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Galactography > Systems and Worlds > Systems & Worlds A - B
HR 8501A, Capital system of the LinnEnt Empire | |
 Image from Steve Bowers | |
| Audubon is a relatively small arean-type planet colonized during the Federation period, where Engenerator Technology was first used for interstellar colonisation. Audubon has since been terraformed using transparent worldroofing technology | |
Audubon System | |
| System | Audubon |
|---|---|
| Primary | HR 8501A |
| Stellar Type | G1V |
| Region | Inner sphere, NoCoZo affiliate, 44ly from Sol , constellation Grus |
| Companion | HR 85012B - Mv Red Dwarf 36 AU distant: the water-rich asteroids of HR 85012B support three dyson tree posthuman colonies affiliated to Edenism |
Planets and Asteroids | |
| Planetoids and Asteroids | Sparse inner asteroid belt (Vulcanian and Aten asteroids) with energy collection array 2 x Planetoids in inner orbits Douglas 500 km dia- 50 million km eccentric orbit Banks 200 km dia- 90 million km eccentric orbit |
|---|---|
| Audubon: | 4500km dia Arean subtype -130 km million orbit -now terraformed |
| Linnaeus: | 18,000km diameter microjovian subtype- 170 million km orbit - minimal magnetic field Moons of Linnaeus: Tradescant: 3000 km dia- lunar subclass now paraterraformed Lovelock: 1000 km dia-basaltic moon, with subsurface habitats |
| De Bourgainville: | 6000 km dia- arean subclass world - now terraformed - 220 million km orbit- Zarathustran colony |
| Cousteau | 80,000 km dia- jovian -500,000 million km orbit |
 Image from Steve Bowers | |
| The physical features of Audubon were named after types of bird. Early settlements were named after historical naturalists, but later cities have been given names in various local dialects | |
AI | |
| AI powers | ---------------------------- |
|---|---|
| Douglas Planetoid | Karel Tchapek, the original probe AI, has ascended to S:1 and is now affiliated to NoCoZo. Maintains angelnetting over energy stations and inner asteroid belt |
| Audubon | Gosse, the ship AI from the original colony mission, has ascended to S:1 status and is now affiliated to NoCoZo Maintains angelnetting over Audubon and nano immunity over outer planets except Linnaeus Both inner system AIs finally entered an accord with the rival Linnent company transapient, O'Brien, in 7109 after the formal absorption of all 4 remaining Linnent Engenerator colonies into the NoCoZo. Previously Tradescant was an independent company world, the last independent part of the Terranovan Foundation. All three system transapients now form the Audubon Concert, with an undisclosed amount of exchanged consciousness. |
| AI ethos | Noncoercive, inner sphere conservative |
Audubon Emblem |
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Polity | |
| Name | Audubon |
|---|---|
| Symbol | a Blue Magpie |
| Affiliation | Inner Sphere NoCoZo |
| Colonized | 1564 a.t. by the Engenerated Copy Crew (telecopied by laser) |
| Psyche Art and Culture | ----------------------------------------- |
| History | Tradescant was paraterraformed first, using relatively primitive paraterraforming technology. Audubon was terraformed much later, during the ComEmp period, using an advanced worldroof system that is almost completely invisible from space. The Original Crew have established a city-dwelling, high tech culture on Douglas and Audubon, while the Revived Colonists are dedicated green environmentalists mosting inhabiting the agricultural and forested regions of Audubon and De Bourgainville. The Engenerated Copy Crew were the first humans ever transmitted over a distance of several lightyears by engenerator, arriving in 1564. However the Copies became disaffected once the main party of colonists arrived, and moved to Tradescant. There they created the Linnaeus Enterprises empire with support from the Terranova Foundation, and Tradescant became more wealthy than the rest of the solar system combined. Following the recession caused by the Mind Control scandal at Bolobo and two other Engenerator colonies the Copy Crew Clade retreated to a great extent into virtuality, with the Green Colonists tending the abandoned parkland on Tradescant. The Linnaeaus Enterprises empire became the Linn-ent empire, and spread out along the southern edge of the Galactic disk towards the core. These worlds had few wormhole connections, relying to a greater or lesser extent on engenerator links and relativistic trader ships. Despite being informally aligned with the NoCoZo, the Linn-ent Empire became insular and isolated, and has been badly affected by the Oracle War. |
| Metaethics | Engenerated copies are regarded as full citizens, and have the same property rights as the children of the originals (and can be disowned.) Mediation by Zarathustran philosopher/counsellors prevented the Negentropy 45th relativists from bombarding Audubon with kinetic vapour in 4577 during the Version War. |
| Ideology | DeBourgainville is a centre for the Zarathustran philosophy, which arrived with a relativistic crew in 4002 from nearby Gamma Pavonis. The Multicopied colonists and crews have developed an idiosyncratic version of Soul Copy Universalism. Terranovan Empathism has a broad influence in Tradescant and is now popular in all worlds. |
| Culture and Art | Landscape gardening, Virtual world creation, Planetoid fractal architecture (Banks Planetoid, named after Sir Joseph Banks not the well known fabulist), Low Grav ballet and human powered flight |
| Language | : Anglish, Terranovan, Zarathustran dialects, Brev |
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| The paraterraformed moon Tradescant orbits the gas giant Linnaeus, and was the nominal capital of the LinnEnt Empire (an empire built using early engenerator technology). | |
Territory and Population | |
| Population | ----------------------------- |
|---|---|
| Hylocyborg | Asteroids 7 billion Audubon 2 billion Tradescant 3 billion Douglas 500 million |
| tweak | Zarathustran (DeBourganville) 2 billion Linnaeus and Cousteau floating cities 300 million gas giant adapts (Recent Genen initiative) |
| Splice | Zarathustran ( DeBourganville) 1 billion |
| Baseline | Asteroids 5 billion Douglas 300 million Audubon 2 billion Tradescant 1 billion |
| Virtual | 30 billion all cybernodes especially in moonlets around Cousteau |
| Edenist AI symbionts | mostly in HR 8501B system - 1 billion |
| Immigration | ------------------------ |
| inwards | 60 million per annum from Iota Horologi, Gamma Pavonis, Jupiter orbit, Eden and Terranova |
| outwards | 500 million, mostly engenerated copies to Argo vector. |
Government and Administration | |
| Government Type | Cyberdemocracy, Zarathustran Anarchy |
|---|---|
| National holidays | Engenerator Day, Arrival Day, Clemency Day (celebrates the inaction of the Negent Fleet) |
| Constitution | Conforms to Eden declaration of Sapient Rights |
| Legal system | Local systems appeal to relevant AI power, backed up by peripatetic NoCoZo Marshall-substitutes |
| Economics and Local Infrastructure | ---------------------------------- |
| Currencies | Joule, Erg, Credit, Solar share-(conversion is automatic at point of sale) |
| Major Industries | Agriculture, Architecture, Human Adult Realife Engeneration, Virtual entertainments and cosmos creation, Eigenspace detection |
| Major Orbitals | Three hundred asteroids converted to O'Neill and McKendree habitats. The Oort cloud starts at 100 AU due to the influence of HR 8501B. Some 50 Backgrounder habitats are now present (10402 a.t.) |
| Travel | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| Stargates | That's The Way It Is to Gamma Pavonis (Zarathustra) Discovery Channel to Bolobo |
| Major Spaceports | Audubon Beanstalk, Linnaeus L5 Point, HR 8501B Treehouse |
| Hazard Rating | 0.0 |
| Visa Restrictions | Nil |
| Freedom of Movement | No access to Backgrounder habitats at present |
| Environmental Requirements | only Gas Giant adapted clades can survive in the atmospheres of Linnaeus and Cousteau atmosphere without artificial support |
| Sites of Interest | Douglas Fractal Castles, Tradescant Parklands, Audubon baseline flight cities, Genen Floating palaces in Linnaeus and Cousteau |
 Image from Steve Bowers | |
| Audubon is relatively small, and has a gravity of 0.2 gees; this world would quickly lose its atmosphere if the worldhouse roof was removed | |
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Text by Steve Bowers
Initially published on 22 July 2002.
Initially published on 22 July 2002.
