Reki
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Work-In-Progress
Additional Information: "Stripes needs to revise this." |
| Official Name: | Teceti |
| Other Names: | N/A |
| Capital Planet: | Twelve Crossings (Mimisi Sidosolla, "Misol") |
| Structure: | Confederal Republic |
| Denonym(s): | Not Specified |
| Founded: | Unknown, at least before -600 FSC |
- Scarred planet
- Very large equatorial desert as a dark reminder of the past
- Home of the most "fuck it we ball" people
"It helps to remember that Teceti isn't 'just' a desert planet. It's a planet full of people, cultures, and lives. When traveling to the equator, you will see all type of people, who despite it all, thrive in this environment and are full of life. They have customs, traditions, and lifestyles, and it's just hard to avoid it all. But as you past the artificial 'wall' of trees, you will finally reach the desert, a vast and lonely place in contrast to the places up north and south. It's like looking at still life. Abandoned cities, trains, vehicles, and houses. You have to imagine if they knew they were creating their own demise, but were until the end, fine with it. It's not hard to imagine why the South, North, and Ring thought only they were the only living survivors of The Collapse."
— Melari, Representative of the TUC
The Reki System, is the system containing Teceti, the capital of the The Unified Teceti Federation. Teceti is also where Kepori originate from.
Notable Locations
Reki
The sun itself is a Class M star. Its a ordinary red star, however it's red light has influenced the life on Teceti to take a seperate direction from other planets.
Teceti
Teceti is a terrestrial planet that is Earth-like in size. Teceti has larger oceans than average, with three large landmasses and various islands dotting the oceans. It is orbited by two small moons, and a planetary ring system. Most of the flora on Teceti tend towards yellow, orange, and red pigmentations due to the blue light emitted by the local star. In the past, the equator was hot and humid, with many living at or near the warmest parts of the planet. However, the equator is marked by large, nearly-uninhabitable desert due to a relatively recent climate disaster that devastated most of the original ecology.
The Ring
The Ring is a massive space station along with other asteroid-based colonies around Teceti's planetary orbit, numbering in the dozens. The Ring is the capital of The Outer-Teceti Colonial Union.
Culture
Kepori typically consider themselves highly social, inquisitive, and adaptable to situations. They are raised communally - children are raised both by families, their friends, and the community around them in large groups groups known as "packs". Due to their upbringing, they typically form the same bonds with crew-mates and coworkers into packs of their own. They protect those they've bonded to fiercely, with strong instincts to work together to achieve their goals - developing a reputation for being reliable and loyal. Cooking is reserved to a communal activity, often involving a neighborhood or multiple packs to the point that cooking at home or for personal consumption is seen as an oddity or a holdover from foreign cultures elsewhere.
The shadow of Teceti's troubled history results in a generation-spanning anxiety of environmental collapse and an aversion to conflict. Environmentalism and Anti-war sentiments are obvious tenets to those interacting with Kepori culture. Kepori culture places very high value on the sciences and professional fields of study - though a counterculture movement involving the expansion of the arts has been well underway, with an expanding field of contemporary art.
Spacers
Due to Kepori primarily living in tightly-knit social groups, spacers are regarded as a source of recent social phenomenon - primarily, those who lack packs for casual social circles, if not acting on their lonesome. Regarded as a new development despite Kepori society at large always having those without families or connections, some regard this trend of spacer Kepori as a worrying sign of changing times.
Cultural Exports
Kepori culture kept a persistent zeitgeist of space and the concept of living away from from their homeworld, and is a common theme in cultural exports that are translated for others to read. Two widely known examples are: Rilena: Lenelasa Me Refi!! - unfortunately often poorly translated into "Pretty Girls Run Faster", an eccentric and ever-expanding mixed media series involving the titular Ri being transported to an alternate reality and grapples with a familiar but alien society; and Rediremesi Site-re - "The Wandering Star", an extensive series of novels involving one of Renkirsi's asteroid-colonies sent out of Teceti's ring system by a freak accident and follows multiple characters as they learn how to survive being a wayward celestial body.
History
Teceti
Teceti is a terrestrial planet that is Earth-like in size. Teceti has larger oceans than average, with three large landmasses and various islands dotting the oceans. It is orbited by two small moons, and a planetary ring system. Most of the flora on Teceti tend towards yellow, orange, and red pigmentations due to the blue light emitted by the local star. In the past, the equator was hot and humid, with many living at or near the warmest parts of the planet. However, the equator is marked by large, nearly-uninhabitable desert due to a relatively recent climate disaster that devastated most of the original ecology.
Pre-Collapse Teceti
Modern Kepori as they are known today are different than the recognized "original" civilization created by Kepori, referred to as "Old Teceti". Old Teceti was marked by their society reaching a point of industrial revolution and mass production, parallel to humanity during the twenty-first century. Though most of the history of Old Teceti is lost to time, they had shown a mastery of basic spaceflight, and constructed an orbital installation within the ring of Teceti's ring system before its collapse.
Old Teceti began to suffer the side effects of mass industrialization through their uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions, eventually leading to a climate crisis that was not addressed before it became untenable. The orbital installation, known as Ren Kirsi or simply "The Ring", was built to house Old Teceti's elite to escape the approaching climate disaster.
The Ring, unfortunately, could not be completed in time.
A Divided Planet
Having survived the collapse of Teceti's climate, Old Teceti's populace split to the far ends of both the north and south hemispheres, developing into two distinct cultures while separated by the equatorial desert. However, the would come to realize later that there was a third group that would not make contact for some time, separated by the vacuum of space.
The North
The northern populace resettled in territory originally known for fertile land. With this, the survivors formed an agrarian society to support themselves. Most inhabited the remains of towns and focused on developing near bodies of water for their farms, with only some population centers. Over time, they developed a socialist society to support themselves. As dozens of groups banding together, they would unite and cooperate under a newly-found national identity. These groups formed the Solasika Tecei Dalasolsi, or the Northern Teceti Coalition, and refer to themselves as Sikalcei.
The South
The southern populace kept closer ties to the old world's advancements and its culture than their siblings to the north, and developed dedicated themselves to the preservation of the technological research that was left behind. Due to their focus, they gathered into groups led by experts of the fields and formed a technocratic society. The south became a collection of sprawling city-states and support networks that link outside to connect themselves and to access the land around them. Much more united by their scientific purpose, they form a singular identity: Tasidado Tecei Rimisado - the Southern Teceti Combine, and they themselves became the Tasidan Kepori.
The Distant
The Ring, cut off from the surface of Teceti after the collapse of the infrastructure beneath them, banded together to ensure their survival miles above their old home. Difficult living conditions and an uncertain future pressed them into a strict meritocracy, formed from the unions and work groups that were left to build their own home. While The Ring was designed to be self sufficient, the collapse left its construction incomplete and unable to support a full population without more work. While various asteroids were mined for materials to finish the installation, these asteroids were hollowed out to create more habitable space for the populace. These original workers, along with their first few fledgling generations after them, expanded into their own society. They became the Ren Kirsi Dokesi-Nilas - the Outer-Teceti Colonial Union, and referred to themselves as Renkirsii.
Teceti Reunited
The three remaining groups of Old Teceti would spend the next few centuries separated and unaware of the other's existence, believing themselves the last Kepori on (and off) Teceti. As time passed, technology from South Teceti and the calming of the initial climate shock allowed both to re-enter central Teceti. There they would find the remains of Old Teceti, and eventually each other. Shocked by the existence of each other, they initially attempted to reunify, only to realize that the isolation has changed both cultures to the point of finding themselves divided once more. Even more of a surprise to both, North Teceti found itself able to re-contact with The Ring, with South Teceti following suit. All three factions were now able to contact each other for the first time in centuries.
The North-South Conflict
Southern Teceti, struck with a crisis of famine, would soon find themselves attempting to peacefully annex the north in the name of unification... and when they were rebuked, to annex them by force. A bloody conflict would see the North and South reunited. Fueled by the success of North Teceti's subjugation, South Teceti attempted an invasion of the colonies above them, only to be dissuaded by weaponized mining equipment and the grave threat of The Ring's ability to lead asteroids to devastate the planet a second time if forced.
Unified by the conflict, the South formed a new government to see to the reunification of Teceti's people. It would be known as the Risolrela Teceti Kadasolsi, the Unified Teceti Federation (known in shorthand as Riso-Teceti). South Teceti retains most autonomy and political power within Riso-Teceti's parliament, while North Teceti has much less political power involved, and meets the arrangement with derision.
True Reunification
With Teceti reunited, Keporikind found themselves unable to rest for long. The Ring's experiments with Bluespace-reactive materials resulted in a moment of first contact between Teceti and Kalixcis, the homeworld of the Sarathi people. Spurred on by the confirmation of sapient, alien life, The Ring shared the news to the rest of Teceti and intended to rejoin their sibling factions. Entered into Riso-Teceti as a mediator and independent colony, their involvement eventually lead towards North Teceti receiving equal rights within the unified government, and all three came to recognize each other as equals once more.
As contact with Kalixcis became frequent, the implications of worlds beyond Teceti root themselves in Kepori society. Fiction about life in the stars and out-of-system space travel became popular, and the concept of colonizing distant worlds become relevant in scientific circles - though the creation of colony ships remained only a controversial subject. Instead, public attention shifted towards a much more interesting prospect: the ability to terraform planets.
All three factions formed the Teceti Sitamireso, or the Teceti Reforming Program (referred to as simply Project Sitami). The joint-effort became a precursor to modern terraforming technology, with Project Sitami’s original focus being the reconstruction of Old Teceti’s climate. Their project began with attempts to repair the damage done to the equator, though this effort proved to be futile. Teceti's old ecosystem was gone, and though they could repair the damage, they would never be able to return to Old Teceti's original image. Instead, Project Sitami was turned to terraforming worlds beyond Teceti to reach to the stars.
Modern Teceti
Kalixcian ambassador vessels were arranged to arrive to Teceti during their multiple later contacts between Kalixcis's many nations, and first physical contact was made on The Ring. Despite the sense of being scorned at the opportunity to have them visit the planet itself by the rest of Teceti, it would be another few decades before Sarathi would arrive to land due to first contact requiring preparation for vastly different biologies and the threat of alien disease.
The arrival of Kalxcian trade goods, and Sarathi themselves establishing an embassy, formed the catalyst for the act of further diplomacy between the still-divided factions. North and South Teceti formally centralized in near-entirety, effectively uniting the two as Riso-Teceti. Renkirsi remained independent, despite the offer of unification and a formal “homecoming” being a tempting offer. In the next few decades, Teceti became aware of another alien society - the Solar Confederation, and more effort is put to joining the interstellar community.
Modern Teceti is known for it's mastery of Terraforming, with Mirosami Siresifami - the Terraformers Union, spearheading the offer of habitable worlds to both Riso-Teceti's expansion, and to other nations and corporations alike. One major client, Nanotrasen, agrees to a century-long commission of dozens of terraformed planets within the Frontier sector, known as The Green Belt. This century of work is considered the magnum opus of the Terraformers Union and Riso-Teceti as a nation. Many worlds are completed and made to host successful colonies within the Frontier. The Inter-Corporate War began during the final years of the Green Belt's final decade, and would see many of the remaining worlds stuck only near-completion... if not outright destroyed from war and industrial waste.
Relations
See: The Unified Teceti Federation.
Playing a character from this location
As a resident of the System, you might...
- See your crew members or other coworkers as another species might view family, and may even find yourself willing to form a pack with them with enough time spent together.
- Worry about the ecological impact of your actions more than others might.
- Be used to hot weather.
Others probably...
- Attempt to find out which of the three original Teceti cultural centers you hail from, and judge your behavior in turn, while also completely forgetting about The Ring
- Think that you are a Workaholic.
- Assume you are either a mechanic or farmer.
