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Medical Technician

2025-11-02T23:48:43Z

TheSpanish1nquisition:

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|stafftype = MEDICAL
|img = medical_technician.png
|jobtitle = Medical Technician
|difficulty = Hard
|superior = [[Physician|Physicians]] and the [[Chief Medical Officer]]
|branches = [[Expeditionary Corps]], [[Sol Central Government Fleet]], Civilian
|ecranks = Explorer (E-3), Senior Explorer (E-5)
|fleetranks = Crewman (E-3), Petty Officer Third Class (E-4), Petty Officer Second Class (E-5), Petty Officer First Class(E-6)
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|civranks = Contractor
|traineeranks = <br>'''- EC:''' Explorer (E-3)<br>'''- Fleet:''' Crewman Apprentice (E-2)
|alttitles = Corpsman, Paramedic
|duties = Fetch patients and bring them to Medbay. Run errands for the Physicians. Get yelled at for not bandaging wounds.
|guides = [[Guide to Medicine]], [[Guide to Chemistry]]
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The '''Medical Technician''' is the primary medical first responder aboard the [[SEV Torch]]. Next to the [[Physician]], they are the most vital part of the medical machine. While the Physician handles most of the intensive cases, Medical Technicians are tasked with the retrieval and stabilization of said patients. When a member of the crew is critically wounded and can't reach the Infirmary, it's the Medical Technician's job to go and retrieve them. When there's a state of emergency onboard the ship, it's the Medical Technician's job to watch the sensors and make sure that no one's gotten hurt. When the medbay is clogged with patients and the Physician is locked up in the operating theater, it's the Medical Technician's job to make sure no one dies in the interim. When the Physician needs an extra pair of hands to keep a patient stable, it's the Medical Technician's job to provide. You may not hold a scalpel, or even a medical degree, but without you, Medical doesn't function. So put on your first responder jacket and load up your medical belt: it's time to save some lives.

Medical Technicians answer directly to both Physicians and the [[Chief Medical Officer]]. You take orders from both, but the Chief Medical Officer is your ultimate boss, and their orders take priority.

Medical Technicians, as first responders, '''<u>do not have the training required to perform invasive medical actions such as surgery</u>'''. To operate on a patient would subject a medical technician to [[Sol Central Government Law|legal consequences]], and ordering one to attempt surgery would be illegal.

The '''Trainee Medical Technician''' is a training role designed for players to learn the mechanics and responsibilities of the Medical Technician. Trainee Medical Technicians have the same duties as Medical Technicians, but are understood to be new to the role and are there primarily to learn OOC-ly. The Trainee Medical Technician follows the chain of command as normal, but is also subordinate to all other Medical Technicians aboard the ship. Don't be afraid to ask other Medical personnel for help!

== Starting Out ==
A Medical Technician is the liaison between an injured crewman and proper treatment at the Torch's infirmary. Your job consists of keeping an eye on the sensors, assessing injuries, bringing someone back to the medical bay, and keeping critical patients alive between injury and surgery.

Before you start, there are several things to take note of:

# '''Speed is key.''' While true efficiency will come with time and practice, a few seconds can often make the difference between life and death. It's highly recommended you become at least mildly familiar with the ship and its maintenance shafts before taking on a first responder role, so you aren't running around looking for wherever 'Requisitions' is. (Deck two, by the way.)
# '''Stay alert.''' Watch the sensors. Listen to comms in case someone shouts for medical. Keep an eye out for any tell-tale trails of blood or prone body in an open space.
# '''You are your number one priority.''' Yes, it's your job to save lives, but you can't very well do that when you're in critical condition after a Mercenary has shot you in the lungs. Don't put yourself into danger trying to save a patient, and use caution where you can. Don't have your fellow Medical Technicians dragging you to the infirmary.

== Your gear ==

=== The Very Basics ===

* '''EMT Belt:''' A six-slot belt, useful for holding assorted medications, sterile gloves, bandages, or whatever you can think of.
* '''White webbing:''' A vest you can attach to your clothing for extra storage.
* '''MT chest rig:''' A two-slot storage item that fits on your outer clothing slot.
* '''Health Analyzer:''' Hold this and click on someone for an instant readout of their medical status.
* '''Advanced Trauma Kit/Gauze:''' Used to bandage wounds and stop external bleeding. While they serve the same purpose, Advanced Trauma Kits promote faster healing. Using an Advanced Trauma Kit is much more preferred to using gauze.
* '''Advanced Burn Kit/Ointment:''' Used to treat burns and prevent infections. Much like their brute damage counterpart, Advanced Burn Kits are superior to ointment because they heal injuries quicker and disinfect better.
* '''Syringe:''' For injecting medication. To change the transfer rate, right-click or alt-click on a syringe. To change if it's drawing or injecting, click on DRAW or INJECT.
* '''Roller bed:''' For transporting patients. Click on the roller bed while it's in your hand to deploy it; to fold it up again, click and drag the deployed roller bed to you. To buckle someone to the bed, click and drag their sprite on to the roller bed.
* '''Auto-compressor:''' Essentially an automated CPR machine. To put it on a patient, remove the patient's backpack first. It is worth noting that '''auto-compressors do not resuscitate a flatlined patient''', and are only for keeping the heart going when blood isn't flowing properly. An auto-compressor can damage the rib cage fitted improperly (i.e. with low enough [[Skills|Medicine Skill]]).
* '''IV bag:''' A 120u bag of blood or [[Guide to Chemistry#NanoBlood|NanoBlood]], used to give blood transfusions. Click and drag the IV bag's sprite to a patient to connect it. IV bags can also be connected to roller beds and IV poles, for easier transfusions: click and drag the sprite of the IV bag on the roller bed or IV pole to the patient to connect it, and click again to disconnect. The transfer rate on IV bags can be changed by right-clicking the IV bag.
* '''Rescue bag:''' This is for transporting patients who are in hostile environments, such as space or a fire. Click on the folded bag to deploy it, and click on it while deployed to open it. You can also inject medicine through the bag via syringe.
* '''Streamlined medical voidsuit:''' For when an area is depressurized, somebody got spaced, or the hangar is full of toxic gasses. Found in EVA Storage. See [[Guide to EVA and Internals]] for use.

=== For Making Your Job Easier ===

* '''Pry bar:''' For opening de-powered doors or emergency shutters.
* '''Shortwave radio:''' For coordinating with other crewmembers and other medical staff when Telecommunications goes down.
* '''Flashlight:''' For traversing maintenance shafts or the ship during a power outage.

=== Upgrades ===
Items that can be requested from Research & Development, and are highly useful in their own right.

* '''Stasis bag:''' An even more effective version of the rescue bag, this places a patient into stasis, keeping them alive and relatively stable for longer. You can still inject medicine through it.
* '''Hypospray:''' The Chief Medical Officer gets one of these by default; it instantly delivers 30u of medicine (or other chemicals) in a vial that can be switched out like magazines, like a more effective autoinjector.

=== Medicines To Keep ===

* '''[[Guide to Chemistry#Inaprovaline|Inaprovaline]]:''' A general stabilizer; brings heart rate to an equilibrium, slows bleeding, provides limited blood oxygenation, and heals minor brain damage.
* '''[[Guide to Chemistry#Dylovene|Dylovene]]:''' An anti-toxin that counteracts poisons and minor radiation damage, and heals minor liver damage.
* '''[[Guide to Chemistry#Bicaridine|Bicaridine]]:''' Heals brute damage. Do not inject during surgery.
* '''[[Guide to Chemistry#Dexalin|Dexalin]]/[[Guide to Chemistry#Dexalin Plus|Dexalin Plus]]:''' Supplies brain with oxygen even after lungs have failed. Dexalin Plus is usually preferred.
* '''[[Guide to Chemistry#Kelotane|Kelotane]]/[[Guide to Chemistry#Dermaline|Dermaline]]:''' Usually mixed together in a 1:1 ratio called KeloDerm. Treats burns and prevents infections.
* '''[[Guide to Chemistry#Tramadol|Tramadol]]:''' A painkiller, injected when the patient is in shock from pain.

== How To Save A Life ==
For an in-depth guide to Baystation's medical system, see [[Guide to Medicine]].

=== Step One: Heeding The Call ===
Your call to action can be found in a number of ways; a victim might shout "MEDICAL TO [LOCATION]" over comms, you or a Physician might note somebody with abnormal sensor readings, or you're scavenging maintenance for action figures and come across somebody silently bleeding to death. Either way, it's time to make your way to their location, and...

=== Step Two: Triage ===
Scan your patient with your health analyzer. Rarely, you can treat them on-site. Most of the time, you'll have to stabilize them for the trek back to the infirmary.

Patients that you should prioritize may have:

* '''Weak, extremely weak, or fading brain activity:''' Your patient's brain is dying!
* '''Cardiac Arrest/Asystole:''' Your patient's heart has stopped.
* '''Major systemic organ failure:''' Multiple organs of your patient's are failing. Generally abbreviated as MSOF.
* '''Arterial bleeding:''' Your patient is bleeding at an exponential rate.

=== Step Three: Stabilizing And Transport ===
Oh no, your patient has one or more of the above critical conditions, or the health analyzer says they're going into shock! Stay calm; panicking will only make the situation worse. Follow these simple steps:

# '''Perform CPR or apply an auto-compressor if your patient's heart has stopped.''' This will keep their blood pumping even while their heart is stopped. You should repeat CPR every 10-15 seconds (variable depending on Medicine Skill and the server's tic rate) to prevent harm to your patient; an auto-compressor will do this for you automatically, letting you focus on other medical treatments.
# '''Inject the appropriate medicines.''' From highest to lowest priority:
## If your patient is taking brain damage, is going into shock, or is internally or externally bleeding, inject Inaprovaline.
## If your patient is poisoned – either by unknown substances in their system, or by radiation – inject Dylovene. Serious cases of poisoning are often (but not always) indicated by Major Systematic Organ Failure (MSOF) on the Health Analyzer.
##* If both of the above are true, you should inject one of Inaprovaline or Dylovene, but not both – mixing Inaprovaline and Dylovene will make Tricordrazine, which heals brute and burn damage slowly. Tricordrazine isn't harmful, but is much less helpful than either Inaprovaline or Dylovene alone ''and'' it prevents surgery.
##* In most cases Inaprovaline should take priority over Dylovene, poisons tend to kill much slower than shock, bleeding, and brain damage.
## If your patient has low blood oxygenation or obvious lung damage (i.e. is gasping), inject Dexalin or Dexalin Plus.
## If the readout says your patient is still going into shock or is in pain, inject Tramadol.
# '''Bandage any bleeding the patient has.''' You can generally assess where a bleeding wound (as well as any foreign bodies) by looking at someone. Shift-click to examine the patient and figure out where to target with your bandages. If the patient is very low on blood, consider hooking them up to an IV bag while you transport them.
# '''Bring your patient to the Medical Bay.''' Buckle your patient to a roller bed or zip them into a rescue/stasis bag to transport them. '''DO NOT DRAG YOUR PATIENT!''' This will only make their wounds worse. If you must, use grab intent on them to move them without worsening their condition.

Remember; so long as the patient's brain is not dead, there's hope.

=== Step Four: Supporting Your Physician ===
So you brought your patient to the infirmary without them dying. Good job! Give them to a physician and describe the patient's condition. The physician will generally do a more in-depth scan with the Body Scanner to determine what needs to be done. If the physician brings the patient into one of the operating theaters, it's your job to push the body scan to the displays in the surgery room so the doctor isn't flying blind. You can do this by pressing the 'Push Scan To Displays' button on the Body Scanner pop-up.

In case your Physician asks you to help stabilize a patient during surgery, you will need to have your medications and possibly a defibrillator ready, in case of flatline or low blood oxygenation. Remember not to inject any medicines that heal brute damage during surgery – this will heal an incision.
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TheSpanish1nquisition:

File:Penglai.png

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TheSpanish1nquisition: TheSpanish1nquisition reverted File:Penglai.png to an old version

Colonies of the Gilgamesh Colonial Confederation

2024-06-28T22:20:53Z

TheSpanish1nquisition:

Voting members of the [[Gilgamesh Colonial Confederation]] outside of the Founders.

== First Expansion ==

=== Kopeychik ===
An unclaimed system before its annexation. The sole occupants – a fuel refining company harvesting the neighbouring systems’ gas giants for hydrogen – welcomed the annexation. '''Canberra Fuel Refining''' has gone on to be one of the largest fuel producers in human space, with a monopoly inside the Confederation, they are kept in check by the Confederation Directory to prevent any exploitation of their monopoly status.
[[File:Putkari.png|thumb]]

=== Baroda ===

===== Putkari =====
Settled in the wake of the Terran Commonwealth’s exploration boom, Putkari is a frigid planet on the then-edge of human space. Putkari was initially envisioned as an ambitious terraforming project, born of meticulous planning and the scientific zeal of the era – only to be cut off from its supplies and funding with the collapse of the Commonwealth and abandoned to die on their doomed, freezing colony with the rise of the SCG. After the GCC’s founding, Putkari was among the first planets to apply for membership.

Today, concentrated effort has brought global temperatures to a survivable (though cold) range. Settlements on Putkari usually consist of a planned, grid-like centre – some still maintaining the atmospheric controls and life support systems of the early colony days – surrounded by urban sprawl. Most Putkari citizens can trace their origins to the settlers and scientists of the original colonization mission, largely staffed by personnel from Mumbai and other recently-flooded regions of old Earth’s India. An extremely introverted and isolationist planet, Putkarians haven’t forgotten being left to die by the SCG, with SCG citizens banned from the planet, and the Putkarian representatives often a vocal minority advocating for cessation of diplomacy with Sol.

=== Kvasvezda ===
Neighbouring Kopeychik, Kvasvezda was chosen as the new location for the ICCGN’s training base. It's only other notable occupant is a large Fuel Dump operated in tandem by the Ordinance Corps and Canberra Fuel Refining

== Second Expansion ==
[[File:Altair.png|thumb]]

=== Altair ===

==== Qabil ====
Once named FOO, the industrious populous of old Qabil were involved in heavy resource extraction outside their own weak atmosphere - in particular on the body’s moon, BAR. The poorly regulated companies of Karvan’s free economic zone created numerous disasters, but the greatest was the breaking of BAR.

In response to a catastrophic debris bombardment, dramatically stricter political elements took control in the aftermath of their near-apocalypse, establishing heavy regulation and state involvement in their new regime. Soon after, the confederation approached Altair over integration. Despite misgivings, the sheer material worth of Altair’s bounty drove their political classes toward integration – Altairans are among the materially-richest in the Confederation besides the core colonies themselves.

Not overly concerned with the rest of the Confederation, many Altairans take up posts as public workers – in health and emergency roles – for their time in service to the Gilgamesh state. Although the moon Habil has been shattered, creating dangerous orbital debris, access to deep internal veins and structures rich in minerals have left mining operations able to – with some danger from massive floating hazards and high-velocity debris – access the insides of an entire orbital body like a sliced geode; a terribly lucrative proposition, given the right mining sites.

[[File:Penglai.png|thumb]]

=== Penglai ===

==== Penglai ====
Penglai is a small world with a marginal atmosphere, breathable by its inhabitants (or anyone reasonably altitude trained). It's pretty barren and was an early colonization candidate for a Chinese mission to escape the fall of earth.

Its main economic contribution to the confederation is in rare earth elements, of which it has a great deal. It was happy to become part of the state because after the commonwealth pulled back, they were left without a reliable source of foodstuffs.

The people of Penglai are hardy, relatively few, and very traditionalist. Where possible, they inject Chinese culture into formal interactions with the confederation; the system commander often has to interact with their subordinates over tea.
[[File:Providence.png|thumb]]

=== Providence ===

==== Atlanticus ====
Settled in the years after the Ares Conflict by private ventures, Providence II quickly developed a booming space station industry, resulting in the construction of three large space station complexes through the system.

==== New Victoria ====
Located on the fringes of the system, New Victoria is a large mining and production complex. With a large number of asteroids within the system, New Victoria is the wealthiest per capita area within the system, with miners and metallurgy workers flocking from across the Confederation to work in the lucrative trade.

==== New Washington ====
Located above Providence VII, this station was initially built to exploit the geothermal energy from the planet below; New Washington soon developed a thriving tourism industry. Offering relatively cheap shuttle flights around the planet below, one can experience undescribable geothermal activity firsthand.

==== Nuevo Mexico ====
High above Providence I, this station is one of the leaders of research in the Confederation; recent years have brought extreme prosperity, with research projects alongside the ICCGN funnelling unlimited amounts of funding into the station, permitting research to go on for some time.

== Third Expansion ==
[[File:Valy (2).png|thumb]]

=== Valy ===

==== Valy ====
Valy is the black sheep of the confederation, having not willingly joined the GCC, the civil war that was stopped when the GCC entered the system has always been alleged to have been orchestrated by the ICCGN as a pretext to annex the system; however the ongoing resistance movement initially funded by Sol and now the Alliance is very much real.

=== Galilei ===
Gaia’s position within the Confederation is unique, having split the Planet with the SCG and declared the system as a DMZ as a whole, only token ICCGN assets are held within the system. The ICCGN established the Office for the Security of Northern Gaia to administer their new asset. The first head of the Office, Vice Admiral Arthur Lee, quickly moved to establish a civilian government to run the planet, relegating the Office's role to defence and diplomacy, with the only interaction with the civilian government being the Governor General’s approval of legislation.

Northern Gaia today is run by the Protectorate Parliament in New Madrid, with the Prime Minister acting as head of government.

See: [[Gaia]]

== Other Members ==
The Confederation offers various other affiliations to small colonies, outposts and stations that result in some component of the governance, most commonly law and order has been contracted out to the Confederation’s Navy. There can be any level of involvement from the Navy simply deploying a small number of personnel to guard strategic points or Naval vessels patrolling systems all the way to the entire legal system of a colony being ran by a Naval Judge and Colonial Guard Commander.

These members '''<u>do not possess any voting rights</u>''', and are often not even significant enough to be listed on any maps, however many pirates have figured out the hard way when they find themselves at the receiving end of a Naval Strike Team that it is a very bad idea to try and ignore Gilgamesh’s presence wherever it is.
----{{Navbox Lore}}

Colonies of the Gilgamesh Colonial Confederation

2024-06-28T22:20:25Z

TheSpanish1nquisition:

Voting members of the [[Gilgamesh Colonial Confederation]] outside of the Founders.

== First Expansion ==

=== Kopeychik ===
An unclaimed system before its annexation. The sole occupants – a fuel refining company harvesting the neighbouring systems’ gas giants for hydrogen – welcomed the annexation. '''Canberra Fuel Refining''' has gone on to be one of the largest fuel producers in human space, with a monopoly inside the Confederation, they are kept in check by the Confederation Directory to prevent any exploitation of their monopoly status.
[[File:Putkari.png|thumb]]

=== Baroda ===

===== Putkari =====
Settled in the wake of the Terran Commonwealth’s exploration boom, Putkari is a frigid planet on the then-edge of human space. Putkari was initially envisioned as an ambitious terraforming project, born of meticulous planning and the scientific zeal of the era – only to be cut off from its supplies and funding with the collapse of the Commonwealth and abandoned to die on their doomed, freezing colony with the rise of the SCG. After the GCC’s founding, Putkari was among the first planets to apply for membership.

Today, concentrated effort has brought global temperatures to a survivable (though cold) range. Settlements on Putkari usually consist of a planned, grid-like centre – some still maintaining the atmospheric controls and life support systems of the early colony days – surrounded by urban sprawl. Most Putkari citizens can trace their origins to the settlers and scientists of the original colonization mission, largely staffed by personnel from Mumbai and other recently-flooded regions of old Earth’s India. An extremely introverted and isolationist planet, Putkarians haven’t forgotten being left to die by the SCG, with SCG citizens banned from the planet, and the Putkarian representatives often a vocal minority advocating for cessation of diplomacy with Sol.

=== Kvasvezda ===
Neighbouring Kopeychik, Kvasvezda was chosen as the new location for the ICCGN’s training base. It's only other notable occupant is a large Fuel Dump operated in tandem by the Ordinance Corps and Canberra Fuel Refining

== Second Expansion ==
[[File:Altair.png|thumb]]

=== Altair ===

==== Qabil ====
Once named FOO, the industrious populous of old Qabil were involved in heavy resource extraction outside their own weak atmosphere - in particular on the body’s moon, BAR. The poorly regulated companies of Karvan’s free economic zone created numerous disasters, but the greatest was the breaking of BAR.

In response to a catastrophic debris bombardment, dramatically stricter political elements took control in the aftermath of their near-apocalypse, establishing heavy regulation and state involvement in their new regime. Soon after, the confederation approached Altair over integration. Despite misgivings, the sheer material worth of Altair’s bounty drove their political classes toward integration – Altairans are among the materially-richest in the Confederation besides the core colonies themselves.

Not overly concerned with the rest of the Confederation, many Altairans take up posts as public workers – in health and emergency roles – for their time in service to the Gilgamesh state. Although the moon Habil has been shattered, creating dangerous orbital debris, access to deep internal veins and structures rich in minerals have left mining operations able to – with some danger from massive floating hazards and high-velocity debris – access the insides of an entire orbital body like a sliced geode; a terribly lucrative proposition, given the right mining sites.

=== Penglai ===

==== Penglai ====
Penglai is a small world with a marginal atmosphere, breathable by its inhabitants (or anyone reasonably altitude trained). It's pretty barren and was an early colonization candidate for a Chinese mission to escape the fall of earth.

Its main economic contribution to the confederation is in rare earth elements, of which it has a great deal. It was happy to become part of the state because after the commonwealth pulled back, they were left without a reliable source of foodstuffs.

The people of Penglai are hardy, relatively few, and very traditionalist. Where possible, they inject Chinese culture into formal interactions with the confederation; the system commander often has to interact with their subordinates over tea.
[[File:Providence.png|thumb]]

=== Providence ===

==== Atlanticus ====
Settled in the years after the Ares Conflict by private ventures, Providence II quickly developed a booming space station industry, resulting in the construction of three large space station complexes through the system.

==== New Victoria ====
Located on the fringes of the system, New Victoria is a large mining and production complex. With a large number of asteroids within the system, New Victoria is the wealthiest per capita area within the system, with miners and metallurgy workers flocking from across the Confederation to work in the lucrative trade.

==== New Washington ====
Located above Providence VII, this station was initially built to exploit the geothermal energy from the planet below; New Washington soon developed a thriving tourism industry. Offering relatively cheap shuttle flights around the planet below, one can experience undescribable geothermal activity firsthand.

==== Nuevo Mexico ====
High above Providence I, this station is one of the leaders of research in the Confederation; recent years have brought extreme prosperity, with research projects alongside the ICCGN funnelling unlimited amounts of funding into the station, permitting research to go on for some time.

== Third Expansion ==
[[File:Valy (2).png|thumb]]

=== Valy ===

==== Valy ====
Valy is the black sheep of the confederation, having not willingly joined the GCC, the civil war that was stopped when the GCC entered the system has always been alleged to have been orchestrated by the ICCGN as a pretext to annex the system; however the ongoing resistance movement initially funded by Sol and now the Alliance is very much real.

=== Galilei ===
Gaia’s position within the Confederation is unique, having split the Planet with the SCG and declared the system as a DMZ as a whole, only token ICCGN assets are held within the system. The ICCGN established the Office for the Security of Northern Gaia to administer their new asset. The first head of the Office, Vice Admiral Arthur Lee, quickly moved to establish a civilian government to run the planet, relegating the Office's role to defence and diplomacy, with the only interaction with the civilian government being the Governor General’s approval of legislation.

Northern Gaia today is run by the Protectorate Parliament in New Madrid, with the Prime Minister acting as head of government.

See: [[Gaia]]

== Other Members ==
The Confederation offers various other affiliations to small colonies, outposts and stations that result in some component of the governance, most commonly law and order has been contracted out to the Confederation’s Navy. There can be any level of involvement from the Navy simply deploying a small number of personnel to guard strategic points or Naval vessels patrolling systems all the way to the entire legal system of a colony being ran by a Naval Judge and Colonial Guard Commander.

These members '''<u>do not possess any voting rights</u>''', and are often not even significant enough to be listed on any maps, however many pirates have figured out the hard way when they find themselves at the receiving end of a Naval Strike Team that it is a very bad idea to try and ignore Gilgamesh’s presence wherever it is.
----{{Navbox Lore}}

Colonies of the Gilgamesh Colonial Confederation

2024-06-28T22:19:51Z

2024-06-20T18:21:56Z

TheSpanish1nquisition:

[[File:Zemlya.png|thumb]]
Zemlya, formally Novaya Zemlya, is a cold, barren dwarf planet in the Gilgamesh system. It has been extensively colonised and is a major industrial hub within the [[Gilgamesh Colonial Confederation|GCC]]. Lacking an atmosphere, the planet’s inhabitants are housed either underground, within one of the many industrial structures protruding from the barren landscape, or in the domed capital city of Donorovka.

== History ==

=== Pre-Confederation ===
Colonised by Terra prior to Gilgamesh’s reintegration into the Terran Commonwealth, Zemlya was colonised due to its large quantities of easily-accessible metals. Rather than exporting raw ore to be refined on Terra, early colonists established industrial facilities on the dwarf planet itself. These nascent corporations quickly expanded into manufacturing and shipbuilding, with it being cheaper for finished products to be assembled on Zemlya before being shuttled off planet – in the early days, more often than not, on vessels also newly-manufactured on Zemlya.

=== Ares Conflict & Founding Confederation Member ===
By the time the Ares Conflict began, Zemlya had been transformed from a barren rock to the industrial lynchpin that allowed Gilgamesh to remain on the sidelines of the conflict. It was in the shipyards of Zemlya that the first vessels of the Gilgamesh Self-Defence Flotilla were manufactured. The founding of the Gilgamesh Colonial Confederation played a pivotal role in Zemlya’s history, transforming the planet from one of many industrial outposts in human-controlled space to the industrial backbone of the new Confederation– triggering with it a flood of money, material, and people.

=== Today ===
Zemlya today is somewhat of a shadow of its former self. While the Conflict increased demand on Zemlya for all types of goods, the waves of conscription that rocked the Confederation forced many factories to consolidate, closing larger facilities to operate smaller ones at peak capacity. While the planet has recovered from the rut of the late 90s, it has been observed by many both onZemlya and elsewhere in the Confederation that the planet relies heavily on immigrants and temporary workers from elsewhere in the Confederation.

== Culture ==
Zemlya’s demographics are often referred to as the ‘control’ by Confederation Census workers. Due to the planet’s high draw of industrial workers, the planet’s demographics are almost identical to the Confederation’s as a whole, with two in three naming Pan-Slavic as their primary daily language and the other one third declaring Zurich Common as their primary daily language, compared to declared primary personal languages, with all major human languages holding roughly similar percentages.

Zemlya has also slowly developed strong union membership, with about seventy percent of respondents declaring their membership in a union in the 2310 Census.

Zemlya, specifically it’s capital city Donorovka is home to several of the Confederations largest corporations, with Novaya Zemlya Shipyards, Donorovka Metallurgy, and Novaya Zemlya Arms having their headquarters within the city’s dome.

== Geography ==
Zemlya lacks any atmosphere, with the planet looking like nothing more than a barren rock should you not know where to look.

Zemlya’s surface is nothing special, appearing just like the countless other barren grey planets in space, though the many sprawling industrial complexes across the planet’s surface gives away the locations of many of the planet’s settlements in underground complexes. The notable exception is the Capital of Donorovka, housed underneath a massive airtight dome, forming the only ‘open air’ settlement on the planet.

== Economy ==
Zemlya’s workforce is overwhelmingly engaged in industrial activities, with only ten percent of workers employed in service industries - This has the effect that Zemlya and Terra are in a symbiotic relationship, with Terra reliant on Zemlya’s industrial goods, and Zemlya reliant on Terran agriculture to feed its population.

Zemlya is undeniably the most important industrial area in the Confederation, with Zemlyan shipyards integral to the Confederate Navy, and Zemlyan factories producing much of the Confederations industrial goods.

== Unions ==
Zemlya’s labour industry has developed and changed drastically as the years have passed. Unions were unheard of on the planet until 2271 when the Planet’s first Official (legal) Union, the Zemlya Shipbreaker’s Union was formed following a string of high-profile workplace incidents. The Union’s founding did not go without its share of ‘controversy’, with several of the planet’s megacorporations putting up extremely heavy resistance to Unions forming in their sectors, this included the hiring of strikebreakers, intimidation, and importing entire workforces to replace unionized workers. This extremely public game of cat and mouse between the fledgeling Unions and the corporations received little public attention until 2293 when it suddenly blew up in the government’s face.

=== The Donorovka Incident ===
The Donorovka Incident, or as it is commonly called on Zemlya, ‘The Final Straw’, was the incident and following coverup of a casualty incident at Donorovka Metallurgy on the night of September 21st, 2293.

The Incident began when a sleep deprived replacement worker fell from a railingless catwalk, dying when they landed in a pile of molten slag. The subsequent coverup of the incident by the company was shattered when an armed group of metallurgists who were present during the incident forced their way into the Zemlyan Senate with security footage from the mill. Although the metallurgists were arrested for their acts, the security tapes were kept in the public eye by the trials.

The Confederation Directory acted quickly, with the Conflict now in full swing they pushed through sweeping workplace safety regulations that silenced much, but not all, of the anger coming from Zemlya, kicking the proverbial can down the road far enough to see the conflict through.

Following the Conflict, many drafted industrial workers returned to Zemlya to find that they were quickly replaced and forgotten, this anger along with the sense of camaraderie that all found in the Navy fused with the lingering anger from the Donorovka Incident to push Union membership on Zemlya past 50% for the first time in 2299.

This milestone was met with an announcement that Novaya Zemlya Shipyards and Novaya Zemlya Arms would allow their entire workforce to vote on if they wished to unionize; the resulting vote for Unionization pushed the total Union membership on Zemlya to 67%, where it has remained close to to this day.

== Politics ==
Zemlyan politics were dominated for much of its history by industrialists and corporate interests, with Corporate backed candidates holding the majority of seats in the Zemlyan Senate for that time. Zemlyan politics began to change at about the same time that the Planet’s unions began to form, with vast public interest in Workers safety and rights at the time, non-Corporate candidates began winning elections against their corporation backed foes.

This trend was similarly affected by the Donorovka Incident, with the wave of anger diluting the Corporate hold on the Senate enough that a non-corporate majority was achieved for the first time following elections in 2295. The ‘95 government quickly passed legislation outlawing the hiring of strikebreakers and intimidating workers to prevent Unionization. The ‘95 government was brought down by a vote of no-confidence in February 2296, however no government since has reached the needed vote threshold to repeal the ‘95 government’s legislation.

Colonies of the Gilgamesh Colonial Confederation

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Voting members of the [[Gilgamesh Colonial Confederation]] outside of the Founders.

== First Expansion ==

=== Kopeychik ===
An unclaimed system before its annexation. The sole occupants – a fuel refining company harvesting the neighbouring systems’ gas giants for hydrogen – welcomed the annexation. '''Canberra Fuel Refining''' has gone on to be one of the largest fuel producers in human space, with a monopoly inside the Confederation, they are kept in check by the Confederation Directory to prevent any exploitation of their monopoly status.
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=== Baroda ===

===== Putkari =====
Settled in the wake of the Terran Commonwealth’s exploration boom, Putkari is a frigid planet on the then-edge of human space. Putkari was initially envisioned as an ambitious terraforming project, born of meticulous planning and the scientific zeal of the era – only to be cut off from its supplies and funding with the collapse of the Commonwealth and abandoned to die on their doomed, freezing colony with the rise of the SCG. After the GCC’s founding, Putkari was among the first planets to apply for membership.

Today, concentrated effort has brought global temperatures to a survivable (though cold) range. Settlements on Putkari usually consist of a planned, grid-like centre – some still maintaining the atmospheric controls and life support systems of the early colony days – surrounded by urban sprawl. Most Putkari citizens can trace their origins to the settlers and scientists of the original colonization mission, largely staffed by personnel from Mumbai and other recently-flooded regions of old Earth’s India. An extremely introverted and isolationist planet, Putkarians haven’t forgotten being left to die by the SCG, with SCG citizens banned from the planet, and the Putkarian representatives often a vocal minority advocating for cessation of diplomacy with Sol.

=== Kvasvezda ===
Neighbouring Kopeychik, Kvasvezda was chosen as the new location for the ICCGN’s training base. It's only other notable occupant is a large Fuel Dump operated in tandem by the Ordinance Corps and Canberra Fuel Refining

== Second Expansion ==
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=== Altair ===

==== Qabil ====
Once named FOO, the industrious populous of old Qabil were involved in heavy resource extraction outside their own weak atmosphere - in particular on the body’s moon, BAR. The poorly regulated companies of Karvan’s free economic zone created numerous disasters, but the greatest was the breaking of BAR.

In response to a catastrophic debris bombardment, dramatically stricter political elements took control in the aftermath of their near-apocalypse, establishing heavy regulation and state involvement in their new regime. Soon after, the confederation approached Altair over integration. Despite misgivings, the sheer material worth of Altair’s bounty drove their political classes toward integration – Altairans are among the materially-richest in the Confederation besides the core colonies themselves.

Not overly concerned with the rest of the Confederation, many Altairans take up posts as public workers – in health and emergency roles – for their time in service to the Gilgamesh state. Although the moon Habil has been shattered, creating dangerous orbital debris, access to deep internal veins and structures rich in minerals have left mining operations able to – with some danger from massive floating hazards and high-velocity debris – access the insides of an entire orbital body like a sliced geode; a terribly lucrative proposition, given the right mining sites.
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=== Penglai ===

==== Penglai ====
Penglai is a small world with a marginal atmosphere, breathable by its inhabitants (or anyone reasonably altitude trained). It's pretty barren and was an early colonization candidate for a Chinese mission to escape the fall of earth.

Its main economic contribution to the confederation is in rare earth elements, of which it has a great deal. It was happy to become part of the state because after the commonwealth pulled back, they were left without a reliable source of foodstuffs.

The people of Penglai are hardy, relatively few, and very traditionalist. Where possible, they inject Chinese culture into formal interactions with the confederation; the system commander often has to interact with their subordinates over tea.
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=== Providence ===

==== Atlanticus ====
Settled in the years after the Ares Conflict by private ventures, Providence II quickly developed a booming space station industry, resulting in the construction of three large space station complexes through the system.

==== New Victoria ====
Located on the fringes of the system, New Victoria is a large mining and production complex. With a large number of asteroids within the system, New Victoria is the wealthiest per capita area within the system, with miners and metallurgy workers flocking from across the Confederation to work in the lucrative trade.

==== New Washington ====
Located above Providence VII, this station was initially built to exploit the geothermal energy from the planet below; New Washington soon developed a thriving tourism industry. Offering relatively cheap shuttle flights around the planet below, one can experience undescribable geothermal activity firsthand.

==== Nuevo Mexico ====
High above Providence I, this station is one of the leaders of research in the Confederation; recent years have brought extreme prosperity, with research projects alongside the ICCGN funnelling unlimited amounts of funding into the station, permitting research to go on for some time.

== Third Expansion ==
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=== Valy ===

==== Valy ====
Valy is the black sheep of the confederation, having not willingly joined the GCC, the civil war that was stopped when the GCC entered the system has always been alleged to have been orchestrated by the ICCGN as a pretext to annex the system; however the ongoing resistance movement initially funded by Sol and now the Alliance is very much real.

=== Galilei ===
Gaia’s position within the Confederation is unique, having split the Planet with the SCG and declared the system as a DMZ as a whole, only token ICCGN assets are held within the system. The ICCGN established the Office for the Security of Northern Gaia to administer their new asset. The first head of the Office, Vice Admiral Arthur Lee, quickly moved to establish a civilian government to run the planet, relegating the Office's role to defence and diplomacy, with the only interaction with the civilian government being the Governor General’s approval of legislation.

Northern Gaia today is run by the Protectorate Parliament in New Madrid, with the Prime Minister acting as head of government.

See: [[Gaia]]

== Other Members ==
The Confederation offers various other affiliations to small colonies, outposts and stations that result in some component of the governance, most commonly law and order has been contracted out to the Confederation’s Navy. There can be any level of involvement from the Navy simply deploying a small number of personnel to guard strategic points or Naval vessels patrolling systems all the way to the entire legal system of a colony being ran by a Naval Judge and Colonial Guard Commander.

These members '''<u>do not possess any voting rights</u>''', and are often not even significant enough to be listed on any maps, however many pirates have figured out the hard way when they find themselves at the receiving end of a Naval Strike Team that it is a very bad idea to try and ignore Gilgamesh’s presence wherever it is.

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| colspan="6" style="color:white; background:rgba(0, 168, 104); border-radius: .2em;" |<big>'''Lore'''</big>
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<big>[[Beginning Lore]] ∙ [[Timeline of Canon Events]]</big>
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| colspan="6" style="color:white; background:rgba(0, 168, 104); height:40px" |
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| rowspan="9" style="color:white; background:rgba(0, 168, 104);" |'''Humanity'''
| style="background:rgba(0, 168, 104, 0.1);" | History
| colspan="4" |[[Timeline of Humanity]] ∙ [[Gaia Conflict]]
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| style="background:rgba(0, 168, 104, 0.1);" |Corporations
| colspan="4" |[[Aether Atmospherics and Recycling|Aether Atmospherics]] ∙ [[Deimos Advanced Information Systems|DAIS]] ∙ [[Gilthari Exports]] ∙ [[Hephaestus Industries]] ∙ [[NanoTrasen]] ∙ [[Ward-Takahashi GMB]] ∙ [[Xynergy]] ∙ [[Corporations|Other Corporations]]
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| rowspan="3" style="background:rgba(0, 168, 104, 0.1);" |[[Sol Central Government]]
| colspan="4" |'''Locations: '''

'''Sol:''' [[Venus]] ∙ [[Earth]] ∙ [[Luna]] ∙ [[Mars]] ∙ [[Phobos]] ∙ [[Ceres]] ∙ [[Pluto]]

'''Other Colonies:''' [[Ceti Epsilon]] ∙ [[Eos]] ∙ [[Pirx]] ∙ [[Tadmor]] ∙ [[Saffar]] ∙ [[Foster's World]] ∙ [[Nueva Castilla]] ∙ [[Gaia]]*
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| colspan="4" |'''Organizations:''' [[Sol Central Government Army|SCG Army]] ∙ [[Expeditionary Corps]] ∙ [[Expeditionary Corps Organisation|EXO]] ∙ [[Sol Central Government Fleet|SCG Fleet]] ∙ [[Sol Federal Police]] ∙ [[Sol Central Government Organisations|Other SCG Organizations]]
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| colspan="4" |'''Other:''' [[Expeditionary Tales]] ∙ [[Fleet Vessels]] ∙ [[SEV Torch]]
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| rowspan="2" style="background:rgba(0, 168, 104, 0.1);" |[[Gilgamesh Colonial Confederation]]
| colspan="4" |'''Core GCC:''' [[Terra]] ∙ [[Zemlya]] ∙ [[Sestris]]
'''Other:''' [[Other Members|Members]] - [[Gaia]]*
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| colspan="4" |'''Organizations:''' [[Gilgamesh Colonial Navy]]
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| style="background:rgba(0, 168, 104, 0.1);" |[[Frontier Alliance]]
| colspan="4"|'''Locations:''' [[Iolaus]] ∙ [[Brahe]] ∙ [[Frontier Systems#Umiri|Umiri]] ∙ [[Frontier Systems#Kaze|Kaze]] ∙ [[Frontier Systems#Sunset|Sunset]]
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| style="background:rgba(0, 168, 104, 0.1);" |Other Systems and Planets
| colspan="4" |'''Locations:''' [[Frontier Systems]] ∙ [[Nyx]] ∙ [[Magnitka]]
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| rowspan="3" style="width: 10%; color:white; background:rgba(0, 168, 104);"|'''Aliens'''
| colspan="3" style="width: 45%;"|[[File:Skrell.png|center|frameless|link=Skrell]][[Skrell]]

[[Skrell Roleplay Guide|Roleplay Guide]] ∙ [[Skrell Biology|Biology]] ∙ [[Skrell Castes|Castes]] ∙ [[Skrell Crime|Crime]] ∙ [[Skrell Culture|Culture]] ∙ [[Skrell Family and Education|Family and Education]] ∙ [[Skrell Language|Language]] ∙ [[Skrell Military|Military]] ∙ [[Skrell Politics and Economics|Politics and Economics]]

Planets ([[Qerr'Balak]])
| colspan="2" style="width: 45%;"|[[File:Unathi.png|center|frameless|link=Unathi]][[Unathi]]

[[Unathi Agriculture|Agriculture]] ∙ [[Unathi Clans|Clans]] ∙ [[Unathi Cults|Cults]] ∙ [[Unathi Industry|Industry]] ∙ [[Unathi Life Cycle|Life Cycle]] ∙ [[Unathi Military|Military]] ∙ [[Timeline of Unathi History|Timeline]] ∙ [[Yeosa'Unathi]]

Planets ([[Moghes]] ∙ [[Regions of Moghes]] ∙ [[Ouere]])
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| colspan="2" style="width: 30%;"|[[File:Giant armoured serpentid.png|center|frameless|link=Giant Armoured Serpentid]][[Giant Armoured Serpentid]]

[[Giant Armoured Serpentid Roleplay Guide|Roleplay Guide]]

Planets ([[Tau-Wilo]])
| colspan="2" style="width: 30%;"|[[File:Adherent.png|center|frameless|link=Adherent]][[Adherent]]
| style="width: 30%;"|[[File:Ipc.png|center|frameless|link=Positronic]][[Positronic]]
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| colspan="3" |[[File:Diona.png|center|frameless|link=Diona]][[Diona]]
| colspan="2" |[[File:Vox.png|center|frameless|link=Vox]][[Vox]]

[[Vox Roleplay Guide|Roleplay Guide]]
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|style="color:white; background:rgba(0, 168, 104); border-radius: 0 0 0 .2em;"|'''Misc.'''
| colspan="5" |[[Language]] ∙ [[Prosthetics]] ∙ [[Ship Prefixes]]
|}

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Colonies of the Gilgamesh Colonial Confederation

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Sestris, or The Union of Sestris and Bratis is a political entity within the Gilgamesh Colonial Confederation.

Sestris and Bratis form a system pair settled by a French colonial mission in the early days of interstellar expansion, with Sestris having claimed Bratis as a colony in the pre-GCC era. These systems were founding members of the GCC – second only to Gilgamesh in terms of political and economic power, citizens of Sestris enjoy a generally high standard of living and many can be found within the ranks of the ICCG Defense Forces.

== Sestris ==

=== Amelie ===

==== Geography ====
Amelie Possesses Earth-like gravity and a hot, dense atmosphere – surface conditions are survivable, but uncomfortable, and most settlements are climate-controlled. Within these domed cities, life is generally quite cushy: Sainte Marguerite, the first colony established in Sestris, is today a glittering metropolis and the financial capital of the GCC. Other major settlements include Chartreuse – an open-air city near Amelie’s relatively-temperate south pole, which boasts the planet’s largest botanical garden as well as several prestigious universities.

==== Culture ====
Amelie is a relic of the era of its colonization, with the Colonization project being the only to contain one old-Earth culture group, this comes across quite clearly in the modern day, with Amelians extremely protective of their Cultural identity. This most visibly comes across in the architecture of the planet. Maintained over the years by a byzantine set of zoning laws, if one didn’t know any better, they would think any one of Amelie’s cities could have been on earth, if not for the planet’s hot dense atmosphere.

Amelians are commonly described in terms such as ‘snobbish’, ‘uptight’, or ‘having superiority complexes’. Parallels are often drawn to the common dislike of Luna in Sol due to the wealth present on the planet, with many across the Confederation considering those from Amelie to be the highest of the upper class, and to many in who find themselves in less beneficial economic situations, the appearance of an Amelian is tantamount to the arrival of the bourgeoisie.

==== Politics ====
Amelian politics is unique in the Confederation in that most Amelians couldn’t care less about lengthy careers in overall Confederation Politics. This results in Amelian representatives in the Confederate Directory often being isolationist pragmatists content with maintaining the status quo. They are surprisingly resistant to the Militarist wing of the Confederation Directory, preferring their tax dollars be spent where they have a greater chance to return back to Amelie.

==== Economy ====
Amelie is a mostly ‘white collar’ economy, with much of the Planets GDP held within the financial and insurance sectors as Amelie is the seat of most of the Confederation’s major banks and insurance companies. Other sectors such as military and agriculture are negligible to the service industry’s share of the Planet’s GDP, with workers not employed by the banks or insurance companies likely working in the planet’s tourist industry or other civil duties.

=== Croixcolline ===
Croixcolline is a grey, barren world, riddled with a sprawling network of trenches, caverns, and caves. While currently incapable of supporting life, geological evidence suggests Croixcolline once held liquid water. Sporadic terraforming efforts have been underway for the past century, though waning interest and recent economic turmoil have ensured that few are stuck.

== Bratis ==

=== Savoie ===

==== Geography ====
Savoie is an icy volcanic moon orbiting a gas giant and one of few rocky celestial bodies of any notable size in the system. Savoie possesses a large liquid ocean below its inhospitable surface, making it an attractive candidate for colonists seeking to spread beyond Sestris in the early days of colonial expansion.

==== Culture ====
Culturally Savoie is identical to Amelie with the notable minority of immigrants from elsewhere in the Confederation with fond memories of GCNRB or GCNOB Bratis. As well the lack of zoning laws has resulted in a much more modern look and feeling to the planet.

==== Politics ====
Politically Savoie marches to Amelie’s beat in full lock step. Although technically independent in all matters, the two are so deeply interconnected, and Amelie is vastly greater in size, thus Savoie is quite happy to wait to see what the delegates from Amelie say, and then agree.

==== Economy ====
Savoie is a small but densely-populated colony focusing on tourism and military logistics today. The Pioneer Corps maintains a research base, GCNRB Bratis, in the moon’s orbit. This outpost is dedicated primarily to geological monitoring and is considered a training assignment for recruits.

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Zemlya, formally Novaya Zemlya, is a cold, barren dwarf planet in the Gilgamesh system. It has been extensively colonised and is a major industrial hub within the GCC. Lacking an atmosphere, the planet’s inhabitants are housed either underground, within one of the many industrial structures protruding from the barren landscape, or in the domed capital city of Donorovka.

== History ==

=== Pre-Confederation ===
Colonised by Terra prior to Gilgamesh’s reintegration into the Terran Commonwealth, Zemlya was colonised due to its large quantities of easily-accessible metals. Rather than exporting raw ore to be refined on Terra, early colonists established industrial facilities on the dwarf planet itself. These nascent corporations quickly expanded into manufacturing and shipbuilding, with it being cheaper for finished products to be assembled on Zemlya before being shuttled off planet – in the early days, more often than not, on vessels also newly-manufactured on Zemlya.

=== Ares Conflict & Founding Confederation Member ===
By the time the Ares Conflict began, Zemlya had been transformed from a barren rock to the industrial lynchpin that allowed Gilgamesh to remain on the sidelines of the conflict. It was in the shipyards of Zemlya that the first vessels of the Gilgamesh Self-Defence Flotilla were manufactured. The founding of the Gilgamesh Colonial Confederation played a pivotal role in Zemlya’s history, transforming the planet from one of many industrial outposts in human-controlled space to the industrial backbone of the new Confederation– triggering with it a flood of money, material, and people.

=== Today ===
Zemlya today is somewhat of a shadow of its former self. While the Conflict increased demand on Zemlya for all types of goods, the waves of conscription that rocked the Confederation forced many factories to consolidate, closing larger facilities to operate smaller ones at peak capacity. While the planet has recovered from the rut of the late 90s, it has been observed by many both onZemlya and elsewhere in the Confederation that the planet relies heavily on immigrants and temporary workers from elsewhere in the Confederation.

== Culture ==
Zemlya’s demographics are often referred to as the ‘control’ by Confederation Census workers. Due to the planet’s high draw of industrial workers, the planet’s demographics are almost identical to the Confederation’s as a whole, with two in three naming Pan-Slavic as their primary daily language and the other one third declaring Zurich Common as their primary daily language, compared to declared primary personal languages, with all major human languages holding roughly similar percentages.

Zemlya has also slowly developed strong union membership, with about seventy percent of respondents declaring their membership in a union in the 2310 Census.

Zemlya, specifically it’s capital city Donorovka is home to several of the Confederations largest corporations, with Novaya Zemlya Shipyards, Donorovka Metallurgy, and Novaya Zemlya Arms having their headquarters within the city’s dome.

== Geography ==
Zemlya lacks any atmosphere, with the planet looking like nothing more than a barren rock should you not know where to look.

Zemlya’s surface is nothing special, appearing just like the countless other barren grey planets in space, though the many sprawling industrial complexes across the planet’s surface gives away the locations of many of the planet’s settlements in underground complexes. The notable exception is the Capital of Donorovka, housed underneath a massive airtight dome, forming the only ‘open air’ settlement on the planet.

== Economy ==
Zemlya’s workforce is overwhelmingly engaged in industrial activities, with only ten percent of workers employed in service industries - This has the effect that Zemlya and Terra are in a symbiotic relationship, with Terra reliant on Zemlya’s industrial goods, and Zemlya reliant on Terran agriculture to feed its population.

Zemlya is undeniably the most important industrial area in the Confederation, with Zemlyan shipyards integral to the Confederate Navy, and Zemlyan factories producing much of the Confederations industrial goods.

== Unions ==
Zemlya’s labour industry has developed and changed drastically as the years have passed. Unions were unheard of on the planet until 2271 when the Planet’s first Official (legal) Union, the Zemlya Shipbreaker’s Union was formed following a string of high-profile workplace incidents. The Union’s founding did not go without its share of ‘controversy’, with several of the planet’s megacorporations putting up extremely heavy resistance to Unions forming in their sectors, this included the hiring of strikebreakers, intimidation, and importing entire workforces to replace unionized workers. This extremely public game of cat and mouse between the fledgeling Unions and the corporations received little public attention until 2293 when it suddenly blew up in the government’s face.

=== The Donorovka Incident ===
The Donorovka Incident, or as it is commonly called on Zemlya, ‘The Final Straw’, was the incident and following coverup of a casualty incident at Donorovka Metallurgy on the night of September 21st, 2293.

The Incident began when a sleep deprived replacement worker fell from a railingless catwalk, dying when they landed in a pile of molten slag. The subsequent coverup of the incident by the company was shattered when an armed group of metallurgists who were present during the incident forced their way into the Zemlyan Senate with security footage from the mill. Although the metallurgists were arrested for their acts, the security tapes were kept in the public eye by the trials.

The Confederation Directory acted quickly, with the Conflict now in full swing they pushed through sweeping workplace safety regulations that silenced much, but not all, of the anger coming from Zemlya, kicking the proverbial can down the road far enough to see the conflict through.

Following the Conflict, many drafted industrial workers returned to Zemlya to find that they were quickly replaced and forgotten, this anger along with the sense of camaraderie that all found in the Navy fused with the lingering anger from the Donorovka Incident to push Union membership on Zemlya past 50% for the first time in 2299.

This milestone was met with an announcement that Novaya Zemlya Shipyards and Novaya Zemlya Arms would allow their entire workforce to vote on if they wished to unionize; the resulting vote for Unionization pushed the total Union membership on Zemlya to 67%, where it has remained close to to this day.

== Politics ==
Zemlyan politics were dominated for much of its history by industrialists and corporate interests, with Corporate backed candidates holding the majority of seats in the Zemlyan Senate for that time. Zemlyan politics began to change at about the same time that the Planet’s unions began to form, with vast public interest in Workers safety and rights at the time, non-Corporate candidates began winning elections against their corporation backed foes.

This trend was similarly affected by the Donorovka Incident, with the wave of anger diluting the Corporate hold on the Senate enough that a non-corporate majority was achieved for the first time following elections in 2295. The ‘95 government quickly passed legislation outlawing the hiring of strikebreakers and intimidating workers to prevent Unionization. The ‘95 government was brought down by a vote of no-confidence in February 2296, however no government since has reached the needed vote threshold to repeal the ‘95 government’s legislation.