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O'Neil Ships

**O'Neil ships**, also known as **colony-ships**, are merchant spacecraft designed for the bulk transport of people and materials. There are two basic types of O'Neil ship: colony ships and resource tankers. Resource tankers move large quantities of raw materials purified into fine powder or gas from their point of extraction or refineries to space stations and elevator docks. Colony ships are designed to move humans, plants, and animals around the solar system.

O'Neil ships are often classified by their size as well as their occupation. The size classes range from transit ships of a few billion metric tons of deadweight (DWT) to the mammoth ultra large colony carriers (ULCCs) of a trillion tonnes of DWT. ULCCs are comparatively rare, with 11 specimens identified as of 2160, compared to the 153 smaller O'neil ships transporting the bulk of inner-system cargo and colonists.

## History

The name derives from the 20th century space colonization theorist Gerard K. O'Neill though the final L is normally dropped to make clear the lack of any formal connection with his designs or organizations.

It is generally held that the first example of an O'Neil ship was first built around Titan in 2041 to deliver Nitrogen down system to Mars. While the spacecraft, later rechristened the *Titan Varda*, was originally built purely as a tanker, Titan Space Systems was forced to find a new use for the vehicle after its second flight to Mars when Nitrogen harvesting made it possible to simply send artificial comets of frozen nitrogen directly down system without the need of a hull. The ship was purchased by Europa Biosystems to serve as a test-bed for new closed-environment generation technologies, and sent around the solar system as an artificial nature preserve with a population of 25 permanent residents who would offer tours to colony planners. The open environment of the ship drew many investors to TSS with the desire that they build more of these vessels for more efficient inter-solar travel. TSS partnered with Europa Biosystems and produced the sister ships, the *Titan Yavanna* and *Titan Manwë* in 2055. That same year, Ganymede Shipbuilding was founded purely to build new O'Neil ships contracted through the Mars Corporation for a long term project to produce useful biomass and create a means for efficient colonization.

By the 2070s there were only 22 O'Neil ships completed and flying across the solar system, used chiefly for generating concentrated blocks of biomass for terraforming transplanting and hauling the millions of would be-colonists to Mars.

Production of O'Neil ships surged during the Terran Diaspora with 70 new ships being built from 2133 to 2160, and the rise of ULCCs for interstellar colony missions.
Australia

Australia suffered greatly from the Flood, with a massive drought that left the Australian interior virtually uninhabitable, while coastal cities such as Darwin and Sydney were threatened by the rising tides.

The large amount of the population sought a last resort investment to construct large and technologically advanced underground cities to help people escape from the harsh climates of the drought . One of which were located inland Australia burrowed in the Blue Mountains. However approximately 20 million Australians took advantage of the demand of labour in North America and left the country.
Oort Cloud

The **Oort cloud**, also known as the **Öpik–Oort cloud**, the **Oort territories**, or the **Oort frontier**, is a spherical cloud of comets and other possibly up to trillion icy objects that is thought to be the source for all long-period comets surrounding the Sol system. Astronomers believe it is way beyond orbits of the Kuiper belt. The Oort cloud is believed to be the source of long-period comets in the Solar System.

The Oort cloud may lie about 50,000 AU, or nearly a light-year, from the Sun. This means the cloud is nearly a quarter of the way to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun. The outer limit of the Oort cloud defines the boundary of the Solar System and the region of the Sun's gravitational dominance.

The cloud is believed to be the home of dozens of independent or rogue spacecrafts orbiting around the sun. It is theorized that they sustain themselves through the capture of water-ice and helium objects to maintain their fusion reactors or through engagements of piracy of other space ships. It is not known how many are armed, as all ships usually avoids close contact.
Anastasia

Anastasia is the twelfth episode in the second season of *Enchino the Mystic Forest*, and the twenty-sixth episode overall.

**Previous:** The Most Tragic Time of the Year

**Next:** Welcome to the Machine

## Summary

Anastasia's infatuation for her cousin grows too strong, causing her to kidnap Luke and Lucille. Meanwhile, Noah grows depressed after facing constant humiliation, deciding he wants to leave everyone and start a new life. After stealing Luke's magic, Anastasia claims she will only return his powers if he brings her half of Noah. Luke then sets off to rip Noah in half to bring to his cousin.

## Appearances

* Anastasia the Werefox
* Luke the Werewolf
* Lucille the Werewolf
* Noah the Chameleon
* Purry the Cat
* Clark the Dingo
* Gaston the Coyote
* Saad

## Legacy

The episode is notorious for it's dark themed plot and showing sides of characters that had not been seen before, primarily in Noah, Luke and Anastasia. Many fans deemed the episode almost terrifying, but praised the risks taken and the significance of the episode toward the series.

On the day of airing, *Anastasia* had the most views of any *Enchino* episode, with over three million tuning in to watch. The episode was described prior to it's airing by Fred Hugo as "the turning point in the series" and "shows just how far we can go." Immediately fans were taken aback by it's darkness and turn from prior episodes, but the episode received much praise, becoming the first episode to be given a five star rating.

Red TV Magazine listed the episode as the 32nd best episode from a television show, while the Enchino Fanclub ranked it as the second greatest episode of the show, only coming behind *The Most Tragic Time of the Year*. In series finale *The Enchino Award Show*, the episode was voted *Best Episode* by the fans and won an award for the title.

Many scenes from the episode became legendary and some of the most recognizable scenes from television history. Most notably when Anastasia kidnaps Luke and Lucille, when Luke steals Noah from his home and rips him in half before feeding him to Clark and Gaston, and when Noah is electrocuted off the toy train set. The scenes have been parodied many times, most notably in *The Simpsons*, *Mirk the King* and *Family Guy*.

Upon the airing of the episode, the character of Anastasia greatly increased in popularity. Becoming noted as one of the most sinister characters in any show, and even being voted *Best Character* in *The Enchino Award Show*. Fred Hugo stated the episode to be his favorite, and the one episode he would use to describe the whole plot of season two of the series.
Republic of Sahtu

**Sahtu**  was an independent sovereign country in the North American Arctic that existed until January 10, 2073. Sahtu was bordered by Yukon to the west, Tlicho to the south, and the Nunavut to the East. The native citizens of Sahtu were predominantly of Dene and Metis ancestry, however the bulk of the country's population were from the British Isles and the former Low Countries.

## Overview

Sahtu was the wealthiest and most powerful of the First Nations. Perfectly situated along the Mackenzie river with wide harbors to move goods from the Northwest Passage to and fro from further south, Sahtu rose to wealth and prominence in the mid-21st Century. While power did rest in the wealthy chiefs on the Tribal Council, the country's population was largely made up for British, Australian, and Dutch climate refugees, with a small population of ex-Russian oil and gas workers.

Like all of the Arctic States, Sahtu's economy collapsed during the Refreeze and most of its population fled South, literally to greener pastures. With its economy in ruins, but still holding a not inconsiderable military force, Sahtu joined forces with the other Arctic states in a desperate bid to take hold of better lands further south to resettle its population and rebuild its economy rather than return to the life they'd known for so long prior to the Flood. Taking advantage of a weakened Canada with their own economic problems, Sahtu hoped to wage a brief skirmish to force the Canadians to a political settlement, however the invasion dragged on into a war that would eventually bring in the United States and see Canada and the First Nations under an American occupation.
Falcon-class intstellar vehicle

The ***Falcon*-class interstellar vehicle** was the last warp-capable spacecraft built for nearly 40 years. Originally intended to replace the aging fleet of *Antares* and *Columbia*-class spacecraft, the program was cut short due to the Mexican-American Cold War, leaving only 3 operational hulls instead of the planned 20.

The Falcon was not a revolution in interstellar spacecraft design, so much as it was an evolution, building on the success of the Antares-class. Its service module was 210 meters in length, only 2 meters larger than that of the Antares; it featured a more advanced quantum navigation system, and had a more efficient layout allowing for 15% more crew. Its biggest advancement was in its White-Alcubierre drive, which consisted of a single ribbon particle accelerator rather than multiple tori accelerators of prior designs. This system was so sophisticated that it not only reduced the power requirements for warp travel, but also made short jumps possible within a star system, limiting the use of antimatter propulsion. Refits in 2129 introduced an emergency backup power source using quantum energy teleportation.

The *Falcon*-class's White-Alcubierre drive was capable of folding spacetime for an top cruising speed of 417 times the speed of light.
Europans

**Europans,** taxonomically *Homo cetimorphis,* are a recently recognized offshoot of Mermaid, a subspecies of *Homo Sapiens,* inhabiting the subsurface oceans of Europa. Many scientists say that the genetic gap became so wide that Europans can be classified as a separate species altogether. Approximately 40,000 individuals have been identified, though only a third are estimated to have been born on Europa. Europans are the result of heavy genetic modification of humans, more genetically distinct than Mermaids or other Human subspecies.

## Anatomy

Europans are often described as being similar in appearance to terran Baluga whales. Their bodies are not much larger than their Human ancestors, and feature a layer of blubber that provides insulation from the extreme cold of the Europan seas. Their bodies are covered in luminescent stripes and their eyes are 30% larger than normal humans, adapted for the extreme dark of Europa's seas. Their skin is pale white due to the lack of sunlight. They posses gills in place of lungs and survive off of introduced species of fish. Europans also lack body hair and head hair, as they would cause drag, and would make it easier for predators to snatch them up ease.

## Society

At least two Europan "settlements" have been identified, on the ocean floor which include several igloo like habitats with the capacity to provide additional heat and light to their occupants, and store sources of food. They are currently classified as 'Sentient', and are currently debating whether or not to rejoin American society. Europans were born out of the need to colonize the moon for its vast amount of water that was in high demand during the events of The Flood.

Due to their lack of hair, they often wear blue colored headdresses tipped with luminescent beads as a replacement, and are very popular amongst their womenfolk, according to a few observations. Other than this, they are usually unclothed.
Planetary Guard

The **United States Planetary Guard** (USPG), was the administrative body for the militia forces of the interplanetary colonies. It was unique among the US military chain of command, in that it was organized under the Interplanetary Trade Commission rather than the Department of Defense. Whilst its loyalties were formally to the President of the United States, in reality the commander-in-chief of the Planetary Guard was always recognized to be the Chairman of the Interplanetary Trade Commission. In 2134, the Planetary Guard was formally dissolved as a unified militia organization and its forces and responsibilities were either rolled into the United States Space Force or transferred to the United States Space National Guard.
Olympus

**Olympus** is a US state located in the western edge of the Tharsis Plateau on Mars. The state is named after Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain and also one of the largest volcanoes in the Solar System. The state is bordered by the Amazonian Sea to the west, Westylvania to the north, and the Tharsis Territory to the east and south.

## Geography and Climate

Western Olympus is largely characterized by the plainlands south of Lycus Sulci. The central part of the state is dominated by the Olympian Escarpment, and the eastern part of the state is a mountainous area home to Mount Olympus. The state has a subtropical climate, and two unnamed rivers also flow across the state.
Allies of World War III

* **Allied forces**
* **Coalition forces** (and their allies)
* Coalition forces entering after 2052.
* Neutral powers

**"Big Four":**
* United States
* British Republic
* Poland
* Republic of China

**NATO:**
* Denmark
* Norway
* Canada
* Greenland
* Iceland
* Portugal

**Intermarium:**
* Hungary
* Romania
* Czech Republic
* Slovakia
* Estonia
* Latvia
* Lithuania

**Trans-Pacific Forum:**
* Australia
* New Zealand
* Template:Country data Papua New Guinea
* Korea
* Template:Country data Philippines

**Co-Belligerents:**
* Russia
* Croatia
  -  | Disestablished

The **Allies of World War III**, were the countries that together opposed the Coalition forces during the Third World War (2051–2055). The Allies promoted the alliance as seeking to stop Turkish, and Japanese aggression.

The leaders of the "Big Four" – the United States, Poland, China, and Britain – controlled Allied strategy; relations between Britain and the United States were especially close.
Al-Hasa

**Al-Hasa**, officially the **Kingdom of Al-Hasa**, was a sovereign Arab state in the Middle East and Western Asia, that participated in the Third Mexican-American War. Al-Hasa was bordered by Kuwait and Nadj to the north, Muscat and Abu Dhabi to the east, Aden to the south, and Asir to the west. Al-Hasa is recognized as the successor state to Arabia and the original Saudi Kingdom, with it's royal family and titles consisting of descendents of the Saudi family and related figures. The official language of Al-Hasa was Arabic, with English being regarded as a secondary language. The official religion was Sunni Islam, while Chrisitanity and Shia Islam followers making up less than 10% of the population.
Project Rebirth

The **Project Rebirth** was a research and development undertaking during World War III that produced the first post-natal genetic augmentations in humans. It was led by the United States with the support from Korean and Chinese scientists. The name for the project was directly inspired by the super-soldier program that created Captain America in fiction.

## Background

The basic concept for the Rebirth was established as part of a Defense Department think tank in the 2030s when bionic prosthetics, stem cell treatments, and Epigenetic therapies had begun to produce the first replacement organs and limbs that could be considered physical augmentations. During the Price administration, as a result of government’s fundings towards bioengineering, which eventually led to the 2040s biotech boom, a National Security Council led commission submitted their findings, suggesting that funds be designated toward the creation of organs that could be used to improve a soldier's performance in battle. Early augmentations were limited to bionic implants to amputees, with Defense Department guidelines forbidding "elective amputation." By the 2040s, these guidelines had been loosened to allow for the first computer-brain interfaces.

In 2047 President Jacobi re-opened the NSC report, and approved funding for the Project Rebirth under DARPA. The program first arose as a plan to enhance veteran US soldiers into powerfully augmented special operations commandos. The goal was to extend and enhance the careers of America's elite special forces units in the face of Japanese cybernetic augmentation programs.

## Genetic engineering

Early work was focused on the creation of enhanced organs that could be implanted and even controlled with the aid of accompanying bionic implants. Pre-war examples included hearts that could slow their beats, controlled adrenal glands, and Vascular Crimps that could close off blood flow to a damaged limb. However, the program quickly shifted to genetic enhancement to improve the performance of the entire body. After the Thanksgiving Attacks research and development accelerated radically. Lung, Heart, Liver, Lymphatic, musculature, and bone genetic treatments paired with hormone control via the first bionic brain cases gave US special forces near superhuman strength, agility, and focus in the battlefield. Combined with lightweight Armor, their combat effectiveness was second to none.

Later in the war, many of these augmentations became standard issue among all armored troops, while Project Rebirth advanced its more extreme goals via full body replacement.
Abram Kaplan

**Abram Kaplan** was the commanding officer of the ISV-03 *Constitution* and defacto leader of the Confederation of Free States during the Morak First Contact Wars.

## History

### **Captain of the *Constitution***

Kaplan's service during World War III placed him in the running for the captain's chair of the ISV-01 *Enterprise*, and many believed he was passed over for Jin Musgrave because NASA wanted a civilian to be the first person to make First Contact, and Musgrave was an accomplished scientist as well as a commander of spacecraft.

### **Actions on Tu**

#### **Return to Earth and Investigation**

Kaplan was severely reprimanded for his actions on Tu by NASA, but avoided court-marshal by the Space Force and was given a desk job at NASA Armstrong Space Center. In his autobiography, *Contact: An Account of the First Interstellar War* Kaplan defended his actions, but admitted that he felt the only reason he was not stripped of his rank and forced to resign in disgrace was because of the testimony of Commander Musgrave during the hearings.
Malcolm Moreau

Damian Frederick Holland, or better known by his penname, as Malcolm Moreau, is a theriform human science fiction writer and comic book artist. He is best known for his 10-book series entitled *The Microcontinents: A Natural History*.

## Early Life

Damian was born on January 17, 2086, in Washington County, Oregon. As a theriform human, he had the physical characteristics, and abilities of the animal donor parent. In Damian's case, it was an emu, which made him a fast runner, and agile. Making any attempt at catching him a near impossible task. His emu DNA also gave Damian a shaggy appearance, which was often a source of ridicule. He was also known for having a relatively deep voice compared to the other kids.

At age 17, he became interested in speculative biology after acquiring copies of *The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island* by Weta Workshop and *After Man: A Zoology Of The Future* by Dougal Dixon, as well as becoming an active member of the *Speculative Evolution* internet forum under the username Shagrat86. Despite the books' scientific inaccuracies regarding the wildlife, it sowed the seeds in his mind, the blueprints of what would become his life's work. During his writing class, he presented a rough draft of a story that he described as, "an example of how not to write a hollow earth story." Despite his lack of confidence in the draft, it was well-received by most of his classmates.

He graduated from Jefferson Online College with a modified diploma and received a PhD in Linguistics on June 14, 2110.

## Natural Histories

Holland's most famous work by far is *The Microcontinents: A Natural History,* a 10-book series describing hypothetical ecosystems that may have existed in Earth's distant past on landmasses that have since disappeared underwater. Each book in the series was styled as a "field guide" to a different prehistoric landmass at a different time. The series currently contains ten books.

The books included the following:

*Tropical Antarctica* (Antarctica, 150 million years ago)

*Edge of the World* (Kerguelen Plateau, 75 million years ago)

*Sundaland (*Indonesia, 2 million years ago)

*The Great Island* (Maui Nui, Hawaii, 1 million years ago)

*Shell, Feather, and Bone* (Zealandia, 35 million years ago)

## Physical Appearance

As mentioned above, Damien is a genetic chimera of a human and an emu, with the balance being human. While he has a human's general body plan, the lower portions of his legs are elongated, and heavily muscled. Each foot is digitigrade in structure and bore three, long toes, with the middle toe being longer than the other toes. The structure of his feet meant that if he was in a tough situation, he could outrun his aggressors, or strike them down with his bone-cracking kicks. His arms were normal human arms, but with feather quills lining his elbows, and ended at the wrists.
Ir'ba

The Ir'ba are the only native intelligence to the planet Q'jo orbiting HD71334d. They are tall, slender and serpentlike. Posessing a narrow brain-case atop a narrow and extremely nimble spinal column, the Ir'ba posses only two actual manipulator limbs on the torso, and a serpent-like "tail" extending down the length of their body. Their planet is currently in the middle of the equivalent of an ice age, drastically increasing available land, when for most of their evolutionary history they were confined to marshlands and shallow seas, limiting the need for distinct lower limbs.

## Society

The Ir'ba are divided into several paleolithic tribes across their planet's more temperate regions.
Mercury

**Mercury** is the smallest planet in the Solar System and the closest to the Sun. Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 Earth days, the shortest of all the Sun's planets. It is named after the Roman god Mercurius (Mercury), god of commerce, messenger of the gods, and mediator between gods and mortals, corresponding to the Greek god Hermes (Ἑρμῆς).

## History

In the 2080s, Mexico began a program to develop an alternative to reliance on the American monopoly on Helium-3 for fusion power. Alternatives using Tritium-Deuterium Fusion using terrestrially harvested sources of Tritium, however advances in quantum power transfer technology made the prospect of space-based solar power a viable option. Partially supported by Mexico's efforts to establish a military presence in space, Mexico established a research colony at Chao Meng-Fu crater at the Mercurial South Pole, later renamed Ōmeyōcān.

Over the next 20 years Mexico's colonies on the South pole grew to host a population of 6 million people controlling and maintaining a fleet of tens of millions of drones all dedicated to stripping the Mercurial surface of usable materials for the ultimate goal of building a Solar Power Dyson Swarm. By the time Project Ahuiateteo's true purpose was revealed, Mexico had successfully deployed enough solar power satellites to double the total energy out of the Latin American Union.

Fearing Mexico potentially supplanting the US as the premier world power, the United States Space Force commanded its colonists at Borealis to commence a similar effort to catch up to Mexico. This led to a literal competition for resources between American and Mexican drones that has severely hindered both country's efforts to increase the capacity of their respective Dyson Swarm as a relative stalemate on the planet's terminator between dueling swarms of drones prevents the access to the bulk of Mercury's resources.

Post-war the Mexican and American Dyson Swarms were amalgamated into the Sol Dyson Sphere, and planetary mining rapidly accelerated.
Dissolution of the Russian Federation

The **Russian Federation** ceased to exist on May 16, 2024 by declaration no. 213-H of the Eurasian Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Eurasian Union, formally dissolving the economic union, and effectively acknowledging the independence of the various breakaway republics of the former Russian Federation.

The announcement made by President Vladimir Putin that he would be stepping down from the political spectrum upon the completion of his fourth term sent ripple effects throughout the Russian Federation. From January to May, dozens of republics and minority enclaves had seceded from the Federation. The collapse of the Russian Federation also marked an end to the Little Cold War. The Revolutions of 2023 and the end of the Russian Federation led to the end of decades-long hostility between North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Russia, which had been the defining feature of the Little Cold War.

Russia's economy had collapsed in previous years due to crippling sanctions from the US and EU and the decline in demand for commodities that made up the bulk of Russia's export driven economy during the Late 2010s Recession. The surge in US military presence on their western border overextended Russia militarily while the Biden and Harris administrations funded a covert war in the Caucasus through Turkey and Azerbaijan. After the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russian public was staging regular riots against the Putin regime and military defections began to accelerate by late 2022. In 2023-4, following a series of riots and a military coup, the Russian Federation collapsed, ending the Little Cold War.
Hivvir

The **Hivvir** are one of two intelligent inhabitants of the planet Ivrilu in the Kepler-452 system, the other being the Hiilo. The Hivvir are natural gliders, with winglike lateral extensions of skin called patagia that allow them to soar great distances in the low gravity, higher pressure atmosphere of Ivrilu.

## Evolution

Ivrilu has a surface gravity only 63% that of Earth, and 125% the atmospheric pressure, enabling far more avenues for evolution to enable powered flight. The Hivvir's distant ancestors--and the common ancestors of all "vertebrates" on Ivrilu-- were six limbed amphibious cephalopods featuring gliding membranes. Later descendants of these ancestors evolved a more tetrapod-esque body plan, with two of the limbs becoming vestigial, but the membranes remained.

The Hivvir, like the Hillo are bipedal, standing roughly 1.9 meters tall and are noticeably more slender than humans, with no hair or other integument to speak of. They posses eyesight far superior to natural humans, with eyes that can move independently of each other and possess seven color receptors compared to human's natural three.

## History

### Society

The Hivvir are organized into interconnected tree or cliff dwelling family groups. These troops are capable of using stone hand tools, and express their history and culture through wood carving and cave art, but no troops have been found with a written language. It has also been observed that the Hivvir have a far more rudimentary spoken language than their Hiilo cousins, attributed to smaller brain cavities.

### **First Contact**

At the time of First Contact, the Hivvir and Hiilo had fairly limited contact with one another, with the Hivvir proving to be the more difficult of the two species to communicate with. Efforts to give the Hivvir access to terran education have been extremely difficult, with some scientists suggesting that the only way the Hivvir will ever achieve any kind of written civilization will be if they're artificially uplifted.
Intermarium

The **Intermarium** was a military and economic alliance of several Eastern European States. Born out of a desire for regional stability following the collapse of the Mediterranean Union, the Intermarium was formally established under the Second Treaty of Visegrad on 1 November 2102 upon the foundations of the pre-existing Visegrad Group.

The Intermarium traces its origins back to World War I when Polish leader Józef Piłsudski proposed the creation of a federation, under Poland's aegis, uniting Eastern Europe in common defense against Germany and Russia. Since then the union has grown in size through the accession of
new countries, and new policy areas have been added to the remit of the Intermarium's institutions.

## Politics

The Intermarium Council in Visegrad is dominated by the Poles, by far the strongest military and economic power of the bloc.
Cora Fabian

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**Cora Fabian** was the 66th President of the United States serving from 2141 to 2149 and the 68th Vice President of the United States from 2133 to 2141. A member of the Union Party, they were previously a member of Congress and the United States Senate. A Terran, Lionel Halvidar chose Fabian as his running mate, and Fabian became vice president after the Halivdar–Fabian ticket won the 2132 election.

In 2140, Fabian ran a successful campaign to succeed Halvidar, becoming the first president from the European continent. Domestic policy drove the Fabian presidency: they favored a methodical admission of the newly absorbed Latin American states, much as Halvidar did, and aggressively pushed Congress to provide funds to enable the Terran population to easily relocate to the colonies. They continued the expansion of the Quantum Economic Model worldwide, and their domestic economic proposals were largely a continuation of Halvidar's policies. Early in their second term their administration faced a constitutional crisis over reconstruction, as the Earth planetary commonwealth rejected the admission of several South American states the Federal government deemed ready to join the Union. After a lengthy court battle, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that the admission of states into the Union on Earth fell to the Planetary Government and was no longer the responsibility of the Federal Government.
Crisis of 2130

The **Crisis of 2130** was a period in which the Earth economy collapsed leading to a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 2130s. The timing of the Crisis varied across nations; in most countries it started in 2130 and lasted until the late 2134. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 22nd century.

The crisis was the result of a Market Crash in 2128 in the construction industry, which led to a banking collapse and the exhaustion of the government's small business loan reserves by February 2130. The drying up of private equity made it impossible for Personal Liability Corporations to function, leading to an extremely deep depression. The United States remained in a depression until the Third Mexican War at which point the country had largely implemented Quantum Economic principles on Earth.

## Overview

The Crisis saw a decline in annual real world GDP per‑capita (Purchasing Power weighted), from 2130-2134, according to the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research (the official arbiter of U.S. recessions). The recession began in May 2130 and ended in August 2134, and thus extended over 52 months.

The years leading up to the crisis were characterized by an exorbitant rise in personal asset prices and associated boom in economic demand. Further, the U.S. financial system had experienced dramatic growth with little regulatory oversight, making it vulnerable to collapse. US personal asset-backed securities, which had risks that were hard to assess, were marketed around the world, as they offered higher yields than U.S. government bonds and small business loans. Many of these securities were backed by subprime personal loans and micro-mortgages, which collapsed in value when personal business owners began to default on their payments in large numbers starting in 2128.

The emergence of sub-prime loan losses in 2128 began the crisis and exposed other risky loans and over-inflated personal asset prices. With loan losses mounting and the fall of Rongji Co-Operative on 1 May 2130, a major panic broke out on the constellation bank loan market, resulting in many large and well established investment and commercial banking networks in the United States and Mexico suffering huge losses and facing bankruptcy.

The global crisis that followed resulted in a sharp drop in international trade, mass unemployment and inflated commodity prices as personal production dried up. Several economists predicted that recovery would likely appear by 2133, and that the recession would be severe, but survivable. However, the Personal Liability system established in the 2080s, or "Lachmanomics," could not handle such a complete devaluation of personal assets. The distribution of production made traditional economic stimulus impossible, and by 2132, many were calling the Crisis the death of post-industrial Capitalism.
Progress Party (United States)

**Official color(s)** | Red

The **Progress Party**, commonly called the **Progressive Party**, and colloquially known as the **Progressives**, was one of the major contemporary political parties in the United States and its Associated states. Tracing its origins back to the Democratic Party, the Progress Party was founded in 2060 after the Democratic party had split over Augment Rights. In December 2155, the Progress Party and the Union parties voted to disband and merge into the United Progressive Party (UPP).

The Progressives' dominant worldview was social democracy, naturalism, and economic protectionism, while—especially in the rural Heartland—working-class populism was its leading characteristic. The party was founded on a rejection of Postnaturalism, however as of the early 22nd century it had begun to moderate its position.

## History

### **2080-2132**

After the Lachman Revolution and the rise of Neo-Jeffersonianism, some members of the Progress party pushed to focus the party on reducing deportations and create government owned co-ops, essentially adopting the Third Way strategy of Democrats prior to the Great Reset.

However, the party stayed mostly focused on maintaining the welfare state and fighting against the growth of corporations that dominated entire economic sectors. This strategy, combined with the party's internal schism over the impotence of a Third Way-like approach, ultimately resulted in its undoing and its eventual slide into political irrelevance.
Lost Decade (China)

The Lost Decade or the Years Standing Still was the time after the Chinese commodities bubble's collapse within the Chinese economy. The term originally referred to the years from 2018 to 2027, before being overtaken by the much more severe Market Crash of 2027.

## Causes

China's strong economic growth near the turn of the 21st Century ended abruptly toward the end of the 2010s. In the late 2008, abnormalities within the Chinese economic system had fueled a speculative commodities price bubble of a massive scale.

Few noticed the cracks forming from a planned economy that groaned under its own weight. Recessions were avoided with hyper-Keynesian economic policies that promoted growth but did little to address inefficiencies in the system. The Crash of 08' made these issues painfully clear to the Communist party as the export market began to shrink as westerners tightened their belts. Worse yet, few of their citizens could afford to buy the goods they'd been making for Americans and Europeans, highlighting the inequalities in the Chinese system. The Communist Party, seeing the writing on the wall, began a series of economic reforms that would slow the economy for the sake of transferring wealth into the interior. Resistance to these reforms in the more industrialized provinces was met with purges, sold to western media as an, "Anti-Corruption campaign." As Xi Jinping's regime consolidated power, China began to resemble a more traditional idea of a Communist Dictatorship. Many economists reassured the public that China's harsh policies were enabling reforms that would lead to economic normalcy, but as the world's sea levels rose, the dream of an economically stable and unified China crumbled. High unemployment and the refugee crisis led to open rebellion in the frontier provinces and Tibet. Beijing, barely protected behind high sea walls was simply unable to keep the periphery united with the Chinese core rebelling against the regime too. And so, China returned to regionalism and civil strife, leading to military police actions to hold the country together, at least formally.

As the 21st century moved on, China re-stabilized, eventually re-asserting itself as a major regional power and becoming a vital ally to the United States of America during World War III. Following the war, China's economy rebounded, and it once again became the world's second-largest economy. It would retain this position until the 22nd century. After the Third Mexican-American War, China was incorporated, along with Japan, into the Association of East Asia.
Human

**Humans** (Latin: *Homo sapiens, meaning "wise man"*) is the collective extant human species and the myriad of sub-species. Homo is the human genus, which also includes Neanderthals and many other extinct species of hominid; H. sapiens is the only surviving species of the genus Homo.

Natural humans are the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, which differentiates them from what has been argued to be their direct ancestor, Homo sapiens idaltu. The ingenuity and adaptability of Homo sapiens has led to its becoming the most influential species on Earth; it is currently deemed of least concern on the Red List of endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

## Evolution

### Subspecies

There are 27 recognized human subspecies, however due to the prevalence of genetic engineering, each subspecies has significant genetic variations.

The modern subspecies include:
Arya Kanzaki

**Arya Kanzaki** was a space explorer, businesswoman, and territorial governor, who famously lead the first human expedition to Saturn. Born in Hawaii to Japanese-American parents, she grew up in California and went into the oil and gas industry during the Shale-Gas Boom. She sold most of her assets on Earth to finance her trip to Mars in 2027.

Kanzaki led the Titan-1 Expedition of 2036 to 2038 on a 400 day mission from Mars to the Saturn system, and claimed the Titan for her company Titan Corp. Before the expedition, she was an extraction engineer at the Bradbury colony. After founding Titan Corp, Kanzaki would go on to become one of the wealthiest individuals in history, with exclusive rights to the sale of Nitrogen system-wide. She would go on to serve as a founder of the Interplanetary Trade Commission.
Serbia

Serbia is a country in Europe.

Serbia's roots go back centuries, but modern Serbia re-emerged from the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, a combination of Slavic countries which broke into 6 constituent states during the fall of communism in the 1990's. Serbia finally was completely independent after Montenegro seceded in 2006, and Kosovo in 2008. However, Serbia later annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina before 2035, with Kosovo being annexed by Albania. As of 2160, a small portion of the country broke free to become Bosnia again. Also, as of 2160, Serbia is the only independent nation in Europe. It is independent from the European Association due to poor relations with the West.
Skinning the Elephant: The Life and Death of the Republican Party

**Skinning the Elephant: The Life and Death of the Republican Party**, by Susan Tuttle, was a nonfiction book that dealt with factors that led to the demise of the Republican Party. The books covers the sequence of events running from the commencement of the Sixth Party System with the election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency, to Donald Trump's historic defeat in the 2020 Presidential election due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The book was published in 2024, four years after Trump left the Presidency, and came to be seen by many as a definitive text on the downfall of the Republican party and the rise of a new form of conservatism in America.

In particular, the book noted how the "free-for-all" culture provided by the internet allowed the implicit racism historically favored by conservatives to become explicit for the first time in decades, and how this had the double effect of alienating the more moderate among them while building up a fanatical base of loyal radicals. According to Tuttle, this reliance on a fringe demographic was ultimately the cause of the party's downfall, as it was faced with mounting scandals and criticism (primarily regarding Donald Trump's relationship with Russia) that Democrats were able to properly take advantage of in 2020 and use to court a wider base.

Tuttle's final argument was that conservatism in America would not go extinct with the demise of the Republican party, but would simply revive itself on in the form of a new party. This turned out to be true, as the Conservative Party was founded less than a decade later.
New Confederacy

The **New Confederacy** was a far-right proto-state that emerged during the White Tide following the collapse of the Sovereign Citizen's Alliance, surviving from 2031 to 2034.

The New Confederacy was built upon the ideas of Southern nationalism, seeking to create an independent state for the South, similar to the original Confederacy of the Civil War. The New Confederacy similarly seceded from the Union, only to be fully defeated by 2034. During its existence, the New Confederacy's government was characterized by ultraconservative policies and being in a state of rebellion throughout its whole history. For the majority of its existence its territorial control was limited to isolated communities in the Appalachia mountains.
List of states and territories of the United States

The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of eight planetary commonwealths, which are divided into several hundred states and territories, along with a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States). Several sovereign states are also in free association with the US.

### **States**

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Quantum Capacitor

A **quantum capacitor** (also referred to as an QC, or a q-chip) is a device that stores information in a quantum field. It is a passive electronic component with two terminals. The effect of a quantum capacitor is known as quantum capacitance, which at the most basic level is the ability to store and discharge quantum information at desired rates.

QCs are now used in virtually all electronic equipment and have revolutionized the world of electronics. Computers, batteries, imprinters, non-localized recorders (NLRs), quantum navigation, Chronoscopes, entanglement arrays, and indeed Dyson Spheres are now inextricable parts of the structure of modern life, made possible by ubiquitous applications of QCs.

Quantum capacitors were the result of military research programs initiated during the Third World War in direct response to the Thanksgiving attacks. These R&D programs sought to create a means to detect seemingly undetectable swarms of small projectiles launched at random intervals to strike a single target, better known as "pebble mobs". The first quantum capacitor was successfully tested in 2056 as part of the Argus program that led to the launch of the Quantum Acquisition Object Detection (QAOD) system. However, the technology was not declassified until the 2060s when it was employed by NASA for the FTL project.
Earth

The **Commonwealth of Earth**, is a Planetary Commonwealth of the United States. The Earth Commonwealth consists of 145 states, 4 Protectorates and 4 Freely Associated States, spread over five continents. There are also several "Military Administrative Zones," established during the Third Mexican War to see to the reconstruction and lawful administration of territories and states defeated during the conflict.

The cradle world of humanity and to a lesser extent the United States, the Earth Commonwealth is the largest and most populous commonwealth in the United States. It is home to America's wealthiest cities as well as the Federal Capital of Washington DC.

Established as a formal entity only in 2136, the Earth Commonwealth was the product of decades of debate on the consequences of bringing the territories of the much more populous and united planet Mars into the Union. The Commonwealth Capitol is temporarily located in San Francisco pending a formal selection of a permanent planetary capital.

Earth remains the cultural hub of the United States' vast network of territories. Since the first off-Earth colonies on Mars began taking in settlers from Earth, the US population on the planet began to level off, hovering around 9 billion people since the 2080s. This is partly due to the decline in birth rates on the planet, however, it is also the result of the endless stream of cosmic pioneers seeking new opportunities on the colonial worlds.

## Government and politics

*Main article: List of states and territories of the United States*
Inevitable Tetrapods

***Inevitable Tetrapods*** was a composition of various theories attempting to explain the convergent evolution of tetrapod-esque (four-limbed) body plans on planets with complex animal-like life. The book's title is something of a misnomer, as it does acknowledge the existence of alien species with more than four limbs. Its main thesis, however, is that the evolution of four limbs is a "path of least resistance" for vertebrate-like organisms evolving a land-dwelling lifestyle, at least under Earth-like circumstances. The fewer limbs an organism has, so the argument goes, the less complex its movement, ergo the fewer resources it needs to consume.

Furthermore, the majority of land vertebrate-analogs on alien worlds were, like tetrapods on Earth, descended from fish-like swimmers (though they in turn often had ancestors that varied considerably--the first "vertebrates" on Tu, for example, resembled velvet worms, but these later evolved a fishlike form). The fluidity of water, rather than other environmental conditions such as atmosphere composition or gravity, dictates the form of a swimming creature, so these swimmers often ended up looking superficially similar to fish on Earth, with torpedo-shaped bodies and fins. Such body shapes, the writers argued, were predisposed to evolving tetrapod-like forms when colonizing land.

Non-tetrapodal aliens, such as the Velminyak, the Tel-bn, and the Constructors, seem to have primarily evolved on worlds where the common ancestor of the local land "vertebrates" were not fish-like. The Tel-bn evolved from amphibious squid-like creatures, the Velminyak from something akin to polychaetes, and the Constructors from creatures resembling starfish.

The book was well-received in the exobiological community, with biologist Lauren Naish going as far as to declare it "the best treatise ever written on convergent evolution and the forces that drive it," and calling it "a must-have for any lover of tetrapod zoology."