#moon 452

[pikaclan]

Moon 452

Season: Leaf-fall

Ceremonies

Newly-made apprentice, Fringepaw, touches noses with their new mentor, Jumblewisp

Budpaw sits excitedly beside Braveplume as the meeting ends, and hopes they'll be doing something exciting like battle training first. Their claws are itching to tear at something

Births

Oddflight has been waiting eagerly to meet their offspring. At Snapmuzzle's invitation, they crawl into the nursery, purring and joining Snapmuzzle in licking their litter of 2 kits clean

Kestrelkit (female) and Goatkit (female) are born!

Scorchbud has been impatient for the end of Wisteriaflare's pregnancy, and when they hear Wisteriaflare has gone into labor, they drop what they're doing and sprint for the nursery, where Wisteriaflare is bringing a litter of 4 kits into the world

Blotchkit (male), Brindlekit (female), Elderkit (male), and Brushkit (male) are born!

Misc

Fadedflake was seen chasing a rogue off the territory

Health

Starlingstar's whitecough is gone Mulberrydust's infection abated Cinderrip recovered from whtiecough Cinnamonbreeze got a running nose

Patrols

While searching for some specific herbs, Gingerhorn is startled by weird sounds and whispers on the wind. They follow the sounds to find a struggling queen with newborn kits. Gingerhorn helps while Pigeondart sprints back to camp

Dropletblotch (female), Ramkit (male), and Lyrekit (female) join the Clan

A gang of rogues jump out from a tumble of rocks! They are coordinated and use the patrol's shock against them

Vineflicker and Myrtledazzle died

The patrol hears desperate screams from a nearby lake and rescue an old cat from a Twoleg.

Aloebelly (femlae) joins the Clan. She is fixed

[kestrelteens]

Holidays are approaching and when I stumbled upon this cute set by TheClutterCat I was thrilled 'cause there's never enough clutter, especially winter holidays themed 🎄

Sooo, there's a bunch of items, everything is very low poly and there is no texture bigger than 512x512 since we don't want our texture memories to get overwhelmed during these cosy-wintery-Sims playing days ⛄️

Everything's compressed, there's a collection file as well! The items list and poly counts are under the cut, enjoy! ♥

download (sfs) // alt download (mediaifre)

This set consists of:

3 wise men 1 (608 polys, 4 swatches)

3 wise men 2 (240 polys, 4 swatches)

3 wise men 3 (452 polys, 4 swatches)

advent candles (688 polys, 6 swatches)

big gift pile (628 polys, 6 swatches)

candle arch lamp (functional, 1056 polys, 5 swatches)

freezer bunny snow globe (730 polys, 3 swatches)

gingerbread house (978 polys, 4 swatches)

gingerbread house doormat (not pictured, 308 polys, 5 swatches)

ho ho horse frame (590 polys, 7 swatches)

holy moly cowplant (740 polys, 4 swatches)

holywood (616 polys, 3 swatches)

moon candelabra (578 polys, 3 swatches)

big mr nutcracker (887 polys, 4 swatches)

mr smoky (858 polys, 4 swatches)

oranges tray (160 polys, 4 swatches)

reindeer (900 polys, 7 swatches)

small gift pile (396 polys, 4 swatches)

small mr nutcracker (831 polys, 4 swatches)

snowflake jar (112 polys, 5 swatches)

winterfest cookie jar (144 polys, 7 swatches)

winterfest friends rug (272 polys, 7 swatches)

winter greens (944 polys, 6 swatches)

8 wallpapers

[2for1bagels]

Wrenwolf Rainbow Week - Violet🟣

Sabine Wren x Shin Hati

452 words

The crackling of dry wood sings from the campfire a few feet away from Shin, it's warm notes lonely on the gentle Peridian breeze aside from the occational howl over the horizon as the flame's glow outshines the moon above.

Examining the helmet in her hands, turning it around so as to look into its visior, a soft smile graces her lips. Looking up and across to the other side of the fire, she speaks just a little louder than the wood sparks.

"It is formidable... But I still think I prefer you without it on."

Sabine smiles at the words, lowering the macrobinoculars and looking over the shoulder back at Shin from where she is stood facing the darkness.

"I bet you say that to all the girls on Peridia."

"Only you. And I would say the same on Coruscant."

The red that fills the Mandalorian's cheeks is unavoidable as her smile grows tenfold, turning back to continue scanning the horizon to not let the dark Jedi's power over her become too visible in the soft glowing light.

Her smile slipping into a sad one, Shin stands from her seat on the log nearby the fire and makes her way around the dancing flames to the other woman, coming to stand a step away, still holding onto the Mandalorian helmet.

"We will find him... We will. But not this late."

Sabine let's out a heavy sigh, but doesn't stop scanning the horizon for a few moments more, until she knows no one is heading their way. Finally giving up for the night, she looks down for a moment and flexes her hands, sore from holding the viewers up to her eyes.

"Here..." Shin speaks, before ducking to place the helmet on the floor, raising only to take the viewers as well and placing them next to the metal of the armour, the warm light of the fire illuminating the violet of the piece.

Standing to close the gap between the both of them, taking Sabine's hands in her own, she begins to massage them gently. The shorter woman watches, letting her turn each over to work on the knuckles too in silence, the slightly calloused skin showing the wear and tear of surviving on the mostly desolate planet.

"I really need to find him..." She admits quietly, holding down the block in her throat in fear of tears welling in her eyes.

Shin looks up from her work and smiles softly.

"You will. You've already found me, haven't you?"

Sabine nods, letting a little of the tears trickle down her face as the smile easily returns to her lips, pushing forward to press them against them against the white-haired girl's.

[house-strong]

— 𝐍𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 ʾ ⋆

⠀⠀ ⠀MAKAYLA. twenty, she/her, cancer, rhaenyra/alicent

aemond/daenerys apologist

⠀unless stated otherwise (unlikely), the characters i write for are all of age. smut will be tagged appropriately and if you are underaged, please do not read them.

⠀unless stated otherwise, most of my work contains female pronouns and anatomy. if you wish to request different pronoun/anatomy use, feel free to! i just default to this.

⠀ ⠀ p.s – i cross-post on wattpad with the user obiwns and ONLY obiwns. if you see my work reposted, it most likely does not have my permission, so please let me know on my main page @obiwns .

⠀

✗ – personal favorite.

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⠀ ➴ criston cole.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ the shield and his princess, 1.9k words. ✗

⠀ ➴ harwin strong.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ untitled series, in progress.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ the commanders tryst, 1.8k words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ the art of swords, 1.8k words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ clandestine, 724 words.

⠀ ➴ aemond targaryen.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ dragons bane, multi-chapter (ongoing). ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⤷ one. two. three. four. five. six. seven. eight. nine.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ten. eleven. twelve.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ balerions skull, 763 words.

⠀ ➴ daemon targaryen.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ the wake of the dragon, 1.7k words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ kairosclerosis, 2.5k words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ two birds, one stone, 1.6k words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ witchcraft and treason, 701 words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ trepverter, 655 words.

⠀ ➴ rhaenys targaryen.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ residuum, 537 words. ✗

⠀ ➴ jacaerys velaryon.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ the dance between dragons (+aemond), 2.7k words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ the torment of a lifetime, 1.2k words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ bound by duty, 1.5k words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ love, parents, and truths, 1.7k words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ two is better than one (+lucerys), 1.3k words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ the harvest moon, 1.4k words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ north bound, 452 words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ tussled hair and peppered kisses, 400 words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ unbent and unbroken, 1k words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ dragon dreaming, 742 words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ bruising kisses, 523 words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ golden cakes, 567 words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ the heir to the iron throne, 683 words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ needlework, 500 words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ dragons breath & lady’s lace, 807 words.

⠀ ➴ lucerys velaryon.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ the lordling and the girl, 1.1k words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ fire and ice, 1.7k words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ our little secret, 1.2k words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ the king and the admiral, 2.3k words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ crossing the line, 618 words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ confessions from the heart, 569 words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ petrichor and sea salt, 796 words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ peppermint leaves, 567 words.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ windfall, 759 words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ deaths door, ?? words. ✗

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ shadow of the sea snake, 700 words. ✗

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⠀ © ⠀house-strong, 2022.

[mrsniallhoran505]

Good Morning Austin Girls!

Theme 452: London looks good on you

GMAG! Tag List:

Sometimes tags work sometimes they don’t!

@ilovemycrayons @blurredcolour @dre6ming @slowsweetlove @pennyroyalcreep @austiebuttbutt @lisathewife101 @jojam10 @xxindiglow @crackerbarrelslut @katsukis1wife @macey234 @lucid315 @katelswan @introvertisms @purejasmine @bcofl0ve @feral-fae-writes @eliseinmemphis @klizzie93 @scarlet-sunsets @austinbutlermischief @emmamartinez @dazzledbycarrie @sunset-striptease-redeux @chasingwildflowers @justafangir1 @kctj82 @alikaheroes

[alienatedtsuki]

Hello there! You can call me Tsuki or 月, which translates to "moon" in Japanese. Feel free to use any pronouns you're comfortable with, as I'm good with any. I am in my early twenties, INFJ I'm fluent in 4 languages, currently honing my Japanese(5th language) to perfection. I ship NaruSasu/SasuNaru wholeheartedly.

Why did I start this blog with sns fanfiction? I currently have 452 fanfics downloaded in my sns folder. I've read all of them. It is only logical I share my thoughts and recommend some of them. This is the list of the best sns fanfiction I have ever read. (There is one post with Shisui/Naruto and Itachi/Naruto – "If life gives you other Uchiha, make it work", but that's it) Enjoy, dear 🍅🍥 fans! Right now we have such posts as:

Best of the best (single fic/author per post):

Best codependency series "Hopeless Wanderer" by dawnstruck [1]

Biggest, healthiest(they visit a therapist!), mostly SasuNaru, modern AU fanfiction [1]

"Kizunaverse" by YoungAndOverIntelligent [1]

Best of Domestic | Slice of Life | Farm AU [1]

Best short NaruSasu/SasuNaru Fanfiction [1]

Smut Recommendations:

Dom!Naruto/Sub!Sasuke [Kinktober 2023 Part I] [1]

Best of Kitty Play [NaruSasu] [1]

Best of A/B/O NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Oh, how useful are these shadow clones [1]

Best of Modern AU [4]

Recurring posts:

Redefining the normal | Post Chapter 698/699, NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1 2 3]

Valley of the End is truly the End [1]

After the Timeskip [1]

Naruto, take the wheel [1]

NaruSasu/SasuNaru, but they are smol (genin and younger) [1 2 3]

Child Neglect, NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Best of Modern AU [1 2 3 4]

Best of Office AU NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Best of Time Travel AU [1]

Best of "5 + 1 things" [1]

Best of oblivious Sasuke, NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Domestic NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Kyuubi | Nine-tails | Kurama Appreciation Post [1]

When Heroes Turn Writers, NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

[ryttu3k]

Trans Rights Readathon book list! I've gone through my ridiculous TBR and pulled out… pretty sure everything that qualifies. I've also included a few recs for books with trans writers, protags/major characters, or both!

On TBR, owned

Aoki, Ryka - Light from Uncommon Stars (SFF, 372 pages)

Lake, Joss - Future Feeling (SFF, 294 pages)

Lemberg, RB - The Unbalancing (fantasy, 244 pages - hard copy)

Polydoros, Aden - The City Beautiful (YA fantasy, 462 pages)

Quills, Coffee - Blasted Research (SF, 288 pages)

Wilkes, Ally - All The White Spaces (horror, 358 pages)

On TBR, not owned

Angus, Callum - A Natural History of Transition (collection, 200 pages)

Candon, Emma Mieko - The Archive Undying (SF, 482 pages)

Dawson, Juno - Her Majesty's Royal Coven (fantasy, 452 pages)

Edgmon, HE - The Witch King (YA fantasy, 432 pages)

Fellman, Isaac - Dead Collections (fantasy romance, 256 pages)

Kelly, Anita - Love and Other Disasters (romance, 371 pages)

Lamb, Sacha - When The Angels Left The Old Country (YA fantasy, 400 pages)

Lukens, FT - In Deeper Waters (YA fantasy, 307 pages)

Mandelo, Lee - Summer Sons (gothic horror, 372 pages)

McLemore, Anna-Marie - Lakelore (YA fantasy, 289 pages)

McQuiston, Casey - One Last Stop (fantasy romance, 422 pages)

Pulley, Natasha - The Mars House (SF, 469 pages)

St Hogan, Carter - One or Several Deserts (collection, 206 pages)

Thomas, Morgan - Manywhere (collection, 209 pages)

Ones I've already read and am nudging others towards

Chambers, Becky - Monk & Robot

Chant, Austin - Peter Darling

Cipri, Nino - Finna; Defekt

Drayden, Nicky - The Prey of Gods

Hess, Al - World Running Down

Künsken, Derek - The House of Styx

Jamnia, Naseem - The Bruising of Qilwa

Jarboe, Julian K - Everyone On The Moon Is Essential Personnel

Lavery, Daniel M - Something That May Shock And Discredit You (part essays, part memoir. Originally published as Daniel Mallory Ortberg)

Lee, Yoon Ha - Phoenix Extravagant

Lemberg, RB - The Four Profound Weaves (one of the only stories I've read with older trans characters)

Kalsulke, Calvin - Several People Are Typing

Maxwell, Everina - Winter's Orbit

Stinzi, John Elizabeth - My Volcano (completely bonkers (complementary))

Sylver, RoAnna - Chameleon Moon series; Stake Sauce series

Tingle, Chuck - Camp Damascus (one of my top three books of last year!)

White, Andrew Joseph - Hell Followed With Us (one of my other top three books of last year!); The Spirit Bares Its Fangs

[mel0dielynn]

My Heart 🩵

A HuaLian fanfic.

My works! My Front Page!

Word count: 452

Hua Cheng was supposed to be asleep. How could he though? His beloved was sleeping so soundly next to him. How could he sleep when after 800+ years of being Xie Lian's most devoted follower, and his one true love, actually confess his love back to him?

It seemed impossible, but here his highness was, sleeping ever so soundly next to him after admitting the truth that he reciprocated his feelings towards the oh-so hopelessly-in-love Ghost King. How could His highness, the crowned Price of Xianle ever love this pathetic and disgusting man?

As if sensing this dread from the man lying next to him, Xie Lian stirred in his sleep and turned over, facing his stressed lover. Hua Cheng did not notice this, as he thought that it was just Xie Lian turning over in his sleep.

Xie Lian only worried about his lover. Hua Cheng treated himself so unfairly and only belittled his own mind. Xie Lian knew that Hua Cheng was a strong man that deserved the world and more, and he tried to prove that everyday that he had with his Ghost King.

"My heart, what has you so troubled?" Xie Lian whispered into the darkness, only the light of the moon and stars shone through the holes in his shrine.

Hua Cheng looked over at Xie Lian and only thought that he had troubled him. "I'm sorry, Gege." If there had been more light, Xie Lian would have saw the tears starting to form.

"Don't apologize, my dear," still whispering, Xie Lian reached out into the darkness and started messing with Hua Cheng's long strands of hair. "I know not of what goes on in your beautiful, yet dark mind, but whatever it is," he took a long breath and shuffled closer. "Whatever troubles you, my heart, know that I am here for you, and that won't change. If you think you are not worth my love and praise, it is I who is unworthy of yours. However, I will make all your sorrows go away."

Hua Cheng was taken aback by this. Never, in all of his time -and that has been a long, long time- has he been told such beautiful words. "But.. Gege..." and this has started the tears to form only faster. He was a Ghost King, one of the strongest, yet here he was, on the verge of tears from the smallest form of love.

"There are no buts, my heart." Xie Lian sat up and leaned over to his lover. "Now, let me cast your worries away." And he leaned down, tucked his hair behind his ear, and gave him a soft and tender kiss.

[justalittlerandomartist]

New ask... Sailor Moon this time. What planet would represent you as a Sailor Senshi/Guardian/Scout (depending on the version you watched)

Dwarf Planets and Exoplanets are OK if you know them (I mean one of the outer Senshi is technically represented by a dwarf planet)

i would be sailor Kepler 452-B

[onepiecebdays]

august 15th - tsukimi

debut chapter: 448 (cover story)

recent chapter: 452 (cover story)

age at death: unknown

affiliation: moon

bounty: none

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.21

452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. 1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed. 1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia. 1797 – A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists. 1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales. 1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia. 1828 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah. 1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine. 1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto. 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory. 1866 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor becomes the first American woman to graduate from dental school. 1874 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition. 1878 – The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut. 1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated. 1896 – An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing. 1913 – Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars. 1916 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins. 1918 – The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. 1919 – German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany. 1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution. 1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup. 1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue. 1929 – In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops. 1934 – Augusto Sandino is executed. 1937 – The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War. 1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga. 1945 – World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the German forces in the Battle of Monte Castello on the Italian front. 1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America. 1948 – NASCAR is incorporated. 1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". 1952 – The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 1958 – The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. 1965 – Malcolm X is gunned down while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. 1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. 1972 – United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations. 1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. 1973 – Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people. 1974 – The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. 1994 – Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia. 1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. 2013 – At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad. 2022 – In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.

[novanhistorian]

An Apéritif

Since the thing I’ve been on-and-off teasing is taking a while (optimistic finish time is early November, and I’ve been at it since early August), I’ve decided to release the introduction to an earlier work. The said introduction, intended to provide historical context, covers about 70% of total Scientian history, and thus about 60% of the subject matter of the thing I’ve been teasing.

To quote my past self:

The absolute minimum context you need is that the characters are members of a species called novanity, novans were created by human scientists who then left the planet, and that planet is called Terranovo.

This is one of two things I’m releasing from the project, the other being the Miniature Encyclopedia.

Stuff below the cut is about 1.5k words.

A Short History of the Novan Imperium.

Narrative stops on 12 January 452 (7 September 3435 by a calendar no longer in non-religious use).

First off, humanity managed to survive climate change and reverse its effects to some extent. They still decided to try their hand at terraforming a very promising exoplanet in a nearby (relatively speaking) solar system, and the United Nations put out a call for interested scientists. The “New Eden Project,” as it was colloquially called in English, was very successful in recruiting, and often whole families came along. I would love to give you details of how they got there in the record time they did, but the information seems to have been specifically taken in the Departure a few centuries down the line. After arriving, however they managed it, the humans settled Terra Nova’s moon with the intent to use it as a base of operations for their terraforming efforts. Those got started promptly enough, but they would take several hundred years. In that time humanity found many ways to amuse itself, like creating species for the new world to supplement those they had brought with them. One doctoral student got very carried away and created the first novanoid, which was drafted using a somewhat buggy supercomputer to simulate and predict the result of her design and thus died when she actually attempted to clone it. She gave up, but the Academy (essentially the executive and legislative branches of government, formed of illustrious scientists) found out and took over. After several decades they had success and the first novan was born. From that point forward creation of novans became more and more frequent until following the instructions to build and customize one’s own became a common capstone project for those pursuing doctorates in genetic engineering (and those poor souls who made a new kind of conifer or whatnot were considered to be hopelessly outclassed). This continued even after Terra Nova was fully terraformed and settlement started, though primarily on the Moon because that was where the obscenely complicated infrastructure it took to make a person was.

The novans as of our story do not have many records of this period, since much of it was destroyed in the Departure, the Moon—where most of the surviving records were—was rendered uninhabitable in the Devastation, and society went to the dogs for two hundred years after that.

Speaking of, the Departure happened. No one left behind knows why, but over the course of a week the Academy, still a dictatorial government even after all these centuries, shut down all nonessential systems and copied and destroyed as much information deemed important as it could. Most humans and tapped novans do not seem to have been aware beforehand of the purpose of the summons they received. It is unclear whether it was made known to them that refusal meant their summary execution or if they were just shot. Nevertheless, at the end of that week every human on the moon, on the planet, and (formerly) in the various mining fleets of the asteroid belt set off in the same direction. Only five ships were ever seen again, and that was as wreckage, clearly destroyed by the others for turning back.

A society with only thirty-seven percent of its population remaining (on average; the Moon was hit much harder than Terra Nova and the Belt) will either band together or collapse, and the novans proved the latter kind. The planet, still mostly a frontier with few established cities, broke apart into warring states with obscure and ever-changing borders. The Moon had two terrifying years of anarchy and mob rule before turning things around, semi-democratically electing a government, and becoming one of the most stable non-theocracies in the solar system. (The theocracies were outwardly “stable” due primarily to internal repression, or else due to being very lucky in who fell into their leadership roles early on.) It was seen as a leader by the rest of the survivors, both for its status as the center of pre-Departure society and government and for its togetherness in the aftermath.

The asteroid belt imploded. There is no other word for it. They lived on spaceships, under no real regulations even before the Departure took seventy percent of their population and a hundred percent of their government. The mining companies that survived with most of their boards intact became unstable pseudo-states, dependent on trade with the Moon (and through them Terra Nova) for the goods they needed to survive, which they never got enough of. As companies do, they wanted product and cared zero whits about what that meant for their employee-citizens. As dictators do, they wanted the good life and extracted it from their subjects brutally. Eight hundred years later, at the time of another major project in the Imperium Novel, they still occasionally find ghost ships from this period, their crews dead of overwork, system failures, simple starvation, or—most commonly—a combination of the three.

That is the environment that spawned the perpetrators of the Devastation. I have covered this in more detail elsewhere, but in short the Devastation was the destruction of every dome-city on the Moon by a combination of nuclear bombing and suicide-bomber-induced reactor failures.

Then there were about two hundred more years of the War Era as defined by historians. (Some argue that what is termed the Wars of Tidying Up is indistinguishable from what is termed the War Era save by its position on one side or the other of the official establishment of the Novan Imperium.) Forty or so years out from its end, several of the states came together in a coalition, with the goal of conquering or recruiting the others and creating the first unified government since the human days. It took them a few decades, but they slowly assimilated the whole of the main continent (omitting Lazer’ and Nowhere, nations on the smaller outlying continents). This accomplished, they declared the Year of Fortifying the Peace—later designated the year zero of a new dating system—and at the end officially established the Novan Imperium. There then followed another forty years of trying to get Nowhere and Lazer’ to crumble, which they eventually did.

Then there were three or four hundred years, depending on which historian one asks, of relative stability. These saw the government transition into a more democratic one less overwhelmingly controlled by the twenty-five states who either were cofounders of the coalition or had joined up voluntarily and the cadet program—initially planned to run for twenty years as a way of raising the last generation of war orphans, but far outlasting that time—come to increasing societal prominence. (This has its payoff in the Second Civil War of 744 to 750 or thenabouts.) The Imperium had been divided shortly after its creation into three main administrative regions (with later-added auxiliaries for Nowhere and Lazer’) which answered to a central government. The tensions that led to the First Civil War were just as much within the divisions as they were between them—no allowance had been made for cultural differences and ancient enmities in the north-to-south-divided regions, so Vesica Montium was expected to come to concord on every itty-bitty decision with its ancient enemies Putiya Nakaram and Shattered Rock, so long as that decision passed through the parliament. (Each region had a parliament; the country as a whole had a senate, which was basically the same thing under a different name.) When they had managed to quell their internal disputes, the regions turned to their neighbors for a fight—and more often than not they got it. This is why Mr. Sen. Telkes (Heleno being a state in the Western Administrative Region) insults Sabro (Central Administrative Region) so much and seems surprised to find someone he thinks is another Helenan there.

The Imperium also expanded off-planet and subjugated the warring companies of the asteroid belt, which by this time had become the Mining Belt in common parlance. They were not granted statehood—statehood meaning, here, what California has within the United States—but were instead made into tributary states with the Imperium as suzerain. This meant regulations, however spottily enforced, and a diminution if not an end in the continuous feuds and more importantly shortages that had plagued Belter life for generations, but was seen as a grave insult by many. The Imperium’s rather chauvinistic attitude toward the Belt and its inhabitants contributed to this, as did their perceived hypocrisy in critiquing the Belter company-state structure while their own corporations ran wild with their private armies and created a full-bore aristocracy (this being the riĉuloj).

Before the civil war officially broke out, there was a decade in which tensions became so thick they could be and were cut by a stray dueling-sword. [Here I started talking about the actual project.]

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Getting back into listening to podcasts 💖

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Part 2 of 1-6-2024 #10K2024

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