Monus System

Monus is a repository for culture, or so they say. Many museums, libraries, and  galleries that contain the Terran Mandate cultures from all around Earth. It is an honored position to be in service to the preservation of culture as well as the the country itself.

The government itself is a Monarchic Meritocracy where those who serve in as extreme examples of service, doing the most good for the planet or the preservation of culture are advanced to rule those to whom they serve as the example.

• Orbital Order: 3

• Name: Breathable mix

• Temperature: Temperate

• Biosphere: Human-miscible biosphere

• Population: Millions of inhabitants

• Tech Level: Tech level 5. Pretech, pre-Silence technology.

• Tags: Bubble Cities , Regional Hegemon, Perceptor Archives

Bubble Cities

Whether due to a lack of atmosphere or an uninhabitable climate, the world's cities exist within domes or pressurized buildings. In such sealed environments, techniques of surveillance and control can grow baroque and extreme.

Enemies:

• Native dreading outsider contamination

• Saboteur from another bubble city

• Local official hostile to outsider ignorance of laws

Friends:

• Local rebel against the city officials

• Maintenance chief in need of help

• Surveyor seeking new building site

Complications:

• Bubble rupture

• Failing atmosphere reprocessor

• Native revolt against officials

• All-seeing surveillance cameras

Things:

• Pretech habitat technology

• Valuable industrial products

• Master key codes to a city's security system

Places:

• City power core

• Surface of the bubble

• Hydroponics complex

• Warren-like hab block

Preceptor Archive

The Preceptors of the Great Archive were a pre-Silence organization devoted to ensuring the dissemination of human culture, history, and basic technology to frontier worlds that risked losing this information during the human expansion. Most frontier planets had an Archive where natives could learn useful technical skills in addition to human history and art. Those Archives that managed to survive the Silence now strive to send their missionaries of knowledge to new worlds in need of their lore.

Enemies:

• Luddite native

• Offworld merchant who wants the natives kept ignorant

• Religious zealot

• Corrupted first speaker who wants to keep a monopoly on learning

Friends:

• Preceptor adept missionary

• Offworld scholar

• Reluctant student

• Roving preceptor adept

Complications:

• The local Archive has taken a religious and mystical attitude toward their teaching

• The Archive has maintained some replicable pretech science

• The Archive has been corrupted and their teaching is incorrect

Things:

• Lost Archive database

• Ancient pretech teaching equipment

• Hidden cache of unacceptable tech

Places:

• Archive lecture hall

• Experimental laboratory

• Student-local riot

Rising Hegemon

This world is not yet a dominant power in the sector, but it's well on its way there. Whether through newly-blossoming economic, military, or cultural power, they're extending their influence over their neighbors and forging new arrangements between their government and the rulers of nearby worlds.

Enemies:

• Jingoistic supremacist

• Official bent on glorious success

• Foreign agent saboteur

Friends:

• Friendly emissary to the benighted

• Hardscrabble local turned great success

• Foreign visitor seeking contacts or knowledge

Complications:

• They're only strong because their neighbors have been weakened

• Their success is based on a fluke resource or pretech find

• They bitterly resent their neighbors as former oppressors

Things:

• Tribute shipment

• Factory or barracks emblematic of their power source

• Tech or data that will deal a blow to their rise

Places:

• Rustic town being hurled into prosperity

• Government building being expanded

• Starport struggling under the flow of new ships