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NAM PLANETARY IMAGE RECORDS: RIGEL CII 0103
ANNOTATION
The second visual shows the planet 150 degrees around from the first image, here the western projections of the Labyrinth Sea can be observed, the great mass of the Gullinkambi bulge can be appreciated in full and the flat expanses of the supercontinents central regions can be seen. Finally in the south east the greenery of the Constantine Peninsula can be seen, and the urban mass of Shipdown city is apparent in the north.
<History: Settlement of the central regions>
Major conurbations are shown outlined in red and an itemized list and summary of major settlements is given below.
<General Summary>
<Corrigan Era>
In AD 2482 Corrigan Inc, a planetary Terraforming an development company acquired rights to the barely habitable Rigel CII. Large scale industrial work in the Polar Regions freed large stores of volatiles, providing the water for the Labyrinth Sea (named after the colossal and intricate ravine system that was inundated to create it) and thickening the atmosphere to its current comfortable 700 millibars at sea level. Some 15 years later small scale settlement began and large amounts of engineered plants were seeded in the region later known as the Constantine peninsula, and the city of Constantinople was built on the equator and settled by the Irish-Asian-Canadian stock the companies shareholders favoured <more>
<The Scourge and the Flight>
With the arrival of the scourge CII was relatively late to be infected thanks to their isolation, however the some forty million miners exploiting Rigels rich asteroid belts from mobile habitats were much worse effected. The Habitats made the great flight across the 2000 AU between the Primary and Rigel C and arrived in orbit in very poor condition as the scourge rapidly assaulted their systems. The Corrigan settlements, out of contact with their parent company refused to permit the refugees to land, and several nervous individuals threatened the habitats with CII asteroid defense network. Panicked, the Cluster refugees commenced a nuclear bombardment of Constantinople and sent space planes to secure the secondary settlements to the west. The vast disembarkation onto the central plains now occurred as over the course of 13 hours as over 7000 individual habitats and ships were deorbited and landed under their last ergs of power <more>
<The Birth of Shipdown City>
The refugees crowded north out the wreckage plains to the shores of the Great Brackish swamps where some of the few remaining power sources were used to crack the salt water for hydrogen and fresh water. The habitats were scrapped and native materials were mined to construct the great city to house the population whilst expeditions were sent all over the planet looking for vital resources to sustain the colony through the lean years. Large slums quickly sprang up despite <more>
<Later Periods>
The rebirth of Shipdown city and the cluster came with two major advancements, the laying down of the Piste routes to the western coasts and to New Constantinople to enable a secure food supply, and the rebirth of commercial spaceflight from its vast spaceports to the east <more>
<Conurbations>
1. Shipdown City, the greatest urban centre on the planet, sprawling across a thousand kilometers of dusty plain and home to 82% of the Clusters 70 millions. Coalescing out the wreckage plains the city is the hub of the transcontinental piste network and home to the great majority of the planetside industrial facilities. Some aquaculture and hydroponics occur in the swamps to the north, but at current the city is reliant on food imports from Constantinople and the western coasts. Most of the population lives in large arcology type <more>
2. New Constantinople, originally named Ravenscourt, was renamed after the destruction of the original Constantinople. The home of the majority of ex-Corrigan personnel and colonists, although immigration from Shipdown city is beginning to change that. Centre for biological and Terraforming research on the planet, and the agricultural zone about it provide a great deal of Shipdown Citys <more>
3. The Southern Settlements, formed by ex-Corrigan personnel fleeing south after the occupation of New Constantinople, seeking to escape Cluster control or wage a guerilla war. However with the acquisition of the NC agricultural lands the NAM Cluster had no further intentions towards Corrigan assets, and a ceasefire was negotiated some years ago, and a need for Shipdown Citys industrial products has gradually integrated them into the global economy. An extension of the piste route south is <more>
<Regions of interest>
A. The ruins of Constantinople and the old Corrigan Terraforming machinery, after orbital bombardment the region was rendered radioactive and uninhabitable. Estimates on when it will be safe to recover and reactivate the technology vary form 5 years to 50 years, though many of the biotechnologists of New Constantinople have been experimenting with a radioactive cleanup bacterium. Low level overflights of the ruins continue to be a popular sell to <more>
B. The Agricultural zones between new and old Constantinople show many of the latest and greatest strains of crop developed before the scourge, the genetic code of the cereals carrying human technological advancement out of reach of the scourge. Engineering works down in the southern projections hint at plans to extend the growing zone further east if Shipdown Cities population continues to grow as the Sharpe report projections <more>
C. The Constantine Peninsula is home to the only jungles and most of the forests on the planet, experimental Corrigan nanotech having pushed the soil through a hundred year development cycle in less than a decade. With the break down of the central control systems the jungle has grown somewhat wild and feral, and there are reports of ship rats and snakes free from their programming growing up to 110 cms in length and adopting predatory habits. Dr S. Irwin is currently doing a long term survey to confirm these reports <more>
D. The vast expanse of the wreckage plains are a region three times the size of the old earth state of Texas covered in bits of habitat metal and ceramics and hundred of ship components. Used as a resource by Shipdown cities industries as the high dry reduces corrosion, some regions are rendered dangerous by reactor failures and feral automation <more>
E. The metals brought to near the planetary surface by the rise of the Gullinkambi bulge some half a billion years ago have proved a great resource to SCs industries and large regions of the highlands and ravines have been rendered into giant strip mines. As metal extraction moves off planet and back to the rings however, further ecological damage may be prevented <more>
F. The southern tundra is a pretty crappy place to be, you know? <more>
G. The Great Brackish marsh to the north of Shipdown City is a vast but shallow expanse of water ranging from 1-6 meters deep and is home to a rich ecology. There are plans to use modified mining equipment to dig out great trenches in the Marsh and connect with the Black Sea and the Labyrinth Sea in the west, enabling shipping to travel direct to Shipdown city and provoke a more active movement of the hydrosphere to increase rainfall on the central plains. So far the pressure of environmental groups and the lack of funding has hindered this project <more>
H. The Black Sea is called such due to the great amounts of mineral oil that leak up from the bedrock under it, rendering it glistening and quite lifeless at the current time. However the sunset over the iridescent ocean is one of the most spectacular sights on the planet <more>
ANNOTATION
The second visual shows the planet 150 degrees around from the first image, here the western projections of the Labyrinth Sea can be observed, the great mass of the Gullinkambi bulge can be appreciated in full and the flat expanses of the supercontinents central regions can be seen. Finally in the south east the greenery of the Constantine Peninsula can be seen, and the urban mass of Shipdown city is apparent in the north.
<History: Settlement of the central regions>
Major conurbations are shown outlined in red and an itemized list and summary of major settlements is given below.
<General Summary>
<Corrigan Era>
In AD 2482 Corrigan Inc, a planetary Terraforming an development company acquired rights to the barely habitable Rigel CII. Large scale industrial work in the Polar Regions freed large stores of volatiles, providing the water for the Labyrinth Sea (named after the colossal and intricate ravine system that was inundated to create it) and thickening the atmosphere to its current comfortable 700 millibars at sea level. Some 15 years later small scale settlement began and large amounts of engineered plants were seeded in the region later known as the Constantine peninsula, and the city of Constantinople was built on the equator and settled by the Irish-Asian-Canadian stock the companies shareholders favoured <more>
<The Scourge and the Flight>
With the arrival of the scourge CII was relatively late to be infected thanks to their isolation, however the some forty million miners exploiting Rigels rich asteroid belts from mobile habitats were much worse effected. The Habitats made the great flight across the 2000 AU between the Primary and Rigel C and arrived in orbit in very poor condition as the scourge rapidly assaulted their systems. The Corrigan settlements, out of contact with their parent company refused to permit the refugees to land, and several nervous individuals threatened the habitats with CII asteroid defense network. Panicked, the Cluster refugees commenced a nuclear bombardment of Constantinople and sent space planes to secure the secondary settlements to the west. The vast disembarkation onto the central plains now occurred as over the course of 13 hours as over 7000 individual habitats and ships were deorbited and landed under their last ergs of power <more>
<The Birth of Shipdown City>
The refugees crowded north out the wreckage plains to the shores of the Great Brackish swamps where some of the few remaining power sources were used to crack the salt water for hydrogen and fresh water. The habitats were scrapped and native materials were mined to construct the great city to house the population whilst expeditions were sent all over the planet looking for vital resources to sustain the colony through the lean years. Large slums quickly sprang up despite <more>
<Later Periods>
The rebirth of Shipdown city and the cluster came with two major advancements, the laying down of the Piste routes to the western coasts and to New Constantinople to enable a secure food supply, and the rebirth of commercial spaceflight from its vast spaceports to the east <more>
<Conurbations>
1. Shipdown City, the greatest urban centre on the planet, sprawling across a thousand kilometers of dusty plain and home to 82% of the Clusters 70 millions. Coalescing out the wreckage plains the city is the hub of the transcontinental piste network and home to the great majority of the planetside industrial facilities. Some aquaculture and hydroponics occur in the swamps to the north, but at current the city is reliant on food imports from Constantinople and the western coasts. Most of the population lives in large arcology type <more>
2. New Constantinople, originally named Ravenscourt, was renamed after the destruction of the original Constantinople. The home of the majority of ex-Corrigan personnel and colonists, although immigration from Shipdown city is beginning to change that. Centre for biological and Terraforming research on the planet, and the agricultural zone about it provide a great deal of Shipdown Citys <more>
3. The Southern Settlements, formed by ex-Corrigan personnel fleeing south after the occupation of New Constantinople, seeking to escape Cluster control or wage a guerilla war. However with the acquisition of the NC agricultural lands the NAM Cluster had no further intentions towards Corrigan assets, and a ceasefire was negotiated some years ago, and a need for Shipdown Citys industrial products has gradually integrated them into the global economy. An extension of the piste route south is <more>
<Regions of interest>
A. The ruins of Constantinople and the old Corrigan Terraforming machinery, after orbital bombardment the region was rendered radioactive and uninhabitable. Estimates on when it will be safe to recover and reactivate the technology vary form 5 years to 50 years, though many of the biotechnologists of New Constantinople have been experimenting with a radioactive cleanup bacterium. Low level overflights of the ruins continue to be a popular sell to <more>
B. The Agricultural zones between new and old Constantinople show many of the latest and greatest strains of crop developed before the scourge, the genetic code of the cereals carrying human technological advancement out of reach of the scourge. Engineering works down in the southern projections hint at plans to extend the growing zone further east if Shipdown Cities population continues to grow as the Sharpe report projections <more>
C. The Constantine Peninsula is home to the only jungles and most of the forests on the planet, experimental Corrigan nanotech having pushed the soil through a hundred year development cycle in less than a decade. With the break down of the central control systems the jungle has grown somewhat wild and feral, and there are reports of ship rats and snakes free from their programming growing up to 110 cms in length and adopting predatory habits. Dr S. Irwin is currently doing a long term survey to confirm these reports <more>
D. The vast expanse of the wreckage plains are a region three times the size of the old earth state of Texas covered in bits of habitat metal and ceramics and hundred of ship components. Used as a resource by Shipdown cities industries as the high dry reduces corrosion, some regions are rendered dangerous by reactor failures and feral automation <more>
E. The metals brought to near the planetary surface by the rise of the Gullinkambi bulge some half a billion years ago have proved a great resource to SCs industries and large regions of the highlands and ravines have been rendered into giant strip mines. As metal extraction moves off planet and back to the rings however, further ecological damage may be prevented <more>
F. The southern tundra is a pretty crappy place to be, you know? <more>
G. The Great Brackish marsh to the north of Shipdown City is a vast but shallow expanse of water ranging from 1-6 meters deep and is home to a rich ecology. There are plans to use modified mining equipment to dig out great trenches in the Marsh and connect with the Black Sea and the Labyrinth Sea in the west, enabling shipping to travel direct to Shipdown city and provoke a more active movement of the hydrosphere to increase rainfall on the central plains. So far the pressure of environmental groups and the lack of funding has hindered this project <more>
H. The Black Sea is called such due to the great amounts of mineral oil that leak up from the bedrock under it, rendering it glistening and quite lifeless at the current time. However the sunset over the iridescent ocean is one of the most spectacular sights on the planet <more>
I was expecting some actual fighting this turn though... 
