Re: Help designing a low gravity world...

On Dec 2, 2:01 pm, af...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John Park) wrote:

(Should we ask why the planet is called Muarebi, but the moon is
Eden--different cultures at work? Or is that part of the story?)

The story is based on various characters, not on the scientific
specifics of the background. Here's the basic cultural background:

The post-human terraformers are copies of an English speaking
mind-uploaded human named Sean Yellowstone. At the time
Eden was terraformed, Sean copies dominated all star systems
within 100ly of Sol, except for Sol and Alpha Centauri. The Sol
and Alpha Centauri systems were dominated by more traditional
mind-upload societies, with biological humans living in orbital
habitats and Earth.

Since the mind-uploads had much greater speed-of-thought
and they greatly outnumbered the humans, the humans had to
live with the terrible knowledge of their own obsolescense. The
Eden project was essentially a (highly non-scientific) experiment
by the Sean copies to create a world where humans could live
without this terrible knowledge.

Thus, a somewhat Earth-like world would be terraformed and
populated by humans, plants, and animals. Sean copies
raised the first generation of humans, teaching them the
English language, but then mostly left them to their own
devices. The Sean copies remained living among the humans
to observe and record, and to keep the language from drifting
too far--but the important principle was to neither advance
nor deter human progress.

Thus, the human culture is English speaking, but with
independently developed technology. Anything the first
generations could directly see would be given a name, but
local discoveries/inventions would have new names. So the
moon itself is named Eden; the impossible to miss planet
is named Muaraebi (from Mu Arae b). But other planets
have local names.

Isaac Kuo
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