Tezuka
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| Capital: | Franklin | |||||
| Official languages: | Cariocecian, Martian English | |||||
| Currency: | Trappist Legacy (TL) | |||||
| Demonym: | Tezukan | |||||
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| Government: | Department of Tezuka | |||||
| - Department Minister: | Catherine O'Doherty | |||||
| Part of: |  Cariocecus
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| Settled: | 3057 | |||||
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| Population: | 102 million | |||||
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| Planet: | TRAPPIST 1h | |||||
| System: | TRAPPIST-1 System | |||||
| Avg. distance from Earth: | 39.6 ly | |||||
| Orbital period: | 18.868 days | |||||
| Rotation period: | Tidally locked | |||||
| Moon(s): | 0 | |||||
| Surface gravity: | 0.570 g | |||||
| Temperature: | 171.7 K (−101.5 °C; −150.6 °F) | |||||
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Tezuka (also known as TRAPPIST 1h) is a cold, rocky planet governed by the People's Republic of Cariocecus. It is named after Morgan Tezuka, the first person to set foot on Mars.
History[edit | edit source]
TRAPPIST-1h was discovered as one of four new exoplanets to be discovered orbiting the ultra-cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 in 2017 using observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope. The outermost known planet in its system, it was determined that the planet lay outside the habitable zone, and therefore, it was deemed a low priority for eventual colonization. It was only after the success of the Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star and Luyten's Star probes that a mission was green lit for the TRAPPIST-1 system by the Indian Space Agency in 2249, on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the star's discovery. The journey took 340 years, with the probe arriving in 2589. The automated probe undertook a ten year mission, collecting data on the seven planets within the system and broadcasting them back to Earth. The first messages from the probe were received by the United Governed Space Authority in 2628, prompting the TRAPPIST-1 system to be placed high up the priority list on systems suited for colonization. The abundant presence of ice and liquid water on TRAPPIST-1h attracted more attention to the planet, though it was still a lower priority than TRAPPIST-1d or TRAPPIST-1e.
Following on from the success of the colonization of the Luyten System in the 2900s, interest in establishment of extrasolar colonies brought the Trappist System to the fore, with the seven worlds considered desirable for sustainable long term habitation due to the accommodating gravitational accelerations of the six habitable planets being suitable for both Earthers and Martians. In the early 3000's the TRAPPIST Friendship Initiative was undertaken jointly between Earth and Mars. The joint initiative was done to encourage further cooperation between Earth and Mars, to serve as a test bed for new Martian terraforming technology, and to resettle Martian citizens out of the overpopulated metropolitan cities. The planets TRAPPIST-1d and TRAPPIST-1e were selected as primary targets for colonization, accommodating to the needs of the Martians and the Earthers respectively. However, plans were made to include TRAPPIST-1h as a secondary target for Martian colonization due to its gravity. The colony ships left the system in 3017 and arrived in 3057.
TRAPPIST-1h was given over to the Martian half of the TRAPPIST Friendship Initiative to colonize, mostly for purposes of ice mining and water extraction. It was settled in 3057, alongside TRAPPIST-1d, but settlement remained sparse in the early years of the TRAPPIST Friendship Initiative. The planet was named Tezuka, after the first person to set foot on Mars. There had been some who had wanted TRAPPIST-1d to be named Tezuka, but it was ultimately decided it should be named Bellona, and TRAPPIST-1h was named Tezuka instead.
Tezuka was administrated as a Celestial Colony by the Interstellar Governed Space Authority, with limited representation afforded to the colonists. The Tezuka Colonial Government obtained permission to utilize FRIEND for management of infrastructure projects and resource distribution, but the population was too small and sparse for the automated infrastructure on Tezuka to be ubiquitous as on Mars or Bellona.
Tezuka's population slowly increased over the years as ice mining became more lucrative, and the small colony mostly followed the lead of its larger neighbor Bellona, though it also began forming its own separate culture already by the 3100's. Tezuka became regarded as a place for roughnecks and religious kooks, with Martian folk religion becoming more common on the smaller colony than Bellona itself. Tezuka also retained a close affinity to Kienen, with the two being culturally similar to other another as smaller Trappist Martian colonies that relied on mining.
Politically, Tezuka mostly followed Bellona's lead for much of its early history, both out of necessity and cultural closeness. In 3225 after the Battle of Tian on Bellona, many Tezukan workers went on strike in solidarity with other Martian nationalists, and they were likewise relieved when in 3304, IGSA agreed to hand over governance of the Trappist Martian colonies to the Union of Mars, under the new Union Trappist Administration.
The Union Trappist Administration attempted to implement more automated infrastructure throughout Tezuka after coming to power, but Tezukans proved to be culturally rather resistant to increased automation, especially when it came at the cost of jobs. As such, progress was slower in fully automating Tezuka's infrastructure compared to on Cariocecus. Immigrations from Qaf also became a controversial issue on Tezuka in the early 3400's, as it had on Cariocecus, and miners on Tezuka began to increasingly disregard the authority of IGSAPOL. When word came of of Earth's independence from IGSA came to the Trappist System in 3493, there were riots on Tezuka against IGSAPOL. However, the New Ares Legion did not establish a presence on Tezuka due to most Tezukans disliking IGSAPOL, not IGSA itself.
In 3500, the Trappist Fleet of the Commonwealth Navy, led by Admiral Chen Wuhan arrived in the Trappist System to both conquer the Martian colonies and to secure the Earther colonies. Being the furthest-out planet, Tezuka was the first to fall to the Trappist Fleet with relative ease. Most security forces of the Union Trappist Administration were on Bellona to deal with the New Ares Legion insurgency, and any remaining IGSAPOL units on the planet gave up without a fight.
The subsequent Commonwealth occupation on Tezuka would last for a grueling forty years. The worst atrocities on the Commonwealth invasion of the Trappist System happened on Qaf, but Commonwealth Marines and the occupation forces still reserved most of their disdain for the Trappist Martians, including those on Tezuka. The Commonwealth Marines occupying Bellona, Kienen, and Tezuka mistreated the local Trappist Martians and exacted a high price upon the population through high taxes, neglect, and targeted killings against community leaders. On Tezuka, union leaders were regularly executed for treason, and FRIEND itself was shut down on several occasions as leverage against the local population. However, Tezukans endured, and many openly resisted the Commonwealth occupation in the first ten years. This local resistance was viciously crushed, but it planted the seed of later uprisings.
The Trappist Secret State started as a movement on Bellona, but it rapidly gained traction on Tezuka as well, especially among disaffected ice miners. In the 3520s, Trappist Martian rebels on Tezuka aligned with the Trappist Secret State openly revolted and resorted to guerrilla warfare in the planet's many ice mining tunnels. Cells on Bellona supported these rebels through smuggled weapons and further sabotage of Commonwealth occupation forces. The Tezukan insurgency lasted for twenty years, and it led to a much harsher occupation on Tezuka than Bellona, with FRIEND itself being shut down on Tezuka in 3530 to limit communication among the rebels.
The Bellona Uprising was felt also on Tezuka in 3540 when the Commonwealth occupation finally lost control of Bellona and Qaf. Fighting continued on the planet between Commonwealth Marines and Trappist Martian rebels, but the Trappist Fleet was able to hold on long enough to evacuate its forces from Tezuka on its way out of the Trappist System. After the Commonwealth withdrawal, any remaining Commonwealth collaborators or occupation personnel on Tezuka were almost uniformly executed in an even harsher fashion than on Bellona or Qaf.
The next century for Tezuka was spent rebuilding and recovering from the Commonwealth Wars. The reestablished Union Trappist Administration went to work repairing FRIEND infrastructure on Tezuka and attempting to assimilate Tezukans into Bellona's cultural sphere. This included more shared cultural holidays and the establishment of shared institutions like the Crimson Order. At this time, Bellona had won greater autonomy from Mars, and this included governing Tezuka on the behalf of Mars within the Union Trappist Administration, especially with the concurrent establishment of the Qafi Federation. Many Tezukans resented attempts by Bellona to further integrate Tezuka within its own culture, with Tezukans being more independent and resistant to cultural assimilation. However, increased immigration from Qaf to Tezuka during this time also caused the rise of anti-Earther sentiment. This was part of the larger context of the breakdown in relations between the Union Trappist Administration and the Qafi Federation during the 2600's. Many on Tezuka were worried about a possible war between Trappist Martians and the Qafi Federation; they would likely be cut off from Bellona in such a scenario.
Words came to Tezuka in 2705 of the installation of ALIAS on Mars thirty-nine years previously, and word of the repeal of the IGSAPOL ban on artificial intelligence being given governance over humans came soon afterwards. There was much debate on Tezuka about outright destroying their FRIEND to prevent such a thing from happening, but cooler heads won out ultimately. The subsequent warming in relations between the Union Trappist Administration and the Qafi Federation was also positively felt, with an uptick in trade and economic activity.
In 2708, Martian ships sent by ALIAS finally arrived in the Trappist System demanding the loyalty of the Trappist colonies, getting as close as the orbit of Tezuka. Bellonan ships managed to destroy the interlopers, but the incident caused a shockwave across the Trappist System, and the Union Trappist Administration attempted to reorient itself to deal with a possible defensive war against ALIAS. This became more and more likely as the dire conditions of the anti-ALIAS forces on Mars reached the Trappist system. Neo-Luddites on Tezuka became louder and louder, leading demonstrations and sometimes rioting. The arrival of more Martian Civil War refugees only intensified these sentiments.
The copy of ARES sent to the Trappist System would arrive in 3710 and found a system already in turmoil. After landing on Bellona, the Martians in possession of the ARES copy presented it to local authorities and asked for the countermeasure to be installed before ALIAS had another chance to infect Bellona's FRIEND. The Union Trappist Administration initially kept the whole affair secret while discussing the choice presented to them, but the arrival of ARES was eventually leaked to the press with an uproar arising across the Trappist System, with many seeing ARES as effectively a second ALIAS. However, the Union Trappist Administration would eventually install ARES into its FRIEND with ARES quickly becoming integrated into systems across the planet. Following this, the Union Trappist Administration also installed ARES on Tezuka and Kienen. On Tezuka, this led to a full-on riot and several Neo-Luddite terrorist attacks, but this soon receded as ARES demonstrated that it was not interested in dictating the lives of Tezukans as ALIAS did on Mars, taking a less hands-on approach to governance.
In 3717, Admiral Andre Kadelberg arrived in the Trappist System along with thousands of other Martians who had fought for the Martian Federation in Mariner Valley. The admiral came bearing grave news, that the anti-ALIAS forces were on the brink of defeat and he and his compatriots had only just escaped the grips of the vengeful Martian Navy. Soon enough, Admiral Kadelberg and his 'Valleyan Clique' seized control of the Union Trappist Administration and imposed martial law upon the entirety of the Trappist colonies with the new government becoming a virtual dictatorship under the admiral, including on Tezuka.
The coup d'état led to rioting on Tezuka, and the Qafi Federation used this as a pretext to intervene in the Trappist Martian colonies. Quickly, Qaf moved to occupy Tezuka and Kienen, and the venerable President Moksud Khondakar demanded the reinstatement of officials removed during the coup d'état. There was little resistance to this occupation since a plurality of Tezukans supported this position. The short Bellona-Qaf War would end two years later in 3720, when Admiral Kadelberg disabled Qaf's fleet over Bellona and peace was reestablished between Qaf and the Trappist Martians. Tezuka was handed back to the Union Trappist Administration, and former officials on Tezuka removed by the coup d'état were reinstated as a peace offering to the locals.
The next decade was spent by Admiral Kadelberg and the Valleyan Clique readying Tezuka and the other colonies for war. Word came to the Trappist System in 3730 of the fall of Mariner Valley. Word of the decline of anti-ALIAS forces on Mars had been streaming in for years, but the finality of both events still came as a shock to the Trappist colonies. The main focus of the entire Trappist System quickly became the expected invasion coming from Mars now that the Martian Civil War had concluded. Qaf and Bellona put aside past differences, signing the 3730 Trappist Friendship Treaty, and put their militaries under an emergency unified command. Under the Valleyan Clique, Tezuka was fortified to put the planet on the war footing that could withstand a Martian invasion. The same year, the Cariocecian Republic was declared on Bellona, and Tezuka was unilaterally incorporated into the republic. Many Tezukans were simply too worried about a Martian invasion to be upset. However, they still resisted cultural assimilation into the 'new Cariocecus,' which led to harsh reprisals from the Cariocecian Republic.
In 3730, a Martian invasion fleet finally arrived in the Trappist System. Of slightly superior strength to the combined force of the Trappist states' navies, the fleet managed to advance deep into the system before it was halted by the combined Cariocecian-Qafi fleet protecting Cariocecus in the First Battle of Cariocecus. For a year, the fleets remained in stalemate as the Martians invaded every planet in the system aside from Cariocecus, protected by its fleet. Tezuka was the first planet in the Trappist System to fall to the Martians, and the Martian occupation quickly installed a capsule-form ALIAS-based AI named MaTD (Mazfredasan Taapiz Daarektiv, lit. Maat, Solar English: Martian Federation Trappist Directive) into Tezuka's version of FRIEND to coordinate their efforts in the system. FRIEND on Tezuka would temporarily become unusable for much of 3730 and 3731 as FRIEND attempted to integrate MaTD while ARES was still present within the automated infrastructure. However, ARES on Tezuka was eventually consumed by MaTD, and the planet's automated infrastructure came fully under the control of ALIAS. Following the ceasefire of 3734, the occupation fell into a strange sort of normalcy.
The Martian occupation of Tezuka would be considerably less bloody than the earlier Commonwealth occupation, and it would last considerably longer. Because of Martians superior knowledge of FRIEND, rebels on Tezuka were far less able to use their knowledge of automated infrastructure for resistance, and MaTD kept a watchful eye on Tezukans. However, Martian attempts at cultural assimilation on Tezuka were resisted even more stringently than against Cariocecus, especially when it came to crackdowns on Martian folk religion and attempts to normalise uploading citizens' minds into ALIAS's memory. There was also just a culture clash of more erudite Elysian Martian occupiers with more roughneck superstitious Tezukans. There was little armed resistance during the early occupation, but Tezukans resisted in other ways, usually through sabotage and non-violent means. There were also scattered instances of terrorism by local Neo-Luddites and chapters of the Crimson Order, which led to both being heavily persecuted during the occupation.
The Cariocecian Revolution in 3753 led to many Tezukans rebelling, with newfound hope that the Qafis and the People's Republic would help them break free. This uprising would fail, but rebels would continue to escalate their activities on Tezuka over the next few decades, with it becoming clearer than Mars was not sending reinforcements for its occupation. Hope still burned on Tezuka, and their salvation finally arrived in 3813 with a combined Cariocecian-Qafi fleet. During the recapture of Tezuka by Cariocecus, the MaTD central node on Tezuka disappeared in the ensuing chaos, its physical hardware removed and its software purged by ARES. Unlike the central node on Qaf, Tezuka's MaTD central node was not publicly returned to Cariocecus, and there has been myriad speculation on its fate. Some believe it was covertly returned to Mars by Martian agents so it could be reintegrated back into ALIAS. Some think it was secretly returned intact to Cariocecus so ARES could experiment on its and learn more about ALIAS. A few believe it was taken by the People's Republic of Cariocecus and then sold either to Tranquility or Zhu Que to assist in AI research on either celestial state. Whatever its fate, the overwhelming number of Tezukans were happy to see MaTD gone.
Following the end of the Martian invasion of the Trappist System, Tezuka was left with an even greater resentment of automated control, and this continued on with the reintroduction of ARES to Tezuka. The continuing lack economic development, self-governance, and representation in the government of the People's Republic of Cariocecus also led to a slow but steady build-up of distaste among Tezukans towards their government. This and further attempts at cultural assimilation of Tezuka by Cariocecus brought on by the Aesthetic Revolution led to the creation of the Green Light Movement in 2855, a rebel group that sought greater political and cultural autonomy for Tezukans and workers in general. This new group combined with the existing Freedom Club and Hatchet to form a united front in an escalating insurgency against the People's Republic for much of the 3800's and the 3900's.
The end of the insurgency came in 3980, when a peace agreement was reached between the unitary government and the Green Light Movement. In exchange for laying down their arms, the Green Light Movement would be allowed to stand for elections in the Mantle of the Cosmos, and a local legislature would be established on Tezuka. Soon enough, the Green Light Movement took control of local government, and Tezuka gained the autonomy its residents had desired for nearly five hundred years. This breakthrough led to relations thawing between Cariocecus and Tezuka after years of tension, with ARES even limiting his presence on Tezuka at the request of the Tezukan Senate. However, economic development on Tezuka has remained slow, and it remains heavily reliant on Cariocecus.
Geography[edit | edit source]
Habitability[edit | edit source]
Tezuka is a tidally locked cold planet, and much of the population lives underground. Outside of tunnel systems, there are a few domes cities on the lit side of the planet where Tezukans live, including the capital Franklin. Outside of the tunnels and dome cities, life is difficult and often short.
Government[edit | edit source]
As a department of the People's Republic of Cariocecus, Tezuka originally had no form of self-governance. This only changed after armed conflict on Tezuka, initiated by a united front of the Green Light Movement and Hatchet. After a prolonged insurgency and long negotiations with ARES, the Green Light Movement was permitted to exist along with other parties in the Mantle of the Cosmos, and Tezuka was allowed limited self-governance as part of the Green Light Revolution. Tezuka has its own Senate, and the planet holds elections for both its own legislature, the Tezuka Senate, and the legislature of the People's Republic of Cariocecus. The Department Minister is nominated by the Tezukan Senate and confirmed by the Tian Triad. The current Department Minister is a member of the Green Light Movement, and the Green Light Movement runs most local government on Tezuka. This has led to some tension between officials of the unitary government on Cariocecus and local officials, but in practice, the Tezukans mostly cause no trouble for the government and in return, they are mostly left to their own devices.
Economy[edit | edit source]
Tezuka's economy remains mostly focused on ice mining and natural gas extraction, with very little in the way of heavy industry or service industry. This, by design, has kept them reliant on Cariocecus. Tezukans often leave if they are successful enough for Cariocecus or Qaf as there are few opportunities on the planet aside from hard labor.
Culture[edit | edit source]
Ice mining has been a staple of Tezuka since colonisation, and working class miners remain the standard image of a Tezukan to many. However, hydroponic farmers are also a common occupation. Both roles have ingrained a certain pastoral edge to Tezukan culture, with Tezukans being far more communal and easygoing than their Cariocecian neighbors while also being fiercely skeptical of any central authority. This frontier nature has often led to them being characterized as lazy and brutish, leading to some of the resentment between the two peoples. Nevertheless, Tezuka shares the Martian heritage of Cariocecus, and though Tezukans may dislike ARES at times, they greatly favor it over ALIAS.
The urban centers on Tezuka such as Franklin more resemble Cariocecus in culture due to the more overt presence of automated infrastructure and military assets. This was especially stark before the Green Light Revolution, but it has remained such largely due to continued immigration from Cariocecus in recent years.
Women and femininity are more appreciated on Tezuka than on Cariocecus, due to the Tezukans' general resistance to efforts of the Aesthetic Revolution to abolish womanhood. Due to the dominance of the Green Light Movement and their limiting of the influence of ARES and other media from Cariocecus, Tezukans have largely been able to retain their pre-People's Republic culture. Whether this will last is an open question; some say ARES is just playing nice currently.
