Silver’s Home
Silver’s Home is the greatest economic powerhouse of the Five Worlds system. Like Islas, Silver’s Home started out as habitable planet, and was one of the first two places settled when humans came to the system.
Where Islas offered a ordered life from the beginning, Silver’s home started – and remains – a chaos of generally-friendly competition to create ever more interesting physical forms – including life. Alliances shift. Power is held in pockets scattered between Affinity Groups (people sharing economic interests and ownership in products) and the Port Authority. The Port Authority is the closest thing to a single planetary government body. It collects taxes and dues on everything coming in and out of the system and then provides peacekeepers and courts, rewards and punishment, and a military force. It is supposed to have almost no power over other aspects of daily life.
Because of the deep cultural celebration of creating the new, Silver’s Home now looks very different than when the founders arrived. Whole new islands and continents have been created, both anchored and floating. Species that could never have evolved naturally now swim in the seas there, and live in compounds created and managed by humans.
Microclimates abound.
Waterways change.
The highest form of individual power belongs to the makers. Almost all affinity groups have makers, and they also exist inside the Port Authority and in some case, as free agents.
Space stations and ships ring Silver’s Home, which trades with nearly everyone. For example, the people who created Lopali from the dead lump of a gas-giant moon and moved it into a habitable orbit around the sun came from Silver’s Home. Rumor has it it that almost all good and almost all evil begins there.
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stream created July 23rd, 226.