Siber

An old picture of the natural Siber.

**Siber** is an incredibly massive rogue gas giant planet under the control of the **Supreme Entity of Vondunke** in the interstellar void of the **Majestic Galaxy**. The titanic world hosts one of the three most important and populous subnational government called **Federates**, sharing the same name as the gas giant.

## Physical Characteristics

### Atmosphere

Siber has a very very thick and dense atmosphere, most scientists assume that the reason is primarily due to it being a gas giant. The atmosphere is comprised primarily of diatomic hydrogen, helium gas, and ammonia. Wind speeds on Siber are unusually high due to fusion candles, and commonly reach 400 km per hour. Weather is very intense but this does not stop everyone from the recreational activity of **Elevator**, A pass through the upper atmosphere beginning with three large elastic cords tethered to a hovercraft, a sharp blade, and a **Vondunke** daredevil, and ending with: two and a half elastic cords tethered to a hovercraft, and (usually) the daredevil.

## Culture

"She basks the sea in glorious sun' The lights they swim about her axis, Clearly peer of not so many as one' The three, their currents tied to her praxes." Poem from an ancient mythos of Vorfare "Myem Yonuk".

Since before even its colonization, Siber has played a part in Vondunke culture. Early sightings of the planet inspired it's role as a prince of the abyss, in Vondunke mythos. Siber was a historical landmark in Vondunke space colonization as it was the third planetary system colonized and the farthest planet from Vorfare.

### Language

The Siber Vondunke speak a highly accented dialect of Envorta, with the "S" sound in particular being foreign to most other forms of Envorta. In certain corners a different sentence structure is used during day to day life as well as the use of two additional Vondunke symbol ligatures.

## Economy

Siber's GDP nominal is valued at 9.8x10^20 USD GDP this value is significantly more during the bloom.

### Employment

Employment does not have the same meaning to the Vondunke. Robots do 99.9% of physical labor and 99.9% of computing labor. All drones are "Employed" for about five hundred years until they fulfill their claim either their claim by the state or their wage by a private sponsor. Few of the bluff castes are "Employed" it is more like a very long or life long hobby that just happens to be productive (Except in the case of "The Plasma"). The benefit wrought from ones hobby determines their status in society and effectively their income, a higher status grants priority in claims and wagers.

### Claims and Wagers

Is a system by which resources from a bloom are allocated to a legal individual. If someone wants a larger room, they make a claim and a wager. If someone wants a new car (PT-Pod) they make a claim and a wager. The number of claims and wagers effect the number of drones grown for the upcoming bloom and their training.

### Agriculture

Siber produces around a billion megatons of agricultural products per year. Of these the most prominent is Oderflas Algae, a type of large colonial algae native to Arcaelo.

### Energy

Siber produces and consumes around 100,000 Exawatt hours per year. 99.99% of this comes from their advanced techniques of fusion.

## Government

Siber is run by two different branches of government: The Federate Council & The Federate Directory. Each Moon (Tide) except the War Tide elect 2 councilmen, an additional 57 members are elected at large. 4,225 extras are also elected to assist the council in governing. The Council appoints officers to the directories. There are six: the directories of War (Military and Defense), Drones (Logistics and Relation), Transport (Communication, Orbit, Designs, and Speed Limit), Commerce (Treasury and Trade), Law (Claims, Wagers, and Law), Contract (Judicial, History, Measurement, and Language), and Paradigm (Science, Caste, and Preservation).

Plasma is a rather engaging occupation that is lethal to the vast majority who participate. If two Vondunke have a serious dispute it can be settled in court ("Aqueously") or it be settled on the battle tide ("Ionically"). In the form of a dual or a miniature war between property (Usually robots). If two municipals have a dispute it can be settled either in Conglomerate Court or by fighting it out on the battle tide

### Foreign Affairs

Siber usually takes one of the innermost allocations during the bloom, it maintains no foreign affairs distinct from those of The Supreme Entity of Vondunke. It does however house one of the most ornament collection of consulates from the other constituent Federates. It maintains close relations with the Federate of N'elok with the two sharing allocations during the fourth, thirteenth, and fourteenth blooms and likely a soon upcoming eighteenth.

## Infrastructure

Sibera houses four large equatorial Orbital rings and two large polar rings culminating in numerous Mass Driver Ports, Each port built in a complex geometrical pattern. Omnidirectional, adjusted by rotating, series of mass drivers. It is itself orbited by a thin lunar cloud of satellites up to the extent of its hillsphere, with complementing orbital collections in its 3, 4, & 5 Lagrange points, and other stable orbits brought about by resonance with the other tides.

The War tide has, by earth standards, extensive infrastructure, but when compared to any serious abode of Vondunke civilization, is lacking. It has two launch loops on either pole set in a DMZ's. These launch pods up to, actively supported, space ports, firing twice a day into escape orbits. Anything outside of this, inside of the hillsphere, is free game for destruction by an "Plasma" party.

Gasather has one of the biggest atmospheres of any Vondunke tide and houses many advanced Zeppelins and floating cities, It has numerous smaller Orbital rings with two major Equatorial rings bridged by large Polar ring.

Siber is home to tens of thousands of massive fusion candles *on its surface live some ten million residents*

## People

The Vondunke of Siber called the "Of Siber" are just like the Vondunke of anywhere else, more than ninety percent are natives, Siber has one of the highest migrating populations of any Federate, with nearly one in fifteen of its citizens opting for another Federate. Siber has the highest percentage of paradigm to non paradigm population of anywhere, even Glanorth. It also fields an abnormally large population of Drones and one of the most competitive claims and wagers courts (meaning they are rich!). Seventy-five percent of Siber's population are orbital, ten percent live of SIbera and fifteen percent are spread across the remaining four tides.

## History

Siber used to be a gas giant with a mass 1.1 that of Neptune, it had five major natural satellites all of which have been lost or drastically altered except for the innermost **Sibera** and **Gasather**. Siber was colonized three centuries before going rogue with Glanorth in what would become the first bloom. Before the first bloom Siber and Glanorth each sent six representatives to the "United Vondunke Entity" This acted as the first governing body over the whole of the Vondunkes nations.

During the first bloom Siber was allocated three different systems, The Planet itself with two of its then six tides visited the theorized home system of Apoliox named "The Blivos", the remaining four tides one of which was a smaller version of what is now Gasather, were divided and sent to two neighboring systems. At the beginning of the Bloom, the majority of drones were not cloned but hatched to natural drones, As the first bloom wore on this proved inefficient, and mass cloning took place the bloom lasted 2 millennia the longest in the history of the Vondunke. Siber gained eight more tides varying in mass from Vesta to Titania. A proposal to harvest helium from Siber and distribute it among two other tides from larger giants was considered but ultimately dismissed after a technique called **Off Setting** made it easier to move giants with higher densities.

During the first bluff.. Siber was given the status of "Federate" similar to a "State" in the U.S. it was allocated a single system. It housed 30% of the Vondunkes population about which 60% lived on the tides. When the second bloom started, the drone population was breed up and comprised 80% of the Federates population, these drones could not reproduce naturally and were trained by the Independent Sub-Caste "Specialists". The population reached a total 1 trillion The next system visited by Siber was a K type star Çyei. Çyei housed two gas giants, one a puffy giant referred to by the drones as "Çyei En" and the other a light Saturn called "Çyei Çyei". The drones split into two unions which would act as the governments over the two giant planets. It was feared that an uprising may take place but nothing could be farther from the truth, when a rebellion sparked in a neighboring system, The Çyei En government itself took the lead in supplying "DM Corvettes" to help quell the uprising. Çyei En would go on to form the Federate of Ń^elok often called SIbers twin. Siber would gain three more Tides, one of these a "Megasteroid" would be broken apart and "gently" merged with Gasather. As more tides were added "off setting" logistics became more difficult. And fusion technology would see many great improvements during the second bloom and bluff.

During the third bloom many of Siber's leading physicists would join those of a larger team to study a white dwarf up close. Siber and Glanorth would share a very close proximity as their allocated systems were a mere 0.7 light years apart, They would receive news of a controversial event taking pace a light decade away, where a federate opted to uplift a local species of cephalopod. The paradigm in that system opposed the move and went into a civil war with the directory while its local council looked on helpless. Siber and Glanorth would rule that it would be immoral to kill the species but also to integrate it. The newly uplifted species was banished from the galaxy as its home star was made into a stellar engine and it was sent off towards the "Silky Way". Siber and Glanorth would rule that the up-lifters be punished proportional to the severity of their crimes up to execution. And Siber and Glanorth would rule that no further uplifting take place. Siber and Glanorth would rule that the Confederacy be abolished and a new government be created with Glanorth as the seat of the new government, and that all cates be allowed to hold seats. Further participants in the war were also either vindicated or punished.

During the fourth bloom Siber was joined by Ń^elok to harvest a small G type star and create the Vondunkes first galactic sterilizer. Sibers population was now evenly divided between the Hab-Sats and the many Tides, Drones would comprise 67% of the population and a bloom population of 3 Trillion was reached. The system was home to only a single gas giant but seven worlds from Mars to Earth. During the fourth bloom the Vondunke reached K1.7 status.