Out in the fringes of sol, there's a trinary planet system that has yet to be discovered. To be more accurate, [] and [-] orbit each other while [--] orbits in the distance, tugging on both of them. This has created the tidal stress that has made oceans beneath the surface of two of these worlds, one of which having gained a atmosphere not too unlike Titan's. Alongside these icy worlds multiple comets have been captured by this planet system, making it a island of activity in a vast realm of emptiness.
The founders of the first colonies established "living zones" in the icy crusts of these worlds, making use of the water within the planet itself and the rocky core to sustain society on a frigid world in the middle of nowhere for centuries if not millennia. Life was engineered by the founders to colonize the seas, adapted to survive in the pitch black aquatic abyss of worlds where such oceans existed. They also brought much of the technology still used today- submarines that can go to the mineral rich, rocky core of [-], aircraft adapted to low gravity environments, exocraft that can fly all the way to any world within the [] system and far more. Everything else since simply being further modifications from that the Founders have sowed. All this was achieved in but decades with the Founder's vision in place. Than everything went dark. Contact with each inexplicably lost, abandoned by the Terrans on this world- stability collapsed as the people of the system factionalized. All that was ages ago.
Ever since, the political divides have became cultural divides. The Founder's vision perverted across hundreds of polities that are the product of split after split, the three hundred thousand people* who live on this world being split between dozens of separate polities. The people have simultaneously adapted and transformed a environment they never were supposed to ever exist in, conflict between each other perhaps having gone back since the Great Failure.
But as the sun glows brighter and our worlds draw nearer to Earth and the other planets, a question has been posed: Is there a light at the end of this tunnel?
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For those confused, basically this is a NRP with small, but technologically advanced human populations on a ice planet who are descended from a initial colonization and have developed for hundreds if not thousands of years in isolation from Earth. The planet has been colonized with life that now lives in the deep seas and in a few "green zones" built underground within the planet's icy crust (or even into the rocky core of the planet itself). There's multiple "worlds" in this RP- mainly the main ice planet and its two spherical moons along with some icy comets captured in orbit.
There's a limit on the overall population in the hundreds of thousands (this doesn't include bots or the engineered life forms of course), so don't make any large empires okay? Think more in terms of city-states than imperiums. More hegemonies or confederations than empires. However, give that there's a lot of time between the founders and the now, you can develop very different cultures here.
Tech wise you are aloud tech that's logical to colonizing a ice planet. This is not a resource rich place, so a major polity alone probably will not be able to conduct a expedition to the inner parts of sol.
Here's a outline of this planetary system. I am horrible at names so i've yet to come up with any.
-[]: A large world, around the size of mars. Extremely cold and unnervingly chaotic terrain remiscent of Pluto or Triton. The planet has a reducing atmosphere (the sky has fallen seasonally, the atmosphere is currently thawing however) and mountain ranges of clouds cover parts of the surface. It's basically like a larger pluto with a less tenuous atmosphere. Methane-ice is heavier here than any other world, it should be noted. There is a subglacial ocean as well.
-[-]; This world is more akin to Europa than Titan or Pluto, with numerous tiger stripes rupturing about the surface and extremely active cyrovolcanism that is ongoing. This world has a mineral rich core and a deep water ocean warmed by the tidal pressures of [] and [--]. Life has been introduced to this world the most due to having a more hospitable sea than [].
-[--]; This world's pretty much a dry, frozen solid world more Akin to Callisto or Eris. It is reddened by Tholins more than the other worlds, kind of like Sedna. Ices are on this planet, but there is no ocean below and it is for all intents and purposes a dead world geologically and meteorologically. It orbits comparatively far from the other two worlds, but on it lies some very strange artifacts from the Founders themselves...
Alongside these worlds, there's also some much smaller satellites that orbit further out.
*Yes, that many. Yes, on a planet made of ice.
Tech-wise, try not to get too fancy. This is not a resource rich place. Tech-wise, try to be minimalistic is what i'm saying. Researching resource intensive, advanced tech is hard when you are just trying to keep your polity afloat while engaging in skirmishes with neighboring polities after all.
All nations should originate from within the planetary system, so no outsiders at all please. No AI probes from sol, no astronauts from earth or aliens. Or alien probes from earth for that matter.
Just throwing this out there. If there's interest I will move forward with names, maps and so forth.
Update 1;
No more green zones, just Make sure your colony has some hydroponics modules instead.
The founders of the first colonies established "living zones" in the icy crusts of these worlds, making use of the water within the planet itself and the rocky core to sustain society on a frigid world in the middle of nowhere for centuries if not millennia. Life was engineered by the founders to colonize the seas, adapted to survive in the pitch black aquatic abyss of worlds where such oceans existed. They also brought much of the technology still used today- submarines that can go to the mineral rich, rocky core of [-], aircraft adapted to low gravity environments, exocraft that can fly all the way to any world within the [] system and far more. Everything else since simply being further modifications from that the Founders have sowed. All this was achieved in but decades with the Founder's vision in place. Than everything went dark. Contact with each inexplicably lost, abandoned by the Terrans on this world- stability collapsed as the people of the system factionalized. All that was ages ago.
Ever since, the political divides have became cultural divides. The Founder's vision perverted across hundreds of polities that are the product of split after split, the three hundred thousand people* who live on this world being split between dozens of separate polities. The people have simultaneously adapted and transformed a environment they never were supposed to ever exist in, conflict between each other perhaps having gone back since the Great Failure.
But as the sun glows brighter and our worlds draw nearer to Earth and the other planets, a question has been posed: Is there a light at the end of this tunnel?
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For those confused, basically this is a NRP with small, but technologically advanced human populations on a ice planet who are descended from a initial colonization and have developed for hundreds if not thousands of years in isolation from Earth. The planet has been colonized with life that now lives in the deep seas and in a few "green zones" built underground within the planet's icy crust (or even into the rocky core of the planet itself). There's multiple "worlds" in this RP- mainly the main ice planet and its two spherical moons along with some icy comets captured in orbit.
There's a limit on the overall population in the hundreds of thousands (this doesn't include bots or the engineered life forms of course), so don't make any large empires okay? Think more in terms of city-states than imperiums. More hegemonies or confederations than empires. However, give that there's a lot of time between the founders and the now, you can develop very different cultures here.
Tech wise you are aloud tech that's logical to colonizing a ice planet. This is not a resource rich place, so a major polity alone probably will not be able to conduct a expedition to the inner parts of sol.
Here's a outline of this planetary system. I am horrible at names so i've yet to come up with any.
-[]: A large world, around the size of mars. Extremely cold and unnervingly chaotic terrain remiscent of Pluto or Triton. The planet has a reducing atmosphere (the sky has fallen seasonally, the atmosphere is currently thawing however) and mountain ranges of clouds cover parts of the surface. It's basically like a larger pluto with a less tenuous atmosphere. Methane-ice is heavier here than any other world, it should be noted. There is a subglacial ocean as well.
-[-]; This world is more akin to Europa than Titan or Pluto, with numerous tiger stripes rupturing about the surface and extremely active cyrovolcanism that is ongoing. This world has a mineral rich core and a deep water ocean warmed by the tidal pressures of [] and [--]. Life has been introduced to this world the most due to having a more hospitable sea than [].
-[--]; This world's pretty much a dry, frozen solid world more Akin to Callisto or Eris. It is reddened by Tholins more than the other worlds, kind of like Sedna. Ices are on this planet, but there is no ocean below and it is for all intents and purposes a dead world geologically and meteorologically. It orbits comparatively far from the other two worlds, but on it lies some very strange artifacts from the Founders themselves...
Alongside these worlds, there's also some much smaller satellites that orbit further out.
*Yes, that many. Yes, on a planet made of ice.
Tech-wise, try not to get too fancy. This is not a resource rich place. Tech-wise, try to be minimalistic is what i'm saying. Researching resource intensive, advanced tech is hard when you are just trying to keep your polity afloat while engaging in skirmishes with neighboring polities after all.
All nations should originate from within the planetary system, so no outsiders at all please. No AI probes from sol, no astronauts from earth or aliens. Or alien probes from earth for that matter.
Just throwing this out there. If there's interest I will move forward with names, maps and so forth.
Update 1;
No more green zones, just Make sure your colony has some hydroponics modules instead.
