Aldaain
Ownership: HFed
Colonized: 1,3912
Moons: 7
RSA designation: RSA-001-2
System: Orbeus 6
Location: Delta Quadrant
Aldaain is the command world of the Hemmoian Federation.
Contents
Orbital parameters
Day length: 41.09 standard hours
Year length: 150.33 standard days
Moon system
The original eighth moon, Aldaain-8, was destroyed by a Bacterian Planet Killer Beam.
Geography
Capital City: Aldaain Centrum
Surface area: 100% urban cityscape.
Major population centers: E'mlow, Glnt'check, New Vonnek
Aldaain has two major continents, the northern Kud, and the southern Ytis. Before Project GLOBALSPRING, they were separated by a frozen ocean. As the global temperatures rose, the ice eventually melted into a global ocean. This ocean became so polluted and laced with toxins in the First Bacterian War that it was eventually removed altogether in a massive geoengineering operation.
Today, the surface of the world is entirely covered by a multi-level megalopolis, with several layers of archology type structures built on top of each other. This extra artificial layer of the planet's surface can be tens of kilometers thick, extending deep from beneath the former sea level well into the sky. Enormous spires reach further up into the air, some of them extending even beyond the atmosphere. Synchronous space lifts are very common all around the planet.
The global city is divided into City Districts and City Sectors. Districts are generally named after their old city names, whereas Sectors are often simply numbered and designated by purpose, such as Industrial Sector T84 or Commercial Sector ED3. Other sector designators include Residential Sector and Administrative Sector.
For historical reasons, some sectors of Aldaain are semi-autonomous enclaves under the jurisdiction of the United Orcish Empire. These are known as the Aldaain Orcish Sectors (AOS).
History
Colonization
Initial discovery
With the homeworld of the United Orcs destroyed in the Great Cataclysm of Orceron, billions of Orcs and Hemmoians made their escape into space. As dwindling resources drove them from one star system to another inside the Orbeus cluster, the NODE Project was soon formed to search for a planet suitable for permanent colonization, capable of supporting a large population of refugees - a new home for Orceronian civilization.
After a period of useless searching, NODE surveyed planetary body 3758220, an icy world in the star system Orbeus 6. Eventually, they found it to be almost perfect for their purpose. This planet would soon be named Aldaain, and plans were made for sending an expedition for a closer look.
First expedition
The first starship to land on Aldaain in 1,3911 was piloted by Dolek Bios, and crewed by Ovaap Resrek.
During its landing on Aldaain, the mainframe computer aboard the ship detected another homing beacon signal, not coming from the Orcish probe they were tracking. As a result, the ship crashlanded on the surface.
On the first year of the expedition, a biosphere colony is established on Aldaain. It is running with mininum power and life support, since only the pilots and scientists of the first ship are inhabiting it.
An expedition was eventually sent to the source of the alien homing beacon. They discovered a strange war machine of an alien design, deep inside a wall of ice. It is instantly classified top secret and transported to one of the ships in the Home Fleet. Ovaap Resrek is mortally wounded in this expedition and is cryo-frozen for further treatment.
The first colony ship arrived in the Orbeus 6 system in 1,3912.
Habiforming
The first and most obvious obstacle in colonizing the planet was its frozen atmosphere, minus 190 C degrees on the southern hemisphere. Without major atmospheric changes, all colony facilities would have to be built specially to survive in the harsh cold, and building such facilities to house billions of refugees was out of the question.
Several plans were suggested for warming up the planet; these included giant orbital mirrors, artifical suns and controlled thermonuclear detonations. However, the best way turned out to be to construct several facilities all over the planet, called Temperature Controllers, that would release chemicals into the atmosphere that triggered a massive greenhouse effect. The vast ice fields soon started to melt and the planet eventually became livable.
The first actual Temperature Controllers were constructed in 1,3913. By 2,0012 an entire ocean of molten ice had formed on the southern hemisphere of the planet.
By 2,0054 the atmosphere of Aldaain warmed up to the point where its two continents emerged entirely from their coating of ice. Some smaller "ice continents" still remained in the connecting ocean, but even they were quickly dissipating.
Most of the ice disappeared from the surface of Aldaain by 2,0088. Some rafts remained on the coastlines and the polar regions were still frozen. In 2,0090, the conversion of Aldaain's atmosphere to desirable temperature levels was near complete.
Urbanization
After the initial expedition, five more biosphere colonies were constructed in 1,3915. A year later engineers started construction of the arcology-type habitat known as Aldaain Centrum, located a couple of kilometers from the first biosphere colony.
By 2,0088, several of the cities of Aldaain are already visible from space, even during the day.
Orbital spires
Aldaain today is known for its enormous spires reaching into the sky, some of them extending even beyond the atmosphere. Synchronous space lifts are very common all around the planet.
Further geoengineering
After the First Bacterian War, the world's global ocean was so polluted and laced with toxins all attempts to reclaim it proved to be unfeasible. The decision was made to remove the ocean altogether, almost tripling the planet's surface area.
Planet-Wide Network
- Main article: The One and Prime PWN.
Aldaain houses one of the most advanced computer networks in the Galaxy, known as The One and Prime PWN. Staggering amounts of information pass through countless of communication methods and protocols, computer systems, and people every second, at speeds faster than light. Not simply limited to the surface of Aldaain, the planet's moons are also linked directly into the network, as are most orbital platforms as well as some starships. The One and Prime is one of the central nodes of the entire the Collective Network, handling a large portion of Delta Quadrant transmissions of the Collective.
The PWN is administered by the Administrator, a former Hemmoian who has since evolved to exist as part of the network itself.
See also
- Category:Aldaain - List of Aldaain related articles.
