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The Zhu Que Directorate (Commonwealth Chinese: 朱雀局; Zhū Què Jú; Martian English: Dzuutsediikerat), also informally known as the Directorate, is the premier power within the Luyten's Star system, humanity's first extra solar colony and thus far the only inhabited planet with a breathable atmosphere outside of the Solar System. Identified as a potentially habitable planet in the early twenty-first century, Luyten b was of interest for potential colonization for hundreds of years. Following on from the successful China National Space Administration's Zheng He mission transmitting back detailed images of Luyten b in 2245, plans for a colonization effort were drawn up... (read more)



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The Godly Republic of Eden is the official name of the planetary state that governs the planet Eden (Teegarden b). The Climate Disaster that saw mass extinctions of native species and loss of human life on an unparalleled scale was outright apocalyptic. In accordance with the book of Revelation, many Christians came to believe this was in fact the Armageddon that had been foretold. There were those who willingly accepted their deaths, expecting to be reborn anew in God's Kingdom, and then there were those who believed that in fact their salvation lay amongst the stars... (read more)



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The Union of Saturn (Martian English: Uunezaten) is an independent cluster of self-governing economic zones centred around the gas giant Saturn. Ever since the collapse of its first colony in thermonuclear flame, Saturn has remained as the Solar System's third world on steroids, growing from a mining startup's wet dream to an anarchic patchwork of "states" headed by the Saturnine Executive, a congress of its largest companies. With its surreal and bastardised excuse for a history cutting its hamstrings and denying the formation of any true government, Saturn has instead chased the dragon of a truly free free market, fostering an anarcho-corporate way of life and becoming inhabited space's crown jewel of unbridled capitalism, exploitation, crime and decadence... (read more)



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The Martian Federation (Martian English: Mazfredasan) is the name of the technocratic regime that governs the planet Mars. Through a troubled history of survival, war and revolution, Mars has seen itself terraformed and, since the installation of ALIAS in 3666, embarked upon an experiment to fully realise humankind's capacity as a creative and intelligent being. Under ALIAS's many kind eyes - itself eternally powered by the new uploaded minds of past generations - Martians are freely provided all the means and necessities required to live a happy and productive life, with the ancient concepts of race, gender, individuality, privacy, and democracy falling into obscurity so to pave the way for an idyllic society. In the three-plus centuries since Martians have rapidly diverged, becoming aliens to an inhabited space that gawks on in terror and fascination... (read more)



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The Qafi Federation (Qafi Arabic: اتحاد جبل قاف; Qafi Bengali: কাফ মাউন্টেন ফেডারেশন; Martian English: Kaafredasan) is a federation of several nation-states and is the central political representation of the nations and peoples of the planet Qaf (also known as TRAPPIST-1e). Still relatively weak compared to most celestial federations, the Qaf Federation is still deeply divided on issues of religion and ethnicity with some nations in open conflict. The Federation is largely comprised of Muslim peoples, which has heavily influenced the planet’s development and culture. The clash between the Federation’s religious and secular elements has been an ongoing issue for centuries. Although Qaf is most populous planet in the TRAPPIST-1 System, it has been unable to reach its full potential due to ongoing internal strife... (read more)



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The Automatic Life-assist Intelligent Administration System (ALIAS; Martian English: Aatomaatig Laaf-asitz Inteligent Adminizdrazan Sistem) is a vast, planet-spanning artificial intelligence network that governs and coordinates most aspects of life in the Martian Federation. ALIAS has had a deep impact on the interstellar status-quo, being tied intimately with the Martian Civil War, the Great Interstellar War, and Mars's transformation into a near-alien collectivist cyberocracy. Its name is universally known, with terms such as "ALIAS regime" and "post-ALIAS world" having entered common language, and its existence imparting an irrevocable hue on the ideas of AI involvement in society, individualism, socialism, post-scarcity society, mortality, and theism... (read more)


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The Automated Response Eradication System (ARES) in its current form is a "limited" artificial intelligence on Cariocecus, the result of a merging of a Martian countermeasure against ALIAS and the planet's lesser version of FRIEND, the predecessor of ALIAS on Mars. Tasked with securing the colonies in the Trappist System against ALIAS, ARES is an integral part of the People's Republic of Cariocecus although officially, it only acts in an advisory role. Although it likes to distance itself from its more involved counterpart, ARES nonetheless shares some traits with ALIAS such as its penchant for social engineering while also having its own unique "personality" ranging from aesthetic choice to personal philosophy. The Cariocecian obsession with sacrifice and the cult of struggle can largely be traced back to ARES, though not entirely... (read more)