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Galactography > Sephirotic Empires > Non-Coercive Zone (NoCoZo)
Galactography > Systems and Worlds > Systems & Worlds S - T
Former Doran Empire colony inhabited by dwarf cybertweaks. | |
 Image from Steve Bowers | |
| Sesharia orbits Thraub, a pyroazurian gas giant | |
Sesharia (HR 637) - Data Panel | |
| System: | Sesharia |
|---|---|
| Primary: | GL 86, HR 637 |
| Stellar Type: | K0V; close orbiting binary — combined habitable zone 0.6AU |
| Companion: | GL86 b White dwarf; before this star became a white dwarf it was a bright star in the sky of Thraub and heated that planet significantly. |
| Region: | 35 ly from Sol, constellation Eridanus |
| Major Planet and Moons: | GL86 b: Thraub - PyroAzurian hydrogeo-Uppergiant; 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 - 200 km diameter rocky moon with several insulated cities and power collection arrays |
| Important Local Artificial Intelligences: | Local AI powers: The Contingency Crew, a loosely concerted group of SI:2-SI:3 hyperturings with various provenances. AIs' 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: Currently NoCoZo, former Doran Empire world and frontier with the Eridanus League. Colonized: 1102 AT 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 AT allowed increasing human cyberinterfacing, sometimes combined with germline engineering to produce radically-altered posthuman tweak-cyborgs. One of these factions, the cyber-tweak Doran clade, set off from Solsys in an amat-fusion hybrid ship from Toutatis asteroid in 629 AT, and first set up a colony at Dorannok (GL 877). The Dorans later spread out among the red and orange dwarfs of the Inner Sphere, arriving at HR 637 in 1133 AT. During this time they absorbed influences from many different cultures, including Nova Terra. The clade that set up on the hot, hermian moons Secharia, Hiresia and Dreir orbiting the large blue gas giant Thraub called themselves the Secha. Secha individuals are tweaked for low gravity, but their bodies are very compact with short arms and legs to compensate for low bonecell stressing. The Secha dwarfs use exosuits to increase their strength, mobility and size. Some of these exosuits resemble normal-sized or giant humans, and others resemble spiders, snakes or caterpillars; these large suits allow them to move rapidly through the boulder-strewn regolith of Secharia and Drier. Later in their history the Secharians developed flying versions, for use in rotating habitats and on the paraterraformed surfaces of the various moons. Secharia made contact with nearby p Eridani in 1307 AT, and soon trading vessels were carrying genetic material, hi-tech components and computronium, and also large numbers of colonists, between the two systems. After this time, Secharia became a point of contact and interaction between the Eridanus League and the Doran Empire. In 1599 AT 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 Consolidation 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 Terragen Federation in 5855. Metapsychology: Clan Sesha tweak-cyborgs are space adapted, but many 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, Bojiangnese 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 Terragen 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 Terragen 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 = |
| 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, Dreir |
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Text by Steve Bowers
Initially published on 04 August 2002.
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