Earth

**Earth** was once the home of humanity. In the past, corporations took over the world from their skyscraper strongholds. Human beings countries have collapsed in more ways than one. Corporate wars have wrecked economies and built them back up again.

Corporations like Biotechnica, CyberCore, Petrohex and many more are the rulers of the Earth. The planet's surface is gleaming due to the dense urban landscape carved into its natural surface, in close orbit zones the skies are filled with heavy space traffic and Orbital Transfer vehicles unloading payloads onto space shuttles, as well as docking space planes. the various webbing beams of habitats and seasons around the planet. that meander in all its regions like circuits on a printed circuit board. in large cities, these light sources define each shape and the structures provide most of the necessary illumination. system, connecting the Capital with exterior places. All the inhabitants provide their own light from internal energy, in the same way that their buildings do.

## Overview

Now, Earth is the third planet from the Sun and one of the astronomical objects known to harbor life. This is possible because Earth is a water world, the only one in the Solar System that supports liquid surface water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained in its global ocean, covering 85% of the Earth's surface in the Age of Architects. 50,000 years after the Human Era, the earth is submerged in a glacial period again, which is characterized by geological periods in which an intense cooling of the terrestrial climate occurs, which in turn produces the freezing of the waters, the expansion of the polar ice masses and the appearance of continental ice.

Despite the many changes that the planetoid has faced over the years, the earth has retained a breathable atmosphere composed mainly of nitrogen and oxygen, allowing it to successfully maintain extensive biodiversity over time. Other notable alterations have been sea level rise as well as various map changes due to tectonic erosion over geological time periods.

The current surface is covered by water, with much of the continental shelf below sea level. It is almost entirely covered in water, except for a few islands, and features a variety of submerged biomes. Most of the seas are covered with ice for half the year, with very small annual temperature variations, presenting bioluminescence phenomena in both wildlife and aquatic life, and also great depths without light. It is because of this that the fauna has adapted to live without it and to being subjected to great pressures, making the environment compatible for predators and other types of colossal-sized creatures adapted to colder temperatures.

The marine biome has montaneous features, including a system of mid-ocean ridges, as well as submarine volcanoes, ocean trenches, submarine canyons, hot spring caves, plateaus, crystal caves, and abyssal plains. The remainder not covered by water is made up of mountains, temperate forests, tundra, boreal forests, polar deserts, tropical forests in non-frozen areas, and other geomorphologies.

A good part of the region classified as Sector Zero in which Honkai and other Regions are located is made up of 44 million square kilometers of ocean, bordered by mountainous terrain to the north and west, it is covered in snow and ice throughout the year, and almost all parts of the area experience long periods with some form of surface ice, leading to a mostly permanent winter. Extreme weather events cause the night sky to be spectacular at all hours, mostly peppered with storms with lightning that marks the twilight, snowfalls and blizzards that can last a month straight, meteor showers or other constant astronomical phenomena according to the zone. Sector Zero is subdivided into smaller biomes, both terrestrial and oceanic, such as Arctic Spiers, Badlands, Arctic Plains, Frozen River, Arctic Trench, Arctic Kelp Forest, Lily Pads Islands, and others.

For unknown reasons, the architects selected it as the center for several of their technology and research facilities. Life in the area has flourished since the extinction of humans. The rest of the ocean is extremely deep and presumably almost devoid of life, harboring only microscopic life forms and unusually high concentrations of fossilized and organic remains. Exploring this environment without hazardous environment suits and extensive support apparatus is not recommended.

The CyberCore Corporation operates facilities in orbit, one of the best known being the CyberCore Orbital Station.

## New Regions

Many things have changed in these 50,000 years, and with it the regions of the countries. The now known **Aurynthia** is the set of regions of Europe, Asia and America. Under the government of the architects, the regions have opted for new names varying in language.

## Weather and Climate

The temperatures are so low that you would freeze to death in minutes if you had no protection in most regions. Normally, temperatures in climates are below 0°C. These frozen deserts, whose low solar intensity has turned these regions into cold wastelands. Due to the high latitude of most regions, there are large seasonal variations in daylight. From late May to late July, the sun never quite dips below the horizon in areas, hence **Aurynthia**'s description as the "Land of the Midnight Sun," with the rest of the lands experiencing an 18-hour high of light per day. On the contrary, from the end of November to the end of January, the sun never rises above the horizon in the north, and daylight hours are very short in the rest of the region, while snow falls in these lands even in the hottest summers throughout the snowy plain.

In summary, despite having tropical regions on the other side of the planet, most of the world has a polar climate (according to the Köppen climate classification) with very cold weather, usually extremely dry. Almost the entire area is covered by an ice sheet that is, on average, 1.6 km thick. Places like Sector Zero are mountainous, most of which is above 1,000 m altitude. Traveling to places with such heights above sea level can result in lower oxygen levels in the body. 40% of the humans who have tried to reach it experienced symptoms of altitude sickness. Symptoms include headache, tiredness, nausea or loss of appetite, irritability, and in more severe cases, shortness of breath, confusion, and even coma.

Earth has dormant tectonic activity that hasn't woken up for years and has thankfully kept its people safe from volcanoes. However, ice quakes are constantly experienced due to sudden cracking in frozen ground or rocks saturated with water or ice. Although ice quakes release less energy than tectonic events, they can still cause damage or significant changes to an affected area, so the armed forces commission maintains strict surveillance of areas with a high probability of being affected. Outside of other events, tsunamis are less common, but other phenomena such as heavy snowfall and ice storms are experienced.

However, regions such as Sumeru and Eden have different geographical characteristics, flora, temperatures, humidity, and colors of sky, water, fog, grass, and foliage. Eden features a slightly warm ocean, with clear blue-green water on the surface. Like the warm ocean, it has a sandy bottom and, like all oceans, is populated by seagrasses. Unlike other ocean biomes, Eden's warm ocean allows the formation of coral reefs and marine pickles of different types than those of the Honkai or Znaniya oceans. The reason for its warmth is because underwater ravines are often generated here, and the upper layer of lava was replaced by magma.

The Eden ocean biome features hot springs and volcanic areas. Marine monuments of ancient civilizations can be seen in the sea, as well as in the Sumeru Sea and even the Lumina Sea, where some societies have been partially or completely sunk. Despite Eden's warm temperatures, it also has mountains with high elevations, peaks full of ice and snow in several of its regions. Lumina has warm and icy beaches, as well as taiga biomes, covered by a spruce forest. Ferns, large ferns, and berry bushes commonly grow on the forest floor. Here you can find packs of stalkers, as well as small groups of foxes or rabbits. Likewise, it has birch forests full of flora and mountains with warm lakes and rivers that freeze when winter arrives in its region.

Eden of course, although it has the winter period that is characterized by cold rains, it has tropical areas such as cloudy and seasonal jungles full of flora and fruits. Sumeru, meanwhile, has a slightly warm desert, beneath the sand are sandstone and sometimes fossils. They also have savannah biomes and badlands of wastelands and canyons. In addition to the Dharma forests and the Ether Desert.

## Relevant Databank Entries

### Databank Entry 01, Extensions

The Architects' expansion into space began when the Xeno Research Division (a division of CyberCore) built the first space colonies outside of Earth. Xenowork owns much of what can be found in space, from cities on the Moon to space stations. They also have a presence in space with many workstations built by them, where technicians, researchers, and xenobiologists study the land for future colonies before building their mega-structures. The first colonies established were in 4748B and 5219XT, colony L-1 and L-3.

The planet 4748B is a water world, covered by a seemingly endless and shallow ocean. Due to external phenomena, it is rocked by huge tidal waves up to 4,000 feet high. There are no signs of dry land on 4748B, which may not exist due to the large volume of water on the planet. The facilities of the place are found underwater or on artificial islands created by the architects.

On the other hand, the planet 5219XT, is an ice world approximate to the earth. No surface was ever found, in fact the planet is littered with seemingly endless layers of mountains and crevasses of frozen ice clouds. While the planet does have water and an atmosphere, it is full of ammonia, making it deadly for other organisms to breathe. The structures of the L-3 colony made of steel and hardened materials that withstand the cold of the place make it a rather curious research center.

### Databank Entry 02, Human Era

North America suffered many disasters in the 1990s. Economic collapse, bioplague, global warming, and corruption led to the downfall of the United States of America. Although no longer a superpower, the NUSA is in the same position as Europe and Asia after the Corporate War in the Human Era. Combined Operations Groups maintained the government, but others have broken away from NUSA and become mercenaries, independent kingdoms, or acting in their own interests. NUSA itself is reminiscent of the Wild West of the late 19th century, with a civilized east coast and an uncivilized west coast. However, it was not until the uprising of the Ava government that the NUSA would slowly regain its title as a superpower after a dictatorship. Everything changed when Ava came to power and restored the United States, calling it the New United States under his rule and creating the "Unification" political party.

Central America emerged from the Central American Wars as a union of independent states working in mutual cooperation, having expelled the United States from most of the region, aside from the Panama Canal Zone. South America emerged from the Corporate War as a means for nationalist factions to bid for land and influence, breaking up an alliance that had only just begun to rebuild. With the end of the Human Era, the South American nations decayed after their destruction, but it was not until 52,300 that CyberCore intervened in their reconstruction and culminated in the formation of several organizations of the American States, led by Argentina, Brazil and Chile and others, as a world power on a par with the European Union.

Meanwhile, New Africa had been reborn during the Human Era Corporate War as a dominant nation in space, unified by the European nations. The nation had been formed, declaring its space sovereignty and control of the rest of the world, due to the fact that most space workers, spaceports, and construction areas were on African soil or otherwise connected to Africa.

The Middle East collapse of 1997 left many Middle Eastern nations as radioactive wastelands, with only Egypt, Syria, and Israel surviving due to support from CyberCore, left alone during the Corporate War. By the 2020s, the impacted areas had become safe enough for people willing to trespass, rummage, and collect hardware and valuables from the blighted fields.

The Asian continent saw the rise of new world powers. With the beginning of the Reconstruction Era, Japan was the world's largest economic power and many corporations had a lot of power over third world nations. The CyberCore Corporation, the world's most influential mega-corporation, is headquartered in Neo-Tokyo and controls much of its politics. A united Korea was formed in 2005 when the country became very successful in its economy with the help of its corporations. China became a rising power and sided with the NUSA.

By the Human Era, the mainland had suffered heavy damage, recovering from various Corporate War actions, such as the biological attack and total destruction of Hong Kong, and the battles in the South China Sea and the Mongolian Plateau for China; Japan was still recovering. The Corporation's coup attempt and the collapse of North Korea and South Korea turning isolationist. The Philippines and Australia had also been damaged and cut off from the fighting. Despite this, the nations of Asia managed to maintain many necessities and luxuries lost or more elusive after the Corporate War. Preparedness for ecological changes, conversion of power from coal and oil to American-style seaweed farms, and birth control programs to reduce excess population growth have put Asian cities and nations on a position of comfort and security, although they lacked the personal liberties common to other nations.

In Europe, despite being hit hard by the Corporate War, the World Stock Exchange and the Common Market remained stable, allowing most European nations, except Italy, Spain, and Greece, to maintain stable economies, and corporations were supplanted by European business magnates. Britain suffered significant economic problems, amplified by immigration and outdated technologies. The rest of Europe was recovering from the Great Corporate War, rebuilding the financial and industrial centers affected by the war. The USSR and the rest of New Russia had fallen to the point of not being able to feed the population, plus a similar lack of modern technology.

## New United Nations

The New United Nations, an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop the nation and achieve international cooperation, and be a center for harmonizing corporate actions between CK: NEON GENESIS and M-W. This directed system includes an extensive network of institutions and entities. The center of the organization are five main bodies established by the New United Nations Charter: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council and the International Court of Justice connected to Health and Research centers in CK NEON GENESIS.

CyberCore maintains connections with the New United Nations and all its branches, as well as UNESCO and WHO. WHO's mandate seeks and includes: working around the world to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable during the R-R pandemic and the Nuclaxin-A9 biological attack. Advocates that a billion more people should have: universal health care coverage, commitment to monitoring public health risks, coordinating responses to health emergencies, and promoting health and wellness. It provides technical assistance to countries, sets international health standards, and collects data on global health issues. One publication, the World Health Report, provides assessments of health issues around the world and its allies such as the M-W.

WHO has played a leading role in several public health achievements during the Human Era, notably the eradication of smallpox, the near eradication of polio, and the development of an Ebola vaccine. His current priorities now include communicable diseases, particularly R-R and the Nuclaxin-A9 bioweapon. The UN New United Nations was created after World War II with the aim of preventing future world wars in the Human Age, and was rebuilt after the War of Separation in the Age of Architects, and supported during the Pacific War for the formation of the X squad.

## The View From Space

At the Near Earth Orbit Zones, the skies are crowded with much space traffic and very busy Orbital Transfer vehicles unloading cargo into space shuttles as well as spaceplanes docking the various spider-webbed girders of habitats and stations around planet Earth. There are nearly 200 factories in Orbit around Earth, some are owned by the powerful Japanese corporation CyberCore.

Not many corporations have entered orbit besides transportation that takes cargo from different parts of the planet. There are plenty of airport stations that will transport people to other colonies in the Sol System.

## In Low Orbit

The Low-Near Earth Orbit, commonly shortened to LEO, zone of the Earth contains light traffic, comprised of orbital space fighters and satellites, shifting from the LEO zone to the Geo-Syn zone, dictating everything from communications. The zone ranges from approximately 1,000 to 3,000 miles, or 5 to 5.5 kilometers

## Geosync Orbit

GEO-Synchronous Orbit (22,000/37,000km) is dominated by orbital workstations, small factories, and other stable platforms. It is here that ground based spaceplanes and shuttles dock with Orbital Transfer Stations, shifting crew and cargo to outbound Orbital Transfer Vehicles.

## United Federation of Planets

The United Federation of Planets, also known as the UFP or Galactic Federation, simply the Federation, is a State created by the government of CyberCore and other nations. The Federation, as its name suggests, is an interplanetary federal state made up of more than 250 member planets and about a thousand colonies that, according to Alt, the governor, spans more than 8,000 light-years in the Milky Way. It is, according to the Cyberpunk Neon Genesis universe, one of the superpowers of the Galaxy.

Its system of government is democratic, with a legislative power known as the Federation Council, which has a representative from each federal planet, whose headquarters are located in Neo-Tokyo, Earth. Executive power is exercised by the President of the Federation, elected by the Council. There is also a judicial power called the Supreme Court of the Federation. The armed forces come together in the Starfleet, which fulfills the role of military agency (only in extreme cases), scientific and exploration.

The fundamental charter of this State is called the Charter of the Federation which, as indicated in several episodes, is similar to the Magna Carta of the United Nations, although Picard in the chapter The Drumhead refers to it as the Constitution. The Federation Charter includes the so-called “Seven Guarantees” similar to amendments to the New United States Constitution.

There are several requirements to be a member of the Federation, including the abolition of any caste system, genetic manipulation for war purposes, cruel treatment against the population or lack of civil rights within the State. Although it is recommended, it is not a requirement that the planet that enters be completely unified and the Federation can admit planets whose governments do not administer the entire planetary territory, that is, where there is no global unification. Generally, Alt and CyberCore's rule spans the entire federation, with the corporation present in all colonies.

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