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Galactography > Systems and Worlds > Systems & Worlds O - P
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| Purcell currently has two complete layers of habitable environment suspended inside its atmosphere | |
Purcell - the Osmin System - Data Panel | |
| Star | Osmin, TYC 6305-2141-1 Type G1V Luminosity 0.55 x Sol Distance from Sol 121 ly Mass 0.846 Constellation Sagittarius |
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| Planet 1 | Purcell. Type AmmoNeptunian GeliJotunnian HydrogeoBarian Semi-major axis = 4.99 AU, Orbital period = 12.1 years, Eccentricity = 0.045, Mass = 19.59 x Earth, Radius = 4.9 x Earth |
| Planet 2 | Siochan. Type CryoNeptunian GeliJotunnian HydrogeoBarian Semi-major axis = 8.21 AU, Orbital period = 25.56 years, Eccentricity = 0.06, Mass = 14.11 x Earth, Radius = 4.1 x Earth |
During the Version War this system was attacked in 4498 by a Negentropist fleet from Rho1 Sagittarii. The system itself was not militarised at this time, so the inhabitants were largely defenseless; most of the conflict centered around the stargate in distant orbit around the star, and the wormhole stations were damaged with many casualties.
Negentropist forces occupied the planetary system, and commandeered many of the planetoids in the local belt for logistical resources. However the stargate archai in the Osmin system refused to submit to the Negentropist assault, and closed the traversable throat of the gate. This meant the Negentropists could no longer use this link as means to attack other systems, but it also denied the use of this connection to the MPA. In 4512 the Negentropist Fleet (now considerably larger) left the system to target several nearby systems which had been subject to MPA counterattacks. The Purcell system remained under occupation by a remnant Revisionist occupation force until the end of the War.
The Purcell BubbleShell and Hominism
During the ComEmp period the numerous bubblehabs in the atmosphere of Purcell began to align themselves into a single circumplanetary strip. Not all of these habs were occupied yet, but they linked together in 5121 for mutual support and stability. Gradually the number of habitats increased, under the encouragement of the transapient Raed (an ex-Metal Monkey), until they formed a continuous interconnected shell supported entirely by gas pressure. This was acheived in 7669. During this period a large fraction of the population (both Talking Baboon and Metal Monkey) adopted the religion or cult known as Hominism. Hominism is the belief that Human Beings are inherently worthy of respect, more worthy in many ways that their own mindchildren such as vecs and provolves, because it was humans who were responsible for the creation of both sophont robots and sophont animals.The Hominists on Purcell, and on several other worlds, developed a distinctive way of paying respect to humanity; most of them opted for transformative medical morphism, changing their body-type into human form. Both provolves and vecs, and several other clades of the inhabitants of this system, changed themselves into idealised humans. These neo-humans occupied the extensive surface of the bubble shell within Purcell, fifty kilometres below the cold surface clouds of ammonia and illuminated by floating sun-clouds.
Despite their human appearance, the Hominists still retained many of the behavioral characteristics of their original phyle, and often formed cultures that were significantly different from normal human examples. The baboon-humans lived in large wandering troops, often ranging over large areas of the Purcell shellworld; and the vec-humans preferred to live in clean, well-organised cities with predictable and constrained patterns of behaviour.
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| Currently Purcell has two concentric layers of continuous habitable surface supported by gas pressure. | |
In the Current Era a third layer, with an even more extreme environment, has been commenced, but it is many centuries from completion at present.
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Text by Steve Bowers
Initially published on 21 June 2021.
Initially published on 21 June 2021.
