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| [DRAFT/RFC] Vesta |
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Posted by: robkelk - 01-03-2010, 10:40 PM - Forum: Fenspace
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I see that Mal has added this tag to the top of the FenWiki page for http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=The_Main_Belt]The Main Belt: Quote:A Word of Mod
At some point the future all, or almost all the named rocks here will have seperate FenWiki pages for themselves. Watch this space for updates.
Okay, here's a contribution for Vesta. Discussion, additions, and pointing out of boneheaded ideas are welcome. (Can I even do this with the image link? I don't want to upload an image to the FenWiki until sometime next year, when we'll have a decent photo of the rock...)
{{planetbox
|name=4 Vesta
|image=[%[link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vesta-HST-Color.jpg]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vesta-HST-Color.jpg]
|orbit=aphelion 384.72 Gm, perihelion 321.82 Gm
|diameter=578×560×458 km
|gravity= 0.022G outside handwaved chambers
|year=1325.15 days
|day=solar: 0.2226 days
|temp=min -188 °C, max -18 °C outside handwaved chambers
|atmosphere=none outside handwaved chambers
|waterice=0% outside handwaved chambers
|population=Unknown
|political=[[Fenspace Convention]
|government=Representative Democracy (Vesta), Meritocracy (Novyi Petrovichi), Direct Democracy (other settlements)
|capital=Novyi Petrovichi
}}
The brightest asteroid in Earth's sky, Vesta has a reputation of being one of Fenspace's "university towns", where knowledge is prized above the usual indicators of success.
== History ==
Vesta was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers on March 29, 1807, and named after the Roman virgin goddess of home and hearth. It was the fourth of the first four asteroids to be discovered.
During the early days of Fen expansion into the Solar System, the [[Browncoats] and [[Heinleinians] argued over who was entitled to [[Ganymede], based on their fandoms' pre-handwave fiction. (The [[Fivers] eventually got the two groups to share.) The Asimov fen saw this, acted quickly to claim Vesta as their own, and built the first post-secondary educational institutions in space there: the '''Vesta Institute of Biochemistry''' and the '''Vesta Institute of Robotics''' teach the two scientific fields most associated with Prof. Asimov.
== Geography ==
The second-most-massive body in [[The Main Belt] (after [[1 Ceres]), Vesta has a 460-kilometer-diameter crater near its south pole, believed to have been created in a collision less than one billion years ago. The floor of the crater is 25 km below the rim; this protection from Solar and Jovian radiation and the ease of locating the feature from space lead early Fen settlers to locate '''Novyi Petrovichi''' (Vesta's first permanent settlement) there.
The [[Belters] funded construction of the '''Vesta Beam''', a massive communications laser at Vesta's North Pole, in the early days of Vesta's settlement. This was one of the main communications relay points in Fenspace before the [[Wizards]' InterWave communications hub at [[476 Hedwig] made long-range lightspeed communications obsolete. It is still used for local communications where a lag of one or two seconds doesn't matter.
In order to keep Vesta's skies as clear as possible (and because the Asimov Fen who founded Novyi Petrovichi respected their favourite author's fear of flying), a monorail was built to connect the Vesta Beam installation and Novyi Petrovichi. Smaller settlements, including '''Little Brooklyn''' on Vesta's equator, have sprung up along the track's course.
NASA launched the ''Dawn'' probe to Vesta on September 27, 2007. Their original plan was to have it map Vesta from August 2011 until May 2012, then proceed to Ceres; however, Fen expansion into the Solar System and [[Soviet Air Force] exploration missions in [[The Main Belt] made that plan redundant. ''Dawn'' is currently in orbit around Vesta, having been retrofit to serve as a communications relay.
== Government ==
Vesta as a whole is a representative democracy. Any group of five hundred residents can choose one of their number to represent them in the Vestan Assembly, but no person may be a member of more than one such group. The Vestan Assembly meets in Novyi Petrovichi and chooses its own Speaker to lead the Assembly.
Novyi Petrovichi is a meritocracy. Administrators are selected by examination; anyone is free to take the examination, and the successful examinees serve for three-year terms. There is no limit to the number of consecutive terms an administrator may serve, as long as he, she, or it continues to pass the examinations.
Little Brooklyn, the Vesta Beam installation, and the other settlements on Vesta are small enough that they can use various flavours of direct democracy for their day-to-day government. Little Brooklyn employs a Chairperson whose job is to liaise with other governments and set the agenda for the town's weekly meetings, while the staff of the Vesta Beam installation decide ''everything'' by referendum.
Vesta and all Vestan settlements have signed the [[Articles of Convention].
== Trivia ==
Well-known [[Senshi] geneticist [[Leda Swansen] graduated at the top of the first class through VIB's genetics program in 2010.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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| Cool, if Impractical |
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Posted by: HoagieOfDoom - 01-03-2010, 01:06 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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Radio Active, a radio that you have to physically rearrange in order to
change stations. It certainly looks neat as a piece of art, and once you have the stations located it seems like it works fine, but man, trying to get those
modules correctly placed is probably a royal pain.
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| UF: Hogtown Rhapsody Audiobook |
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Posted by: HoagieOfDoom - 01-03-2010, 01:00 AM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction
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Does anyone have the audiobook version "Hogtown Rhapsody" from Symphony of the Sword, or an active download link? I've been digging the
Iron Age audiobooks and while I've found multiple mentions of the "Hogtown Rhapsody" one, every link on the EPU forums is a dead end.
I've got a trip coming up so I thought I'd see if anyone around here had a copy. Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers.
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| Salvaged From Our Dearly Departed |
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Posted by: Sofaspud - 01-01-2010, 11:06 PM - Forum: The Legendary
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So, a while back Wiregeek left CoX, and dropped off a bunch of enhancements with me that I've been meaning to offer up for grabs. Real Life has been
interfering, but I finally got a chance to complete the inventory and get it organized.
In order for this to be as fair as I can make it, I'm going to set some restrictions. Here's how I plan for this to work; if you disagree with
something, bring it up here and we'll discuss.
- This post has a list of everything 'in stock', as it were. I will keep this maintained.
- To request an item, make a post in this thread with the name of the character that wants it, the item they want, and their level. Please only request
items if you can use them immediately on the character -- no hoarding for later use, if you please.
- I will update the list to include the names of the interested characters. The first entry starts the clock; after that, I'll hold it open for a week
to allow others to register their interest.
- When the clock runs out, I'll hold a random drawing (Ops' hat and paper slips, I'm thinking) to see which of the interested characters wins
the prize. I'll update this list accordingly.
- You have another week after that to arrange a time to pick it up. I'll be more than generous with extensions on that if they're needed -- Real
Life causes issues, I know. If you don't contact me to pick it up and I can't get it to you, and you haven't arranged for an extension, it goes
back into the lottery -- with the understanding that that character has plain lost out. Most of these are unique, highly-sought-after, and expensive items,
so it's only fair, I think.
- After an item has been claimed by the winner, I strike it from the list. When all items are gone, they're gone.
Side note: only ONE character per player per item, please. No fair stacking the odds in your favor, you devious miscreants, you. (I'll be checking
global handles, see if I don't! *shakes fist*)
Sound fair to everyone?
UPDATE: These are all blueside on Virtue. Thanks, V, for catching that. 
The list (this part will be updated as necessary):
* Impervious Skin: Status Resist (29)
* Aegis: Psi/Status Resistance (40)
* Aegis: Psi/Status Resistance (40)
* Karma: KB Protection (15)
The entries below are closed and awaiting pickup.
* Soulbound Allegiance: Chance for Build Up (50)
Signups opened 1/6/2010, closes 1/13/2010
* Purrfect Trick -- winner
* Positrons Blast: Chance for Energy Damage (50)
Signups opened 1/6/2010, closes 1/13/2010
* Rainier Ice -- winner
* Gaussians Synchronized Fire Control: Chance for Build Up (50)
Signups opened 1/6/2010, closes 1/13/2010
* Purrfect Arrow -- winner
* Swift Sabre
* Gravitational Anchor: Immobilize Duration (50)
Signups opened 1/5/2010, closes 1/12/2010
* Purrfect Mess -- winner; collected
* Purrfect Arrow
* Gravitational Anchor: Immobilize Duration/Recharge/Accuracy (50)
Signups opened 1/5/2010, closes 1/12/2010
* Purrfect Mess
* Purrfect Arrow -- winner
* Gravitational Anchor: Immobilize Duration/Recharge (50)
Signups opened 1/5/2010, closes 1/12/2010
* Purrfect Mess -- winner; collected
* Purrfect Arrow
* Gravitational Anchor: Chance for Hold (50)
Signups opened 1/5/2010, closes 1/12/2010
* Purrfect Mess
* Purrfect Arrow -- winner
* Apocalypse: Damage/Recharge/Accuracy (50)
Signups opened 1/4/2010, closes 1/11/2010
* Silindria -- winner; collected
* Purrfect Detective
* Purrfect Arrow
* Dark Seraphim
* Numina's Convalescence: Regen/Recovery (50)
Signups opened 1/4/2010, closes 1/11/2010
* Silindria
* Rainier Ice
* Panzer Sabre
* Syndesis -- winner; collected
* Steadfast Protection: Resistance/Defense (10)
Signups opened 1/4/2010, closes 1/11/2010
* Kayla Asai
* Impact Sabre -- winner; collected
* Purrfect Detective
* Absolute Amazement: Stun Duration/Endurance Reduction (50)
Signups opened 1/4/2010, closes 1/11/2010
* Emet -- winner
* Absolute Amazement: Stun Duration/Recharge/Accuracy (50)
Signups opened 1/4/2010, closes 1/11/2010
* Emet -- winner
* Ragnarok: Damage (50)
Signups opened 1/1/2010, closes 1/8/2010
* Silicon Sabre
* Silindria -- winner; collected
* Rainier Ice
* Ragnarok: Damage/Recharge (50)
Signups opened 1/1/2010, closes 1/8/2010
* Silicon Sabre
* Silindria
* Rainier Ice -- winner
* Apocalypse: Damage (50)
Signups opened 1/1/2010, closes 1/8/2010
* Silicon Sabre
* Silindria
* Purrfect Detective
* Purrfect Arrow -- winner; collected
* Apocalypse: Recharge/Accuracy (50)
Signups opened 1/1/2010, closes 1/8/2010
* Dark Seraphim
* Silicon Sabre
* Silindria
* Purrfect Detective -- winner; collected
* Purrfect Arrow
* Numina's Convalescence: Regen/Recovery (50)
Signups opened 1/1/2010, closes 1/8/2010
* Edge Sabre -- winner
* Purrfect Arrow
* Luck of the Gambler: +7.5% (36)
Signups opened 1/1/2010, closes 1/8/2010
* Edge Sabre
* Patri-ette -- winner; collected
* Rainier Ice
* Luck of the Gambler: +7.5% (35)
Signups opened 1/1/2010, closes 1/8/2010
* Demolition Sabre -- winner; collected
* Purrfect Detective
* Rainier Ice
* Luck of the Gambler: +7.5% (34)
Signups opened 1/1/2010, closes 1/8/2010
* Demolition Sabre -- winner; collected
* Purrfect Detective
* Purrfect Trick
* Luck of the Gambler: +7.5% (36)
Signups opened 1/1/2010, closes 1/8/2010
* Demolition Sabre
* Mitarashi Miyoko -- winner; collected
* Patri-ette
* Purrfect Trick
* Luck of the Gambler: +7.5% (50)
Signups opened 1/1/2010, closes 1/8/2010
* Emet -- winner; collected
* Silicon Sabre
* Patri-ette
* Riposte Sabre
* Regenerative Tissue: Regen (11)
Signups opened 1/1/2010, closes 1/8/2010
* Edge Sabre
* Silindria
* Impact Sabre -- winner; collected
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
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| LIVE ACTION YAMATO!!! |
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Posted by: Logan Darklighter - 01-01-2010, 06:42 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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Remember this post where I said:
Quote: "Aside from the obvious animation style in the brief character shots of Captain Avatar/Okita and Wildstar/Kodai, I'd say this is proof positive that
an absolutely STRAIGHT live action version of Star Blazers/Uchu Senkan Yamato would be THE BOMB!!! "
That bomb is about to be dropped:
Just a teaser trailer, but even so - WOW.
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