SM9A43 Ranigan

**SM9A43 Ranigan** also known as the **Quijadic State** (RC: "Kikhadik Ethnos" or just "Kikhad") is an extremely powerful Ranisch tribe around an extremely tiny Iranic star with gentle white light that comes from its cold little core. It is actually a red dwarf, but its light is blue-shifted by a heavy crust of exotic negative matter right under the photosphere!

In other words: the crust pushes matter away instead of attracting it & also traps a lot of light within the core, exponentially increasing the star's life expectancy! It is roughly a hundred light-years away from Ancient Earth.

Ranigans are extremely tall & thinner than common Imperatrix chicks because of their Belter heritage, but there are a few corpulent sisters like Nadine as well. Recently they have a massive cult of personality centered around the fictional character of Camina Drummer from the Expanse.

## History

SM9A43 is not a member state of the Ranathan federation, but they enjoy the protection of the Laconic tribe in exchange for teaching Ranathan Creole as a mandatory element of their public education system. The very official language of the state is an impossibly complex artificial thing named Ithkuil.

Ithkuil, originally invented by an Earth 2 fella named John Quijada, is the symbol of Ranigan independence since Earth 2 is universally considered Ranigan turf. However, since barely anyone but the upper 0.1% (which is roughly half a billion people nonetheless) speak it fluently, common everyday business is mostly done in Creole instead.

### Development

House Ranigan has developed the anti-star's first ring of disk cities held together by cables, now named the Central Ring, in a mere 10 years. Time was moving a thousand times slower within the negative gravitational field, which looked a thousand times faster from outside.

Ranathan Cargo therefore started sending all obsolete or damaged or anyhow disqualified space equipment they could find for the colonists to repair, with vast amounts of raw materials & refugee slum-dwellers also sent along.

One of these refugees was **Lorai Ranigan**, a bio-engineered mineshaft slave girl of the Imperatrix race, coming from a brutal Thanna mining station where she lived till the age of 43. This happened roughly a hundred years ago! There were billions named Ranigan, it was already a common family name. It is growing relatively slowly in the outside world because there are often more Ranigans coming back in than going out.

### Ancient Earth activities

House Ranigan is infamous about having defied Laconic flight restrictions around Ancient Earth itself: Lorai went back to fly with Ranathan Cargo after merely a few centuries of Ranigan Standard Time, leaving her servants & their daughters in charge in order to become an overwhelmingly popular voice of the Hansa tribe.

She starts agitating for the abolition of the no-fly zone during her interstellar voyages, heavily inspiring her favourite daughter Nadine as well. Lorai appears in early 2017 on a heavily damaged KMT Highliner boarded by the Arcturus regiment of the Swiss Confederacy.

With the help of Julian Lensky & his Fidelta thugs commandeering the Donnager spacecraft, the crew of Mars NN Lorelai get to rescue her together with the Ganymede Seven: those are accidentally found hiding on the Highliner by the narrator Daniel Martin Lensky, a junior field technician of the tactical team.

### Soviet discovery

In Soviet space, the star was discovered by the astronomer Eldar Svoren in early 2015 who catalogued her under the name "White Dwarf 9A43" with the last four characters being hexadecimal digits. A few weeks later Eldar has also discovered an encrypted data stream coming through a gamma ray laser that was directed from the star to a tiny unknown black body roughly a hundred astronomical units away. Now that was quite a thing in the news!!!

## Present day

In general there is a colossal net inflow of matter coming into Ranigan air space every second, regarldess of how hard the star keeps trying to push everything away. This might become a problem in the future! The Ranigans managed to build & extend millions of disc cities in those ten millennia that the ten years were for the rest of the known universe.

House Ranigan has now obviously become one of the largest shareholders of the Raanish Development Bank, having been one of its founding members. Quijad is the port of call where everything works & grows a thousand times faster than anywhere else.

### Stellar farming

They started cultivating the star by feeding her with hidrogen while mining all the heavier elements that poison the core. They do this with an automated swarm of processing stations orbiting way within the anti-gravitational field, with extremely robust crush-proof equipment doing all the chores & computations exponentially faster as they reach down below. I mean high above. Whatever!!

If something falls off those stations, even a little screw, that can easily turn out to be quite a problem!! However, they are also protected by a practically impenetrable anti-gravity shield that slows inbound ships down & it propels outbound ships forward. The cargo of these ships gets processed mostly also by automated machines high above. I mean down below. Whatever!!

## Geography

Ranigan disc cities are widely known to be remarkably laid-back places: nobody is in a rush to finish anything because they are a thousand times faster than the rest of the world anyway. Also they are scattered all around the anti-gravity space, which means they can hardly be destroyed all at once.

In the worst case they can be stacked up & and moved somewhere else like a bunch of old CD'S. Sentry stations detect all inbound space objects coming from the black void, even if they are no larger than a single proton, from millions of miles away in the extremely bright light shining from behind.

## Military

They feel pretty safe inside those untold millions of big discs: they've been through quite a few bloody conflicts & yet somehow they always made peace. Debris gets pushed out of the battlefield immediately to deep space, which means war over here is pretty much like atmospheric warfare without the atmosphere. They learned to do it pretty well!!

Also occasionally without a ground to fall back on, but you will most probably get picked up by somebody as soon as the sentry stations relay your location & your speed vector to all Ranisch fleets within the sector. They learned therefore to also get along with each other & just chill out while the rest of the world does their business at snail's pace. This truly is the fuckin' heaven right here!!!

## Society

Every inhabitant's life is artificially extended for free for as long as they want. Visitors are given a very large basic income in exchange for only 16 hours of communal work per week in the so-called "underworld" where the anti-gravity gets weaker. You can choose either picking fruits in the colossal hanging gardens or picking space trash into dump ships in the deep underworld where the fleet vessels keep coming & going mostly with their own debris-crushing equipment on board.

The Ranigan star is probably going to completely disappear from the night sky way within the 21st century by fully becoming a Dyson sphere. Like many other things, these peculiarities of the star are also hidden from the fake heavens surrounding that carbon copy of the inner solar system where the Adiemus spacecraft headed back in 2015. It keeps shining the way it shined before Ranisch colonization.

### Thanna immigrants

The star has a large "white trash" Thanna population with strong political divisions artificially stoked up by Ranigan Central Intelligence, currently the most powerful intelligence agency in the known universe (in tight partnership with the Laconic States) to observe their foolish terrorist plottings.