Minor Ganymede expansion / tweaking.

[Shimmer]

Lore Impact (Small/Medium/Large): Small.

Species: Human

Short Description: Brings up Ganymede up to standard with other Solarian worlds such as Novo-Igman and other planets in the SRMs. Most notably, does not give Ganymede it's unique lore-page, seeing as that is currently not allowed. Instead, it simply increases the wordcount from a simple paragraph that doesn't quite set the scene into something people can draw on for characters, including a brief history, and contrast to Ganymede's sister moons, Callisto and Europa.

How will this be reflected on-station?: Allows more freedom and background to people who wish to make characters from Ganymede, thus making the Jovian accent a little more meaningful.

Does this addition do anything not achieved by what already exists?: Given it's an expansion, all it does it flesh out the character of something that exists. It does not achieve anything new.

Do you understand that the project may change over time in ways you may not foresee once it is handed over to the Lore Team? Of course.

Long Description:

 

The expansion / tweaking itself;

 

"Often regarded as Callisto’s twin, the low-burn rivalry between the two Jovian sisters dates back all the way to their respective founders. In contrast to the Commonwealth origins of Callisto, the Federation of Ganymede was colonized by a combined effort of the European Union in competition with their close neighbour. Initially not as flashy as its terraformed twin, Ganymede ultimately used its more inhospitable nature to its advantage.

Ganymede is notable for its extremely dense and efficient architecture compared to barren moons like Luna, eschewing surface domes in favor of large and sprawling towers dotting the surface. Residential towers are a minority in Ganymede, with the Gallilean moon never able to match the population of its neighbour. Instead, the majority of those towers serve as the breadbasket of the Solar system, growing a variety of crops using the moon’s abundant ice oceans. Over the span of 200 years since its initial colonization, Ganymede perfected the use of the towering farmland, optimizing ocean desalination efforts and fielding some of the best agricultural experts in the Spur.

Ganymede’s more mechanically inclined infrastructure isn’t insignificant either. While Callisto serves as the gateway for goods entering Sol, Ganymede is a hub through which the system communicates with the wider Spur. Surface not used for habitation or farmland is occupied by massive communication arrays and information infrastructure, free of cumbersome atmospheric interference.

The lack of an atmosphere likewise made the Jovian moon a perfect candidate for one of the wonders of the Spur; something many of its residents pride themselves on. The truly massive Hubble II telescope facility covers as much as a third of the moon’s surface and is renowned throughout the Orion Spur’s scientific community for its ability to produce high-quality images of extremely distant objects. Hubble II has even managed some commercial success, with Idris Incorporated producing a licensed year calendar using its images of major planets, and even the galactic core, Sagittarius A*.

Unsurprisingly, due to the nature of the moon, Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals has a foothold in its research institutions and widespread farmlands, often employing Ganymedeans outside of the moon itself as astronomers and agricultural researchers. Also of note is the foothold of Einstein Engine, heavily invested in Ganymede's information infrastructure and the maintenance of the moon's massive telescope. Einstein employees on Ganymede are typically engineers and technicians whom specialize in said infrastructure."

 

The intent is to replace the current paragraphs on the Jupiter page (https://wiki.aurorastation.org/index.php?title=Jupiter) with the above.

[JeffMomentRed]

I support this addition!

Feel free to void this next part completely for grounds of "its sci-fi" and "its for flavor" because these are good reasons to do most things in sci-fi settings but in addition to my support for Shimmer's great effort in adding to my favorite Galilean moon I feel I must add this less than critical, unnecessary, and maybe even inaccurate breakdown of just one small piece of this lore application...
 

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Adding a massive telescope facility around a celestial satellite system known most notoriously for its massive parent planet and many moons would be a lot of trouble I think! I am not a professional astronomer, but if I had to pick between building a telescope facility within/beyond the Kuiper Belt or Jupiter, I would pick the former! Our moon IRL already causes tons of light pollution, imagine the amount Jupiter, the Galilean moons, or any of the smaller moons in Jupiter's orbit would cause.

That's all! I hope the lore team ends up implementing Shimmer's good work to our server, more Jovian(wide array Jovian accent) characters aren't a bad thing! : )

[Shimmer]

13 hours ago, JeffMomentRed said:

I support this addition!

Feel free to void this next part completely for grounds of "its sci-fi" and "its for flavor" because these are good reasons to do most things in sci-fi settings but in addition to my support for Shimmer's great effort in adding to my favorite Galilean moon I feel I must add this less than critical, unnecessary, and maybe even inaccurate breakdown of just one small piece of this lore application...
 

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Adding a massive telescope facility around a celestial satellite system known most notoriously for its massive parent planet and many moons would be a lot of trouble I think! I am not a professional astronomer, but if I had to pick between building a telescope facility within/beyond the Kuiper Belt or Jupiter, I would pick the former! Our moon IRL already causes tons of light pollution, imagine the amount Jupiter, the Galilean moons, or any of the smaller moons in Jupiter's orbit would cause.

That's all! I hope the lore team ends up implementing Shimmer's good work to our server, more Jovian(wide array Jovian accent) characters aren't a bad thing! : )

Thank you Jeff! ❤️

 

The telescope is simply an existing piece of lore I wish to maintain given it's a unique feature of Ganymede and offers some background for anyone looking to play a Ganymedean engineer or scientist. A more logical explanation for it's presence there could be a combination of it's distance from the sun, Jupiter occasionally providing shade from any light pollution, and then the lack of an atmosphere to interfere with the telescope.

 

But those are post-hoc justifications, really it's there to keep a cool feature about the moon that shapes its character in a way distinct to Europa and Callisto. It being heavily urbanized would resemble the latter, it being underwater would resemble the former. Any massive dome constructions would resemble Luna; a big fuck-off telescope though? Unique to it and it alone.

[KingOfThePing]

Really good stuff. Like it.