Now I'm interested in making my second character someone who grew up among the archeological digs of Tau Ceti, only reluctantly left in order to become an official archeologist like her parents, then joins the Arcadian for the chance that the ship meets descendants of those aliens or a new alien species entirely...Hmm...

Edit:
Thought for sure we had a xeno-archeology division under the civilian roles given that we do have alien ruins and the USF might expect more to be out there. Perhaps geology could work for her main job, or she could become a signals officer...

Also, I just noticed the astrogeography position. I'm presuming that those are the guys actually charting the star systems as they go? If no one applies for that role, could Martin also take up that position? That would suit him very well.

Well, the whole alien civ ruins found in human space was not a thing when I made the OOC. Only the ship found on Pluto was meant to be the only alien thing found at this point. But, UFRSivio felt like adding that in the Doc after the fact. And I did say you can add a role to the list if it makes sense. So yeah, you can do a xeno-archaeologist if you wish.

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Well, the whole alien civ ruins found in human space was not a thing when I made the OOC. Only the ship found on Pluto was meant to be the only alien thing found at this point. But, UFRSivio felt like adding that in the Doc after the fact. And I did say you can add a role to the list if it makes sense. So yeah, you can do a xeno-archaeologist if you wish.

Thank you!

I'll get to work on her tomorrow

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*rubs hands* As you can see from Swanhilde, I definitely am not opposed to some worldbuilding.

We should keep Gliese 514 b as we do have @Cmmelody's Kore Soteria already developed to be an AI/Computer Tech leading planet with very unique seasons. Perhaps there could discussions there about how exactly that works out with the planet.

Then also don't forget @Starlance's Pomona being on Wolf 1061c as our main mining and manufacturing colony with most inhabitants having a dwarven existence.

As for ideas for the other colonies, obviously there should be major archeological settlements where there are signs of aliens civilizations, likely with black market activities around them as well as illicit treasure hunters seek to make a fortune from selling what they steal from the sites to wealthy collectors or seek to find remnants of alien tech and weaponry to be reverse-engineered by pirates. Then also there will probably be some rich idiots visiting dig sites just to sight see actual alien ruins, and those guys along with the archeologists will also draw traders who'll come set up shop in order to supply the archeologists and any other travelers with anything they can't otherwise get. Those traders though will likely be heavily restricted though in how they set up as of course, the USF and the archeologists won't want any traces of the aliens accidently erased. But from those traders, especially those that find an oasis of some sort or find someone to develop a reliable way to find water, settlements could rise around them and start to flourish. It could especially be fun to have some of those settlements, especially major cities, be mostly if not completely underground to stay out of the sun's rays or if some settlements have switched to being mostly active at night so that they can rest during the heat.

As for other places, I would propose some of the smaller outer rim ice planets like Pluto or similar moons of gas giants could be used as relay points. With how the USF is spreading out, having a line of communication is key. And if computers are involved in anyway, the ice planets would be good for contrasting the computer's heat. Otherwise, they could just end up being a good place to set up space stations that service ships and refuel them.

Gamma Cephei's Tadmor could have potential to be another good farming planet, one that's more farm focused rather than Swanhilde's sea focused. Given the population sizes we're talking about and all the potential for trouble, having at least three planets that can reliably grow food would be a huge boon for the USF (though they'd certainly want more if they could get them as while there's a lot of metals and other resources out there, there's not a lot of food so far). And since the USF would be working hard to make sure their second major source of food is protected (as Swanhilde is just too far out to really focus resources on), Tadmor would be the 'idyllic but safe' planet where most inhabitants' focus are on growing crops and selling them, but would also be a place where artists would start to flourish as they'd be within enough abundance so that there are people that can focus on art. The binary star system aspect could also add interesting dilemmas to the farming aspect, especially in how it affects the seasons for growing crops. But also be a great muse for the artists looking up at the sky. There could also be possibly be some land dedicated to 'safaris' where wild animals and plants are let loose to act as a secondary preservation of Earth's various organisms in case something should go wrong there.

But if you don't like that idea for Tadmor, it could be adapted for another system or two. I do vote that the USF needs at least one more farming-oriented planet in order to help subsidize those planets that can't grow their own food along with the mining operations on asteroids and the like. And that there should be some planets that can get terraformed enough to where they can at self-reliant in a pinch if everything should collapse tomorrow.

I would also suggest that one if not more of the not quite habitable planets could be made into an experimental testing grounds for weaponry, spaceships, and other such tech for the USF and/or other corporations. This way, such testing wouldn't have any chance of going wrong on an actually populated planet and it could be tightly monitored for secrecy.

There are also definitely pirate hideouts within some of the asteroid belts and using un-colonized worlds that are survivable with a space suit. But of course, they prefer to be able to breath and so Swanhilde and other colonized planets with areas that aren't very inhabited are their preferred hiding spots.

Well, Kore Soteira is.... complicated.

I would say it is semi-habitable right now since it only has around 30 years to develop. But even if it is fully developed, I think it will only be habitable to the local while outsiders will always need to rely on the support system and strictly stay in the base. It's like that because rather than improve the environment like any sane governor, the first settlement leader op to improve the population capacity to endure an environment instead. Which shouldn't work on paper but somehow did (Maybe because life tend to find a way to thrive in an unexpected manner). If you read Evie's skill section, you will see that she has a high tolerance for extreme temperatures and unusual strength for someone tiny. She is like, an unintentional genetic mutation. But after her generation it would definitely stop being unintentional lol. The potential is just too high for the USF to ignore, even if the act of experimenting with human at the edge of the Federation doesn't exactly make a good PR.

But I'm getting ahead of myself here.

Since you want to know about the planet's industry, I think I should start with how computer, specifically, quantum computer works. Basically, they required the temperature close to absolute zero to operate. The 'operate' here is very important. If the switch is not on you can put it in room temperature no problem. As you can probably imagine, maintaining this temperature on earth required an enormous amount of resource and is hard to scale. But if you put the computers in outerspace where the temperature is already absolute zero, then you run into trouble of getting human in for maintenance without freezing them to death. That's why the planet with some-time-cold-some-time-not characteristic is seen as an ideal place for hosting the computer. They can be operated when it is cold and can get the maintenance done when the planet is not so cold. It's also why the entire community would revolve around the USF base where those computers are located.

The entire timeline of this planet is probably like this:

Oh, a new planet! -> Hmm.... we should make a computer base here. -> Oh shit! We run out of the base space -> Just expand outside duh -> Oh no! We don't have resources to maintain Earth's temperature and gravity! -> Just reduce the support then. -> Are you insane? it's freezing outside! -> (Some years latter) -> Hey, don't you think the children born here are a little strange? -> *Biogenetic experts' incoming noise*

(It's way past my bedtime so sorry if some of the words are hard to understand, my brain is not cooperated anymore. :/)

Meanwhile the first people on 1061c:

"Half the place is stupid hot. Half the place is stupid cold. The tiny strip that's at an okay temperature is basically a perpetual hurricane. Hans, let's just build everything we can underground, the soil insulates and we're here to dig anyway... Artificial gravity? Nein, people will adopt over time, it's fine." XD

Xeno-Archeologist [+]

Janice Alastrina 'Alice' Knightley

Gender

Female

Age

27

Appearance

She's a bit of a rough and tumble girl, never completely neat and tidy even when she tries. Her red-gold wavy hair is shoulder length and often let loose, though she'll bring it up into a ponytail when need be with some wispy hairs escaping still to her forehead. Her face is round with green eyes and light freckles over her reddish-white skin, burnt a lot from her time on Tau Ceti. She stands at 5' 9" and is well-toned but stocky. She commonly wears a white shirt with brown khaki pants and sturdy slip-on dark brown jungle moccasins (like Merrel's)

Personality

Alice is what could be described as lightning in a bottle. She's energetic and dynamic, eager to be in the thick of things and absolutely hates to just be sitting around doing nothing or to just be doing purposeless busy work. For the most part, she wants to be doing things that are worthwhile and/or to actually be helping others. When she's curious about something or someone, she'll ask questions and seek to learn more from the source, much to the consternation of anyone who finds her too grating for their nerves. Unfortunately for them and her, she's not the best with typical social graces so she can be very unintentionally blunt in her questions or observations, even when she's trying to be polite and discrete. Her upbringing gave her an appreciation for old-fashioned ways of doing things. While she finds the tech and the wider universe fascinating, she often still prefers to do things by hand and off the computer. And of course, her main interest is the possibility of living aliens and how they might live within the present day.

Role

Xeno-Archeologist

Duties:

• Survey Planets and Asteroids for Potential Alien Ruins and Artifacts
• Study Alien Ruins and Artifacts if Discovered & Record Them and Their Locations
• Assist the Linguistics and Signal Officers if There is a First Contact Scenario
• In a Combat Situation, Assist the Medical Team
• Assist the Geology, Xebotany, & Xenobiology Teams in their Duties Whenever You Have No Further Responsibilities in Your Department

Skills

• Archeological Excavation Training: She's well trained in all the proper ways to handle and excavate historical artifacts and ruins as well as the proper ways to record any discoveries she does find, both primary skills for her discipline. The second aspect is what she is meant to adapt for when helping with other divisions' surveys.
• Tau Ceti Civilization Knowledge: While she did learn about all that is currently known and theorized about the Pluto Alien Ship and the Tau Ceti and Epsilon Indi civilizations, her major focus is the Tau Ceti Civilization as it's what she grew up learning about with her parents and what she choose to focus her own degrees on. Therefore, she can accurately call to mind any knowledge and guesses about the Tau Ceti.
• Wilderness Survival: She's trained in how to take prepare for and to take care of herself and others within various wilderness scenarios. Though of course, her childhood has made it so the desert is the environment she's most familiar with surviving in.
• First-Aid Certification: She's fully certified to help with emergency medical care, figuring that it would help if she's caught with others in an excavation site.
• Fencing: There was a fencing club on offer. She had to take it. She's sometimes even played with adapting using her sword in the fencing style.

Personal Belongings/Equipment

• A Modern Archeological Excavation Kit: Various tools used to carefully locate, extract, and clean artifacts found
• A Leather-Bound Journal with Pen: An old fashioned journal for her to write down any notes and brainstorm her ideas. Carries it, her excavation kit, and her first aid kit around in a brown satchel so that she can keep it on the field.
• A Historical Style European Longsword with Dagger: Mostly just decor for her cabin, but is supposed to be combat-ready. Of course though, there's little chance she would ever actually use it. It was a gift from her parents for getting her degree.
• An Up To Date First Aid Kit: She carries it around for emergencies on the field or if there should ever be a time on ship when someone needs help but she can't get them to the medbay right away.
• A Hard-Bound Photographic Catalogue of Known Alien Artifacts & Current Hypothesis: A book she keeps along for reference more than anything. Sometimes, flipping through a book allows her to find what she's looking for quicker than searching even the fastest computer. At the very least, it's a good book to fall asleep to when none of the fiction she can find in the Arcadian Database catches her eye.

Background

Alice was born within the deserts of Tau Ceti to the famous Alastair & Janet Knightley, the husband and wife team who made a name for themselves by being among the first archeologists to study the ruins on Tau Ceti. Her first memories then were of her loving though busy parents, the hot desert sands, and the crew working on archeological excavations, revealing wonders that no other human eyes had ever seen. Her parents filled her head with tales of the sort of lives the Tau Ceti might have lived along with more classical tales and Earth's own history. While her elder twin, Janus Alastair, soon tired of it all, Alice found it exciting and loved to work right alongside her parents in trying to learn more. She even helped them discover an old cavern after crawling down a hole due to curiosity, gaining her the nickname of 'Alice' and giving her a first taste of what it was like to be the first one to discover something. And she couldn't wait until she discovered more.

It was with quite some consternation that she later learned that in order to be officially recognized, she'd need to leave the only home she'd known, a step she loathed. But with her parents' support and her twin by her side, she took that step and headed for her parents' alma mater to pursue a xeno-archeology degree. Janus quickly started hoping between degrees, making friends and seeking to find something new that wasn't archeology. Alice though kept pursuing her degree, despite the growing distance with her twin, and made some friends through the fencing club and when going through the first aid certification course though they quickly drifted away. She did finally graduate though in record time and planned to join her parents right away. But then the USF announced that crew were wanted for the Arcadian, a ship that would be going out to explore the galaxy. A galaxy that could be the place to find more alien artifacts and ruins. Perhaps even aliens themselves. And so, she quickly signed up and has now found herself the xeno-archeologist of the ship, off to seek out new life and new civilizations where no man had gone before.

Miscellaneous

• Alice sometimes hums tunes as she works or taps out tunes when she's meant to sit still.
• Some of her favorite stories to read are fairy tales, medieval fantasies, and historical sci-fi
• She often bundles up even when things are only 50 degrees cold since she's used to the heat.
• She often has a hard time falling asleep at night, especially as she's used to when she was young and would have her parents and/or brother near her within the tent as she slept.
• She despises coffee and alcohol (really doesn't like the taste) but likes black tea with cream and sugar
• The GM & Co-GM are free to have her twin brother, Janus Alastair Knightley, pop up if they'd like. He's pretty open-ended on where he could end up next, though I do see him as being charismatic.

Accepted

Meanwhile the first people on 1061c:

"Half the place is stupid hot. Half the place is stupid cold. The tiny strip that's at an okay temperature is basically a perpetual hurricane. Hans, let's just build everything we can underground, the soil insulates and we're here to dig anyway... Artificial gravity? Nein, people will adopt over time, it's fine." XD

Something definitely happens during the (21)50s-60s man, I swear the frontier leader are all crazy around those time. (Soteira and Pomona started their colony just around 4 years apart)

So the IC post will come either tonight or sometime tomorrow.

@Cyrania You're right about Pamona and Soteria, that's my bad. I have so much stuff going on in my head for the lore here and IRL, I completely forgot about it. I do like the ideas you have presented there, though.

@Cyrania You're right about Pamona and Soteria, that's my bad. I have so much stuff going on in my head for the lore here and IRL, I completely forgot about it. I do like the ideas you have presented there, though.

We understand. I'm sure a lot of us have a lot of stuff going on.

Glad you like it. :)

The IC is live, and you can post your characters doing what during the jump.

So far... the reactions that I see for the XO are great lol Kind of what I was going for a little bit, even if he does have trouble showing he does care.

It's been great to read everyone's post.

I'll try to post either tomorrow or sometime this weekend, however my schedule ends up working out.

Oh, yeah. This is the clean bots btw. Maybe a bit bigger than the one shown.


They are control by ship AI

(If my house can afford one, the USF sure as hell can =_=)

“Looks like the Major is in for a sim date she doesn’t know about yet.”

What if we kissed under the - SIMULATION TERMINATED - ZERO SURVIVORS

@UFRSivio@Cmmelody@Theyra

Quick note on tech. Im not sure if we have a process for establishing how tech works. The crux of the argument between Kashvi and Hobbs isnt that nitregon is fuel but that it is part of breatheable air. Im assuming that the Arcadian runs on some kind of hydrogen fusion reaction that uses hydrolysis to generate hydregon from water. Oxygen is freely available from that but nitrogen has to be stored seperately and is harder to replace. Nitrogen is fixed in the soil by plant life which is why Kashvi snarkily suggested it did grow on trees.

I assume their are onboard stores of nitrogen as coolant for various things. I probably should have cleared all that with the GM in advance! Im happy to edit as needed.

This has been technobabble corner brought to you by Penny.

Cue the deckhands frantically deflating Ranger tires to offset the loss (aviation tires are filled with dry nitrogen to keep a more uniform pressure across different temperatures and reduce explosion risk).

@UFRSivio@Cmmelody@Theyra

Quick note on tech. Im not sure if we have a process for establishing how tech works. The crux of the argument between Kashvi and Hobbs isnt that nitregon is fuel but that it is part of breatheable air. Im assuming that the Arcadian runs on some kind of hydrogen fusion reaction that uses hydrolysis to generate hydregon from water. Oxygen is freely available from that but nitrogen has to be stored seperately and is harder to replace. Nitrogen is fixed in the soil by plant life which is why Kashvi snarkily suggested it did grow on trees.

I assume their are onboard stores of nitrogen as coolant for various things. I probably should have cleared all that with the GM in advance! Im happy to edit as needed.

This has been technobabble corner brought to you by Penny.

I thought so at first too until I check if it is possible to use Nitrogen as fuel and the answer is well.... yes

Liquid nitrogen engine wiki

It's still in the trial state at the moment but we are talking about future tech here so I include it in the fuel category since it is the same liquid that might be use for multiple purpose. Of course, it up to the GM at the end of the day.

Cue the deckhands frantically deflating Ranger tires to offset the loss (aviation tires are filled with dry nitrogen to keep a more uniform pressure across different temperatures and reduce explosion risk).

Cue chief Hobbs replacing the nitrogen in the Marine barracks with helium seeing one inert gas is as good as another and now all the jarheads squeak when they talk :p

Also @Penny am I right to assume that the way Major Sadek cause the localize monitor malfunction is just by shooting the monitor device really hard, she seems to be exactly that kind of person