Government Form: Democratic Republic

(Secretly/In Reality: Synarchism/Synarchic Oligarchy - As in “a secret cabal is in charge behind it all”, not as in the original meaning of synarchy/synarchism.)

Population: 7.7 billion

((General Very Rough Population Growth Timescale - 150 years ago: 5.4 billion, 350 years ago: 2.5 billion, ~425 years ago: Some Millions At Maximum; Improved as technology and survivability and sustainability for the colony overall improved, which led in part to a boom in growth. Wars did lessen this to some extent at times, among other things, etc, but 500 years is a long time indeed.))

What is humanity?: Humanity? What is humanity, but the ability to connect, empathize, and build alongside others through the good and the bad and the ugly? To be able to fight for survival against a hostile nature that seeks to kill you, to mete out survival even when you're against the ropes and despite your own mistakes, and to seek out a future even when all seems to be at its bleakest?

In the mundane and far less poetic sense, however, for the GER the matter is a simple one for defining humanity. It is being born as one of the human species biologically, born to human species parents.....whether it be Homo sapiens sapiens or a new subspecies otherwise. Sapient rights, however, are things that most certainly also exist under GER law as well.



Planet/System Name and Description:

Star/System Name - Euryale

Planet Name - Euryale IV/Sarpedon

Living on the fourth planet, in the ‘habitable zone’ of the star Euryale, the GER was begun on the planet of Euryale IV, aka “Sarpedon” as it would come to be called. A planet of size 1.37 times the size of the Earth, it was among the earliest ‘habitable’ worlds to be discovered during the scramble to create the Gateway and escape the dying earth. Discovery of the star and its system was credited to the Greek astronomer Sebastian Kiritikos, who was working with the United Nations and other cooperating groups and companies to find habitable stars and potentially human-habitable worlds, who named it after one of the gorgon sisters of ancient mythology. Likewise the names of the planets of the star’s system would be initially named in a more standard fashion, though the name of “Sarpedon” would be given to Euryale IV (named after the legendary isle the gorgons lived upon) after it was found to be the first habitable sphere in the system after the use of self-replicating von Neumann probes to further investigate the system’s potential habitability.

It is a generally warmer planet than Earth to an extent despite being labeled as a ‘miraculous Earth-like planet’, sporting a larger (but not all-encompassing for the planet certainly either) band of warmer and humid climates across a wider band of its landmass due to its wide equatorial band length. This is in part due to a somewhat thicker atmosphere and atmospheric pressure being minutely over 1 atm/atmospheres, which has led to the greater retention of heat from the system’s sun. Increased rainfall and humidity are notable factors as well as a result of these things, as well as a more frequent occurrence of storms that has led to local construction and settlement methods being designed with such things being much more in mind (using rounded shapes or easier to build multi-sided octagonal homes, applying improved material sciences for more resilient materials, etc). At the same time, however, there are still proper more temperate climes the closer one gets to its proper northern and southern polar regions despite these bands being distinctly narrower than those on ‘Old Earth’ used to be. Likewise features such as tall mountains and sprawling valleys, and similar things to Old Earth geography, do still exist as do things such as deserts and such like to some extent or another.

The planet’s water-to-land ratio features 74% water to 26% land overall. Further, unlike the notable deeper blue color of the ocean waters, the planet’s plantlife sports in the majority shades of bluish-greens, like how green was most common on Earth, with some rarer vivid or deeper greens and some blues in the rarest of cases. Autumnal colors remain similar to those of Earth, with varieties such as reds, yellows, and oranges, with even purples for that matter depending on the plantlife involved. Meanwhile bodies of water appear to be a more vibrant blue compared to the waters of ‘Old Earth’ proper. This is all due to the nature of the yellowish-white F-class star of the system proper, of which Euryale IV (and the one habitable moon of the neighboring large gas giant of Euryale V, which also benefits from tidal forces to warm it due to its position) falls into. Earth-based species, as in those adapted somewhat to the new planet’s environment through genetic modification or the use of special fertilizers or composed soils, have also found general success on the face of Sapedon proper over the past several centuries of humanity’s settlement and development on the planet proper.

The planet’s atmosphere sports a distinctly more ‘Earth-like’ mix than some potentially habitable exoplanets in general, at least, though genetic vaccines and certain medical procedures would come to be deployed eventually both initially and in the long-term to combat the initial struggle of humanity to mete out survival in the still-alien atmosphere. By current times, though it took several centuries of work and some ups and downs in tinkering with things to get there in the end, humanity has since come to mete out a comfortable existence within the atmosphere and Earthlike varied environs of Sarpedon, with such long-term health issues being only visible in a small slice of the most vulnerable populations for the most part.

Meanwhile the animal life of the planet has in ways come to reflect a number of Earth-like species, though much more ‘alien’ examples have also arisen throughout the ages and epochs of the planet’s development and evolution. Some bear more notable similarities to things such as traditional mammals or the like, while others take on more unique shapes or niches or even fully alien sorts of designs. Life on this planet is also carbon-based and uses a closely-related form of genetics and genetic sequences in its organic life, however, and while similar-ish to that of Earth it nominally and normally shouldn’t have interactions with life that grew elsewhere on a whole other world according to older Old Earth sciences. Yet some tinkering with genetic engineering has sought to ‘bridge’ the gaps between Sarpedon and imported Earth lifeforms to some extent or another here and there, and efforts to help adapt humanity to the alien planet and their new lives had also taken place using genetic engineering, which in part also fed into the use and implementation of these technologies on a wider scale in society over the centuries in the long-run.

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Humanity also lives on the neighboring gas giant of Euryale V, at least in anchored or stabilized upper atmospheric habitats. Here many things are processed using the heat and pressure farther down in the gas giant, within human reach at least, and hydrogen and helium are harvested and processed in vast quantities to produce fuel and fuel cells to boot. Said habitats are closed off from the outside, aside from places such as localized spaceports and such, with pressurized thick walls and durable make from neighboring planetary or asteroid-mined metals. Notable air circulation systems, other critical atmospheric and hydroponics systems, and the like also exist within the webs of interconnected ‘towns’ and in much rarer cases ‘cities’ these habitats form inherently by design. Everything is close together due to dangers in attempting to enable ‘personal transit’ or such things, and running monorails and public transport are of the most common note aside from the very wealthiest living on Euryale V who can afford an otherwise nigh unheard of equivalent of a ‘personal transit vehicle’ while living down there.

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Life was found to be support-able on the one habitable moon of Euryale V, the third of its three moons in fact, which was first given the moniker and name of “____”.

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Demographics: _{(For talking about how much of the population belongs to different groups/ethnicities/religions/whatever. This space can also be used for describing genetic/cybernetic modifications your people have done, subspecies that have been created, aliens that may have been integrated, and so on.)}



History: _{(What happened after your Colony landed? This can be as brief or detailed as you like. Just try to give us a feel of the nation)}

Culture and Society: _{(How do they live? Anything from ritual cannibals, to a surveillance state dystopia, to an integrated hivemind.)}

• Due to similarities in genetic structures and involved amino acids between Earth life and Sarpedon’s life a number of processes have been worked out, only in the long term really though, to process some of the more farmable and edible forms of life on the planet into edible and ‘safe’ foods for humankind. Yet these would first emerge only in the care of human-wrought hydroponic complexes before seeing an eventual break into the market as niche food for the ‘rich and wealthy’ before eventually the genetic engineering and technology behind these modified alien ‘foods’ would finally enter the wider market (though some aspect of them remains as ‘fiber’ to humans due to being indigestible but at least safe to ‘pass out’ through the body). This isn’t to say such things will replace the otherwise widespread and notable use of farms of imported and genetically adapted or modified Earth crops and foods that have still seen widespread use in general on Sarpedon for the past many centuries otherwise. However, it is of note that these ‘native foods’ have begun to grow in accessibility and popularity on a wider scale than they used to in current times.
  
  From large groups of swarm-moving but sweet-fleshed “Grilled Kongacrabs” (groups of native social crab/crustacean-like lifeforms that, to ward off predators when traveling, travel in a ‘conga line’-like column and move in a manner that looks similar to a dangerous eel-like predator or such to imitate its movement while on the ocean floor) that that are easy to raise in even bad-quality waters, to the fatty breast of the peculiar “Sarpedon Red Duck”, to even the acquired taste of air-dried and salty-sea-preserved “Lesser Reef Sarpedan Shark”, the range of native life turned into foods even goes as far as some forms of plants either by now naturally edible to the genetically-modified human population or even as far as these lifeforms being modified or processed to be edible for human consumption. Even a few ‘new spices’ have emerged in some part, even if as a minority of the overall variety of imported and grown human spices still being cultivated, sold, and used today, such as the semi-umami and spicy “Uddi Seeds” and the salty-sour flavor of the flesh of the oval-like and swelled-looking “Guga Fruit”.
• Most food grown and used these days originates from Old Earth, indeed, though in lieu of improved Genetic/Bio-Engineering technologies by current times some even more peculiar ‘hybrids’ of Old Earth foods and livestock have been developed and crafted, though with some issues along the way that did require regulation in this area to be made due to “cheap, rushed, ramshackle attempts to bank on a trend that had bad side effects”, with this idea reaching far back into the days of required hydroponics used by the first settlers of Sarpedon. It has gained the moniker of “Hydrocultivated Cuisine”, and has both given rise to odd foods such as a true and living “Cockentrice” as well as things like movements against the ‘creation of suffering hybrids for the sole reason of profit” that led to many simply “creating engineered cultures to grow these meats and such from” as a newer alternative that many taking up this trend for food modernly have taken up using instead for commercial and other such reasons.
• It is of note that those living on the suspended atmospheric habitats of the neighboring gas giant of Euryale V, however, only get to subsist on imported and hydroponically-grown foods. The higher-class among them do get fancier foods, or heaven forbid only the wealthiest of the wealthy there get an actual ‘garden’ to grow something in in some expensive suspended habitat home, which for them usually consists of more hardy and mass-produced foods that have grown from ‘only there to sustain life regularly’ in quality to ‘a proper and more widespread variety’ that has improved alongside their quality of life since planetary unification and the gradual interconnection of things within the ____ ever since.
• Household robotics is something that has been brought down to the level of affordability for even the lower end of the middle-class by this point in time, though it also sees its limits and uses despite the highly sophisticated programming and engineering developments that it has taken centuries to make ‘common’ enough and streamlined enough for people. Helping care for kids, acting as a second set of hands in a household, acting as a babysitter or elderly caregiver, helping doing yard care work, maybe in rare cases even acting as a friendly companion for a lonely or socially isolated child, etc, etc. While some of these robots take on simply practical shapes, those that work closest with people take on human-type appearances and looks and styles to frankly a more lifelike degree all the way up to a very much a lifelike-looking style and exterior. They also see use alongside human employees within the commercial/civilian sector by businesses in ‘business grade models’ respectively. The closer to humans these robots are, the more humanlike they are made to look and seem in turn as a generalistic rule of thumb. Yet even so there remain legal limits to their programming and design despite their sophistication in the current day/era.
• Extreme genetic/biological modifications of the self that ‘would be genetically incompatible or misaligned with normal humanity’ and lead to or generate extreme medical/other problems and warped physiologies/psychologies are most widely seen by GER culture as a notable spoken and unspoken taboo for myriad reasons in the vast and greater majority by far. And….there are many reasons for this, both due to practical issues over the centuries and otherwise.
  
  While some religions and such discourage the use for ‘anything but medical necessities for one’s health and proper safe job employment’ and such otherwise, which is its own cultural matter and is a similar matter to the use of augmented mechanical prosthetics and replacements of those kinds, no matter the background or religiosity this extent of modification and body warping is drawn in the sand where it ultimately ‘crosses the line’ and creates conditions for individuals where ‘things get dangerous muddied and intertwined’ within the body. These things can’t be easily, or always cheaply at that, reversed or cured or the like. Indeed they very readily lead to vast and deep medical complications and even unique or rare sorts of medical issues, and even psychological conditions and mental diseases ranging from ‘an addition to getting gene/bio-mods’ to ‘becoming an inhuman monster or losing one’s empathy’ in some capacity or another. It is a dangerous matter (think of people who ‘become cyberpsychos’ in the Cyberpunk universe as a similar parallel).
  
  Nicknames for this condition include, but are not limited to: ‘Going mod-mad’, being ‘mod addicted’, or ‘going animal’, among other potential lingo and terms for this general concept.
  
  Even those who survive this condition and get the sponsor or money to get medical help toward reversing it all, then, will likely have permanent problems or other issues even if they are ‘cured’ to more or less of an extent. And that is if they could get everything ‘removed’, and some part of their modifications had to be kept in for medical safety and usually patient-life-endangering reasons.
  
  Note that not everyone is super visibly modded in society, though, as most mods are not the visible sort or are minimal visible stuff in the majority of those who get mods. Just like how everyone doesn’t have a tattoo, or everyone has piercings or maybe only has one for some reason. Etc. Visible mods are seen in a similar light to piercings and tattoos and such in society in general, really, even if it has taken 500 years to get the technology to the point that such things can be much more readily and easily removed/added to people in mainstream society by the current day and age within the GER.
• The reason for biomods being used for self-expression far more widely than cybernetics or advanced prosthetics boils down to the laws of the ____, which has designated that “the removal of healthy flesh and tissues and/or organs from the human body for replacement with mechanical or cybernetically-augmenting parts, for reasons of self-expression or any such behaviors not deemed medically necessary, is deemed to be, in the eyes of the law, a form of self-harm and illegal self-destructive behavior” by current times.
  
  This came in a lawsuit where, in the earlier days of such cybernetics and advanced prostheses being developed they were originally mandated to be ‘medical only technologies’ where it required a proper medical reason and rhyme to get such things installed. Some companies began seeking to find ways to commercialize the technology to the wider public in turn after this, though the ethical debate over the matter would only intensify in the wake of this. To ‘get ahold’ of these, some individuals would cut off limbs or damage themselves, either on their own or in some cases with illegal ‘medical assistance’, to try to get access to these sorts of implants or prosthetics more rapidly. Indeed at the time it was the cause of a spree of these cases, caused by rumors online that many bought into that they could perform such frauds to ‘get past the system and laws’, and this in turn required deliberation in turn.
  
  The legal case in particular that set things in motion proper as they are currently was a man, one ____ ____, who got denied a cybernetic prosthetic by one company after what had seemed to be an ‘accident’ causing the loss of his arm turned out to be part of a foolish and ill-fated plan to get a ‘cool cybernetic arm’. As stupid as the case was, the man sued over the denial and claimed he ‘needed it to function in a job and subsist, and that the company was ‘causing him undue levels of suffering and trauma’ by denying him something. During this case some would even argue that “he can do with his organic limbs and body as he wishes, and if he wants to replace his parts with augments he has the right to”, though in the end the judge and chosen jury would make the call that “what Mr. ____ did was no more than destructive and mental-health-worrying self-harm in the desire to get an advanced mechanical prosthetic for non-medically-necessary reasons, and thus it has been found that the prosecution’s ill-fated scheme to this end renders his right and attempts to claim and purchase an advanced prosthetic limb to be null and void”. This would require clarifications at the federal level thereafter, which sought to ‘set the boundaries clearly’, and would in turn be the legal decision leading to certain regulations being placed on such ‘cybernetically-augmented equipment’ that it “has to not require the removal of healthy tissues or organs from patients” and that it take the form of externally-worn equipment and devices in any general-use or non-medically-regulated forms.
  
  Combined with the eventual rise of casual biomods into the scene, where lessons learned from the past led those seeking to get these regulated in favor of sought to make them ‘easy and safe for patients and for trained applicants of this technology to remove outside of a medical environment’, it would manage to pass the legal bar of standards despite being a ‘slower burn’ to develop into the state it exists in by current times. This being said, it would still be regulated in the casual sense quite notably in other ways, mostly to “avoid people trying to become super-soldiers” and such goals like “getting casual super strength to go kill a man” or such things. Aesthetics and such were the primary focus in this vein of things in the casual market thereafter, at least outside of medical scenarios where one might get medical biomods for health reasons but could also get non-medical/casual ones for use otherwise. However, in the case one got both kinds of biomods they would have to ‘get safe approval by their doctor’ in certain cases depending on what casual biomod(s) they sought to have installed.
  
  It is safe to say that with the emergence of casual biomods in the vast majority, though, some have also in the tiny minority sought to use legal and illegal cybernetics and prostheses to ‘go against the bio-tide’ and express themselves in that way. However, this has been met with becoming even farther outliers than some who use ‘excessive’ amounts of casual biomods. That and there also is the existence of illegal biomods and such out there to boot. Etc. Though there are certainly augmentation-based biomods and the like used in the military and in some more limited ways by the police, though these are packaged and streamlined deals that are made for easier whole-package removal for those retiring or leaving the force (including mandatory therapy sessions and medical care for some time to adjust them to the non-augmented body/life more smoothly as required by law; are also used by military alongside things like unpowered exoskeletons or such too, etc).
• With Earth-based or other general adapted animal and plant life brought over by humanity, the risk of ‘rampant invasive species issues’ hasn’t really arisen as much thus far in the past centuries. At least, after a fair bit of trial and error in this respect over the centuries. While some instances of ‘invasive species’ problems have still ultimately emerged in some areas, many others are mostly unable to survive in the waters and environs of Sarpedon for the same reasons humanity couldn’t just eat and digest the lifeforms and matter of the planet normally right out of the gate without assistive genetic adaptations and such: They weren’t built for living on Sarpedon.
• Advanced artificial intelligence is used within the ____ to secondarily assist in most areas, ranging from customer service to industrial facilities/factories to areas such as research and development to boot. Certain rights of humans to work have been cemented in the workplace as well, however, ranging from the ancient issues of art theft used to train A.I. and seeking to create a sort of ‘good balance’ between the two areas has seemingly been reached in a general sense. Admittedly some issues, such as A.I.’s use within customer service areas and such, do still fluctuate from time to time even still. However, how did this ‘balance’ manage to come to be?
  
  To put it simply, centuries of struggle back and forth from anti-A.I. advocation to the extreme and the alternative of overusing A.I. within human society has led to this point after literal centuries of struggle. Ranging from the initial use of A.I. and robotics where humans couldn’t operate things, to the zealous regulation of human deployment in areas where humans could be used instead, to the eventual wild swings back and forth within government and industry alike (itself a hotbed of some industrial lobbying and its eventual strict high regulating to boot when it came to this issue, among others) of policy on and off over the centuries.
  
  Yet it would be the horrible results of these swinging policies and good ideas and lessons learned along the way that would shape things. From unemployment and rioting and such from former workers, to the disastrous failure of critical systems and loss or near loss of several floating cities, to the mismanagement and loss of large sums of money and resources to hacking and such, to even the misuse and destruction caused by automated and obsessively non-automated systems like during and outside of times of war, etc. This alongside the practical refinement and development of these technologies would see it and robotics alike eventually reach a place of ‘moderation’ that they have today in ____ society.
• It is of note to say that the initial presence of more extreme and violent environmental and such groups/parties has notably dwindled from the initial decades of settling and living on Sarpedon, both naturally so and otherwise. Initially they had a more notable presence due to the dying and loss of Earth and numbering some among the first-generation colonists, and not wishing to repeat the same mistakes on a new world they would be part of the struggles of humanity as it sought to survive and thrive on a new world. At the same time things such as the ____ ____ Incident, and the widespread news about it alongside worries of ‘terrorist activists’ among the survivors of the ____ ____, would turn people against such ideas on the other end of the spectrum in ways alongside the fear of ‘ensuing human survival’ being at the forefront in those earlier days.
  
  So it is not that such organized groups do not exist in a general sense yet still after all of this time, outside of more extreme and violent ones, but the less-violent ones seem to compose more so the far greater majority in current times as well. The struggle to maintain a healthy world, and a good relationship with it, has ever continued as it is wont to do. However, the consciousness of such matters among the initial colonists had rubbed off fairly well by current times to both good ends and in others become forgotten in less-than-good ways within ____ society and civilization as a whole.
• Much of how the habitats of Euryale V have come to work was built on history, in part, as well as on more than a small amount of bodies and deaths along the way. Yet the thriving industry of the half-rotating and half-permanent residents has continued to push it along, whether in making fuel for vessels or to ship back to Sarpedon itself and so forth. While about three independence movements have occurred within the history of those living in the habitats of Euryale V when all of its residents and workers were permanent, though, its inherent need to connect with Sarpedon for other necessary resources, improvements in life quality and treatment under the law and in effect in the long-term to enough of an extent, and the booming growth of the ‘rotating workers’ and frankly even ‘commuters’ coming to work on the habitats of Euryale V in recent decades have been among the factors that led to coming into line with the mainstream of the ____ as well as seen it grow into the strong sector of the nation it exists as currently.
  
  A small minority handful of old-timers, who saw the very vestige tails of when the habitats were only manned by permanent residents year round or were influenced by the ‘old timers’ of their age, and those influenced by them in the younger generations seem to imagine the potential for an ‘independent Euryale V’ in current times at best. Yet by and large locals and the rotating/commuting workers alike these days consider themselves citizens of the ____ first and foremost with all of the benefits and rights. Some claim the rotating nature of roughly half the workers on the habitats of Euryale V was to ‘prevent secession’, though others point to evidence of ill-health effects to those who stayed too long and a lack of raw manpower to fill the facilities and produce what they needed as the local economy grew but the population wasn’t able to go about growing fast enough to match. (Etc.)
• (Should this nation have a Jurassic Park of its own? 🤔)
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Governance and Politics:

The general practice for democratic voting is that all adults, those 18 and older by law, are able to vote in general elections at the increasingly large local, district, regional, provincial, and national levels respectively. The general idea is that you can’t vote on who is mayor or such in a place you don’t live as well, naturally/inherently, of course.

There is some hybridization with liquid/representative democracy as well in this case. Normally citizens have the foundational right to vote on who to represent them as with a representative democracy, but in this case citizens can also sign away or hand over votes to another akin to a liquid democracy to use on their behalf. Simply put, people can invest their vote into the personage of a representative to vote on their behalf. Representatives can be as small-scale as someone’s lazy adult kid giving his vote to his mom or dad to use on his behalf, as big as a bunch of such parents investing their accrued votes into a common singular representative on a larger scale, etc. However, each citizen also has a just as fundamental right to ‘rescind’ their vote from a representative to reclaim it if or as they wish, and the use of votes as ‘currency’ to hand them over to others in legal or commercial or such exchanges (and contracts in general) has been strictly forbidden…..and not without reason either. Albeit there are regulations are in place to prevent mass vote-pulling for trolling or such bad-spirited reasons, such as trying to ‘pull out the rug’ from underneath a vote-invested representative’s feet to troll or humiliate them, though it doesn't illegalize mass vote withdrawing in all cases such as if public opinion turns against a candidate your representative is voting for, etc, and you change your mind).

Representatives are those who exist in those political positions, aka: Mayor, President, District Judge, etc. Voting Representatives, then, are those who are invested with votes by others to use on behalf of others. Different things fundamentally. Also, a sitting politician/representative or someone in the running for a political position (defined in law so I don’t have to try to go into deep legal details) cannot be used as a Voting Representative by others and loses that position and power and so forth if they do enter such a position or go into the running for one. Those who work for a sitting politician directly, such as staff, janitors, and the like, cannot be used as Voting Representatives either. All Voting Representatives are also barred from accepting pay to become one or participate as one (this issue always comes up here and there in the courts, but the law is generally actually enforced).

So not only are candidates seeking to gain political positions, but some supporting them might go on their own sub-campaigns for the candidate seeking to accrue votes to use to vote for them. Double the political campaigns, and sometimes these sub-campaigners work against each other to accrue votes.

Votes can be handed over on three levels. The first is the ‘one use basis’, such as for a singular presidential or mayoral race and what most major candidate sub-campaigns will seek for. The next is a ‘limited time basis’, which cannot exceed one or two years due to federal law and in minor part depending on the local region one is in. Then there is ‘on a semi-permanent basis’, meaning that the chosen voting representative has the handed-over vote(s) until or unless those who gave them their vote(s) decide otherwise. This of course comes with its own storm of regulations and court cases by current times to boot.

At the very top, however, the government is still generally unitary-ish by nature in how laws and such are enforced from the top-down. Federal-level law is everyone’s law mandatorily, with certain nuances and regulations left to lower-levels of the governmental system to be flexible on and decide for themselves.

….Meanwhile, the actual behind-the-scenes oligarchy basically controls government systems in the background, with behind-the-scenes institutions from top to bottom to help support and reinforce this by current times with how far their reach has come to stretch in reality. It doesn’t micromanage everything from top to bottom normally, the flexibility and such gives people room and representation enough to satiate them and allow things to run well enough in general, but it does step in and exert authority where and when it sees fit and when its interests are either endangered or when its members wish for something to be done. Their ability to control things is at all levels in reality indeed, even if they don’t always abuse it all of the time.

Still, it is by far in current times seen as a crazy but lingering conspiracy theory that a ‘secret cabal controls the nation itself’, and even more so with the sub-rumor that ‘its members are all immortals’ and such things (they are actually in most cases ‘effectively immortal’ in some scientifically-wrought way or another, funny enough, but this bit of the conspiracy theory is seen as the most ridiculous as well). The ‘true synarchy’ behind closed doors also has a titanic amount of wealth and the like individually, but even they have created a sort of code of ethics and such to try to regulate themselves internally to boot.

((Note: At some point the underlying synarchic oligarchy did, in fact, attempt to have members focus entirely on certain areas of things in a manner similar to the original definition of a synarchy/synarchism. It didn’t really pan out too well, but the general idea of each being invested or skilled or involved in a different area/areas to complement each other did roughly stick and become codified among them to some extent in the end at least.))

Technology Overview:

• Limited Graviton/Gravity Technologies - A breakthrough in human scientific understanding that, ultimately, was developed with the intent to allow humans to settle more widely and oddly across the surface of the planet of Sarpedon in some ways. Harnessing the power of the graviton, it allowed the anchoring of buildings using ‘gravity tethers’ (for ocean cities or suspended larger buildings/habitations) and has enabled the use of artificial gravity devices on spacecraft, habitats in the atmosphere of Euryale V, and general space stations. This being noted, however, this technology has become limited to these implementations (and due to RP rules) due to how bulky and rough the nature of this technology is.
• Nanotechnologies - Ranging from advanced nanomaterials able to recover from or withstand terrible storms, to nanoengineered factories capable of producing incredibly hardy and resilient materials and specs using a combination of organic and inorganic processes, to the likes of electrically-resistant and resilient medical nanomachines, to nano-scale art exhibits, to even nano-scale synthetic fabrics beyond the reach of human hands, to the safe installation of new cybernetics and removal of them alike, etc, these things emerged mostly as human civilization on Sarpedon would begin to reach beyond its infancy after a number of macroengineering questions had to be answered. It is a form of technology that has become an in-depth subject explored and still to this day being tinkered with within ____ society.
• Robotics (and Artificial Intelligence) - While humans have retained a by now more grounded place in the workplace despite the presence of robotics, this technology has still transformed things much over the years alongside the issues and development of advanced artificial intelligence. Ranging from deep-sea or voidbound mining drones with rugged exteriors, meant to handle rough and dangerous environments of the seas and space, all the way down to household human-like or such robotics used to assist parents, act as elderly caregivers, or even just be time-spending supplementary companions to keep even a minority of people who buy them for such reasons more socially engaged and happier in the household. They are implemented in various industries ranging from production and refineries, both on-planet for Euryale IV and in the myriad industrial habitats of Euryale V, in commercial industries as in-store assistants in some cases, in areas of business targeted at all sorts of ages, and even within the military for use alongside living, breathing soldiers.
  
  Among the most famous companies to produce household robotics are “Vaul Technological Enterprises”, “Raijin Robotics”, and the last of the “Big Three” names in robotics being the “AutoDoll Corporation”. Yet, historically at least, the most notable of these three companies is the lattermost one: The AutoDoll Corporation. Founded roughly four hundred and eighty three years ago by a well-to-do German-born polymath and first generation colonist, Dr. Heinrich Nachtnebel, the AutoDoll Corporation has remained a generally consistent name in the realm of robotics and secondarily in artificial intelligence (at first) for most of its history. Being one of the oldest extant companies within the GER, it has passed from hand to hand and generally stayed a profitable and lasting presence within the industry that even today still has an existing civilian market and a number of military contracts with the government. While seen by some as an ‘old hand’ that has been around a long time, or being past its glory days, it is also a presence that remains far from being ‘gone’ and continues to regain occasional relevancy here and there after having managed to adapt to the times.
  
  Knowledge of Robotics is also employed for the use and deployment of "Specialized Single-Pilot Vehicles" (SSPV), which range from 14-foot-tall humanoid-like "Urban Combat Piloted Vehicles" (UCPV) that are deployed in small numbers in serious urban police or “Military-Grade Specialized Single-Pilot Vehicles” that are deployed in military scenarios in rough/dense/wild terrains like forests, to ball-like underwater submersibles with attached robotics arms and mounted tools for underwater work, to similarly-shaped ball-like space-piloted vehicles for work in a vacuum and bearing their own array of arms and tools and specialized features, and even civilian-grade SSPV's akin to the UCPV that are used in logging and construction and even certain forms of hazardous work environments. For the most part SSPVs of any kind are not for frontline combat in every situation, especially on open terrain, but in what such roles exist for them is something they've been able to be specialized for or adapted to from their original civilian-grade models. Because that is how these vehicles arose, beginning as rough and hardy ‘enough’ civilian work tools and load-moving suits for industry before eventually spreading out from there in their potential uses elsewhere once the technology eventually came down to being well-understood enough. Some have even been integrated for use with cybernetics for finer-tuned control on the part of an operator(s), which seems to be another more recent development in the last few decades for SSPV technology in general.
  
  It is of note that SSPV military variants and police variants, while of a higher grade in a number of ways, aren’t made to be tanks either. They mostly take on anti-personnel-type roles alongside other ground units, and can be used to assist in even anti-SSPV roles and configurations as well.
  
  Robotics has also played a part in the development of cybernetics and mechanical prostheses, ranging from internally-implanted medically-approved-for-health-reasons-only devices to the civilian-grade externally-worn and commercially/etc available forms under the law. (Etc.) ((Note: Some cybernetics or prostheses are actually medically-implanted ones that, under law, are medically required for safety on the habitats of Euryale V or certain extreme environment scenarios, though this also requires recipients of such medically-regulated ones to sign waivers and
  
  As for artificial intelligence as a whole, the line between incredibly smart and human-mimicking models and still-sophisticated but decidedly less-humanlike ones has become less blurred and more well-defined over the centuries than some as far back as the early 21st century would have perhaps assumed. While the making and programming of them has certainly not been free of the occasional idea or debate if ‘A.I. has become sentient and sapient’, and incidents of activism or online rumors over certain individual or ‘viral’ situations regarding A.I. have occurred without a doubt along the way, current-day law and regulations have placed a number of tight restrictions on ‘certain aspects and capabilities’ of A.I. after having finally breached past the era of ‘overly enthusiastic widespread A.I. usage’ and its myriad and seemingly inevitable problems along the way. Albeit this was a long, troublesome, and also-inevitably dangerous road of understanding and development that saw many current-day laws written in the depths of tragedy and at times in blood and sweat and tears otherwise.
• Genetic/Bio-Engineering Technology - Mastery over the genome and an understanding of genetics has been achieved on Sarpedon over the past five centuries, the beginnings of this being wrought in the work before colonization and afterward to adapt the human body to the more alien conditions of Euryale IV/Sarpedon proper. It can also be linked to a number of leading members of the field of genetics and bioengineering and their own involvement in these things as far back as the ____’s records (and those on the old colony ship) go. Research into the field to save and preserve Old Earth species, work to understand the genetics and biology of Sarpedon, surgeries developed long ago on the cutting edge for the rich and wealthy, plagues both familiar and on rare occasion oddly alien, the danger of and development of bioweapons, and similar things have also contributed their own bits and pieces across the myriad decades until current day to create the local understanding and mastery over this ‘craft’ in a manner of speaking. This and the at times sporadic or gradual march of technological development helped to facilitate the improvements in the sciences behind this technology to boot.
  
  In a manner akin to getting a tattoo or piercing, people get ‘biomods’ as a means of self-expression. Anything from cat-eared streamer girls on college campuses, to a gang of men with shark-like sharp teeth, to teenagers getting eye and body mods to ‘stand out’ or something of the sort, the use of biomods has taken the place of something like cybernetics in the causal sense due to the ‘father ahead’ developments of Genetic/Bio-Engineering technologies compared to cybernetics and cybernetic/mechanical prostheses within the ____.
  
  ((Note: In some medical cases, a mechanical prosthetic or cybernetic implant might be deemed safer for use than a biomod, or perhaps be deemed ‘more effective’ than a simple regrown replacement part/tissue/limb/organ for someone (usually due to old age or such factors though).))
• Fusion Technology/Fission Technology/Batteries - The GER has developed improved, self-sustaining fusion technologies, as well as the likes of fission and fusion batteries/cells/engines in increasingly compact sizes and improved outputs. While mentioned in another tech category in the above parts, it is worth a mention here on its own regardless at the very least. In part, however, fuel for some of these things is derived naturally, safely, and sustainably from local seawater to boot before being further refined or processed to required specifications. Other fuel production is taken, derived, and developed in facilities suspended in the atmosphere of the neighboring gas giant of Euryale V. Modern practices are more sustainable for these things, in part due to development and time and in part at least some level of hard-learned long-term and more recent environmental-consciousness that has affected the generations that have been born and living on Sarpedon in some way or another (even if not directly these days) since the fall of “Old Earth”.
  
  This being said, the development of power-generating/holding technologies has historically on Sarpedon been an influencing factor in 'downscaling' or 'upsizing' some other technologies along the way. Among the technologies that came into fruition with the ‘downsizing’ of power sources on Sarpedon is the development of hovercraft/ground-based ionocraft (and likewise thrusters and such related technologies) making use of electrohydrodynamic thrust for rapid and quiet on-planet ground-level transportation, which have been able to be developed far enough for both the civilian and military markets to make use of them in one way or another (including finding them to be vehicles used on the roads to boot). (A nice little historical note to end on with this as well for fun!)
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  Q: Wasn’t Gravity-Based Stuff Banned?
  
  A: Yes, and I ran what I have here this time by Tort before putting it into this app as well to be safe. No tractor beams, or other wonky stuff like handheld gravity guns and such, just simple gravity tethers to suspend stuff and enough to do artificial gravity stuff in space proper. I just wanted to put it in the app to feel like I was fleshing things out properly and likewise IC rudimentarily justifying why (beyond it being an RP rule) that there isn’t more grav tech stuff in my nation.))

Military Overview:

((General Military Info:

• Use a mixture of Kinetic, Missile/Explosive, and Particle Beam weapons in a general sense across various theaters ranging from ground all the way to combat-oriented spacecraft.
• Orbital Defense Vessels are only located around Sarpedon/Euryale IV and Euryale V defensively, though upon the opening of the Gateways more will be deployed and made to heavily guard a wide perimeter around the Euryale System’s gateway proper alongside patrols and a spaced-out series of space stations.
• Improvements in Nanotechnology have led to the development of modern military exoskeletons/exosuits being by far unpowered/passive by nature, rather than risking a powered one making a ‘wrong move’ and tearing off someone’s limbs or worse (etc). This does not mean these modern exoskeletons/exosuits are themselves useless or weak in comparison, however, as their unpowered design has also left more room to add defensive protection/survival aspects to it (such as further protection against biological and chemical weapons). However, despite this they can and do often still have powered tech integrated into them (etc) for use in the field. Just the base exoskeleton/exosuit itself isn’t powered is all, but things thrown in there for use out in the field or that are attached to them externally can be powered.
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• The ____’s True Leaders - The Synarchs [+]

  A section to be filled out IC, both as they are revealed (primarily) and as I actually write them up (which will likely not be all at once) and such. They will be passed by the GMs to make sure they're ok to toss in behind the scenes as I actually manage to write up and finish each one, but won't be publicly tossed into the app until they are used or revealed IC to enough of an extent (to keep some sort of mystique about them around, at least maybe).
  
  

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• Example Pic: Civilian-Grade Autodoll - Model: “HM”/Household Model - Type: “H-T”/Humanoid-True - Subtype: “CC”/Companion & Caregiver [+]

  
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The space technology corporation known as Calypso-Utopia launched a colony ship intended to colonize Kamenymir amidst the chaos engulfing Earth. It embarked several hundred thousands of settlers with an unusually high proportion of scientists among them, along with everything that the colony would need to establish itself.

Shortly after the colony ship landed, the expedition found itself under attack by an alien lifeform made of crystalline mineral matter. These reddish crystals were able to change shape, move and even fly, as the expedition’s security forces were soon engaged in vicious combat around the burgeoning colony’s perimeter. All efforts to try and communicate with the crystals, nicknamed “Shards” by the colonial security personnel, failed. There were no discernable reactions other than aggression to speech, light signals, even radio communications and visual depictions.

The fighting kept intensifying over two years with precious few periods of calm. Eventually, the attacks stopped as suddenly as they came. It seemed like the aliens had simply thrown themselves at the colony, being destroyed in the process and costing the Kamenyan settlers thousands of lives, in addition to the early destruction of their spatial shuttles.

They had precious little respite. The effects of Kamenymir’s radiation which had remained undetected up until that point began to show as cancers were diagnosed in exponentially increasing numbers. Under the steely leadership of the military officers of the emergency provisional government, the Kamenyans showed incredible resilience and determination. Those who could still see assisting those whose eyesight was lost to the radiation poisoning in whatever way they could, and working to provide cybernetic eye implants to vital personnel. Finally, after two long years during which thousands more died in agony, a cure was developed. Baptised ‘Hekate’ by its creator, Vissarion Stasko, it was a marvel of biomedical technology that modified the patient’s genetic makeup to negate the effects of the radiation with the sole side effect of changing eye color to bright orange or purple.

Stasko would not live to see the fruits of his work. Like so many others, he died of radiation poisoning before the cure could be produced. During his last hours, it has been reported that all he managed to ask for through the agony was to listen to a favourite song one last time.

The emergency military government that led the Kamenyans through two existential threats had earned tremendous prestige and trust with the general population. The Kamenyan Defense Directorate was formed as a constitutional military junta with little opposition and went on to govern as a totalitarian regime that maintained a large standing army and began to grow more and more authoritarian.

Nevertheless, Kamenymir enjoyed a period of peace and prosperity. The planet’s high gravity had been a problem from the very beginning, complicating even simple tasks and causing health issues. Using the same technology as the Hekate, the approach chosen to solve the problem was deliberately counter-intuitive. Instead of modifying their biology towards a shorter, squat form, the Kamenyans decided on the opposite. The Hekate Phase 2 would instead increase the human body’s height, bone density and muscle mass. The heart would also grow larger and stronger, and the entire circulatory system was strengthened to withstand the increased blood pressure. Phase 2 was not just a cure, it was a statement and a symbol.

A satellite in orbit was the first to detect what was assumed to be a meteor shower descending on Kamenymir. When they crashed onto the surface, it was discovered that they were instead extraordinarily large living crystals; the Shards had returned. The death toll was considerable as the aliens began rampaging through cities and farmsteads. In the chaos, civilians armed themselves by looting deserted army warehouses and formed ad hoc militias. Professional KDD soldiers and courageous amateurs fought side by side in the defense of their homes, and even though casualties were high, the invasion force was eventually destroyed.

The aftermath was tough on the regime. The scale of the destruction was considerable, with even the capital city of Novyras having terribly suffered and notably lost a large portion of the Directorate’s archives and databanks to the Shards’ unexplained ability to interface with and corrupt electronic systems. The heydays of the Directorate’s first years had come and gone. Leadership had grown complacent and ineffective, its totalitarian approach to governance more and more unpopular as crisis after crisis followed in the wake of the war.

The KDD’s response to growing unrest was repressive and stubborn, which only fostered liberal ideas among the population. With heavy-handed dispersion of protests, more and more people joined the dissidents until a number of army officers mutinied, kicking off a civil war. The Directorate gradually lost more and more control. Unable to enforce martial law, the KDD was reduced to pockets of authority that capitulated one after the other, and after ten years of severe unrest, the Directorate was no more. In its place, a presidential republic would be formed by the leaders of political groups, establishing free elections with universal suffrage.

Slowly, Kamenymir rebuilt and recovered. From the Catholic heritage of many of the settlers, a new iteration appeared. Its followers believed that the man who saved the colony a century and a half ago, Vissarion Stasko, had a covenant with God who inspired his work. The Church of the Vissaric Covenant, or more simply known as the Vissaric Church, taught that Kamenymir was God’s second chance for humanity, and gave the planet to the Kamenyans as their own promised land. This new faith grew exponentially from its humble beginnings, to the point of completely transforming what traditional Catholic clergy and influence remained in the span of a century and a half.

Over time, trust in the Republic faded. Corruption scandals were frequent, the political elite grew more isolated from the rest of society, and a deep contempt and anger began to take root in the general population. Artificial intelligence simulating human emotions and companionship, combined with an increasingly money-centric society, eroded the bonds between people. Suicide rates skyrocketed amidst political turmoil, while a series of gun ownership laws stripped the overwhelming majority of Kamenyans of their self-defense rights.

Among those who protested not against a political line, but against the Republic as a whole, some of the most militant were members of the Church; firebrand preachers who insisted that the Kamenyan Republic would eventually lead all Kamenyans to their doom. What would be later known as Persecutions followed. Many of the Church’s faithful were targeted and ostracised, while others were imprisoned in blatant violation of Kamenyan free speech laws.

A series of sabotage and bombing attacks on software companies and mining corporations were claimed by the Church of the Garden, a radical environmentalist and technophobic sect of the Vissaric Church that had been gaining traction for several years. In response, the government doubled down and planned several raids on homesteads and compounds where members of the Church of the Garden, self-named Keepers, lived. A number of the raids went badly; many people were killed without repercussions for the police forces responsible. The public outrage was immense, and decades of bubbling tension finally boiled over into full-blown rebellion when colonel Anton Kroll of the Kamenyan Army defected.

He united the disparate political, popular and religious rebels under his leadership with his diplomatic acumen, extraordinary charisma and sheer force of will. The Rebel Armies escalated the civil war at every opportunity, taking over centers of governance and attacking republican forces wherever they were. The underground guerilla snowballed into a force capable of engaging government troops in battle, and with increasing support from a population desperate for change, Anton Kroll and the Rebel Armies destroyed the Kamenyan Republic.

Kroll was determined to not repeat the mistakes of the past centuries as he worked with the leaders of various anti-republican groups to create a new government. The First Directorate’s top-down, totalitarian approach was rejected along with the Republic’s democratic system in favour of delegating almost all day-to-day matters to local elected governors, while the small central government would be run by a dictator.

A focal point of the Second Directorate was a complete change in military doctrine, turning the army into a small, elite professional force designed as a strike force capable of taking on any external enemy, while lacking the numbers required to control a large amount of territory. The duty of regular defense for the planet instead passed over to local police forces and citizen militias, aiming to ensure that the army could not be used to control the people.

The ban on artificial intelligence was part of an agreement passed between Anton Kroll’s own forces and the Keepers who fought by his side during the rebellion. In exchange for a pledge of cooperation, the KDD would outlaw the use and development of artificial intelligences with any kind of self-awareness, sentience, real or simulated emotion, or “human likeness”. Kroll readily agreed as banning artificial intelligence already aligned with his ideas on culture and society.

Years passed in a blur of incessant activity and booming economy with Kroll ruling as the first Director General of the Second Kamenyan Defense Directorate. It was eventually discovered that the Shards had not come from faraway deep space, as was originally theorised. Indeed, as the KDD’s first warships took to the void, it became apparent that Kamenymir’s moon, Malastra, was the real home of the crystalline creatures, which had remained undetected by early Kamenyan space ventures due to them residing beneath the surface of the planetoid. There, it was assumed that it took them some time to grow large enough to be able to launch the attack like the one that marked the beginning of the Second Shards War, and military command urged that action should be taken swiftly, lest Kamenymir suffer another invasion.

The KDD acted quickly. Space elevators and orbital dockyards were constructed in record time considering the enormity of the endeavour; only twelve years passed before the KDDN truly came into being, complete with a vast array of warships and light crafts, along with a terrifying arsenal of weapons of mass destruction assembled for one purpose: to wipe the Shards off the face of the universe.

Malastra was relentlessly bombarded with the most powerful weapons that the Kamenyans could imagine. The Shards had no way to fight back, and nuclear detonations succeeded one another on the moon’s surface over the course of three years. The barrage was of such intensity that Malastra’s geological stability, already naturally precarious, was pushed over the edge into cascading volcanic activity. To this day, the moon is an irradiated hellscape of flowing lava, erupting volcanoes and constant, extreme tectonic activity. The red hue of the moon, visible in Kamenymir’s night sky, remains as a symbol of the KDD’s ultimate victory over an existential threat.

Government Form: Semi-Oligarchic Democratic Republic

((No other idea how to describe it so simply otherwise for now, if you find a better way please let me know!))

Population:7.7 billion

((General Very Rough Population Growth Timescale ‘Idea’ - 150 years ago: 5.4 billion, 350 years ago: 2.5 billion, ~425 years ago: Some Millions At Maximum; Improved as technology and survivability and sustainability for the colony overall improved, which led in part to a boom in growth. Wars did lessen this to some extent at times, among other things, etc, but 500 years is a long time indeed.))

What is humanity?: Humanity? What is man humanity, but a miserable pile of secrets the ability to connect, empathize, and build alongside others through the good and the bad and the ugly? To be able to fight for survival against a hostile nature that seeks to kill you, to mete out survival even when you're against the ropes and despite your own mistakes, and to seek out a future even when all seems to be at its bleakest?

In the mundane and far less poetic sense, however, for the GER the matter is a simple one for defining humanity. It is being born as one of the human species biologically, born to human species parents.....whether it be Homo sapiens sapiens or a new subspecies or aliens or otherwise. Sapient rights, however, are things that most certainly also exist under GER law as well in general.



Planet/System Name and Description:

Star/System Name - Euryale

Planet Name - Euryale IV/Sarpedon

Living on the fourth planet, in the ‘habitable zone’ of the star Euryale, the GER was begun on the terraformed planet of Euryale IV, aka “Sarpedon” as it would come to be called. A planet of size 1.37 times the size of the Earth, it was among the earliest ‘near-habitable’ worlds to be discovered during the scramble to create the Gateway and escape the dying earth. Discovery of the star and its system was credited to the Greek astronomer Sebastian Kiritikos, using self-replicating von Neumann probes and early Gateway tech, who was working with the United Nations and other cooperating groups and companies to find habitable stars and potentially human-habitable worlds, who named it after one of the gorgon sisters of ancient mythology. Likewise the names of the planets of the star’s system would be initially named in a more standard fashion, though the name of “Sarpedon” would be given to Euryale IV (named after the legendary isle the gorgons lived upon) after it was finally altered for human habitation over the course of fifty years as part of a Gateways-related terraforming-investigating project dubbed “Project Prometheus”. This project was to be used to gather data and more of an understanding of terraforming to be used for other colonial settlements moving forward, hence why the colony ship sent to the Euryale system was among the very first. Its atmosphere and such aspects were already ‘closer to Earth than most’ potential colonial worlds that had been discovered earlier on, though its terraforming into a fully-habitable and human-ready home would take decades of work to get done in the first place, a process not helped by the last decade and few odd years seeing humanity forced to settle there prematurely as the final parts of the process were being done due to the historically still-infamous event of the “Anesidoran Massacre”.

It is a generally warmer planet than Earth to an extent despite being labeled as a ‘miraculous Earth-like planet’ by current times, sporting a larger (but not all-encompassing for the planet certainly either) band of warmer and humid climates across a wider band of its landmass due to its wide equatorial band length. This is in part due to a somewhat thicker atmosphere and atmospheric pressure being minutely over 1 atm/atmospheres, which has led to the greater retention of heat from the system’s sun. Increased rainfall and humidity are notable factors as well as a result of these things, as well as a more frequent occurrence of storms that has led to local construction and settlement methods being designed with such things being much more in mind (using rounded shapes or easier to build multi-sided octagonal homes, applying improved material sciences for more resilient materials, etc). At the same time, however, there are still proper more temperate climes the closer one gets to its proper northern and southern polar regions despite these bands being distinctly narrower than those on ‘Old Earth’ used to be. Likewise features such as tall mountains and sprawling valleys, and similar things to Old Earth geography, do still exist as do things such as deserts and such like to some extent or another.

The planet’s water-to-land ratio features 74% water to 26% land overall. Further, unlike the notable deeper blue color of the ocean waters, the planet’s plantlife sports in the majority shades of bluish-greens, like how green was most common on Earth, with some rarer vivid or deeper greens and some blues in the rarest of cases. Autumnal colors remain similar to those of Earth, with varieties such as reds, yellows, and oranges, with even purples for that matter depending on the plantlife involved. Meanwhile bodies of water appear to be a more vibrant blue compared to the waters of ‘Old Earth’ proper. This is all due to the nature of the yellowish-white F-class star of the system proper, of which Euryale IV (and the one habitable moon of the neighboring large gas giant of Euryale V, which also benefits from tidal forces to warm it due to its position) falls into. Earth-based species, as in those adapted somewhat to the new planet’s environment through genetic modification or the use of special fertilizers or composed soils, have also found general success on the face of Sapedon proper over the past several centuries of humanity’s settlement and development on the planet proper.

The planet’s atmosphere sports a by now distinctly far more ‘Earth-like’ mix than some potentially habitable exoplanets in general, at least, though genetic vaccines and certain medical procedures would come to be deployed eventually both initially and in the long-term to combat the initial struggle of humanity to mete out survival in the still-minorly-alien atmosphere.
Meanwhile the remaining native animal and plant life of the planet has in ways been seen as a closer reflection to a number of Earth-like species, though much more ‘alien’ examples have also arisen throughout the ages and epochs of the planet’s development and evolution based on archaeological data of the planet’s past. Some bear more notable similarities to things such as traditional mammals or the like, while others take on more unique shapes or niches or even fully alien sorts of designs. Life on this planet is also carbon-based and uses a closely-related form of genetics and genetic sequences in its organic life, however, and while similar-ish to that of Earth it nominally and normally shouldn’t have interactions with life that grew elsewhere on a whole other world according to older Old Earth sciences. Yet some tinkering with genetic engineering has sought to ‘bridge’ the gaps between Sarpedon and imported Earth lifeforms to some extent or another here and there, and efforts to help adapt humanity to the alien planet and their new lives had also taken place using genetic engineering, which in part also fed into the use and implementation of these technologies on a wider scale in society over the centuries in the long-run.



Humanity also lives on the neighboring gas giant of Euryale V, at least in anchored or stabilized upper atmospheric habitats. Here many things are processed using the heat and pressure farther down in the gas giant, within human reach at least, and hydrogen and helium are harvested and processed in vast quantities to produce fuel and fuel cells to boot. Said habitats are closed off from the outside, aside from places such as localized spaceports and such, with pressurized thick walls and durable make from neighboring planetary or asteroid-mined metals. Notable air circulation systems, other critical atmospheric and hydroponics systems, and the like also exist within the webs of interconnected ‘towns’ and in much rarer cases ‘cities’ these habitats form inherently by design. Everything is close together due to dangers in attempting to enable ‘personal transit’ or such things, and running monorails and public transport are of the most common note aside from the very wealthiest living on Euryale V who can afford an otherwise outright nigh unheard of equivalent of a ‘personal transit vehicle’ while living down there.



Life was found to be support-able on the one habitable moon of Euryale V, the third of its three moons in fact, which was first given the moniker and name of “Anesidora” due to seeming to be a ‘gift’ to humanity in that it was notably more habitable for humans than Sarpedon initially was by a fairly good margin. Yet the attempt to settle its surface would become a failure, in the early decades of human colonization in the Euryale system that is, in part due to post-Earth environmental extremism inherited from the dying world (even if understandably in historical hindsight to enough of an extent) and the many works of humanity done along the way to try to escape its crumbling cradle. By current times, only weaker maladapted humans and “biologically adapted” modified humans exist on the moon as a slave caste to local Vah’neh tribes. This has led to a diaspora of this minority into further and further tribes beyond where humanity had tried to settle, though this spread has been centuries in the making due to the effects of long-term occasional tribal warfare and/or peacetime trade dealings. However, a legend of the ‘Evil Sky/Star People’ does exist within some local legends through current times, an oral tradition warped from the original historical facts to some extent but that has remained nonetheless in the cultural memory of those tribes who did actually encounter humanity so long ago (and has been kept due to the theorized memory banks of the biological supercomputer/local deity known in the general common local tongue, kept in circulation by the entity to allow tribes to understand each other as it is assumed, as “Vah” or “The Mother”).

Demographics:

((Note: As a general rule of thumb, major species that populate the GER get a proper hider section to themselves. Minority species, who number far less so than the major ones in comparison, get put in the “Other Species” tab for simplicity’s sake at the point in time of writing this on my end. Even the most populous species of non-humans, the Livelli, still number secondarily to humanity by a pretty big long-shot despite having boomed with their genetic modification and resettlement alongside humans within the last one hundred years.))







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Culture and Society: _{(How do they live? Anything from ritual cannibals, to a surveillance state dystopia, to an integrated hivemind.)}

• Robotics is an advanced current-day technology that has been brought down to the level of affordability for even the lower end of the middle-class by this point in time, though it also sees its limits and uses despite the highly sophisticated programming and engineering developments that it has taken centuries to make ‘common’ enough and streamlined enough for costs and people. Cleaning, performing dangerous industrial work, helping doing yard care work alongside humans, acting as household assistants, etc. They are also employed in use in the military, such as in combat robots or drones, as a supplement to work alongside temporarily-modified-and-equipment-augmented human soldiers rather than to ever outright replace them for a number of reasons (thinking capabilities, discerning and navigating situations on a human level in the field when dealing with other humans, etc, etc).
  
  While many of these robots take on simply practical shapes, those that work closest with people take on increasingly human-type appearances and looks and styles and mannerisms. And, using bio/genetically-engineered artificial flesh, can do so to frankly a very much an outright lifelike degree without reservation (legally ‘segments of properly and fully non-sapient, non-sentient flesh cannot be deemed as human beings). Robotics of this grade also see use alongside human employees within the commercial/civilian sector by businesses in ‘business grade models’ respectively, as well as in: Helping care for kids, acting as a second set of hands in a household, acting as a babysitter or elderly caregiver, and maybe in some rarer cases even acting as a friendly companion for a lonely or socially isolated child or elderly, etc, etc.
• There is a rather longstanding legal ban on general human cloning and ‘engineered biological human servitors’ or such things within the GER, a hard ban that has been enforced at gunpoint in the past after the law was first passed in the wake of these things being ‘achieved’ by humankind on Sarpedon. The only known produced human clone, made from and by the researcher who made the breakthrough, was also confiscated from his ‘makers’ and adopted out anonymously to a childless couple while the research on making him was seized and those involved were essentially locked up for life and put under surveillance.
• Extreme genetic/biological modifications of the self that lead to or generate extreme medical/other problems and warped physiologies/psychologies are most widely seen by GER culture as a notable spoken and unspoken taboo for myriad reasons in the vast and greater majority by far. And….there are many reasons for this, both due to practical issues over the centuries and otherwise.
  
  While some religions and such discourage the use for ‘anything but medical necessities for one’s health and proper safe job employment’ and such otherwise, which is its own cultural matter and is a similar matter to the use of augmented mechanical prosthetics and replacements of those kinds, no matter the background or religiosity this extent of modification and body warping is drawn in the sand where it ultimately ‘crosses the line’ and creates conditions for individuals where ‘things get dangerous muddied and intertwined’ within the body. These things can’t be easily, or always cheaply at that, reversed or cured or the like. Indeed they very readily lead to vast and deep medical complications and even unique or rare sorts of medical issues, and even psychological conditions and mental diseases ranging from ‘an addiction to getting gene/bio-mods’ all the way up to ‘becoming an inhuman monster or losing one’s empathy’ in some capacity or another. It is a dangerous matter, and as a comparison think of people who ‘become cyberpsychos’ in the Cyberpunk universe as a similar enough parallel, yet there also is a fringe subset of modded people (called “Biomod Transhumanists”; street names are more like: “Frankensteins”/“Bogies”/“Mod-Monsters”/etc) that seek to do such on purpose and call the act ‘true transhumanism’ and seek to embrace this extreme and often are associated with illegal and riskier non-aesthetic biomodding/genetic modification operations (nicknamed ‘meatmen’ or ‘bio-chop shops’) where they usually have to get their ‘extreme’ modding jobs done at.
  
  Nicknames for this condition include, but are not limited to: ‘Going mod-mad’, being ‘mod addicted’, ‘going full monster’, or ‘going animal’, among other potential lingo and terms for this general concept.
  
  Even those who survive this condition, in the case they wish to reverse the process and can get the sponsor or money to get medical help toward reversing it all, then, will likely have permanent problems or other issues even if they are ‘cured’ to more or less of an extent. And that is if they could get everything ‘removed’, and some part of their modifications had to be kept in for medical safety and usually patient-life-endangering reasons.
  
  Note that not everyone is super visibly modded in society, though, as all non-medical and casual mods are aesthetic (by law) visible stuff in the majority of those who get mods for non-medical reasons (medical ones are non-visible mostly, aside from something like a replaced limb/segment of skin or such). Just like how everyone doesn’t have a tattoo, or everyone has piercings or maybe only has one for some reason. Etc. Visible biomods are seen in a similar light to piercings and tattoos and such in society in general, really, even if it has taken 500 years to get the technology to the point that such things can be much more readily and easily removed/added to people in mainstream society by the current day and age within the GER.
• While some who support or speak from within the “Biomod Transhumanist” movement proclaim it as an ‘expression of true freedom and personal choice alone that the law should not repress’, and that all who partake of these modifications do so willingly, it also cannot be denied that there are a number of cases to the contrary as well. Within some groups who take to this particular transhumanist ideology there has been ‘forced modding’ on unwilling or ‘lied to, misled, young, or otherwise tricked subjects’ who now suffer from the consequences of what was done to them as well. There are those among this far-flung (overall) fringe group who are certainly cognizant and stable enough to be around and/or be capable of communication with normal human beings, to enough of an extent depending on a case-by-case basis, which has been the basis for current day practice of not arresting them all or treating them all like alien animals within national law.
  
  However, there are seemingly just as many stories of those from this group who are no more than wandering monsters or enclaves of even greater extremism with warped if not inhuman perspectives and biologies and the like who have attacked or caused incidents with normal humans of criminal natures that are frankly treated as outright criminal cases due to the unknown as well as unfortunately widely-known dangers of their existence. They mostly end up being deemed ‘walking bioweapons’, willingly made or not, that most often get killed for purposes of safety (and protecting people) or might otherwise be contained for medical study in some cases to try to better grasp these things to help victims.
• The reason for biomods being used for self-expression far more widely than cybernetics or advanced mechanical prosthetics boils down to the laws of the GER, which has designated by current times that “the removal of healthy natural flesh and tissues and/or organs from the human body for replacement with mechanical or cybernetically-augmenting parts, for reasons of self-expression or any such behaviors not deemed medically necessary, is deemed to be, in the eyes of the law, a form of self-harm and illegal as well as destructive and/or self-destructive behavior punishable by law” by current times.
  
  This came in a lawsuit where, in the earlier days of such cybernetics and advanced prostheses being developed they were originally mandated to be ‘medical only technologies’ where it required a proper medical reason and rhyme to get such things installed. Some companies began seeking to find ways to commercialize the technology to the wider public in turn after this, and sought to drum up public support for their aims as well, though the ethical debate over the matter would only intensify in the wake of this. To ‘get ahold’ of such prostheses or cybernetics, some individuals would cut off limbs or damage themselves, either on their own or in some cases with illegal ‘medical assistance’, to try to get access to these sorts of implants or prosthetics more rapidly. Indeed at the time it was the cause of a spree of these cases, caused by rumors online that many bought into that they could perform such frauds to ‘get past the system and laws’, and this in turn required deliberation in turn.
  
  The legal case in particular that set things in motion proper as they are currently was a man, one Gustav Arnolds, who got denied a cybernetic prosthetic by one company after what had seemed to be an ‘accident’ causing the loss of his arm turned out to be part of a foolish and ill-fated plan to get a ‘cool cybernetic arm’. As stupid as the case was, the man sued over the denial and claimed he ‘needed it to function in a job and subsist, and that the company was ‘causing him undue levels of suffering and trauma’ by denying him something. During this case some would even argue that “he can do with his organic limbs and body as he wishes, and if he wants to replace his parts with augments he has the right to”, though in the end the judge and chosen jury would make the call that “what Mr. Arnolds did was no more than destructive and mental-health-worrying self-harm in the desire to get an advanced mechanical prosthetic for non-medically-necessary reasons, and thus it has been found that the prosecution’s ill-fated scheme to this end renders his right and attempts to claim and purchase an advanced prosthetic limb to be null and void”. This would require clarifications at the federal level thereafter, which sought to ‘set the boundaries clearly’, and would in turn be the legal decision leading to certain regulations being placed on such ‘cybernetically-augmented equipment’ that it “has to not require the removal of healthy tissues or organs from patients” and that it take the form of externally-worn equipment and devices in any general-use or non-medically-regulated forms.
  
  Combined with the eventual rise of casual biomods into the scene, where lessons learned from the past led those seeking to get these regulated in favor of sought to make them ‘easy and safe for patients and for trained applicants of this technology to remove outside of a medical environment’, it would manage to pass the legal bar of standards despite being a ‘slower burn’ to develop into the state it exists in by current times. This being said, it would still be regulated in the casual sense quite notably in other ways, mostly to “avoid people trying to become super-soldiers” and such goals like “getting casual super strength to go kill a man” or such things. Aesthetics and such were the primary focus in this vein of things in the casual market thereafter, at least outside of medical scenarios where one might get medical biomods for health reasons but could also get non-medical/casual ones for use otherwise. However, in the case one got both kinds of biomods they would have to ‘get safe approval by their doctor’ in certain cases depending on what casual biomod(s) they sought to have installed.
  
  It is safe to say that with the emergence of casual biomods in the vast majority, though, some have also in the much smaller minority still sought to use legal and illegal cybernetics and prostheses to ‘go against the bio-tide’ and express themselves in that way. However, this has been met with becoming even farther outliers than some who use ‘excessive’ amounts of casual biomods. That and there also is the existence of illegal biomods and such out there to boot. Etc. Though there are certainly augmentation-based biomods and the like used in the military and in some more limited ways by the police, though these are packaged and streamlined deals that are made for easier whole-package removal for those retiring or leaving the force (including mandatory therapy sessions and medical care for some time to adjust them to the non-augmented body/life more smoothly as required by law; are also used by military alongside things like unpowered exoskeletons or such too, etc).
• Advanced artificial intelligence is used within the GER to secondarily assist in most areas, ranging from customer service to industrial facilities/factories to areas such as research and development to boot. Certain rights of humans to work have been cemented in the workplace as well, however, ranging from the ancient issues of art theft used to train A.I. and seeking to create a sort of ‘good balance’ between the two areas has seemingly been reached in a general sense. Admittedly some issues, such as A.I.’s use within customer service areas and such, do still fluctuate from time to time even still. However, how did this ‘balance’ manage to come to be?
  
  To put it simply, centuries of struggle back and forth from anti-A.I. advocation to the extreme and the alternative of overusing A.I. within human society has led to this point after literal centuries of struggle. Ranging from the initial use of A.I. and robotics where humans couldn’t operate things, to the zealous regulation of human deployment in areas where humans could be used instead, to the eventual wild swings back and forth within government and industry alike (itself a hotbed of some industrial lobbying and its eventual strict high regulating to boot when it came to this issue, among others) of policy on and off over the centuries.
  
  Yet it would be the horrible results of these swinging policies and good ideas and lessons learned along the way that would shape things. From unemployment and rioting and such from former workers, to the disastrous failure of critical systems and loss or near loss of several floating cities, to the mismanagement and loss of large sums of money and resources to hacking and such, to even the misuse and destruction caused by automated and obsessively non-automated systems like during and outside of times of war, etc. This alongside the practical refinement and development of these technologies would see it and robotics alike eventually reach a place of ‘moderation’ that they have today in GER society.
• ((More To Be Added Eventually))

Governance and Politics:



((The General Rules of Thumb Are:

1 ) The “Oligarchs” are basically that, the top elite authorities whose number of ‘seats’ is limited hard at ‘seven’ by their own founding rules. They have top authority, legal immunity, and frankly a ton of wealth and benefits while also being the heads of Executive power otherwise to boot. They began as founding heads of the GSR that, coming from across certain closely-placed parts of the failed Colonial Administration’s territory, essentially forged a power and faction of their own in the process. While several of their seats are filled by a successor, appointed or semi-elected among their own or by hereditary means or so forth, the top three (or four, depends on what I end up writing in the long-term) are known as the ‘Three Immortals’ for supposedly being immortal in some capacity or another. In any case, their ‘seats’ are meant to distribute a ‘differing array of skills and technocratic variance’ but ‘be united in the same meritocratic aims of preserving and leading the GER and its citizens, including humanity, forward into the future’.

2 ) The National Legislature, led by the President of the Legislature and such, and other lower parts of the government basically run the ‘day to day’ in general, report back to the “Oligarchs”, and act as an ‘adaptable republican sub-system’ meant to adapt to changing times and ideas and general populations at large within the GER to attain a ‘level of long-term stability and avoid ancient oligarchic personality cults, destructive dictatorial whims, and so forth’ ruining things according to the “Oligarchs” and the national constitution (yes, the GER has a constitution at base to boot).

3 ) To Be Added ))

The government is a strict entity in its authority, and has a unitary style of central government at the top, and yet moderates itself through the use of democratic processes and a rigorous judicial system from the bottom-up. There is a separation of levels of government to a certain extent, mostly into levels, with lower levels as defined by the central government at: Continental (to a uniquely certain/special/limited extent), provincial, regional, state, district, and local levels respectively. Unitary authorities exist at each level as conduits of the central government, as do "Representative Councils” at each level that hold limited powers within the limits of laws passed by the central government to pass regulations and such. City/Town Councils, District Councils, State Councils, Regional Councils, and even Provincial Councils exist in particular to this end. Continental level is skipped, however, as the administrators at that level are basically just certain delegated ‘Central Government members’. Meanwhile the National Legislature ((split into the Upper House of the Legislature, in which each province has two representatives: one being a people-elected representative from each province, and the other being a singular expert or skilled person or figure from varying fields and walks that is chosen and appointed by the Upper House Appointment Committee; and the Lower House of the Legislature, which hosts a population-proportional representation from each region)) exists at the highest national level as part of the central government to “inform, represent, bring matters to light, and work on the discussion, planning, and passing of laws” at the highest level. At the head is the President of the Legislature (PoL), who is internally elected within the legislature proper from either house and presides over it both formally-speaking. The PotL also has a Cabinet of Executives who help manage parts of the nation internally (as is the purpose of the Central Government itself) and are chosen by the PotL.

Beyond this, the judicial system has various levels to distribute the burden and catalyze the escalation of cases from each lower level where it is appropriate. Candidates at the lowest City/Town level come from graduates from legal/judicial schools, and those who serve at this level for at least one term of four years become the candidate pool for the District level. Those at the District level who serve at least one term become candidates for the State level. Etc, etc. Candidates at each level are put through background checks and interviews once elected, and if found to be ‘unfit for office’ or corrupt or such disqualifying things then a second vote is held among the remaining candidates once the situation is aired out for the public’s knowledge. A similar system of careful vetting, as done by a politically neutral body formed for such according to law, is used to vet elected and appointed candidates within the central government at various levels to boot.

The general practice for democratic voting is that all adults, those 18 and older by law, are able to vote in general elections at the increasingly large local, district, state, regional, provincial, and national levels respectively. The general idea is that you can’t vote on who is mayor or such in a place you don’t live as well, naturally/inherently, of course. However, there is some hybridization with liquid/representative democracy as well in this case. Normally citizens have the foundational right to vote on who to represent them as with a representative democracy, but in this case citizens can also sign away or hand over votes to another akin to a liquid democracy to use on their behalf. Simply put, people can invest their vote into the personage of a representative to vote on their behalf. Representatives can be as small-scale as someone’s lazy adult kid giving his vote to his mom or dad to use on his behalf, as big as a bunch of such parents or citizens investing their accrued votes into a common singular representative on a larger scale, etc, etc.

However, each citizen also has a just as fundamental right to ‘rescind’ their vote from a representative to reclaim it if or as they wish, and the use of votes as ‘currency’ to hand them over to others in legal or commercial or such exchanges (and contracts in general) has been strictly forbidden…..and not without reason either. Albeit there are regulations are in place to prevent mass vote-pulling for trolling or such bad-spirited reasons, such as trying to ‘pull out the rug’ from underneath a vote-invested representative’s feet to troll or humiliate them, though it doesn't illegalize mass vote withdrawing in all cases such as if public opinion turns against a candidate your representative is voting for, etc, and you change your mind).

Also, a sitting politician/representative or someone in the running for a political position (defined in law so I don’t have to try to go into deep legal details) cannot be used as a Voting Representative by others and loses that position and power and so forth if they do enter such a position or go into the running for one. Those who work for or are related to a sitting politician directly, such as staff, janitors, sons or daughters, and the like, cannot be used as Voting Representatives either. All Voting Representatives are also barred from accepting pay to become one or participate as one (this issue always comes up here and there in the courts, but the law is generally actually enforced). Voting Representatives at larger levels, as well as lawsuits regarding them, are vetted through and recorded by or are handled by the appropriate unitary authority and elected council or the proper judicial court level respectively.

So not only are possible political candidates seeking to gain political positions, but some supporting them might go on their own sub-campaigns for the candidate seeking to accrue votes to use to vote for them. Double the political campaigns, and sometimes these sub-campaigners work against each other to accrue votes. The central government oversees election cases or lawsuits at various levels, and in some areas there are committees that help vet such

Votes can be handed over on three levels. The first is the ‘one use basis’, such as for a singular presidential or mayoral race and what most major candidate sub-campaigns will seek for. The next is a ‘limited time basis’, which cannot exceed one or two years due to federal law and in minor part depending on the local region one is in. Then there is ‘on a semi-permanent basis’, meaning that the chosen voting representative has the handed-over vote(s) until or unless those who gave them their vote(s) decide otherwise. This of course comes with its own storm of regulations and court cases by current times to boot.

….Meanwhile, while the day to day is handled by the overt government, the actual behind-the-scenes oligarchy basically controls government systems in the background, with behind-the-scenes institutions from top to bottom to help support and reinforce this by current times with how far their reach has come to stretch in reality. It doesn’t micromanage everything from top to bottom normally, the flexibility and such gives people room and representation enough to satiate them and allow things to run well enough in general, but it does step in and exert authority where and when it sees fit and when its interests are either endangered or when its members wish for something to be done. Their ability to control things is at all levels in reality indeed, even if they don’t always abuse it all of the time.

Still, it is by far in current times seen as a crazy but lingering conspiracy theory that a ‘secret cabal controls the nation itself’, and even more so with the sub-rumor that ‘its members are all immortals’ and such things (they are actually in most cases ‘effectively immortal’ in some scientifically-wrought way or another, funny enough, but this bit of the conspiracy theory is seen as the most ridiculous as well). The ‘true synarchy’ behind closed doors also has a titanic amount of wealth and the like individually, but even they have created a sort of code of ethics and such to try to regulate themselves internally to boot.

((Note: At some point the “Oligrachs” almost went for a genuine Synarchic approach, but decided against it after deliberations on the matter.

Further, the reach of the “Oligarchs” should not be understated. The Central Government overall runs things, with the National Legislature and judicial areas having their own areas and definitions, all to run the day to day while the “Oligarchs” (as their nickname has become to the point its basically official) run their business and oversee things, etc. But they have subordinates reaching down into these bodies rather than being isolated from them, etc, which is something the general public doesn’t fully know either due to how smoothly (overall that is) things have been run in the past ~260 years despite three internal rebellions or such having happened by current times within the GSR and later GER proper in total.))

Technology Overview:

• Limited Graviton/Gravity Technologies - A breakthrough in human scientific understanding that, ultimately, was developed with the intent to allow humans to settle more widely and oddly across the surface of the planet of Sarpedon in some ways. Harnessing the power of the graviton, it allowed the anchoring of buildings using ‘gravity tethers’ (for ocean cities or suspended larger buildings/habitations) and has enabled the use of artificial gravity devices on spacecraft, habitats in the atmosphere of Euryale V, and general space stations. This being noted, however, this technology has become limited to these implementations (and due to RP rules) due to how bulky and rough the nature of this technology is.
• Nanotechnologies - Ranging from advanced nanomaterials able to recover from or withstand terrible storms, to nanoengineered factories capable of producing incredibly hardy and resilient materials and specs using a combination of organic and inorganic processes, to the likes of electrically-resistant and resilient medical nanomachines, to nano-scale art exhibits, to even nano-scale synthetic fabrics beyond the reach of human hands, to the safe installation of new cybernetics and removal of them alike, etc, these things emerged mostly as human civilization on Sarpedon would begin to reach beyond its infancy after a number of macroengineering questions had to be answered. It is a form of technology that has become an in-depth subject explored and still to this day being tinkered with within GER society.
• Robotics (and Artificial Intelligence) - While humans have retained a by now more grounded place in the workplace despite the presence of robotics, this technology has still transformed things much over the years alongside the issues and development of advanced artificial intelligence. Ranging from deep-sea or voidbound mining drones with rugged exteriors, meant to handle rough and dangerous environments of the seas and space, all the way down to household human-like or such robotics used to assist parents, act as elderly caregivers, or even just be time-spending supplementary companions to keep even a minority of people who buy them for such reasons more socially engaged and happier in the household. They are implemented in various industries ranging from production and refineries, both on-planet for Euryale IV and in the myriad industrial habitats of Euryale V, in commercial industries as in-store assistants in some cases, in areas of business targeted at all sorts of ages, and even within the military for use alongside living, breathing soldiers.
  
  Among the most famous companies to produce household robotics are “Vaul Technological Enterprises”, “Raijin Robotics”, and the last of the “Big Three” names in robotics being the “AutoDoll Corporation”. Yet, historically at least, the most notable of these three companies is the lattermost one: The AutoDoll Corporation. Founded roughly four hundred and eighty three years ago by a well-to-do German-born polymath and first generation colonist, Dr. Heinrich Nachtnebel, the AutoDoll Corporation has remained a generally consistent name in the realm of robotics and secondarily in artificial intelligence (at first) for most of its history. Being one of the oldest extant companies within the GER, it has passed from hand to hand and generally stayed a profitable and lasting presence within the industry that even today still has an existing civilian market and a number of military contracts with the government. While seen by some as an ‘old hand’ that has been around a long time, or being past its glory days, it is also a presence that remains far from being ‘gone’ and continues to regain occasional relevancy here and there after having managed to adapt to the times.
  
  Knowledge of Robotics is also employed for the use and deployment of "Specialized Single-Pilot Vehicles" (SSPV), which range from 14-foot-tall humanoid-like "Urban Combat Police-Piloted Vehicles" (UCPPV) that are deployed in small numbers in serious urban police or “Military-Grade Specialized Single-Pilot Vehicles” that are deployed in military scenarios in rough/dense/wild terrains like forests, to ball-like underwater submersibles with attached robotics arms and mounted tools for underwater work, to similarly-shaped ball-like space-piloted vehicles for work in a vacuum and bearing their own array of arms and tools and specialized features, and even civilian-grade SSPV's akin to the UCPPV that are used in logging and construction and even certain forms of hazardous work environments. For the most part SSPVs of any kind are not for frontline combat in every situation, especially on open terrain, but in what such roles exist for them is something they've been able to be specialized for or adapted to from their original civilian-grade models. Because that is how these vehicles arose, beginning as rough and hardy ‘enough’ civilian work tools and load-moving suits for industry before eventually spreading out from there in their potential uses elsewhere once the technology eventually came down to being well-understood enough. Some have even been integrated for use with cybernetics for finer-tuned control on the part of an operator(s), which seems to be another more recent development in the last few decades for SSPV technology in general.
  
  It is of note that SSPV military variants and police variants, while of a higher grade in a number of ways, aren’t made to be tanks either. They mostly take on anti-personnel-type roles alongside other ground units, and can be used to assist in even anti-SSPV roles and configurations as well.
  
  Robotics has also played a part in the development of cybernetics and mechanical prostheses, ranging from internally-implanted medically-approved-for-health-reasons-only devices to the civilian-grade externally-worn and commercially/etc available forms under the law. (Etc.) ((Note: Some cybernetics or prostheses are actually medically-implanted ones that, under law, are medically required for safety on the habitats of Euryale V or certain extreme environment scenarios, though this also requires recipients of such medically-regulated ones to sign waivers and
  
  As for artificial intelligence as a whole, the line between incredibly smart and human-mimicking models and still-sophisticated but decidedly less-humanlike ones has become less blurred and more well-defined over the centuries than some as far back as the early 21st century would have perhaps assumed. While the making and programming of them has certainly not been free of the occasional idea or debate if ‘A.I. has become sentient and sapient’, and incidents of activism or online rumors over certain individual or ‘viral’ situations regarding A.I. have occurred without a doubt along the way, current-day law and regulations have placed a number of tight restrictions on ‘certain aspects and capabilities’ of A.I. after having finally breached past the era of ‘overly enthusiastic widespread A.I. usage’ and its myriad and seemingly inevitable problems along the way. Albeit this was a long, troublesome, and also-inevitably dangerous road of understanding and development that saw many current-day laws written in the depths of tragedy and at times in blood and sweat and tears otherwise.
  
  Another development in this area (or is related to it therein) has also been made more recently, that of “Artificial/Synthetic Brains” (and separate but related artificial/synthetic neurons, which is as much of a mention as they’ll get for now). These are not pure organic brains, but are machines made to imitate the human brain as closely as possible. Mostly used in studies both medical, economic, computational, and in certain realms even commercial uses to some extent or another by current times while seeking to push the technology forwards. Yet simultaneously they have also come under scrutiny and been placed under legal limitations in their designs for similar reasons as A.I. both from an economic and likewise a safety-related as well as ethical point(s) of view, some of these measures being pre-emptive and others yet to be decided either legally or in the development of this technology.
• Genetic/Bio-Engineering Technology - Mastery over the genome and an understanding of genetics has been achieved on Sarpedon over the past five centuries, the beginnings of this being wrought in the work before colonization and afterward to adapt the human body to the more alien conditions of Euryale IV/Sarpedon proper. It can also be linked to a number of leading members of the field of genetics and bioengineering and their own involvement in these things as far back as the GER’s records (and those on the old colony ship) go. Research into the field to save and preserve Old Earth species, work to understand the genetics and biology of Sarpedon, surgeries developed long ago on the cutting edge for the rich and wealthy, plagues both familiar and on rare occasion oddly alien, the danger of and development of bioweapons and long-term presence of “the enemy”, and similar things have also contributed their own bits and pieces across the myriad decades until current day to create the local understanding and mastery over this ‘craft’ in a manner of speaking. This and the at times sporadic or gradual march of technological development helped to facilitate the improvements in the sciences behind this technology to boot.
  
  In a manner akin to getting a tattoo or piercing, people get ‘biomods’ as a means of self-expression. Anything from cat-eared streamer girls on college campuses, to a gang of men with shark-like sharp teeth, to teenagers getting eye and body mods to ‘stand out’ or something of the sort, the use of biomods has taken the place of something like cybernetics in the causal sense due to the ‘father ahead’ developments of Genetic/Bio-Engineering technologies compared to cybernetics and cybernetic/mechanical prostheses within the GER.
  
  ((Note: In some medical cases, a mechanical prosthetic or cybernetic implant might be deemed safer for use than a biomod, or perhaps be deemed ‘more effective’ than a simple regrown replacement part/tissue/limb/organ for someone (usually due to old age or such factors though).))
• Fusion Technology/Fission Technology/Batteries - The GER has developed improved, self-sustaining fusion technologies, as well as the likes of fission and fusion batteries/cells/engines in increasingly compact sizes and improved outputs. While mentioned in another tech category in the above parts, it is worth a mention here on its own regardless at the very least. In part, however, fuel for some of these things is derived naturally, safely, and sustainably from local seawater to boot before being further refined or processed to required specifications. Other fuel production is taken, derived, and developed in facilities suspended in the atmosphere of the neighboring gas giant of Euryale V. Modern practices are more sustainable for these things, in part due to development and time and in part at least some level of hard-learned long-term and more recent environmental-consciousness that has affected the generations that have been born and living on Sarpedon in some way or another (even if not directly these days) since the fall of “Old Earth”.
  
  This being said, the development of power-generating/holding technologies has historically on Sarpedon been an influencing factor in 'downscaling' or 'upsizing' some other technologies along the way. Among the technologies that came into fruition with the ‘downsizing’ of power sources on Sarpedon is the development of advanced hovercraft/ground-based ionocraft (and likewise thrusters and such related technologies) making use of electrohydrodynamic thrust for rapid and quiet on-planet ground-level transportation, which have been able to be developed far enough for both the civilian and military markets to make use of them in one way or another (including finding them to be vehicles used on the roads to boot). (A nice little historical note to end on with this as well for fun!)
• Cryonics/Cryogenics - Cryonics, derived from technologies salvaged from Glorg mother vessels, is an extant technology within the GER and is both a technology as well as an area of study and debate to boot. Cryonic super-cooling liquid ‘throwers’ and ‘grenades’ and such were experimentally developed for use in warfare and ultimately have been worked out to the point they have seen practical as well as by now historically successful use within the GER’s military through current times, and cryo-tech has seen use in medical procedures to help ‘kill’ certain tissues or exterior cancerous growths, deaden potential sensations of pain in certain medical trials in the most current times, or to yet other extents have been employed to valuably help keep patients alive through ‘ambulance cryo-pods’ employed for only critical-enough cases/patients thus far in GER society. Meanwhile actual serious cryo-pods have not really caught on in the practical sense, and have been outlawed for ‘the storage of dead bodies NOT for immediate transport to a funeral home or hospital and/or non-medical long-term storage of living individuals’.
  
  ((Note: Use of Glorg salvage also helped ‘speed up’ other areas of human innovation in ways as well through study and retroengineering work, but much was also lost in the eventual boarding and later destruction of two of the three Glorg mother vessels in turn or remains under-research because it still can’t currently be understood or got filed away due to other pressing matters/concerns going on. Etc.))
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  Q: Wasn’t Gravity-Based Stuff Banned?
  
  A: Yes, and I ran what I have here this time by Tort before putting it into this app as well to be safe. No tractor beams, or other wonky stuff like handheld gravity guns and such, just simple gravity tethers to suspend stuff and enough to do artificial gravity stuff in space proper. I just wanted to put it in the app to feel like I was fleshing things out properly and likewise IC rudimentarily justifying why (beyond it being an RP rule) that there isn’t more grav tech stuff in my nation.))

Military Overview:

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• Infantry/soldiers generally use a mixture of Kinetic and Particle Beam weaponry, both in anti-personnel and anti-vehicle roles, while Kinetic, Missile/Explosive, and Particle Beam weapons in a general sense are used for combat vehicles across various theaters ranging from ground all the way to combat-oriented spacecraft. This includes the use of advanced Close-In-Weapon type systems and “Point Defense” for various military craft/vessels as well where fitting.
  
  Kinetic primary weapons for infantry mostly take the form of easier-to-maintain coilgun-type designs on average, capable of firing a range of ammunition types and in semi/full auto and even underwater or in bad weather type scenarios, while something like a sniper rifle or a revolver-type pistol (only really in serious use within SWAT-grade police organizations in this latter case in particular, though civilian-grade and ones sold as ‘outdated surplus’ for being older designs do exist in the market as well) would be made with a railgun-type design to fire ferromagnetic projectiles. However, it is of note that these technologies took a rather long time to manifest as ‘viable’ infantry weapons within the Euryale system. Technology began with late-Earth firearms technologies, though between the loss of Anesidora and other intervening years of struggle beyond began with the same level of military technology until gradually ramped-up threats led to a serious need to ‘make’ stronger and likewise more versatile arms work in the field. Etc. Things like advanced cluster munitions and such are also employed by current times in warfare, mostly due to improved designs and greatly improved reliability for submunitions compared to the technology of centuries past, to try to overwhelm the range of point-defense and CIWS type weapon systems or attack larger or smaller groups of enemy infantry/organisms depending on the situation.
  
  Meanwhile, rail weapons tend to standardly form the bulk of larger-scale hard-hitting weapons mounted on vehicles/vessels for anti-vehicle use alongside larger-sized particle beam weapons. Larger-scale coilgun-type weapons are most often used in rapid-fire weapons at those scalings in turn, including gatling-type arrangements of such larger coilgun-type weapons developed to accommodate the inherent change in firing mechanism and heat management.
  
  ((Note: Chemical-propellant weapons are not alien to the GER, but these days are mostly collectors items or among the available but in ways limited civilian-grade arms that are allowed to be sold by law. All gun/arms ownership comes with thorough background checks and require ‘non-dangerous mental health’ to own that have become a by now mostly-streamlined but crucial part of renewing one’s gun permit in the first place.))
  
  ((worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/quest…
  
  worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/quest…)
  
  Particle beam weapons are Neutral Particle Beam Weapons (NPBWs) geared at delivering the maximum amount of energy to a target, with adjustable settings for “soft/low-power mode” for lower-grade targets or situations. Mostly used against armored vehicles and monstrous bioweapons at higher settings, and lower-grade settings against smaller and less bulky/armored targets. These weapons burn through flesh when hitting living tissues, as well as destroy enemy armor and vehicle/craft electronics, and depending on the power setting one turns the weapon to it can have various such effects. While hardened armor and so-called ‘adaptive armor’ (made using phase changing or smart materials) for some vehicles (or carapace for some “enemy” bioweapons) was ultimately used to protect against these weapons in turn, this would be combatted with a larger-scaled weapon in turn or alternatively use a kinetic or missile-based weapon in turn. Etc.
  
  ((worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/quest…
  
  ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/olj/sa/sa_fe…
  
  electronicsforu.com/technology-trends…)
• Orbital Defense Satellites are only located around Sarpedon/Euryale IV, the moon of Anesidora, and Euryale V defensively, though upon the opening of the Gateways more will be deployed and made to heavily guard a wide perimeter around the Euryale System’s gateway proper alongside patrols and a spaced-out series of defensive space stations.
• Improvements in Nanotechnology have led to the development of modern military exoskeletons/exosuits being by far unpowered/passive by nature, rather than risking a powered one making a ‘wrong move’ and tearing off someone’s limbs or worse (etc). This does not mean these modern exoskeletons/exosuits are themselves useless or weak in comparison, however, as their unpowered design has also left more room to add defensive protection/survival aspects to it (such as further protection against biological and chemical weapons). However, despite this they can and do often still have powered tech integrated into them (etc) for use in the field. Just the base exoskeleton/exosuit itself isn’t powered is all, but things thrown in there for use out in the field or that are attached to them externally can be powered.
  
  Nanotechnology in a general sense is also well-incorporated into general building/vehicle materials and other equipment for the military as well. This includes radiation shielding and EMP shielding, among others, by the current day and age that have been enabled in part by advancements in general nanotechnology (including materials sciences in this regard).
• In-depth anti-bioweapon/anti-organic defenses/treatments are also a part of GER military capabilities at its core by current times, with actual ‘offensive’ weapons being rendered a moot point given the GER’s biotechnological and bio/genetic engineering capabilities. The most horrendous it gets with an ‘offensive’ weapon are canisters of chemically-or-EM-propelled pathogen designed in particular to target and kill “enemy”-specific exotic biomatter (an emergency weapon or crowd-control against a newly-found ‘pod’ since pods can adapt their creations to be immune over time, thus even this weapon is limited in scope). However, widespread immunizations to such have become commonplace over the centuries for….various and extent practical reasons as well, to be most blunt about the matter. Things such as anti-biological agents to boot, where fitting or declared safe for use, though such things as these and general bioweapons are outright normally not used against human beings due to this form of usage being illegal by law (and seen as a taboo/inhumane outright) and coming in such a case with very lethal consequences for breaking those laws.
  
  In fact, ridiculous things to locals such as ‘engineered monster creatures’ are a point of strong feelings within the GER, such that they are not only banned but are considered organically-based war crimes (among other things) and are punished very, very severely…and are destroyed with impunity.
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• The GER’s True Leaders - The “Oligarchs” [+]

  A section to be filled out IC, both as they are revealed (primarily) and as I actually write them up (which will likely not be all at once) and such. They will be passed by the GMs to make sure they're ok to toss in behind the scenes as I actually manage to write up and finish each one, but won't be publicly tossed into the app until they are used or revealed IC to enough of an extent (to keep some sort of mystique about them around, at least maybe).
  
  

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• Random Example/Representative Pics: Robots/Autodolls Both Civilian And Military Grade [+]

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  Military Robot - Model: “CA-F”/Combat (Active) - Frontliner [+]

  

  
  
  

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  Military Autodoll - Type: “H-N/C”/Humanoid-Near/Custom, Model: “CS-MA”/Combat Support (Note: A Uniqueely-Ordered Custom Unit) [+]

  
• The Glorg: “The Most Annoying Aliens In The Universe”, Because They Don’t Get To Be Listed In “Demographics” For Reasons [+]

  

  
  
  The Glorg, a species whose popular ‘national anthem’ sounds like a cheesy pop song (the famous/infamous chorus line of it: “D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Don’t Touch Mah…..GLU-THURG-NA-THAAAAANG (Gluthurgnathang), and who have cloned the original singer and put each clone through the same sort of trauma and life that the original lived (a ‘mimicry of the original’s life’) to try to forcibly shape them into the ‘same person’ (and publicized their growth and life events each time as well as ‘corrected’ the process if the clone tried to deviate) untold thousands and thousands of times over and then some. All to allow the original singer to ‘keep singing for the people’ no matter how old the song became and how long it had been and even if the unfortunate clone found out the truth. This to the point that the ‘latest’ one to be made before the war against humanity in the Euryale system, who learned the truth of his life and was kept from ‘doing certain things’ to ‘escape’, was so traumatized and angry against his own ‘people’ that he helped betray them to humanity in the end just to be free of them.
  
  An aggressive species whose visible members are low to high upper-class in the comparative sense, with a feast and party-loving culture that celebrates many events both mundane and major alike with decadence. A species whose lower members were mostly left to die off and breed on their own in cramped ‘slave holds’ on their vast generation ships, alongside two other species they enslaved along the way, as slave-servitors and hard laborers to perform public works and so forth that their own robotics (which fully dominate industry) weren’t designed for. Meanwhile the likes of input-given automatic systems for appointed military commanders to use to command robotic forces, and upper-crust-designed robotics and drones now working alongside slave-soldiers in their military forces as soldiers by and large.
  
  A species that is more than willing to displace others and slaughter other populations that they see as ‘lowly slave fodder or pests’ simply for their own whims and wills, while despite leaving their slaves to their own devices only in their hold areas will everywhere else go about lecturing others about how to think and what to do and will act as if these things should be expected in their presence without having to tell you about them. A species that would so very often enforce its at times obtuse or species-specific ways onto subjects around them, and have long treated those who broke such even unknowingly with great offense and even punishment at times. A species whose media is spun to entertain and amuse or generate rage in their masses to succeed, and which has cared not for the destruction of the world or places around itself as done by its own hand but proclaims humanity and others to be ‘dirty savages’ for dirtying their own homeworlds and the like ‘as if they just don’t care’.
  
  A species of hypocrites, and yet even then containing its own nuances internally along the way despite looking in from outwards painting them as a stereotype. Somehow. Some treat their ‘servitors’ far better in a minority in some places in their mother vessels and such, or argue for them here and then, while others treat them poorer than the robots and get a kick out of it on the other end of the spectrum. Some are more sober and serious than the party-loving stereotype or are known for in their wider public, with some being genetically-bred intellects whose talents are fostered in their education system where they are found before being used for the ‘less fun’ but usually still-important jobs in society that require such. They actively focus on reusing resources and recycling them from their wanton waste, whether in making at least ‘edible medicated-nutrition chow’ for their slaves to sustain them (if quality drops too much the slaves begin to die off ‘too much’ and this is the only time they’ll correct things in that regard on their side), and do take meticulous care of the ‘natural areas’ they possess in their mother vessels with a level of actual, genuine care for these spaces and fostering the growth of them in new terraformed areas elsewhere as well.
  
  In some of their extent sub-cultures even go about possessing actual closeted or hidden religious beliefs, this despite the zealous atheism of their state overall pushing them to the fringes and brink, making them outcasts or criminals if discovered by law. Yet despite their stance on faith they hold to their stance on atheism with a very religious type of pomp, ceremony, and zeal without any self-realization of the irony, and hold to the ‘preservation of our original culture’ as a stringent matter that legally in certain respects is not allowed to ‘deviate’ in society (such as certain greetings and ceremonies, and the holding of wider public debates about matters in public forums, and not genetically augmenting their species to ‘change them from the original form and being’, etc) but which has changed still in other ways they hold as ‘not so important’ (and ignore changes in for their own benefit, such as evolving technologies and their growing decadence, abuse of medical technologies to extend lifespans and live better than their slaves despite indulging in many vices, and praise-generating formalities used to stroke egos and make them look more important than they are in some cases at that). Even their food reflects both a mainstream obsession with ‘strange hydroponic farming techniques’ among their upper-class population, while certain circles take their own twists on food ranging from more ‘simple and staple’ types of cuisine of supposed historical nature to even those who prefer sour and spicy types of foods or prefer sweet-seasoned and fermented sorts of flavors (etc) in this circle or group of their kind or that one across their mother vessels.
  
  Despite everything, they have depth of some kind or another to them, and yet their society became so reliant on conquest it didn’t know (or at times didn’t want to know even with a chance given to them) how to do otherwise. They’ve gone about plundering from asteroid belts and such within other systems, and build new ships to carry more of their growing population from time to time. Then once in a ‘very long time to be sure’ they have stopped in a particular system here and there to build new ‘mother vessels’ over a few generations to house the populations of many smaller vessels once the number of them grows too large.
  
  There are several ‘mother fleets’ of their vessels in the universe, having been forged for untold tens of thousands of years, and if two by some miracle make contact with each other it usually leads to the trading of some ‘cool or unique looking’ slave species (if any) and a lot of partying before the system they met in likely gets stripped down to the bone before they part once more in different directions (eventually). Yet the mother fleet that arrived in the Euryale system, with two of three of their mother vessels being destroyed and the last being crippled in a number of ways, is basically trying to subsist at the very edges of the Euryale system as occasional pirates and taking time to lick their wounds and repair/rebuild their remaining vessel with the aim of traveling off again (eventually) away from the system.
  
  ((Note: Females are taller than males and have shorter trunks with a rougher skin texture (visibly and to touch), and males’ trunks are longer than those of females with a smoother skin texture.))
• Other Assorted Vah’neh Facts (Added To Over Time, Probably) [+]

  • Earlobes - Tying one’s prehensile earlobes back behind the head is a sign of seriousness and aggression in Vah’neh society. It is a thing done by warriors heading into battles or hunts or raids and such, or in defiance of a leader seen ‘not fit for leadership’ only by warriors unless you want to get killed or scarred for it depending on the situation, but it comes with just as notable consequences in social interactions. Earlobes not tied back are a sign of comfort and ease, in enough of a social sense to be basically ubiquitous among the spread-out tribes, and yet also take on the potential connotations of ‘not seeing someone as a threat’. Cutting one’s earlobes off is a form of horrific isolation and mutilation, done only to ‘traitors to the sacred laws of Vah’ (which include very specific anti-tech anti-mining type rules and such among them) and ‘severe blood traitors’ which can be familial or considered such in a wider marriage-based or tribal nature at large depending on the circumstances and so forth.
    
    Further, these prehensile earlobes are basically used like a Na’vi’s tail from the James Cameron Avatar movie, in that one can bond with animals and Vah/Not!Eywa with them to boot, akin to having a usb for a tail and the world being made out of computers in a metaphorical way. Not that this makes anything but taming animals and ‘sharing minds’ (a highly intimate experience with its own set of connotations, ranging from romantic or sexual to familial in nature depending on the more varied sub-culture of a particular tribe) with other Vah’neh. This doesn’t mean nature just kowtows to them or such, though, as while they avoid Vah’s “immune response” as humanity experienced firsthand….yeah nature will kill you, diseases do still happen, etc. They have much easier lives on Anesidora for certain, compared to any primitive humans in ancient Earth history, but it won’t be perfect in every way for them either and troubles are still there to enough of an extent.
  • Inspiration - Yes, they are an edited knockoff of the Na'vi from James Cameron's Avatar, though I forgot to add more details about how they look and such beyond what has been said as of yet. Ugh. But no, they aren't meant to be totally shallow or strawmen despite starting out in my head as that. They are meant eventually to be (even if I have to develop them in iteration) more fleshed out and their own thing. And have it where they and humans are both in the right and act like a-holes alike given the situation and so forth. Did I do this well? Maybe not, maybe better than I thought, either way the goal was to try to even them out on both sides. But in this case Not!Eywa is basically an arse, to put it simply, and a threat because it makes for more action and drama and another difference to try to separate them from the Na'vi and Cameron's work personally. (@_@)
• Example Pics of the Biomood "Mod-Mad" and Illegally/Dangerously Hyper-Modded People (Could Be Added To In The Long-Term) [+]

  

  
  
  

  
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