tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437120060500409634.post6370103957242001136..comments2024-03-22T20:03:46.044+04:00Comments on Calypso 1577: GoliathsJehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13508420729659052439noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437120060500409634.post-83086830260320073102018-11-19T09:44:36.627+04:002018-11-19T09:44:36.627+04:00Haloers
also K-Belters, Oort-Miners, Outerists, H...Haloers<br /><br />also K-Belters, Oort-Miners, Outerists, Haloisters, Halos<br /><br />History<br /><br />The Kuiper Belt contains a mixture of millions of icy bodies ranging from dwarf planets such as Pluto, Makemake and Haumea down to bodies less than 20km across. The first mission to this region was the New Horizons probe, passing Pluto and Charon in 46 AT and 2014 MU69 in 50AT. Several more flyby and orbiting missions were followed by the first autonomous lander in 119 AT; this included a rover powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, which operated for nearly ten years. The first manned landing (on Pluto) in 290 AT was followed by sporadic colonisation of several other objects, but most of the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud were still largely untouched by colonisation even at the end of the Interplanetary Age.<br /><br />At this time Mars, the Belt, and the Gas Giants were the high frontier, there was talk of sending a mission to Tau Ceti, and not many individuals wished to spend years in the resource-poor Kuiper and Oort regions, where the sun is nothing but a bright star in the cold sky.<br /><br />But by the start of the Nanotech Age early megacorps such as Oort Mining, High Frontier Developments, and Interplanetary Ice were selling franchises to anyone who wished to mine and develop the outer halo bodies of the Sol System. Encouraged by generous loans, tens of thousands took up the offer. Many small family and clan owned asteroid companies also invested in this new development. Some of those involved went bankrupt, some went mad, some were ill-equipped or incompetent with the machinery. But for many it was a way out of the hopelessness and despair of the overcrowded arcologies and slums of Old Earth.<br /><br />Over the next century or so, waves of prospectors, idealists, eccentrics, loners, and small venture miners settled the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud, in exactly the same way they had settled the asteroid belt, the moon, and Mars in the recent past. And a similar pattern of diverse interwoven cultures and subcultures, clades and sub-clades, developed in that time. If anything the diversity of the Haloists or Haloers, as they came to be known, was even greater than of the Belters, for by now humankind had evolved into more species and races - superiors, space adapts, cyborgs, provolves (mostly Sapientchimps and Enhanced Dolphins), baselines and nearbaselines - and every combination in between, developed the new "wild west" of the cold distant frontier, relishing in the freedom, while the big transport, development, and mining corporations raked in the profits.<br /><br />Source : https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/466748b666cc8Jehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13508420729659052439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437120060500409634.post-43926086645757505992018-11-19T09:42:18.139+04:002018-11-19T09:42:18.139+04:00Hiders
There are many ordinary sophonts who do no...Hiders<br /><br />There are many ordinary sophonts who do not trust the ruling superbrights and hyperturings. Some who have the resources to do so flee outwards to the periphery, seeking to start a new world. Others conceal themselves in great worldships plying the vast distances between the stars, or in small resource-poor systems not connected to the main stargate nexus. Many establish habitats in the icy bodies of the Oort clouds. Some hide out even in the midst of great cities, using high level encryption to ensure they are not monitored. A few even seek to overthrow the established order, but most hiders prefer to keep to themselves, nursing their paranoia in private, developing their own unique cultures, their own trade links, their unique technologies and genemods and cybermods, prospecting for relics and artefacts undiscovered by other civilizations, and networking with other clades and phyles that share their stance. Their numbers cannot be estimated, for there are no censuses in which they will willingly register themselves. Even their quantum encrypted messages are full of disinformation and false leads. Polities of ordinary sophonts, and even the high singularity powers do not know how many there are, or where they are. Or if they do, they're not telling. To be a Hider is to be outside the reach of the civilized galaxy; to be an individual, not a pawn in memetic battles among hyperturings, or a prospective recruit for the megacorps, their subliminals and their madverts. Hiders seek to be free, to be truly free to be themselves and develop their own culture and traditions, their own memetics, their own mods, their own laws and standards and principles and ontologies. And to obsess over conspiracies, and dream for a day where one day the megacorps and the interstellar empires and the hyperturings will no longer enforce their hegemony over mindkind.<br /><br />Source : https://orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45bd1a9eb4a5cJehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13508420729659052439noreply@blogger.com