Oamadh

demonym Oamadhi, adj. Oamadine

Oamadh is a TTMA-aligned star system in the Maia Zero galaxy that has been inhabited in several phases since at least 200,000 AA. It is situated in a part of Maia Zero that is subject to sterilizing events on the order of 1 Ketmillenium. As a result, its peoples have left the planet and terraformed it several times.

Population

The system population includes:

• 500 billion Veilenes
• 50 billion Kichalteron
• A billion or so Ikoska PGMs with some billions of available Frames
• An Itayohkon simspace moon
• Several million Vimana and Tethyans

Population Distribution

Billions of people live on the surface of Oamadh itself. Still others live in arcologies rooted to one of the system's other planets or copious moons. Most people in the system, however, live distributed across a network of 10,000+ orbital arcos. Many of these arcos are 20,000 square kilometers or more in total surface area. As with many places in TTMA, arcos are administered communally and autonomously by their occupants. Movement and settlement among arcos is modeled by the Treaty of Tetyon and enforced by Oamadh's joint Imperial Army agreements.

The Oamadhi

Oamadh gets its name from the pool of Veilenes who have inhabited and returned to the system every time it has been settled. These people call themselves Oamadhi and their engram pools harbor adaptations for living in space and on planet Oamadh's high-UV surface. The most visible adaptation they carry is their violet eyes.

Socioculture

Due to UV radiation levels from the system's blue star, Oamadhi cycle between two distinct seasons of dress. In the "flare season", when radiation is highest, they wear translucent UV protective garments in layers. In the "clear season", they backlash by shedding layers and adopting bright colors and patterns. Exceptional days may necessitate or allow one style of dress during its opposing season.

Planet Oamadh

Oamadh is a terrestrial planet terraformed with a Human/Tethyan consensus environment. The planet's surface is about 85% water-based Tethyne brine. Its temperature and atmospheric pressure are on the high end for human environments. Due to the star's high UV output, completely unadapted humans must be careful to protect themselves from skin and eye damage, although shaded or brief exposure is harmless.

Oamadh's surface is host to dozens of arcos built on top of ancient foundations. These foundations, most of them dating to the latest period of resettlement starting AA 721,221, are made to float in the crust and avoid Oamadh's lively tectonic plate activity.

Those who live outside the arcos can do so only in non-industrializing ways. The technology and industrial base must be imported from elsewhere in the system.

The predominant biomes on Oamadh are tropical. Oamadh's continental shelves are host to extensive reef environments and large hosts of Tethyans.

Agriculture

Huge surpluses of major foods are produced on jointly-operated arcos. Many of these are tended garden-style, allowing layers of foodstuffs from waterborne to ground cover to canopy to thrive. Many arcos set aside space for supplementary agriculture to produce whatever rare or locally-popular food they desire.

Industrial Cycles

After hundreds of thousands of years of settlement, raw extractable materials are scarce in the Oamadh system. Instead, massive landfill sites are used as mines. Goods and materials are sent to landfills where the top layer(s) are freely available for anyone who may want to repurpose such material. Some practical limit is placed to prevent hoarding of precursor materials. Lower layers are compactified. At the bottommost layers, various methods are employed to extract and reprocess new raw materials.

Industrial cycling methods include simple gathering and amalgamation of metals, digestive processing by teleians whose diets include what would otherwise be industrial waste, and distribution of extremely degraded resources as fertilizer or feedstock for some natural environment that can make use of them.