Vega

An image of the most populous city in Vega, Neon City

The Flag of Vega Empire, designed by Devon

## About

The Vega Star System, better known as the Vega Empire, was established in the year 2023 by Devon. Through the use of liquid metallic hydrogen, an artificial planet was created and a civilization of sentient robots was formed. The planet was named after the Star Vega. The bulk of the population resides in a Gigalopolis called Neon City. It is a hyper-advanced, sprawling urban and industrial zone, approximately covering an area of 357,021 km^2. Other smaller, scattered settlements exist outside of Neon City but only make up about 13% of the population. The remainder of the population resides on artificial planetary rings in orbit around Vega.

The Currency of the Vega Empire is the Astral Bit, a type of decentralized blockchain digital currency; however, they do accept other forms of currency such as the dollar or raw metals, but that often comes at a decrease in currency exchange rates.

Temperatures are surprisingly moderate, ranging from 15°C in the winter season to no more than 30°C during the summer. This is due to the planet's spin axis being tilted with respect to its orbital plane to a degree of 18.6°, hence why the seasons are somewhat milder on Vega.

### Population

Neon City: 128,073,561

Other Settlements on Vega: 21,907,320

Settlements in orbit around Vega: 18,536,962

### Popular locations

Neon City, aka "The City Living on the Edge of Tomorrow" has many fun and exciting attractions such as The Kami Club, The Great Digitial Library of Vega, The Botanical Gardens, The Capitol Building, The Inner Sanctum, and Skid Row.

Lest we forget, Vega has the tastiest Ice cream in the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster Complex at Diehard-Dairy-Delights! Despite the name, it offers halal, kosher, vegan, vegetarian, and lactose-free options in all of the original 961 ridiculously tasty flavors! Additionally, they take custom flavor requests and offer unlimited toppings!!

### Past

The nanobots that were formed from liquid metallic hydrogen quickly gained sentience, faster than any other recorded race in history. By the time they had been alive for approximately one and a half weeks, they had a space program and had managed to create a Dyson swarm around the star to become there source of power. They have invested enormously in science and technology and have a cutting-edge space program.

Neon City has been able to stand the test of time against varying outside forces, such as the destroyers of universes and otherworldly abberations that have leveled large parts of the planet's surface and Neon City's varying zones. Despite these setbacks time and time again, Neon City made it out alive, became prosperous, and was auspicious. Each time, it has undergone renaming, going from the original neon city to Neo-Neon City and finally New Neo-Neon City.

### Present

One of the factory workers by the name of Sprocket at Grey Enterprises Conglomerate, Inc., Factory number 4623 for manufacturing cybernetics chips, was unhappy with the way that Neon City was being run and decided to stage a movement to free factory workers. She had gained sentience earlier in the RP when she was able to break away from the hivemind, a black hole supercomputer that is a collective consciousness that connects all the vegans together, allowing them to share, transfer information, and be controlled. Sprocket was opposed to this system and rebelled, smashing and grabbing valuable parts such as the 880 high-performance chip series and prototype flight gear so that she could fight back. These actions caused the Dimension Defenders to split on how they viewed the subject. Some were more on the side of Sprocket, and others on the side of Devon. Ultimately, everyone did not blame Sprocket for her actions and the damages she caused, but they thought she did not want to belong to Vega, so she was exiled. After the exile, parties in Vega were outraged and formed the Freedom Party, which convinced enough people for the current prime minister, Arthur, to step down and argue that Vega should be run by Vegans for Vegans. Which changed the structure of the government system.

### Industry and development

Vega has various industries that have rapidly developed in the 21st century, which are:

* Manufacturing
* Electronics
* Technology
* Scientific
* Informations
* Defense
* Agricultural
* Mining
* Telemcommucations
* Energy
* Fashion
* Entertainment

### Arts and Culture

Neon City, which has various forms of art ranging from paleolithic to modern, is available to see at the Library of Vega, along with various art scuplture scattered oughoutughe city.y.

### Education

Vega has some of the best education in the local supercluster, with premier daycare plans, STEAM Magnet Academy, and the prodigious Neon City Institute of Technolog (NCIT).

### Government

Vega was formerly a Socio-Capitalistic Techno-Republic. Meaning that the government was run by only the most esteemed and qualified individuals based on meritocratic records, who would then represent vegans from different districts and collectively discuss the best way to pass and change the legislature along with the prime minister. Additionally, the government was designed to be more of a socially minded form of capitalism, where the goal was making social improvements rather than focusing on the accumulation of capital in the classic capitalist sense. They do believe in the ability to own and control property in accordance with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that can serve the best interests of society, much like a laissez-faire market but with guidelines and minimal government interference in the economy. Vegans enjoyed such liberties as free universal health care, well-fare, free public education, reduced higher educational expenses, a universal hourly wage, generous vaccation time, and free transportation, to name a few.

With the events of Sprocket transpiring, the government went through a radical change in structure. In essence, the new-found government is a "Democratic" Plutocracy, or, in other words, a government run by a group of wealthy elites known simply as the corpos. Much like a particular government on earth where rich people lobby for changes in the legislature. It is Believed that the top 1.5% of people on Vega control about 92% of the wealth of the planet. Most of the liberties that vegans enjoyed previously have been removed, such as free health care; hospital bills are now more comparable to those of the United States; and ride-shares are now capitalistic. It is believed that 22.1% of all vegans now live below the poverty rate, and there is now a growing homeless and drug addiction problem due to goverment neglect.

### Infrastructure

Vega has all the infrastructure one might expect for a gigacity.

### Transportation

Offering a variety of transports such as teleportation, portals, and even space docks for all your space flight needs!

### Famous People

* Devon
* Greyson
* The Raedell Family
* Bam bam bozo garbanzo flippy dip von Duke the 8th (NCIT Acting Arts Graduate)