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*[[Boreal Basic]]|moons=[None]}}'''Eithlinn''' is a habitable moon in [[Aylathiya]]. The moon is the homeworld of the [[Dotsk]] and is the capital and most populated natural body in [[Dotskgard]]. It orbits the gas giant '''Tuirne''', the largest world in the [[Medb]] system. Tuirne's massive size and host of moons more than make up for the lack of other planets. The brightest star in Eithlinn's sky is not its dim brown dwarf of a sun but the giant ''aurora star'' [[Mili]]. |
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Eithlinn itself has a population of 13.081 billion, making it the most populated moon in [[Aylathiya]]. Accompanying it are over forty other moons, the largest of which is [[Anamnesis]], the first world the Dotsk terraformed. |
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'''Eithlinn''' is a habitable moon in the [[Milky Way]]. The moon is the homeworld of the [[Dotsk]] and is capital of [[Dotskgard]]. It orbits the gas giant '''Tuirne'''. The entirety of the Tuirne system has a population of 145 Quadrillion, making it the most populous system in the Milky Way. Eithlinn is the largest moon orbiting its planet as well as the largest terrestrial object in its system. The moon orbits a Brown Dwarf three astronomical units away, making the tidal heating caused by its proximity to Tuirne its main source of warmth. |
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Accompanying Eithlinn are over forty other spherical moons. The largest of which are [[Anamnesis]], Mys, and Roid. Eithlinn is about seventy percent as massive as the Earth, while its parent is fifty percent more massive than Jupiter. |
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== History == |
== History == |
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The planet first formed 9.77 billion years ago around Tuirne. It was likely that its parent was a rogue planet captured by Medb, the Brown Dwarf it orbits almost 11 billion years ago. The planet first gained oceans roughly 6.6 billion years ago and gained life 5.1 billion years in the past. In the long history of the planet, there were far more asteroid strikes due to the large gravity of its parent, hence why the planet took so long to develop life compared to its age. |
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Multicellular life appeared on the planet 1.1 billion years ago and shortly after started living on the land 900 million years ago. The large amount of volcanic activity on land offered large amounts of nutrients for these life forms, making land a great place for the organisms to live. |
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== Geography == |
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The Dotsk have entirely rearranged Eithlinn's surface, leaving little in the way of natural land forms. While much of the planet remains lush and grand forests cover more area than ever before, this land is reclaimed from ancient cityscape. In the past, Eithlinn's cities were far more spread out and the planet was an ecumenopolis. |
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The Dotsk emerged in 120,000 BCE and quickly developed agriculture as there was no ice age to inhibit them like it did with humans in 100,000 CE. From there, they took another five thousand years to develop metallurgy and enter into a bronze age, quickly replaced by an iron age later that millennia. Much like most species, they had tribalistic tendencies and formed their own nations and economies. |
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Across the moon are large towers, often twenty kilometers long and a kilometer and a half wide. Whether stretching deep into the mantle or the seas, these towers hold as many as one million within. Several have their own dedicated space elevators to make space travel much easier, mostly for importing crops and materials. Eithlinn's surface, while not pristine, is mostly fallow. The other moons around Tuirne thus supply most of its resources and, even if the moon were fully utilized, there is so little easily-accessible ore left that it would be a wasted effort. |
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The Dotsk had no access to oil on their planet, they used geothermal power for everything. The lack of oil but abundance of volcanism made this an easy choice for them. As they slowly industrialized, they began spreading to every corner of their planet, bringing technology with them. After several wars, they entered a period of globalism in which the economies of their various nations became more and more interconnected. During this same period, they began landing craft on their accompanying moons. With no threat of climate change, due to the irrelevance of sunlight and the lack of oil, the Dotsk were quickly able to form their planet into an ecumenopolis. There were no limits, they had access to the easiest form of power. |
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== Biosphere == |
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The life on Eithlinn is mostly based on metal oxides and heteropolar acids, different from carbon-based life but fulfilling the same roles. The lack of phosphorus in the area made it far too uncommon for life to incorporate it into their biologies, so life evolved with arsenic as the backbone of its genetic material instead. This caused phosphorous to become a valuable commodity to the ancient Dotsk, a material rivaling gold in value. |
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Eithlinn was fully under the control of the Dotsk by 17,000 CE. Around this same time, the whole of the Tuirne system was being colonized and Eithlinn became an ecumenopolis. Their first mega structure was not a [[Dyson Swarm]], like most civilizations, but a massive orbital ring around Tuirne. This ring was made up of the hundreds of asteroids orbiting Tuirne. With this ring they were able to start [[Star Lifting|gas giant lifting]] the planet to gather large amounts of Helium 3 to power their ever-expanding nation. |
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=== Producers === |
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The large volumes of Hydrogen Sulfide present in the atmosphere, in addition to a large amount of carbon dioxide, methane, and sulfur dioxide, are vital to life on this moon. Eithlinn is distant from the nearest star. Instead, the lowest level of the food chain relies heavily on chemosynthesis. Hydrogen Sulfide and Carbon Dioxide can be oxidized to produce sugars, releasing large amounts of pure sulfur. Most organisms that chemosynthesize end up becoming purple or yellow due to this release of elemental sulfur. |
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One of the few planetary systems to become Type II without a dyson swarm was Tuirne. With huge arrays of Fusion reactors, they were able to generate the power required to attain Kardeshev II status. Without things such as plants or a home star, they never developed the concept of Dyson Swarms. Instead, they just kept building up their home system. Soon, they had hundreds of rings around their Brown Dwarf, lifting huge quantities of material to build up their civilization. Other planets in the system were moved around Tuirne as it very quickly became the proverbial center of the Dotsk. Over 99% of Dotsk lived within one light-second of their home world. |
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A large portion of the moon's biosphere relied on another exotic form of energy production, radiosynthesis. In the ocean, where life on the moon originated, the first meter of water absorbs almost all radiation hitting the moon. On land, however, the moon was often bombarded with high-energy waves. Every so often, particularly strong bouts of stellar radiation will hit Eithlinn. This first sterilized the land; however, life soon began to use this radiation to its advantage. The first "plants" emerging onto the land would mostly chemosynthesize like everything else. Additionally, these plants were able to evolve into radio-synthesizers when the moon becomes saturated with cosmic rays for up to a week at a time. Radiosynthesis is akin to photosynthesis, except it uses higher energy light than photosynthesis does, allowing for elemental oxygen to begin building up in the atmosphere. |
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=== Contact === |
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Eithlinn and the moons around it remained where the vast majority of Dotsk lived. They continued advancing their own system with little regard for the outside universe. Their own system could support quintillions, so they had no reason to leave. As they remained in place. population growth slowed, but advanced technology made death a rare occurrence, so this mattered little. |
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When the LaC first contacted the Dotsk in 15,671, they quickly had the Dotsk join as a single-system-state called Dotskgard. The Dotsk were eager to join an interstellar confederacy, it meant that they would have protection and could remain in their one system. Despite being the smallest of the new states, they were instantly one of the most influential. With a population of ten quadrillion at the time, it was easily a large portion of the population of the LaC. Its economy grew considerably as it was able to import materials it needed rather than fuse elements, allowing for the government to life restrictions on population growth that served to prevent overwhelming the reactor array. Very quickly the population grew as several million more O'Neill cylinders and other habitats flooded the space around Tuirne. Eithlinn gained several artificial layers in this time period to make more room for all the new Dotsk. |
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When Eithlinn first became a part of the wider economy of Aylathiya, its economy had no specific focus. The Dotsk developed a system similar to distributism, a system of economics in which the ownership of capital is spread widely among many individuals. A typical company would be owned by those who worked for it; however, the government was not allowed to interfere in the economy unless it was to maintain the distributist system. This economic system was strange, neither fully socialist nor liberal and also far more productive than the feudal systems around it. |
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At first, the government of Eithlinn was incredibly hostile to corporations. The Dotsk immediately look upon this foreign concept with disdain. Most believed it to be some form of authoritarianism. After the collapse of the [[Triumvirate Civilization]], the planet found itself able to access the large number of resources it was cut off from previously. The government, fearing monopolies, banned corporations and forced them to return to the distributist form the nation had known previously. |
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=== Blockades === |
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During the [[War of the Decamillennial Transition]], the system was blockaded by [[The Empyrean]], a nation fighting against the Lactean Confederacy. The imports the people relied on were cut off all at once and the infrastructure around Medb to star lift was mostly several millennia old as they did not need to continue extracting metals from it. The local government, which was largely human or influenced by them, issued several mandates to lower the consumption of individuals. After a decade of this, the Dotsk grew weary of these restrictions, many were suffering deficiencies and the LaC military was busy defending human worlds over nonhuman ones. The normally very temperate Dotsk broke and a revolution occurred, causing the Lactean Spring and, later, the [[Split of the Lactean Confederacy]]. |
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Fairly ideologically similar to the [[Confederacy of Borealis]], ten percent of the economy came under the control of this galaxy-spanning union. The Confederacy, known for economically conquering worlds if given the chance, is blocked from expanding much beyond this ten percent figure. |
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=== Anarchic Period === |
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The [[Split of the Lactean Confederacy#Anarchic Period|Anarchic Period]] in the Milky Way saw the collapse of The Lactean Confederacy and downturns in most major nations around it. What this period did was end the Blockade and allow the Dotsk to overthrow their leaders. After several coups and a brief civil war, the nation was able to set up a decently stable republic modeled after the original government the planet had before the Lactean Confederacy. With Eithlinn as the capital world of this New Dotsk Republic, called Dotskgard in Xeno after the [[Neo-Norse Religion|Neo-Norse]] word for the nation, the nation broke its habit of isolationism and began sending colony ships to other worlds. Again, the population swelled as resources flowed in from nearby systems the Dotsk easily subjugated with their huge population to draw troops from. |
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=== The Confederacy of Borealis === |
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After the formation of the Confederacy of Borealis, the Dotsk, whose total population was exceeding one quintillion, a companion moon of Eithlinn was made into the Financial Capital of the Confederacy. This thrust Tuirne from a comparatively minor world to the center of markets in the Milky Way. When wormhole technology was perfected a millennia later, over twenty ended up leading to the Tuirne system. Currently, many of the largest corporations have offices on Eithlinn or orbiting it. Despite the large amount of wealth circulating in the upper echelons of Dotsk society, the majority end up living average lives apart from the high population. |
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Eithlinn has a small magnetic field of its own. This field is just enough to protect it from the cosmic rays that its parent's magnetic field misses. Even so, a lot of radiation is missed, causing most species to be covered in thick layers of dermis filled with pigments to absorb harmful rays. |
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Oceans water covers the surface of most of the planet. These oceans are mostly a uniform depth except for around land masses. Here, they sharply decrease it depth until hitting land. What land there is on the planet is formed almost entirely from volcanic activity. Every bit of land has a large volcano at its center, spewing large amounts of vital chemicals into the air and ground. Islands that cease volcanic activity somewhat quickly erode away due to the fairly high erosion rate on the moon. |
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At one point in the moon's history, it was thought that Mys, a companion moon of Eithlinn, was a sub-satellite of Eithlinn as the majority of simulations ran backwards suggest this. |
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== Geography == |
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Most of the planet's original volcanic activity and natural surface has been altered by the Dotsk to suit their needs more, leaving little in the way of natural geography left. The planet has five layers made mostly of material brought in from asteroids orbiting Tuirne. These layers are covered in large amounts of buildings and other infrastructure in edition to large open spaces and parks for the sake of aesthetics. On the poles of the moon are massive radiators that emit large amounts of infrared light, cooling it. Were it not for these radiators, the moon would very quickly heat to the point of killing its inhabitants. |
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Latest revision as of 20:11, March 24, 2026
Eithlinn
Eithlinn is a habitable moon in Aylathiya. The moon is the homeworld of the Dotsk and is the capital and most populated natural body in Dotskgard. It orbits the gas giant Tuirne, the largest world in the Medb system. Tuirne's massive size and host of moons more than make up for the lack of other planets. The brightest star in Eithlinn's sky is not its dim brown dwarf of a sun but the giant aurora star Mili.
Eithlinn itself has a population of 13.081 billion, making it the most populated moon in Aylathiya. Accompanying it are over forty other moons, the largest of which is Anamnesis, the first world the Dotsk terraformed.
History
Geography
The Dotsk have entirely rearranged Eithlinn's surface, leaving little in the way of natural land forms. While much of the planet remains lush and grand forests cover more area than ever before, this land is reclaimed from ancient cityscape. In the past, Eithlinn's cities were far more spread out and the planet was an ecumenopolis.
Across the moon are large towers, often twenty kilometers long and a kilometer and a half wide. Whether stretching deep into the mantle or the seas, these towers hold as many as one million within. Several have their own dedicated space elevators to make space travel much easier, mostly for importing crops and materials. Eithlinn's surface, while not pristine, is mostly fallow. The other moons around Tuirne thus supply most of its resources and, even if the moon were fully utilized, there is so little easily-accessible ore left that it would be a wasted effort.
Biosphere
The life on Eithlinn is mostly based on metal oxides and heteropolar acids, different from carbon-based life but fulfilling the same roles. The lack of phosphorus in the area made it far too uncommon for life to incorporate it into their biologies, so life evolved with arsenic as the backbone of its genetic material instead. This caused phosphorous to become a valuable commodity to the ancient Dotsk, a material rivaling gold in value.
Producers
The large volumes of Hydrogen Sulfide present in the atmosphere, in addition to a large amount of carbon dioxide, methane, and sulfur dioxide, are vital to life on this moon. Eithlinn is distant from the nearest star. Instead, the lowest level of the food chain relies heavily on chemosynthesis. Hydrogen Sulfide and Carbon Dioxide can be oxidized to produce sugars, releasing large amounts of pure sulfur. Most organisms that chemosynthesize end up becoming purple or yellow due to this release of elemental sulfur.
A large portion of the moon's biosphere relied on another exotic form of energy production, radiosynthesis. In the ocean, where life on the moon originated, the first meter of water absorbs almost all radiation hitting the moon. On land, however, the moon was often bombarded with high-energy waves. Every so often, particularly strong bouts of stellar radiation will hit Eithlinn. This first sterilized the land; however, life soon began to use this radiation to its advantage. The first "plants" emerging onto the land would mostly chemosynthesize like everything else. Additionally, these plants were able to evolve into radio-synthesizers when the moon becomes saturated with cosmic rays for up to a week at a time. Radiosynthesis is akin to photosynthesis, except it uses higher energy light than photosynthesis does, allowing for elemental oxygen to begin building up in the atmosphere.
Economy
When Eithlinn first became a part of the wider economy of Aylathiya, its economy had no specific focus. The Dotsk developed a system similar to distributism, a system of economics in which the ownership of capital is spread widely among many individuals. A typical company would be owned by those who worked for it; however, the government was not allowed to interfere in the economy unless it was to maintain the distributist system. This economic system was strange, neither fully socialist nor liberal and also far more productive than the feudal systems around it.
At first, the government of Eithlinn was incredibly hostile to corporations. The Dotsk immediately look upon this foreign concept with disdain. Most believed it to be some form of authoritarianism. After the collapse of the Triumvirate Civilization, the planet found itself able to access the large number of resources it was cut off from previously. The government, fearing monopolies, banned corporations and forced them to return to the distributist form the nation had known previously.
Fairly ideologically similar to the Confederacy of Borealis, ten percent of the economy came under the control of this galaxy-spanning union. The Confederacy, known for economically conquering worlds if given the chance, is blocked from expanding much beyond this ten percent figure.