Tamiroth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
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Posted - 2017.03.18 14:53:57 -
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Loai Qerl wrote:I hope you'll forgive me if I don't launch straight away into an account of my own home planet, and the part of it where I grew up, and all its weather and plants and animals and usual clothes and other customary things. I could do it, I could write books about Jachanu V, but I want to know the little things about YOUR home. Where you grew up, what seemed normal that turned out to be strange, what the food is like, what you'd like to return to someday? What feels like home, when you find it somewhere else.
I would also like very much to hear about this if it was not a planet at all, but a station. Or some other thing in space. That's a thing so strange to me and I would love so much to know the little familiar details that made it HOME to you.
Won't you tell us a little something about it? Please.
I was born on Danera V. This world was once a smallish ice planet with little to no atmosphere. When the Empire began to colonize the region that was to become Khanid, they chose between Danera II and V as possible terraforming projects. Danera V, while receiving much less sunlight than II, had enormous deposits of water, and that sealed its fate. Danera II still stands barren. Even though the terraforming was launched there as well, it still has several hundred years left to completion.
Thus, the world I was born to is a fake, artificial one. The rings of atmospheric processors around the poles keep the air breathable and support the greenhouse effect that enables the comfortable average temperatures of ~18 C near the equator, but the planet is still too far away from our sun. Should the immense ancient citadels buried in ice stop breathing, within the next few decades our world will revert into the dead glacier-covered wasteland. That was one of my main childhood fears. But then, i learned about the Caldari, and the fears were gone. They did it. They survived. And we will survive too!
The gravity here is slightly above half standard. The air feels like high in the mountains. There is perpetual twilight, and our eyes grow adapted to it. Everything is similar. Everywhere you go, you find the same few species of gen-modded crops, grass, bushes and trees, the same few species of insects and bacteria. There are no "larger" animals except humans, their livestock and their pets. Even during the day, you can see brighter stars and the tiny sickle of our moon, and sometimes even the Vapor Sea. Our year lasts about 5 calendar cycles. It's a long year, but we are used to it.
For a foreign visitor, Danera V leaves a strange feeling that it's a setting of some VR game, a world that was procedurally generated from a few asset blocks. Too orderly, too neat, everything is the same wherever you go - but yet different.
Perhaps, it helps us, the colonists, to learn the truth about the universe: what seems to be an infinitely diverse colorful chaos is in fact not. There is an underlying order in everything.
There's just more variety in the building blocks and how they fit together.
P.S. A fun fact: I've just learned that a few species of our "wild" (well, introduced, of course) birds are DNA-related to... the bird family that lives on Caldari Prime and is prominent in Caldari culture. They even have ships named after those birds, like the Raven, the Crow, and the Jackdaw. Strange, isn't it? Makes me think of myths about Terra.
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Tamiroth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
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Posted - 2017.03.18 18:47:48 -
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Synthetic Cultist wrote:Curious. Were there Many Street Preachers on Danera V ? It is also the Home World of another Prominent IGS Poster. Nauplius.
I grew up in a remote estate. The closest place we had for a "city" with a population of 100000 or so had no street preachers at all. While I do remember a few of those in the planetary capital, neither church nor local police encourages that sort of thing.
There were ads for private religious schools though, and people giving away all kinds of leaflets inviting to religious gatherings. Mostly government approved ones. But who knows where heresy might lurk.
I do know of Nauplius' origins. Before he fell into madness, this man actually served in the Navy in the same campaigns as my father. Except, my father was promoted and knighted for his service and Nauplius wasn't. |