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+ | At the start of 22 NE, a number of riots started all over the Nivenian Empire, caused by rumors that the destruction of a third of B3 was a government-sanctioned political operation. Although it was quite obvious after close examination that the Nivenian Empire had nothing to do with the incident, and that it was the doing of the Thadus 0037 faction, many media outlets dramatized the matter, presenting the Nivenian government in the light of political tyrants. By Ianuaria 9, this had gotten completely out of hand, with rioting almost everywhere, causing the Nivenian government to place a temporary ban on television to "maintain public order." Afterwards, many corporations and individuals were prosecuted for "misinformation," "conspiracy against the government," and "purposeful disruption of public order." Stock on many of these corporations fell by huge amounts, and both of the major Nivenian economic powers (the Megastructural Construction Corporation and MegaSuperUltraCorp) created holding companies with the purposes of buying huge amounts of stock in the failing news networks, hopefully saving the companies and then gaining value from their recovery. |
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+ | By Ianuaria 41, both huge mega-corporations were attempting to get the companies that they invested in to recover as quickly as possible. Both companies were pouring Petacredits into the project, expecting huge profit margins if the companies succeeded. Due to massive spending, these companies recovered remarkably quickly, and appeared to be nearing a complete recovery by the end of the month. |
However, the aftermath of the prosecutions was much greater than just drops in stock value for several companies, as the aforementioned drops in stock value caused a crash in the stock market, with most corporations losing 20% of their value or more. Several banks subsequently fell as withdrawals suddenly turned into bank runs, destroying many banking enterprises. Most economists view this as the start of a large recession that may last many years.{{Navbox Nivenian Empire}}[[Category:Articles under construction]] |
However, the aftermath of the prosecutions was much greater than just drops in stock value for several companies, as the aforementioned drops in stock value caused a crash in the stock market, with most corporations losing 20% of their value or more. Several banks subsequently fell as withdrawals suddenly turned into bank runs, destroying many banking enterprises. Most economists view this as the start of a large recession that may last many years.{{Navbox Nivenian Empire}}[[Category:Articles under construction]] |
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Revision as of 19:52, 14 July 2020
The history of the Nivenian Empire after their first contact with the New Cyrannian Republic on Dekemurios 32, 20 NE is displayed on this page.
20 NE
Dekemurios
On 32 Dekemurios, 20 NE, a 500-tonne Nivenian interstellar survey probe launched in 297 BNE crashed into a comet orbiting a star 301 light-years away from the Nivenia system at 0.95c, in the direction of Saxhleel. The comet promptly exploded with 255 zetajoules of energy, spraying plasma and gamma rays all over its immediate vicinity. This probably would not have been noticed, since this system was random and uninhabited, but the New Cyrannian Republic happened to have an exploration fleet only a few million kilometers away to survey the system. They saw a comet randomly emit a huge burst of energy, and then shoot plasma in the direction opposite the Nivenia system. Curious, they went in the direction of whatever had hit the comet, and after traveling about 250 light-years in that direction, they noticed that a trinary system a few dozen light-years away was emitting weirdly large amounts of infrared radiation. Moving to 0.1 light-years from the system, they watched the primary for unusual activity and saw several ringworld transits, which did not look like anything that they had ever seen. They moved closer to attempt to contact whoever lived in the system, and did so on the 21-centimeter radio band where intelligent life would be looking for signs of extraterrestrials. Their transmission was received by an amateur radio operator who thought that the Republic Exploration Fleet was actually a religious cult of some kind (The language of the Nivenian Empire had been uniform and stagnant for almost 700 years.), and notified the local authorities. By Dekemurios 41, enough officials had been notified of the situation to send a response. The response was: 00000010 00000011 00000101 00000111 00001011 00001101 00010001 00010011. Over the next 3 days, linguists on both sides figured out the other's language. Communications then opened between the New Cyrannian Republic and the Nivenian Empire on Dekemurios 45.
The first communications between the New Cyrannian Republic and the Nivenian Empire were basically questions about the size and scale of the other one. The New Cyrannian Republic had never seen a system quite as populated as Nivenia, and the fact that most Nivenians believed that the system could hold three times the population astounded them. The New Cyrannian Republic proposed a technology exchange since they wanted the Nivenian Quantum Chromodynamic shielding technology, and they had FTL and much better computers, but the Nivenians refused since they did not want to give away their shields. Eventually, a mutually beneficial trade agreement was reached where the Nivenian empire will provide 8 quadrillion tons of food (The nature of the plants grown can be specified by the Republic, as long as they provide the seeds, the instructions to grow them, and the plants in question are not unreasonable hard to grow.) per year. In return, the Republic will provide the Nivenian Empire with 4 trillion tons of refined Thorium-232 for use in breeder reactors (The republic has means of energy generation which do not involve fission ignition mechanisms.).
Neochios
On Neochios 11, 21 NE, the Research and Development department of the Nivenian Empire successfully created a 40 kilogram kugelblitz with an energy efficiency of 0.3%, before the black hole exploded, taking out the facility it was built in (Luckily, the facility in question was located in deep space.). "While this may not sound like much, it has been shown that kugelblitz technology is possible," commented the director of Research and Development. "We think that general-purpose reactors and engines may become available within a decade, with the proper funding." The Grand Admiral of the Fleet had this to say: "While this new technology is still a long way away from practical applications, our new knowledge of extraterrestrial life requires us to advance our military capacities. With this in mind, I recommend that the military budget be increased." After this advice, the Chief Executive Coordinator decided to raise taxes by 3.5%, presumably to increase research and military funding.
On Neochios 39, 21 NE, a terrorist attack on Nivenia Prime caused sewer gas leaks all over the planet. The leaks ruined the atmosphere after a few hours, were shut down afterwards, and everyone was advised to stay indoors until Neochios 42. On Neochios 40, mass hallucinations of board games caused widespread panic, but an investigation determined that the rumor had been artificially created by the owner of an insane asylum that was going out of business (presumably to convince civilians that they were crazy) had created gigantic holograms of board games with the remains of his fortune.
In other news, with the 21 NE annual planetary technician board elections coming up on Ianuaria 34, the campaigning has gotten much more intense, with ferocious mud-slinging by both parties over the election scandal three years ago. Currently, it appears as if the radical colonialists might win, potentially setting them one step closer to their immediate goal of establishing more direct control over a hypothetical civilization in the interstellar cometary cloud. Astronomers have debated the existence of this civilization for years, but a war is expected if it does exist. "This is exactly why we need a military buildup," commented the Grand Admiral of the Fleet when asked for his opinion. Now, for our annual weather report: an independent committee has apparently decided that a temperature of 22.4 Celsius might make workers 0.38% more productive, so the change passed 68-32 in a referendum on Neochios 49. We should therefore be expecting marginally colder weather soon.
On Neochios 45, the Nivenian Empire proposed an expedition to the New Cyrannian Republic's newly acquired planet Orbispira, but there is currently no response on the matter. On Neochios 48, the Nivenian Empire met the JCompany, which accepted many trade deals, even building a JEcumenopolis on A11 for enhanced trading opportunities. The JEcumenopolis was completed using Nivenian and JCompany designs on Neochios 54, in an inauguration personally attended by Tycoon JOmnivore, leader of JCompany.
21 NE
Ianuaria
On Ianuaria 3, 21 NE, the planetary coordinator of Nivenia Prime vetoed a finalized proposition to lower the temperature to 22.4 Celsius. Apparently the increased waste heat disposal needed resulted in a probability of 1 in 9,991 that the planet's atmosphere would randomly deteriorate on any given day, much higher than the near-consensus safe level of 1 in 10,000 per day. At 22.5 Celsius, the atmosphere has a perfectly safe probability of degenerating of 1 in 10,002 per day, much lower than the safe maximum.
On Ianuaria 9, 21 NE, researchers finally perfected the new quantum baryon sensor equipment, which can detect baryon number at a distance. These are designed to augment current gravitic sensor technology, not replace it.
On Ianuaria 11, 21 NE, the Nivenian Military announced the construction of a larger fleet. As the Grand Admiral of the Fleet said in a press conference: "The current Nivenian fleet only contains about fifty million battleships (These is no division of labor in the current fleet.), and these use the old wide-angle fusion drives with missiles as weapons. As these are really 70 BNE-level technology, we will replace them with ships using the recently-invented narrow-beam fusion drives, which can be used as weapons. We will update the missiles and add coilguns capable of shooting thermonuclear fusion bombs. Newer, more efficient muon-fusion generators are also being added, and new quantum baryonic sensors are being installed. The new fleet should have seven hundred million battleships, nine hundred million destroyers, and one and a half billion corvettes, along with thirty million titans, a new, bigger class of ship." A comparison of the old fleet and the new fleet can be found below.
All ships will have a total delta V of 0.055c.
| Category | Titans | Battleships | Destroyers | Corvettes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number (Old fleet) | 0 | 50,000,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Number (New fleet) | 30,000,000 | 700,000,000 | 900,000,000 | 1,500,000,000 |
| Crew per ship | 750,000 | 60,000 | 25,000 | 8,000 |
| Mass of Ship (Tg) | 75.0 | 6.0 | 2.5 | 0.8 |
Another change is the replacement of the old deuterium-tritium tokamak fusion reactors with newer muonic reactors. These cutting-edge fusion reactors can actually operate at room temperature, although their efficiency is highest at around 200,000 K. Even smaller reactors can actually output as much as 2.5 PW of energy when operating at this temperature, and these reactors are only about 6 meters across. Most of the time, however, the reactors are run at less than 10% energy output.
This new, bigger, better fleet should take approximately three months to construct, and will be constructed by B3 using carbon-nanotube-impregnated-titanium (CANI-TI) mined and refined on A3. The fleet is expected to be operational at the beginning of Novemex, 21 NE.
On Ianuaria 24, a plan was put forth by the radical colonialist movement for the colonization of nearby star systems: First, more mirrors and solar collectors could be constructed between the orbits of A2 and A3, and more of the star's light could be absorbed. Then, two small, fast ships containing a few thousand Nivenians could be sent to the closest star systems to Nivenia via Nicoll-Dyson beam: a B-type star with 5 planets that may have the right gravity and a K-type star without conventionally habitable planets but with a star type conducive to building ringworlds. Spectral analysis shows that these stars are good candidates for starlifting to acquire material to build orbital habitats. The Megastructural Construction Corporation is supporting this plan and is looking for approval to create the infrastructure required. On Ianuaria 25, the plan was approved by the Chief Executive Coordinator and the Nicoll-Dyson beam's assembly started.
On Ianuaria 34, the 21 NE annual Nivenia Prime planetary technician board elections took place, and the radical colonialists won a landslide of 72.128%. The newly elected planetary coordinator stated during her inauguration on Ianuaria 31 that "any secret nivenian fragment civilization in the interstellar cometary cloud will be forcibly annexed and made part of the Nivenian Empire if I have my way!", which frightened many more conservative voters.
Martex
On Martex 1, 21 NE, the Megastructural Construction Corporation announced the completion of three new ringworlds and the start of construction of another five. The new ringworlds, numbered as the 29th, 30th, and 31st ringworlds around Nivenia A, are going to be filled with pre-fabricated JBuildings in an effort to give them a different feel than normal. The JBuildings will be placed to form specialized communities capable of supporting 2.75 quadrillion of the possibly 17.129 quadrillion projected to live on each ringworld by 37 NE. Orders are being sent to JCompany for 1.5 quadrillion JHouses, 125 trillion JEntertainment, 20 Trillion JFactories, and 8 Trillion JHalls as an initial test run on ringworld 29. "The idea is to create a different, unique feel to the newer ringworlds, to sell more land and get richer even faster to celebrate alien construction styles and diversity." - COO of the MCC.
On Martex 4, 21 NE, an alleged scandal took place when several trillion middle-class professionals that had been presumed dead showed up to collect their life insurance that had gone to their children. This caused the court system to be plugged up so much that some Nivenians had to wait over 47 hours to be tried! Several judges were fired for being unable to compensate for these circumstances. Worse still, lawsuits against the court system were filed on the grounds of being denied a speedy trial, further complicating the situation. On Martex 18, the Nivenian government developed the solution: Everyone has to pay a fine to the government, and the charges are dropped from their record! While this solution generated only controversy at first, the court system was up and running smoothly by Martex 19, so it appears that the solution worked.
In the outer system, an ill-maintained fusion reactor exploded on Martex 25 on A10.1, killing hundreds of millions in the explosion. The cause was traced to an indecent of bribery when the head engineer at FusiTech Fusion reactors, L.L.C. was bribed 273.6 Megacredits to use outdated uranium-235 igniter coils instead of newer plutonium-239 igniters. The uranium-235 igniters are a lot less safe as the critical mass of uranium-235 is five times higher than the critical mass of plutonium-239, so the uranium igniters release five times the energy. Thus, reactors designed with plutonium igniters in mind will have inadequate shielding for uranium igniters, and have a small chance of exploding on startup. In the aftermath, numerous lawsuits were filed against FusiTech, which lead to a declaration of bankruptcy and sale of the company's assets, mainly to the MCC, on Martex 42.
On Martex 44, negotiations with JCompany concluded with JCompany and the MCC exchanging 1.5x10^20 kg of each other's products. The ringworld 29 was expected to be on the market by the end of the year. Shipments finished on Martex 57, and a party was thrown at MCC corporate HQ on Nivenia Prime, with the executives of JCompany as distinguished guests.
Iunius
On Iunius 3, 21 NE, former employees of FusiTech raided a Megastructural Construction Corporation research building with a rocket engine on the bottom, and fled to the outer system with several hundred teracredits' worth of stolen goods. FusiTech corporate officials appeared to have aided in the plot, as several are missing, and the rest suddenly gained huge monetary sums.
On Iunius 7, something absurd happened. Suddenly, several hundred comets and defunct habitats came speeding out of the interstellar void at relativistic speeds, headed for Nivenia Prime. The system Nicoll-Dyson beam went into action, vaporizing the debris, but the cloud of vapor still passed over the planet, ruining the atmosphere for a few days while the planet's climate control systems fixed it. Everyone stayed inside during that time, so only a few hundred million were killed. Still, this incident was undisputable evidence of a deviant Nivenian civilization in the interstellar cometary cloud, and lead to careful searches for nearby infrared emissions by the Nivenian government.
By Iunius 12, the search revealed a planet a little more than a light-year from the Nivenia System that a rebel faction could be using as their base. Plans were made for the fleet to attack when it is ready, and the construction process was sped up through extra funding to complete by Iunius 23.
The next few days showed a huge amount of political turmoil, with anti-colonialist and Industrial Safety Party officials getting impeached left and right, in favor of the Industrial Progress and Radical Colonialist parties. A table of the political turnover is shown below:
| Party name | Percent support (population) before/after | Percent support (electorate) before/after | Status before/after |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Progress Party | 16.4%/38.0% | 37.2%/52.7% | Major/Major |
| Industrial Safety Party | 69.7%/48.4% | 53.2%/27.6% | Major/Major |
| Radical Environmentalist Movement | 12.3%/3.2% | 1.8%/0.4% | Medium/Fourth |
| Radical Colonialist Faction | 1.6%/10.4% | 7.8%/19.3% | Fourth/Medium |
The Industrial Progress Party has also adopted strong (but not radical) colonialism as one of its ideologies as a result.
On Iunius 31, the Megastructural Construction Corporation Nicoll-Dyson beam was far enough along to launch a small number of ships. It was then used to accelerate two small initial colonization fleets to two nearby star systems, with each ship containing 3 million passengers, and 20 ships in each fleet. The ships are light for their cargo, as 99% of the passengers are frozen in liquid helium for the journey, which allows them to be accelerated to a little over 0.6c at 10m/s^2. Then, they will deploy fusion ramjets and use those to decelerate into the star systems, keeping some extra fusion fuel for maneuvering.
The ships will arrive at their destinations in about 3 years.
On Iunius 35, the effort to find the source of the comets which almost destroyed Nivenia Prime was aided by the completion of the new Thadus Infrared telescope. After a few dozen false positives, Thadus detected a rouge planet slightly less massive than Nivenia Prime that was emitting far more infrared radiation than it should, and even a small amount of visible light, which obviously originated from light emitting diodes. This planet was named Thadus 0037, and a hundred thousand ships have been mobilized. These ships were outfitted with fusion ramjets for slowdown, and were propelled by Nicoll-Dyson beam to 0.75c at 20m/s^2. They will arrive at the destination in two years to claim the planet and establish a Nivenian base there.
Novemex
At the beginning of Novemex, 21 NE, the Nivenian Empire announced the completion of the new Nivenian Navy. The newer fleet is much more powerful than the old one, and is able to use their narrow-beam fusion rockets as weapons, possibly unprecedentedly powerful weapons.
On Novemex 7, the new fleet did a series of test maneuvers in the outer system, affirming their power. Another volley of relativistic comets and derelects came flying towards the Nivenia System. Luckily, the Nivenian Empire had two weeks of warning this time, as there were ships headed to Thadus 0037 that intercepted the comets first. Over the next week, a debris field was laid on the edges of the system so that the volley would slam into it, vaporizing both the volley and the debris. This was exactly what happened on Novemex 15, when the expected collision happened. Unfortunately, the first part of the month was plagued by incidents of industrial sabotage perpetrated by rouge agents of the now-defunct FusiTech corporation. These events caused the loss of petacredits to explosions, extra maintenance training of replacement employees, and more. FusiTech has now been branded a terrorist organization, as the remnant is causing disasters all over the Nivenian Empire.
The kugelblitz reactor experiments had been making steady progress, with an efficiency of 1.3% being achieved on Novemex 22, immediately prior to a gigantic explosion which destroyed one of the smaller moons of A6. The A6 planet swarm government then proceeded to be against kugelblitz experiments, and is lobbying the imperial government to drop the project. However, the Megastructural Construction Corporation countered by lobbying the government to continue research, and this has resulted in a brutal feud in the highest levels of the bureaucracy, and the overly dramatized exposure of several officials as being in the pay of various organizations. Most of the exposures ceased in Novemex 41, however, when the government temporarily quieted most of the informants and shut down many investigations. However, public faith in the government decreased as a result.
Dekemurios
On Dekemurios 3, the Nivenia B ringworld coalition pushed through a proposal to increase farming effectiveness by placing 40% of the surface area of the ringworlds under greenhouses. Although this is a massive endeavor, the Nivenian Empire government has agreed to establish a temporary 15% subsidy for greenhouses effective until the beginning of 26 NE. The Megastructural Construction Corporation has agreed to conduct the project, and apparently it will be complete at the beginning of 23 NE.
On Dekemurios 21, the installment of the JBuildings on Nivenia A ringworld 29 was completed, more than a month ahead of schedule. The ringworld was then placed on the market, and the JBuildings seemed to attract a lot of customers, driving up prices. Considering this, the Megastructural Construction Corporation decided that JBuildings were a profitable endeavor, and has decided to contact JCompany for an order twice the size of the previous one, i.e. 3 quadrillion JHouses, 250 trillion JEntertainment, 40 Trillion JFactories, and 16 Trillion JHalls. To pay for all of this, the Megastructural Construction Corporation is planning on offering pink spice from Nivenia A6.1, as it is much more compact.
In one of the many millions of county jails on Nivenia A ringworld 13, an interesting situation occurred on Dekemurios 26. Two prisoners caught robbing a bank were thrown in a jail cell, left in there for two minutes, and when the guard cam back, there was one, much fatter prisoner. Police are still unsure what happened.
On Dekemurios 43, JCompany sold the required JBuildings to the Megastructural Construction Corporation for a price of 1,700,000,000 tonnes of pink spice from A6.1. Megastructural Construction Corporation management says that the next two ringworlds will be on the market at some time in late 22 NE. The Nivenian Empire viewed the growing relations between JCompany and the Megastructural Construction Corporation as "suspicious, yet profitable" in the words of one official.
On Dekemurios 47, the Megastructural Construction Corporation completed the green-housing of a good portion of Nivenia B ringworld 00, increasing its population capacity tenfold. Local officials are planning to provide temporary economic incentives to move to Nivenia B ringworld 00 as a method of increasing population. The economic incentives, started on Dekemurios 52, were designed as a temporary measure to encourage immigration to Nivenia B ringworld 00. First, a universal basic income of 600 credits/year would be in place until Dekemurios 51, 26 NE, and second, jobs at the greenhouses producing food will be completely without needed qualifications, meaning that anyone can apply and immediately be accepted (barring serious conditions such as having a bounty on one's head or severe mental impairment).
Neochios
On Neochios 3, 21 NE, another kugelblitz experiment managed to achieve a new record in efficiency: 23%! This record was achieved by using extremely strong magnetic fields to blast electrons and positrons into the same spot from two different directions. The electrons and positrons were produced by heating a patch of material up to trillions of degrees celsius, and then using magnetic fields to extract lightweight charged particles. However, the efficiency was still less than optimal. Luckily, the exploding black hole did not cause any damage as it was created 500 AU away from the system inside of a tiny space station (which was destroyed). This was done as the risks of kugelblitz energy were better understood than they were earlier, (mainly because the researchers had been sued so many times) and the researchers took more precautions. Most are confident that working kugelblitz generators will be available in less than a decade.
Neochios 11 saw the merger of several large agricultural conglomerates to form a gigantic company, "MegaSuperUltraCorp." This newly-formed multi-exacredit corporation has been determined to comprise 14.3% of the Nivenian Economy as a whole, and is planning on standardizing many name-brands of food, both within the Nivenian Empire and for export to the New Cyrannian Republic and JSector. The Megastructural Construction Corporation has expressed concerns, most of which boil down to "Hey, if these guys are buying 40-60% of the land that we build, they could eventually attempt to become a monopsony, thus lowering prices!" Although this remains an objection, the Megastructural Construction Corporation has decided to negotiate a near-permanent deal with MegaSuperUltraCorp while they still are larger.
On Neochios 26, another volley of random junk flew in from the direction of Thadus 0037, but this junk was aimed for the planet B3, and was not stopped in time. A yottajoule explosion then went off in the planet's atmosphere, killing 453 trillion. The Nivenian Empire responded by broadcasting a formal declaration of war toward Thadus 0037 against the Thadus 0037 faction. Other measures were also taken. The Nivenian Empire announced a brand new laser-based perimeter defense system to stop oncoming projectiles from reaching critical portions of the Nivenia System, basically a large array of defense stations, on Neochios 33.
22 NE
Ianuaria
At the start of 22 NE, a number of riots started all over the Nivenian Empire, caused by rumors that the destruction of a third of B3 was a government-sanctioned political operation. Although it was quite obvious after close examination that the Nivenian Empire had nothing to do with the incident, and that it was the doing of the Thadus 0037 faction, many media outlets dramatized the matter, presenting the Nivenian government in the light of political tyrants. By Ianuaria 9, this had gotten completely out of hand, with rioting almost everywhere, causing the Nivenian government to place a temporary ban on television to "maintain public order." Afterwards, many corporations and individuals were prosecuted for "misinformation," "conspiracy against the government," and "purposeful disruption of public order." Stock on many of these corporations fell by huge amounts, and both of the major Nivenian economic powers (the Megastructural Construction Corporation and MegaSuperUltraCorp) created holding companies with the purposes of buying huge amounts of stock in the failing news networks, hopefully saving the companies and then gaining value from their recovery.
By Ianuaria 41, both huge mega-corporations were attempting to get the companies that they invested in to recover as quickly as possible. Both companies were pouring Petacredits into the project, expecting huge profit margins if the companies succeeded. Due to massive spending, these companies recovered remarkably quickly, and appeared to be nearing a complete recovery by the end of the month.
However, the aftermath of the prosecutions was much greater than just drops in stock value for several companies, as the aforementioned drops in stock value caused a crash in the stock market, with most corporations losing 20% of their value or more. Several banks subsequently fell as withdrawals suddenly turned into bank runs, destroying many banking enterprises. Most economists view this as the start of a large recession that may last many years.