Clipping
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Clipping
Created by: WingedCat
Technology: +1 (Exploiting the System) Environment: +4 (Ringworld) Resources: -1 (Almost viable)
Aspects
One Origin, Many Peoples
Wilderness and Techno-wilderness
Kindred Spirits Welcome, Looters Not
Connections
In-System Travel
The ring is about 0.12 AU from the primary.
| Slipknot | Ringworld | |
|---|---|---|
| Slipknot | 13 days | 6.5 days |
| Ringworld | 6.5 days | 1 day |
Description
Clipping consists of a small ringworld about a light minute in diameter by 100 km wide, around a red dwarf star. Both ring and star (and a partial dyson swarm to focus light around sunspots and intercept solar flares, to stabilize light output to the ring) are remnants: around 50 years ago, a T4 society went away, apparently unintentionally detaching part of their main ringworld and some of their star.
The ascension took everyone - biological, silicon, whatever - considered sentient. Notably, this did not include various barely-sub-sentient experiments who remained on the ringworld, and have since evolved (usually some degree of quick forced "evolution", via the framework of their experiments concluding). Over the past 50 years, here and there across the vast ringworld (about 12 Earths' surface area), pockets of new peoples (usually genetically compatible with humanity) have emerged at varying levels of education. The oldest peoples are trying to form a common government and culture, but it is slow going.
They have recovered enough technology to mine the star for some metals (and rapidly transit across their vast world, skipping over the 99+% uninhabited area), but for the most part they trade manufactured goods or T4 artifacts for raw materials: the vanishment took everything else from their solar system, out to and including parts of their oort cloud (granted, this was largely because most of that had already been repurposed into the megastructures that then departed). Eventually they may rediscover how to make ships that can travel to other systems, but for now mutual discovery and political unification are nearer-term goals.
Being next to Dandelion but not needing (or being able to enforce) invites, they have plenty of experience with those who come by only to loot technology. Looting by non-residents is forbidden, with punishments ranging from warnings to on-the-spot executions depending largely on the danger these activities pose to the local population.
