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Ribblehead
Galactography > Regions of Space > Middle Regions/Hinter-regions
Galactography > Civilized Galaxy - Sephirotic Empires > Mutual Progress Association
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Galactography > Civilized Galaxy - Sephirotic Empires > Mutual Progress Association
Galactography > Systems and Worlds > Systems & Worlds Q - R
Lo-tech reserve world |
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Ribblehead is a world in the MPA hinteregions, the third planet in the Pen-y-ghent system. It is home to 500 distinct low tech nation clades.
Traveller's Notes - Ribblehead
A Hyhyoinimn traveler made her way through an equatorial region. At first, Hrrynmyh was unaware of the looks the natives were giving her, brushing them off as glances of curiosity or the sun in their eyes. Quite soon, Hrrynmyh noticed that none of them would look her straight in the eye as she walked past. They talked amongst themselves in hushed voices and quick hand signals. Hrrynmyh knew being out here in these foreign parts was dangerous. None of the folk here looked like they were going to offer her shelter and water. Maybe coming out here to trade wasn't such a good idea, especially without her Minoan companion. These xenophobic outback tribes weren't going to trade spices and stories with her. It was getting late. Soon, it would be time to go home. She thought it ironic how these people were so unaware of other worlds than theirs when, in the sky, everyone could see the arc of light suspended in the heavens. The so-called Cityring, home to the Archailects. Other worlds, indeed...
Ribblehead - Data Panel | |
| System: | Pen-y-ghent |
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| Primary: | Pen-y-ghent (YTS 56999 45812) |
| Stellar Type: | F1 - comfort zone 1.4 AU |
| Companion: | YTS 56999 45812B (class M1v red dwarf mean 450AU distant) |
| Region: | Mutual Progress Association middle sector- 790 ly from Sol- Constellation Scorpius |
| Planets: | Ribblehead is the third planet in the Pen-y-ghent system |
| AI: | AI overseer: Cityring Expediter (based on Ribblehead orbital city ring- local AI power) AI's ethos:: Progressive - Experimental sociologism |
| Polity: | Name: Ribblehead League of Nations Symbol: Patchwork globe in patchwork field Affiliation: Mutual Progress Association Founded: 3499 Terraformed 4800 |
| Psyche, Art, Culture: | Metapsychology: Ribblehead is currently a lo-tech Societeum. 500 different nations have been established in this large world's landmass of 540 million km2. Each nation was originally founded as a single clade culture, with access to electronics or mass production technology forbidden by the Cityring Expediter - one Net terminal per original nation Religion/Ideology: Each Nation originally had one state sponsored religion or ideology, which has been subject to subsequent historical events — this being the primary purpose of the planetary experiment. Since the experiment started, the nations have fought, merged with, suppressed and exterminated each other, until now the largest but least fertile continent (23) and the free city-state Jefferson (Enk- Mrprk) have become a haven for the dispossessed, cultural refugees who have begun to forge various polysyncretic cultures. At each Tenyears end the Cityring allows the brightest products of the new cultures to copy or migrate into the Progress milieu. Continent (23) has since 7897 AT become accessible for monitored tourism. Culture and Art: Permitted for export: much handmade pottery, jewellery, religious articles, furniture,weaponry. Also fine music, choral works, hymns, martial music, literature, poetry, and samisdyat. Languages: Anglish, Galanglic, Penglaiese, demotic Coronese, Esperanto, Ameslan, Creole, Amerind language family, !Xhosa, classical Greek, others |
| Territory and Population: | Population: Ribblehead 15 billion Ribblehead city ring 30 billion including virtuals Population breakdown: baseline 7 billion splice 1 billion rianth 1 billion provolve 3 billion tweak 2 billion neogen 2 billion nearbaseline 2 billion |
| Immigration: | Zero immigration to Ribblehead 100 million emigrating to all vectors per tenyear 50 million immigration to Cityring per annum mostly virtuals 200 million immigration to all vectors mainly to Sagittarius expansion direction |
| Government and Administration: | Government Type: Mutual Progress Association- individual worlds have sovereignty except Ribblehead (social experimental status) and Cityring (AI Direct rule) National Holidays: Founding Day, Terraforming Day, Bluesky Copyday, many others. Constitution: Ribblehead League of nations has limited executive power; all nations otherwise have nominal sovereignty subject to technological embargo enforced by the Cityring Expediter. Legal System: Local legal systems apply, subject to oversight by the Cityring Expediter |
| Economics, Local Infrastructure: | Currency: Local currencies, most powerful Swiss Franc Major Industries: Agriculture, Limeslaking, Ironsmithing, Forestry, Biomass fuel production, wine production, Weapons production, Angelnetting: Cityring and sociological monitoring of surface (total) Major Orbitals: The Cityring is a dynamically supported continuous habitat with several cybercosm nodes. |
 Image from Steve Bowers | |
| Ribblehead: the planetary surface is designated as a Lo-tech reserve habitat, but the Cityring surrounding the planet holds a hi-tech society in full contact with the Sephirotic Empires | |
Appendix A |
Extract from Biography of Benedita Bluesky
... a severe conflict arose in 3499 over a large chondritic world known as Ribblehead, rich in carbon and aluminium but depleted in iron. The venusian tweaks, Clade Leda and the titanian adapts, the Methanoids both claimed the planet, but the Bluesky sect muscled in and seeded it with nanobacilli and poikilotrophs (carelessly infecting and killing some tweak survey teams). DalethBenedita was not present when this atrocity was committed.
The Bluesky terraformers proceeded to extract carbon compounds out of the atmosphere with scoopships to be used for infrastructure and industry in orbit. The world was terraformed by 4800. Ribblehead has the largest land area of any neogaian world in MPA space, with carbonic acid seas and rocks rich in calcite, blodite, diamond, graphite and dolomite as well as siderite, but an earthlike gravity due to the planet's low density.
Ribblehead Races and nations | |
| Major Ribblehead nations by race and religion | The Wolfpack(humandog splices) militant masculinism The Friends of Man (Dog provolves) Universal Splice and Provolve Church (These two nations are often bitter cultural enemies.) Lapiths (neogen centaurs) Grek Ashanti (baseline) animist German Swiss (baseline) Negentropism Hyhyoinimn (horse provolves), Universal Splice and Provolve Church Kender (neogen) Abundance Theory Yangko (ex penglai baseline approximates) Taoism New Hoa Chen (ex Penglai baseline approximates) entry level Keterist, Taoist New Chin (baseline approximates) Confucianist Amish (baseline) Dissenting Christianity Zarathrustan (baseline) pragmatist Cervine Rianth (deer humans) Buddhist Coronese Greenists (Baseline) neopaganism Troglodyte (moderate tweak) neonordic revivalist (many nations distributed in extensive cave systems) Cyclopes (moderate tweak giant) entry-level Keterist Xhosha (baseline) Universalism Shoshone (baseline) animism Haitian (baseline) neovudun Ursus Terriblis (Polar bear/Grizzly splice provolves) Abundance Theory Cimmerrian (baseline) role-immersion paganism Manganese (neogen) neomanicheaian Sindar (neogen/su/ mild tweak) Tolkeinism Minoan (baseline revivalist) Grek Languedoc (baseline revivalist) Medievalists Raxx (rodent provolves) Abundance Theory Gharial (crocodilian provolves) Church of St Marx Sioux Nations (Baseline) Undyoism, animism Pan's People (Goat Provolves) omegism |
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 Image from Steve Bowers | |
| Ribblehead without clouds: The numerous continents and subcontinents of this large world are separated by enclosed seas and small oceans | |
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Development Notes
Text by Steve Bowers
Initially published on 22 July 2002.
Initially published on 22 July 2002.
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Traveler's Notes - Ribblehead
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