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Nadia
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Galactography > Systems and Worlds > Systems & Worlds M - N
Galactography > Sephirotic Empires > Non-Coercive Zone (NoCoZo)
Galactography > Systems and Worlds > Systems & Worlds M - N
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| Krym, before terraformation, was a lifeless, cool, TundralXeric world. | |
Binary system in the Inner Sphere, originally a LinnEnt colony populated by engenerator technology.
Data Panel - Nadia System | |
| Primary Star | Names: Teplo, Gl 13 A, HD 1273 A, Hip 1349 A Physical characteristics -Mass: 0.98 x Sol -Radius: 0.977 x Sol -Luminosity: 0.89 x Sol -Spectral type: G5V -Rotation Period: 31.02 standard hours -Distance from Sol: 95.886 ly -Constellation: Phoenix -Colonised: (by engenerator) 1845 AT |
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| Secondary Star | Names: Sestra, HD 1273 B Physical characteristics -Mass: 0.11 x Sol -Radius: 0.144 x Sol -Luminosity: 0.00106 x Sol -Spectral type: M6V |
| Orbital Characteristics | Separation between Teplo and Sestra 0.43 AU |
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| Hetman, a Mars-like world with a large moon, Bohdan | |
Planets | |
| Inner Asteroid Belt | Sparse inner asteroid belt from 0.5 AU to 1AU Dwarf Planets: None. Planetary formation has been disrupted in this region by the presence of the red dwarf star Sestra |
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| 1 Krym | (Before Terraformation) -Type TundralXeric -Mass: 0.720 x Earth -Radius: 5731 km -Average Temperature: approx 3 Celsius (extensive glaciation at poles) -Surface Gravity: 0.9 -Moons: None -Semi-major Axis: 1.29 AU -Terraformed in 7466 AT -Orbital Period: 1.403 Standard years |
| 2 Hetman | -Type Arean -Mass: 0.209 x Earth -Radius: 3229 km -Temperature: Approx -20 Celsius -Moons: 1 Major (Bohdan) -Semi-major Axis: 2.44 AU -Orbital Period: 3.65 Standard years |
| 3 Dnipro | -Type: MesoJovian -Mass: 79.98 x Earth -Radius: 49773 km -Temperature:-180 Celsius -Moons: 5 Major (Kyiv, Cherkasy, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson) -Semi-major Axis: 8.11 AU -Orbital Period: 22.12 Standard years |
| Outer Asteroid Belt | Dense outer asteroid belt from 12.2 AU to 13.1 AU Dwarf Planets: 1 (Pryazhka) |
| 4 Moroz | -Type: Cryojovian Type worlds -Mass: 21.9 x Earth -Radius: 31406 km -Temperature:-220 Celsius -Moons: Moons: 3 Major (Melnyk, Boyko, Zelenski) -Semi-major Axis: 16.23 AU -Orbital Period: 62.62 Standard years |
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| Dnipro, a ringed gas giant with several moons | |
System History
Early Exploration and Colonization
While not visible by the naked eye from Old Earth, the existence of the Nadia system was known to Information Age astronomers. However, it would be centuries before any attempt at detailed exploration was made. Though the pre-Technocalypse specifics are disputed, it is thought that the Cislunar Alliance launched the first interstellar flyby probe during the Interplanetary Age. Due to the slow speed of the probe and the intervening destruction of the Technocalypse contact was lost. Nadian archeologist have discovered traces of other visitations during the Interplanetary Dark Age and Early First Federation periods, including the ruins of a vec colony on Hetman, but none seemed to have flourished. Interest in Nadia eventually reemerged as Terragen colonization moved ever outward. During the 1600s AT, Linnaeus Enterprises (LinnEnt), then a subsidiary of the Terranova Foundation megacorp, dispatched von Neumann-enabled settlement craft to establish initial infrastructure and build the system's first engenerators. This spaceship was crewed by a single S1 hyperturing named Thoughtful Benefactor, created to be the controlling intelligence of Nadia's engenerator systems and to be an overseer of the colony's development. Image from Steve Bowers | |
| Moroz, a cold ice giant at the edge of this system | |
After constructing Nadia's engenerator facilities and its surrounding infrastructure, which included lightways and beamrider network nodes, Thoughtful Benefactor sent a message to the closest LinnEnt branch office deeming the system ready to receive modosophont colonists. Shortly thereafter, the office began to transmit the colonists data to Nadia, where they were engenerated in bodies designed according to specifications defined by contract. The first engenerated colonists belonged to a splinter faction of the Cosmossack trust network. While most Cosmossacks joined the First Federation some sought to move further afield to preserve their autonomy. One such group, led by the Shevchenko sisters, eventually purchased passage to the Nadia system from LinnEnt. Awakening in their new cloned bodies, the first colonists noticed that Thoughtful Benefactor was mostly interested in operating and maintaining eir facilities, and because of this the rest of the star system was left completely undeveloped. Provided that the colonists did not try to interfere with Thoughtful Benefactor's day-to-day operations, e wouldn't interfere with them either.
The first colonists initially settled in the system's outer asteroid belt. Located beyond the frost line, the outer belt possessed the required volitiles and other raw materials to begin colonization. Per the agreement with LinnEnt, no other groups were allowed to settle in the system for 200 years and Thoughtful Benefactor collaborated with the emerging modosophont governments to enforce this policy. During those first two centuries, the Cosmossacks spread as rapidly as possible building new stations in the outer belt and establishing a presence the system's largest planet Dnipro. In 2045 AT, new colonists were engenerated and established their own communities. Initially, there was little tension between the various settler groups and business interests that established themselves with in the vast system. Thoughtful Benefactor and other LinnEnt authorities provided little in the way of oversight beyond registering claims, providing engeneration-related services (notably, engeneration eventually grew to be as an attractive alternative to conventional life extension methods) and collecting a small amount of taxes. This however changed by the 2400s AT. LinnEnt increasingly acted as a multi-system polity and began exercising increasing control over the system's burgeoning population attempting to regulate lightway and beamrider network traffic. Unsurprisingly the trust the local modosophonts had with the megacorp and the transapient was broken, tensions rose and conflicts broke out as LinnEnt tried to enforce their contracts. Nevertheless, Thoughtful Benefactor ultimately established control over the system and made it a part of the LinnEnt's empire. The system even managed cordial, if albeit distant, contact with other contemporaries such as the Second Federation based in Solsys. However, animosity simmered under the surface and many LinnEnt detractors now labeled the hyperturing as The Taskmaster. Over the next millennium, Nadia continued to develop with new societies proliferating.
The Scramble and Confederation Eras (3932 - 6106 AT)
In 3932, Thoughtful Benefactor abruptly ceased operating on LinnEnt's behalf and left the system. The resulting power gap produced what in system history is termed the Scramble. The myriad of different high-tech polities, organizations, and factions, now freed from transapient supervision, competed and fought amongst themselves for resources and influence. The Scrabble continued for nearly three decades and witnessed a kaleidoscope of violence and shifting alliances. In 3961, the Hetman Peoples League and the Association of Hetmanian Orbitals devolved into open conflict with heavy use of nuclear and nanotech weapons that left much of the planet's surface in ruins and its orbital space devastated by Kessler Syndrome. With deaths estimated in the hundreds of millions, the event proved the catalyst for a number of transapient entities in the system to reveal themselves and call for a system-wide truce. Led by an entity known as Able Marshal, the transapients created a loose peacekeeping structure to prevent major wars. To manage modosophont disputes, most of the system's major polities formed the Nadian Confederation. The Confederation was not a system-wide government but did provide platforms for arbitration. Nonetheless, over the next thousand years, conflicts continued sporadically between various groups with transapient intervention occurring only in the most serious cases. During this time, some of the emerging Sephirotics established a presence in the system but none gained preeminence. In this era, the system largely lacked a unified culture becoming an assortment of societies colored by the influx of Inner Sphere adventurers, minority groups, and political dissidents. During the turbulent mid-4000s AT, Nadia became a destination for refugees fleeing the Version War. Another one of the major events during this time was the visitation of the S3 entity Roaming Kindness during the 5670s AT whose 84km long ultratech ISO made a distinct impression on the system.
Integration Era (6106 AT — Present)
In 6106 AT, Nadia gained Wormhole Nexus access with the opening of the Zoloti Gate to Relay 8. This newfound connectivity allowed the once isolated Nadia system much faster access to the rest of the Terragen Sphere, and more powerful transapients began operating in the system. Within decades, many in the system felt the need for a more effective government than the decentralized Confederation. In 7159 AT the Union of Nadian Nations and Sophonts (UNNS) was established. The UNNS functioned as a federalized cyberdemocracy transapientocracy hybrid that over the next few centuries united most of the polities and people in the system. However, some groups and transapients remained independent, especially in the system's Kuiper Belt. While the UNNS did not officially join any of the Sepheriotics it maintained close ties with the NoCoZo. Over the next five millennium Nadia witnessed massive growth. The system's first planet Krym was finally terraformed in 7466 AT. Its population either relocated or adapted to live in one of the planet's terrestrial or aquatic cities. A number of megastructres were built including the Yaroslav Bishop Ring and the Embetatron Virch Giga-Complex in orbit around Moroz. Nadian culturally became increasingly cosmopolitan and diverse as it became a fully integrated member of the Inner Sphere.
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| Fenestral City on Krym, located in the Main Ocean. This city was founded in the 84th century | |
Nadia in the Current Era
Political and Cultural Geography
Though the nature of Nadia's binary stars prevented any planets from stabilizing close in, the region now hosts an array of habitats, computronium nodes, solar collectors, and other structures. The sparse inner asteroid belt has been mostly dismantled to facilitate construction. Krym is a beautifully terraformed world under the auspices of the transapients Wind Flowers and the Counter of Clouds. Nadia has become an important destination for tourists where dropball is a popular pastime. Hetman is home to scores of polities both on and below the surface. The three most prominent being the Free State of Pheonix, Hetman Collective, and the Vec dominated United Tunnel Republic. A dozen space elevators service a well-developed orbital planetary ring. Dnipro, its moons, and orbital space are by far the most populated area in the system containing around 45% of the system's total population. Moroz is now home to a number of massive virch complexes making this former backwater a significant population center in its own right. While there is no single system-wide culture in Nadia, a revised version of the old Kosmohorovit language used during the early days of system colonization functions as a lingua franca in many locations. Nadia is religiously and philosophically diverse with most major faiths having some presence. The system is home to the Universal Christ Church, an offshoot of the Cosmossack New Orthodoxy denomination. Dnipro also has a number of Jovism derived sects.
Population
As with most systems, the vast majority of Nadia's citizens are virtuals. Likewise, most live off-world. In the Current Era, Nadia's population is just as diverse and transitory as most Inner Sphere worlds. However, descendants of the original Cosmossack settlers can still be found mostly operating independently in the outer asteroid or Kuiper belts. Many had long ago adapted to life as low-gravity tweaks but a few groups have resettled as nebs on Krym, some even living in low-tech societies on the planet's grasslands.
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Development Notes
Text by MacGregor
Additional material by ProxCenBound and Steve Bowers
Initially published on 19 November 2010.
Updated June 2024
Additional material by ProxCenBound and Steve Bowers
Initially published on 19 November 2010.
Updated June 2024
