Greetings, people of OA

[Rho Ophiuchi]

Backing up a bit to an earlier question:

It doesn't appear that the Rho Ophiuchi complex is currently 'owned' by any particular group or polity in the setting.

There are some passing mentions of a Rho Ophiuchi sector, but not of the system itself.

Looking at the description in Wikipedia, it looks like an interesting place with lots of possibilities in OA terms.

Hope this helps,

Todd

Rho Ophiuchi complex  is mentioned here in "Ammonite" , but it's from 20 years ago so you can basically do what you want
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/45f0d075d7101

and technically Rho Ophiuchi is  mentioned in 3 other places , but that doesn't matter. you have free reign, as Todd says

"Ammonites are classified in the phylum Mollusca, class Cephalopoda, subclass Ammonoidea. With the notable exception of a number of bioborged and biochipped pet clades of the Psyke Genesis Superbrights of the Rho Ophiuchi Complex, ammonites have not been provolved; their brains are less developed than those of coleoid molluscs, and many suffer from faulty genome templates (stemming from poor lazurogenics by a number of amateur mesozoic enthusiasts) making them somewhat difficult to work with."




Technically yes, but making habitats protected from some of the higher temperatures might be a good idea anyway 
I think categorizing them as 'cyborgs' specifically is limiting? Bioborgs, and tweaks also might work as a description. I personally don't know enough about organic chemistry to say whether multicellular life could exist at 400 C in high pressure water, (maybe with OA tech, but I'm guessing, nobody in the present day knows if life can adapt to such an environment... yet) but... AFAIK that might be pushing a limit? there's definitely interesting possibilities for creating an artificial ecosystem in such an environment. I or someone else can ask our more knowledgeable members
do these colonists need to be humanoid? maybe they're a dolphin clade of Terragen? Mostly sentient octopi?  Bioborg tweaked whales with a hundred arms and nanofactories inside their bodies? all three? bioluminescent manta rays? swarms of kaiju-like hive minded bodies that eat the farmed extremophile ecosystems?  Aside from the tempuratures/ pressures, the trouble here is human bodies aren't so useful in an ocean obviously.



random idea: as a potential source of conflict, if you like, could be a failed terraforming effort (failures in histories are welcome!) that tries to lower the temperature to something within earth range, but displaces the initially extremophile adapted life from the original colonists. But then due to political+ technical pressures, they end the terraformation effort in favor of orbital habitats again, which are what most people live in anyway. or something else.

Hello Drashner1 and Dfleymmes1134,

Thank you for your advice - it was greatly appreciated!

If possible, is there a way to access pages of the EG on systems of about the same distance as Rho Ophiuchi (360ly from Sol)? Also, would a minor polity even be able to exist around a system like Rho Ophiuchi? I presume the system would be decently high-value due to having two B-stars in it. If a minor polity could exist, what would be the lowest plausible toposophic level capable of holding onto it (and building a basic starlifter)?

In any case, regarding colonization, I do not mind the colonists being non-humanoid, but it would be preferable if their ancestors were at some point in the past human. My thinking regarding the high temperatures was that the planet was just one of the ocean worlds that had no clear distinction between the surface and atmosphere, which could lead to a sort of "layered" colonization effort. The idea of being sort of like manta rays is a good one, as that might work in both a light liquid and an extremely compacted gas - as might a squid-type design with very large fins. A combination of this bodyplan with some humanoid components might work - with most of the body (including the exterior) being a combination cybernetic/neogen hybrid of some kind, and a small part in the interior being an actively cooled, heavily-genemodded human.

I could also envision sophonts living both at the bottom of the planetary atmosphere/ocean, and ones with a more aerodynamic bodyplan living nearer the top.

Also, what does "kaiju" mean?

Sincerely,
Rho Ophiuchi