Coalf Posted August 25, 2019 Posted August 25, 2019 (edited) Type (e.g. Planet, Faction, System): Mictlan ColonyDescribe this proposal in a single sentence (12 word maximum): me make gooderHow will this be reflected on-station? It'll affect all characters from that area.Does this faction/etc do anything not achieved by what already exists? It already exists, I'm just fixing it to be more culturally accurate and interesting.Why should this be given to lore developers rather than remain player created lore? Because it already exists, It's just a rework.Do you understand that if this is submitted, you are signing it away to the lore team, and that it's possible that it will change over time in ways that you may not forsee? It's already in it.Long Description:Old Description for Comparison: Spoiler Mictlan has retained majority of its South American heritage with an additional twist of aztecian myth. Mictlan has a very low crime and unemployment but over 30% of its population focuses on Aquatic ventures such as fishing, Aquatic Gardening and Marine Biology. Mictlan heavily invests into recyclation and recyclable technologies as they were actually forced to land on Mictlan due to over consumption of materials and high amount of waste on their colony ships. This means that majority of products made in Mictlan are built to deteriorate with the exception of buildings and vehicles, this assures there is a constant circulation of work, materials and products with long lasting and non-recyclable materials suffering very high tax with plastic being near impossible to obtain, instead being replaced by biofilm "plastic", suistanable plastic like alternative. Due to the low amount of Fauna meat is considered a uncommon delicacy, with fish being cheapest and beef being the most expensive. Mictlan is famous for their export of underwater goods such as coral, fish, fungi resembling wood in structure and metals for which they have little use (Uranium primarily). Mictlan has an extremely strong environmentalism movement with many Mitclains being strong proponants of sustainable living. New Description: Spoiler The original colonists of Mictlan never intended to land on this planet, instead, it served as a crashlanding site for their ships, which ran out of resources two years before they were supposed to due to overindulgence and overuse of materials. Ever since then, the government and people of Mictlan had reframed their lifestyles and rebuilt into a new nation that could be proud not because they come from the original earth, but because they're better than their ancestors. The effort started with large crackdowns on consumption and overuse of non-reusable resources, the blame was mostly placed on the megacorporations, brands, and companies which had come along with the settlers. A general strike led to the nationalization of these companies during the early years of the settlement, during which they also began to build the first infrastructure on this wet rock. Establishing communications with the Sol Alliance came a few years later, and already a local democratic government was formed, along with many industries which invested heavily into aquaculture and recyclable materials, these two industries would come to characterize Mictlan. This coupled with the efforts of the government to establish Mictlan not as a product of Earth but as its own, strong colony, citing the works and ideals of the ancient Simón Bolívar put Mictlan into an unfavorable light with the Sol Alliance, who demanded Mictlan to re-settle to the planet they were originally intended to settle and stop purposefully avoiding the use of Phoron and other new technologies. The government of Mictlan answered with a large shipment of Uranium, which they had little use for, and a general statement that the planet was very rich in coal, fish, uranium, and coral and they'd be happy to establish good trade relations with the Sol Alliance. Content with the output of goods, the Sol Alliance fully recognized the colony of Mictlan and has had nothing but good relations with them ever since. Mictlan culture is a culture of resourcefulness and recyclation. While their crime, pollution and health risk rates are one of the lowest in the whole galaxy, they rank very low in terms of wellbeing, due to the refusal to use technology that requires phoron in a larger scale than required. Coupled with a hefty tax on anyone importing things such as oil, plastic or other non-recyclable goods this has made Mictlan a very undesirable trade partner for most companies. As a result majority of the population works in aquatic industries, mainly fishing and harvesting of the coral reefs or carbonized wood, leaving a very large lower class which face daily danger on their arcologies as they cannot afford to live on the mainland which is relatively flood-free. In spite of this, people on Mictlan wouldn't have it any other way, as the living conditions are slowly improving due to heavy investment and effort to make re-usable technology as useful as non-reusable. The recent invention of bioplastic has marginally improved the living conditions on Mictlan although corporate lobbyists are preventing its spread onto other planets as it requires materials native mostly to Mictlan. Mictlanian citizens are some of the most mindful in regards to resources and the environment and have been a strong case for environmentalists everywhere. They are proud of being a colony and have a real drive to remain self-sustaining. As a result, the colonists of Mictlan can come off as cold to plights of other colonies, usually being unsympathetic when other people claim they "need" something non-reusable for their survival. Lore Addendum: (I was told that I can make it longer, I was still operating within the idea of "It should be short" in the new writeup since that was the requirement on the original application.) Spoiler Culture Mictlanian culture is strongly inspired by its South American roots while considering themselves their own colony, mirroring the relationship between Brazil and Spain in the days of old. Mictlan is thus known for large scale parades and colorful parades despite the pouring rain. Celebrations such as Independance Day or the Day of Founding are almost always completely crowded, the low amount of tourism is welcome by the native population as they severely dislike tourists, do to their usually distruptive behaviour and tendency to litter and disregard the trash laws. The idea of re-using and recycling is not a simple action for Mictlanians, but a way of living. Thus even arts and music find themselves recycled, Mictlanian movies, games, arts and musics tend to be remixes, recycles or rehashes of already pre-existing media from other systems. To the anger of the creators, this is considered perfectly legal on Mictlan and the Sol Alliance does not find it enough of an issue to warrant an intervention. This often means that while a Tau Cetian might hear about the famous franchise "Pigface" a Mictlanian would most likely hear about a certain "Hogface" with strikingly similar characteristics. One of the most famous instances was a popular rewrite of Romeo and Juliet becoming so famous that it replaced the original book in required reading of Mictlanian schools. This has led to a near dead digital and software scene on Mictlan, as developers don't see a point in creating anything since it'll get remixed, remade and recycled anyways. However, not everyone is on-board with this idea and an anti-cultural group calling themselves, Liberdade de Ganância, who propagate that people should be entitled to their trash, litter and products. Oftentimes they'll purposefuly litter or dirty the environment, stating that the goverment is using the recycling excuse as a way to restrict the freedoms of men and women. For a long time they were considered unpopular punks, but they're starting to pick up with the younger generation. As Liberdade de Ganância are strong proponnents of anti-piracy and digital anti-theft laws, many artists and young influencers have come to them for help as they're known for creating a digital protection service, which encodes data, corrupting it if it's downloaded or reposted illegally.Style Fashion has always been a part of humanity and the Mictlanians are no exception. With a strong culture of "re-use and recycle" the average worker is actually going to be wearing a temporary clothing mesh, designed to degrade in a week specifically so it can be dropped in an in-home recyclator, decoposed into basic materials and re-used into clothing once again. Upper echelons of pay is where issues arise, while many agree that material over-use it bad, plenty of Mictlanian celebrities wear clothing imported from other areas of space. Ultimately however, this issue is so minor and hidden under the fame of those celebrities that plenty of people are willing to excuse such behaviour. While the government punishes such offenses with fines, but the kind of people who can buy a dress from Biesel can easily pay off a few hundred credit fine. This created a need for individuality, but no means to provide it in the clothing industry. And so people expressed themselves in two ways, masks, piercings and tattoos.Masks There is a long standing tradition of masks on Mictlan, usually made of wood and in varied expressions. Mictlanians use these masks for important events, happy ones, painted in bright colors for celebrations or black and white ones, with a sad expression for tragedies both in the family or in public. Protestors, rebel groups and pirates native of Mictlan often adopt these masks, usually with angry expressions, to scare and intimidate their oponnents while also hiding their identity while keeping their alignment and intent very clear.Piercings Piercings made of smeltable materials are very popular on Mictlan. However, one won't find nose-rings or classic ear-rings on Mictlan, due to the dangers of Mictlan itself the risk of snagging on something is very real and has resulted in studs in particular being very popular. Piercings are also viewed as something for young people, literally, usually at around the age of 25-30 a person is expected to remove their piercings otherwise they might be viewed as "childish". Thus underage piercing is common and even encouraged. Some disagree with this, however, as they view it unfair to the children and a way for parents to "beddazle" their kids without their permission.Tattoos Tattoos are veiwed as the best way for someone to express themselves. The abundance of aquatic life has lead to tattoo ink solutions based on squid ink become widespread and popular, even endorced as healthy by certain "physicians" and "health gurus". The most popular mottiff is coloring of the whole upper face, right above the nose. It is speculated this originates from an old earthen south american tribe called the Mayoruna. It also bears the same intent, transformation, coloring the upper face in particular is supposed to signify the transformation into a fearsome jaguar. However, other tattoos are also very popular, namely the idea of a "full-body" tattoo, these usually take multiple years and are usually done part by part as the person gets older, each new tattoo denoting some achievement in their life. Phosphorescent tattoos, eye tattoos or even internal organ tattoos are other very popular variants. Edited September 21, 2019 by Coalf
Coalf Posted September 21, 2019 Author Posted September 21, 2019 Bump update, I added even more stuff.
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