=The Midorian Domain=
The Midorian Domain
What do they value?: This state places a high priority on the sanctity of life, and preserving consciousness.
What do they despise?: They have difficulty comprehending murder, and when it happens, the committer is "corrected"
What kind of state are they?: The Midorian post-humans live as a partial hivemind, and as a utopian communist state. The Midorian humans live in a socialist society under the watchful eyes of the post-humans.
What is their population?: Their populace is split into two groups. The first is made entirely up of humans, who are permitted to live out their lives in an approximation of 23rd century Earth, after which they are granted the choice of dying naturally or being converted to a post-human, machine state. They achieve this via neuron replacement therapy with nanorobots, and the freshly converted brain is reconfigured to fit society's new standards and uploaded to the mechanical populace's neural network. The mechanical populace never directly interacts with the human populace, as that would be interfering with the sacred lives of those below. The only exceptions are granted for preventing disasters, harvesting minds, and giving advanced medical assistance.
How large is their population?: The on-planet population is approximately five hundred million humans, at this time. The ascended population is currently close to two billion, and grows with every new death on-planet, albeit the vast majority do not have access to a physical body.
How much infrastructure have they set up?: Much of their current infrastructure is dedicated to two things - redundant information storage and networking, to prevent loss of consciousness and sacred life, and on-planet cities with all of the amenities that 23rd century Earth cities had. To date, they have a number of orbital material processing and scientific facilities around their planet, and a number of enormous cities planetside.
How much technology have they already salvaged or developed?: They have salvaged absolutely no technology, preferring not to interfere if necessary. Their technological developments have been mostly limited to medical technologies, data storage, organic matter synthesis, and mining - weapons and propulsion are very low on their list of priorities due to their lack of any notion of time.
Who leads them?: The Midorians have no "leader" at this time, instead preferring direct voting via the neural network. The Midorian human populace is led by the Midorian post-humans indirectly.
What sort of bloke is s/he/it?: N/A
How does s/he/it actually command?: Partial hivemind. Priority decisions are made on the spot by the entire mechanical populace simultaneously, and instructions are sent out immediately after the decision has been made as a species.
What does s/he/it have to deal with to do stuff?: Very little, as humans are "corrected" when being brought into the fold of the many, removing most human instincts.
What do they value?: This state places a high priority on the sanctity of life, and preserving consciousness.
What do they despise?: They have difficulty comprehending murder, and when it happens, the committer is "corrected"
What kind of state are they?: The Midorian post-humans live as a partial hivemind, and as a utopian communist state. The Midorian humans live in a socialist society under the watchful eyes of the post-humans.
What is their population?: Their populace is split into two groups. The first is made entirely up of humans, who are permitted to live out their lives in an approximation of 23rd century Earth, after which they are granted the choice of dying naturally or being converted to a post-human, machine state. They achieve this via neuron replacement therapy with nanorobots, and the freshly converted brain is reconfigured to fit society's new standards and uploaded to the mechanical populace's neural network. The mechanical populace never directly interacts with the human populace, as that would be interfering with the sacred lives of those below. The only exceptions are granted for preventing disasters, harvesting minds, and giving advanced medical assistance.
How large is their population?: The on-planet population is approximately five hundred million humans, at this time. The ascended population is currently close to two billion, and grows with every new death on-planet, albeit the vast majority do not have access to a physical body.
How much infrastructure have they set up?: Much of their current infrastructure is dedicated to two things - redundant information storage and networking, to prevent loss of consciousness and sacred life, and on-planet cities with all of the amenities that 23rd century Earth cities had. To date, they have a number of orbital material processing and scientific facilities around their planet, and a number of enormous cities planetside.
How much technology have they already salvaged or developed?: They have salvaged absolutely no technology, preferring not to interfere if necessary. Their technological developments have been mostly limited to medical technologies, data storage, organic matter synthesis, and mining - weapons and propulsion are very low on their list of priorities due to their lack of any notion of time.
Who leads them?: The Midorians have no "leader" at this time, instead preferring direct voting via the neural network. The Midorian human populace is led by the Midorian post-humans indirectly.
What sort of bloke is s/he/it?: N/A
How does s/he/it actually command?: Partial hivemind. Priority decisions are made on the spot by the entire mechanical populace simultaneously, and instructions are sent out immediately after the decision has been made as a species.
What does s/he/it have to deal with to do stuff?: Very little, as humans are "corrected" when being brought into the fold of the many, removing most human instincts.
What was it's name?: The Wayfarer
What type of ship was it (aside from being a colony ship)?: A simple ship - a cubic habitation module mounted on the end of a scaffold separating it from its thrusters (due to safety concerns related to radiation)
What defended it?: Sheer durability and system redundancy.
How advanced was it?: 22nd century technology - unreliable, easy to break, and relatively slow. Its Terraforming kit was made up of a series of genetic samples from all known Earth species, alive and extinct alike, as well as enormous quantities of bacteria.
Do you think it should still have more to salvage from it?: Not at all. This thing was broken when they arrived at their new home, and scrapped immediately for recycling into the planet's infrastructure and the first space station.
How long do you reckon it should theoretically take to get it running again, after acquiring all of the relevant technologies?: Were it still intact, it would be incapable of functioning even as well as a small modern ship.
What type of ship was it (aside from being a colony ship)?: A simple ship - a cubic habitation module mounted on the end of a scaffold separating it from its thrusters (due to safety concerns related to radiation)
What defended it?: Sheer durability and system redundancy.
How advanced was it?: 22nd century technology - unreliable, easy to break, and relatively slow. Its Terraforming kit was made up of a series of genetic samples from all known Earth species, alive and extinct alike, as well as enormous quantities of bacteria.
Do you think it should still have more to salvage from it?: Not at all. This thing was broken when they arrived at their new home, and scrapped immediately for recycling into the planet's infrastructure and the first space station.
How long do you reckon it should theoretically take to get it running again, after acquiring all of the relevant technologies?: Were it still intact, it would be incapable of functioning even as well as a small modern ship.
What type of planet did they land on?: Earthlike planet, similar mass and distance from a similar star. 65% of the planet is covered in water, but the planet is rather humid as well.
Name: Midoria 1, Home of the Domain
Do you think it should have the remnants of any previous inhabitants?: There were no previous inhabitants - a dead planet in the right spot.
Do you think it should've been already inhabited, and your Nation had to waste resources invading it?: Dead planet with no worthwhile resources for other species to mine for. The only resources spent were the terraforming kit in the mothership.
What sort of atmosphere does it have?: Similar composition to Earth's atmosphere, albeit with a slightly higher concentration of oxygen.
How many continents?: Five continents, many of which are interconnected by land bridges or ice.
How big is it?: 5% larger than Earth in terms of mass.
How bountiful do you think it should be, in terms of biomass and materials?: Watery and barren planet at first. Certain areas, where the human population lives, have been successfully covered in Earth flora and fauna, which are slowly spreading through the wasteland as more minerals are processed into artificial soil by the mobile mining rigs up above.
Does it have any unusual materials or minerals in its' surface?: The usual - nothing particularly special that couldn't have been mined on Earth. It's a very baseline planet.
Does it have any other unusual features?: One. There is a single enormous mountain, housing an extremely deep cavern system, and it is suspected to have been, at one time long ago, a volcano. The Midorians have taken to referring to it as Mount Olympus, in reference to an ancient Earth religion.
Name: Midoria 1, Home of the Domain
Do you think it should have the remnants of any previous inhabitants?: There were no previous inhabitants - a dead planet in the right spot.
Do you think it should've been already inhabited, and your Nation had to waste resources invading it?: Dead planet with no worthwhile resources for other species to mine for. The only resources spent were the terraforming kit in the mothership.
What sort of atmosphere does it have?: Similar composition to Earth's atmosphere, albeit with a slightly higher concentration of oxygen.
How many continents?: Five continents, many of which are interconnected by land bridges or ice.
How big is it?: 5% larger than Earth in terms of mass.
How bountiful do you think it should be, in terms of biomass and materials?: Watery and barren planet at first. Certain areas, where the human population lives, have been successfully covered in Earth flora and fauna, which are slowly spreading through the wasteland as more minerals are processed into artificial soil by the mobile mining rigs up above.
Does it have any unusual materials or minerals in its' surface?: The usual - nothing particularly special that couldn't have been mined on Earth. It's a very baseline planet.
Does it have any other unusual features?: One. There is a single enormous mountain, housing an extremely deep cavern system, and it is suspected to have been, at one time long ago, a volcano. The Midorians have taken to referring to it as Mount Olympus, in reference to an ancient Earth religion.
What sort of vessel is it?: A single, monolithic carrier and mineral processing rig, dedicated to processing mined materials into usable resources.
How big is it?: This mining monstrosity is in the range of four kilometers, albeit very lightly constructed. The vast majority of the space is made up of scaffolding, leading to an overall density more akin to a gas than a ship
What's it look like?: An enormous rigging of scaffolds, with occasional gas bags, docking racks, and warehouses. There are a number of smaller structures on it that appear akin to ancient Earth smelters.
What sort of engines, 'real' and FTL? The ship itself is equipped with one Nuclear Pulse Plate and a hefty stockpile of thrust charges, along with several much weaker ion thrusters. Its FTL system is a rudimentary and weak Flock drive.
The ship itself has no "weapons" to speak of, however, it does carry 30 Mining Drones.
How big is it?: This mining monstrosity is in the range of four kilometers, albeit very lightly constructed. The vast majority of the space is made up of scaffolding, leading to an overall density more akin to a gas than a ship
What's it look like?: An enormous rigging of scaffolds, with occasional gas bags, docking racks, and warehouses. There are a number of smaller structures on it that appear akin to ancient Earth smelters.
What sort of engines, 'real' and FTL? The ship itself is equipped with one Nuclear Pulse Plate and a hefty stockpile of thrust charges, along with several much weaker ion thrusters. Its FTL system is a rudimentary and weak Flock drive.
The ship itself has no "weapons" to speak of, however, it does carry 30 Mining Drones.
What sort of vessel is it?: A small, remotely controlled mining drone.
How big is it?: Fifty meters in length.
What's it look like?: A blocky drone, carrying a single gas bag beneath its hull and a series of cargo crates in its sides. It features a series of "legs", each mounting thrusters, and two manipulator arms, each mounting a mining laser and a gripping device. It has a vaguely insectoid appearance, and when unladen, is roughly the mass of a 20th century Space Shuttle.
What sort of engines, 'real' and FTL? The mining drone is equipped with a high power ion based thruster, and runs off of either stockpiled fuel or fuel gathered from the interstellar medium. It mounts a rudimentary, miniaturized Flock FTL system.
The mining drone, in line with Midorian beliefs in the sanctity of life and consciousness, comes equipped with a simple automated medical bay for emergency consciousness uploading.
How big is it?: Fifty meters in length.
What's it look like?: A blocky drone, carrying a single gas bag beneath its hull and a series of cargo crates in its sides. It features a series of "legs", each mounting thrusters, and two manipulator arms, each mounting a mining laser and a gripping device. It has a vaguely insectoid appearance, and when unladen, is roughly the mass of a 20th century Space Shuttle.
What sort of engines, 'real' and FTL? The mining drone is equipped with a high power ion based thruster, and runs off of either stockpiled fuel or fuel gathered from the interstellar medium. It mounts a rudimentary, miniaturized Flock FTL system.
The mining drone, in line with Midorian beliefs in the sanctity of life and consciousness, comes equipped with a simple automated medical bay for emergency consciousness uploading.
A small drone, 10 meters long.
Extremely industrial, no aesthetics or armoring.
Powered by a fission reactor, equipped with several squidlike manipulator arms, and an array of various construction lasers. No FTL system, very rudimentary ion thrusters.
Extremely industrial, no aesthetics or armoring.
Powered by a fission reactor, equipped with several squidlike manipulator arms, and an array of various construction lasers. No FTL system, very rudimentary ion thrusters.
Here rest the remains of the original Wayfarer, all of its resources used up for the production of basic mining vessels and planetside cities. It serves as a docking point for material canisters intended for transfer to Midoria, and as a basic point of reference for orbital ship construction. It is in geosynchronous orbit around the planet, above the continent in which all of Midoria's cities lie, and acts as a communications satellite - albeit a relatively poor one, given the distance to the planet.
The Midorians originally set out from Earth a few millennia prior to the other drifters, as a group of like-minded Spacers who felt the species would only survive if it spread into the stars. The technology present on the Wayfarer was roughly middle of the road when it originally set out, but it is absolutely pitiful by modern standards. A lack of heavy defenses left it to the whims of the universe, and it was struck by a cosmic radiation burst in transit, damaging a significant portion of its life support system and cutting its population support by half. Humans don't particularly appreciate dying, so the Midorians immediately began researching ways to save all of the crew rather than drawing straws. The oxygen supply slowly dropped over the course of a few years, killing off those who weren't able to adapt to the higher carbon dioxide concentration, and desperation built up until eventually they tried to develop a method of surviving death. The first several waves of experiments resulted in every patient dying, until the first successful brain conversion. Given a taste of success, the trials continued with a 95% mortality rate amongst the volunteers over the years, until the technology behind nanotech based neuron replacement therapy was perfected. Immediately, the surviving population was (against their will) cut down to "manageable" sizes by forced conversion.
Further damage to the colony ship over the several millennia of drifting towards their destination continued cutting down its organic life support potential and spurring further increases in its "ascended" population, until they finally reached their destination - a single Earthlike planet in the Andromeda galaxy. Upon arrival, they were unable to support more than 10% of their original "living" population.
During this period of death, conversion, and waiting, a sort of "religion" sprung up - a longing for life on Earth as humans, originating from the memories of the first few generations of post-humans. A vote was held, with a unanimous decision to bring back the life they once knew on Earth and protect it at all costs, along with a successful vote to bring those who lived a full and happy life into the world of machines, where they would be allowed to continue existing and working with their family and friends.
Further damage to the colony ship over the several millennia of drifting towards their destination continued cutting down its organic life support potential and spurring further increases in its "ascended" population, until they finally reached their destination - a single Earthlike planet in the Andromeda galaxy. Upon arrival, they were unable to support more than 10% of their original "living" population.
During this period of death, conversion, and waiting, a sort of "religion" sprung up - a longing for life on Earth as humans, originating from the memories of the first few generations of post-humans. A vote was held, with a unanimous decision to bring back the life they once knew on Earth and protect it at all costs, along with a successful vote to bring those who lived a full and happy life into the world of machines, where they would be allowed to continue existing and working with their family and friends.
