- Industry: Education
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The University League was organized RT-3851 to develop the protocols that would become the Hub Conventions. The League functions as the Charter authority and adjudication body for all Convention signatories.
Gravity propulsion, a common form of high-speed transportation that uses small-scale, cylindrical tavis fields to link larger habitat domes.
Industry:Literature
On Optimal-2 planets (rare), habitats are defined by Jathrin domes: Above-ground field-generators controlling atmospheric conditions (weather) and providing security perimeters. Habitats on Optimal-3 planets are mirror-domes, excavated below ground to provide a complete, flattened sphere for high-capacity tavis fields to enclose artificially-generated and/or sustained atmosphere.
Industry:Literature
A dense star cluster colonized by humans over more than three millenia. After a millenium of interstellar conflict and chaos, the Hub Conventions evolved to provide a framework for inter-colonial interactions.
Industry:Literature
A set of standards defining legitimate forms of conflict and accepted methods for prosecuting conflicts of various types, binding all signatories to compliance. More than 90% of the Hub colonies are signatories, including Klaros and the Independent Fleet
Industry:Literature
A major root language for the Procyon colonial axis, and common elsewhere in the Hub. Dialects tend to be easily distinguishable by accent and vocabulary accretion, but there is little lingual drift from the root overall.
Industry:Literature
Space-based trader populations loosely organized by clan and cultural heritage. They live in ship-based societies and pursue a variety of trade operations, especially on routes deemed unprofitable for major central Hub combines. They also maintain space-naval capabilities and have proved formidable opponents in Private War situations.
Industry:Literature
A fabulously expensive luxury fabric traded heavily among the decadent colonies of the Ophiuchi Circuit.
Industry:Literature
Mesram Xina Colony was initially the dominant force in colonizing the Ophiuchi Circuit, but lost their influence and power in a series of Private Wars with the Kim Sons Combine.
Industry:Literature
Ultraminiaturized surveillance tools used for covert monitoring and recording. They are available in several effective ranges, with powercells ranging from a few hours to over three hundred hours.
Industry:Literature
Categorization system for planets habitable with various levels of terraforming. "Optimal" is the standard for terratype planets with little or no terraforming required for habitation. Optimal-1 through Optimal-4 designations indicate terraforming requirements for colonization. A planet requiring more than Optimal-4 levels is regarded as "sub-Optimal" and will not be released for colonial Charter by the University League of the Hub.
Industry:Literature
