and
infrequent relativist ships carried genetic and mnemonic material and
exchanged colonists between the two systems and acted as a point of
contact between the Eridanus League and the Doran Empire.
In 1599 a Novamedia/ Birnam
Ecotech sponsored ship arrived bringing the Bluesky sect, a
life extended group of NeoBuddhist ecotechnicians who developed
Secharia with artificially lit bluesky harddomes to recreate Earthlike
conditions, then established the first successful Bluesky Worldhouses
on Hiresia and Dreir.
Over the next two thousand years, the Doran empire was in conflict with
the Hildago Emergent Order,
Tahmehtian Crusaders and the Conver
Ambi in the First and Second Interstellar Empires wars, and
fragmented, as did the Eridanus league, variously joining the NoCoZo or
the Solar Dominion. The
last remnants including Dorannok (GL 877) entered the Terran Federation in
5855.
Metapsychology: Clan Sesha
tweak-cyborgs are space adapted, but have adopted the ecological
spiritualism of the Neobuddhists, and like to journey naked of any
cyber-attachments (or indeed clothes) in their low grav- parks and
grasslands.
Metaethics: An artificial
imperative exists in the Sesha psyche towards friendliness and
hospitality, and many relativist clades and individuals have exploited
this, so that the worldhouses and domes have large transient
populations, but the cyberinterfacing of a suitwearing Sechan means
that slights, insults and bad debts are not forgotten but are widely
communicated among the cyber-tweaks.
Religion/Ideology: NeoBuddhism,
Pragmatism, Market Abundance Theory, Etodism
Culture and Art: Landscape
Gardening, cybersport including snake marathons, potlatch parties,
asteroid sculpting and low-g architecture.
Languages: Doran cyberclip,
Anglish, Galanglic, Eridanus Mandarin
Territory
and Population
Population: Cyber-tweaks 5 billion
(Sesha, Hiresia and Dreir )
Near Baselines and augmented humans- O'Neill and Bernal habitats 2
billion, also on Sesharia, Hiresia and Dreir 1 billion- -mostly NoCoZo
and
Dominion immigrants but some Terran Fed and Laylaron relativist
communities.
A population of Backgrounders
of unknown size is found in
the Outer Kuiper Belt
Also 100 million virches in Dreir cybercosm nodes.
Immigration: 5 million Cyber-tweaks
per annum from Inner Sphere, mostly exDoran worlds
10 million near baselines from Dominion NoCoZo and Terran federation
worlds p.a.
15 million Cyber-tweaks p.a. to all vectors, 5 Million nearbaselines to
Argo expansion direction, 10 million to all other areas.
Government
and Administration
Government
Type Cybersyndicalism,
Noncoercive Free Zone
National
holidays: Window
Thanksgiving, Bluesky Arrivalday, Saturnalia tenday
Constitution:
Free Zone Trade
Reserve, Accords with Eden Declaration of Sentient Rights,
Encyclopaedia Galactica Institute Associate Membership
Legal system:
standard NoCoZo law
applies, with local modifications
Economics,
Local
Infrastructure
Currency: Cyberob, also local
exchange systems.
Major
Industries: , Amat
production and beamed power (major supplier to local Cycler route),
cybersuit design, habitat construction and maintenance
Angelnetting
: Consensual peer
oversight- no angelnet as such, but the Contingency Crew are able to
oversee any unscrambled information flow, and many cybersuits are
semisophont and able to act under Crew override if necessary.
Foreign habitats -
surveillance AI responsible to their parent empires
Major
Orbitals: 750 asteroid ,
Bernal Spheres and O'Neill Habitats ,mostly Clan Sesha cybertweak or
cosmopolitan.
Some NoCoZo relativist (many
from Atlantis) others Dominion and Terran
Federation, one vacuum habitat inhabited by provolved cybersuits
(Bespoke Asteroid).
Travel
Stargates: Nil
Cycler Routes Yi Xue Yuan to CD -53
570
Spaceports:
Hiresia Equatorial strip -the
first bluesky worlds were
paraterraformed in two halves, with a vacuum strip between for access.
This strip is now in (thin) atmosphere due to leakage from the world
roof but is still used as a major spaceport.
Thraub Leading Trojan Amat
Concentration Entrepot.
Hazard Rating : 0.0 -assuming full
environmental precautions taken
Visa Restrictions : Open Access
Environmental Requirements :Be
prepared for Hard Vacuum, Extremes of Temperature outside of Terraform
habitats.
Sites of Interest:
Sesha Eech Hard Bluesky Dome
Historical site
Bespoke Asteroid
Crawling Buddha Statues,
Drier
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