https://www.ovalkwiki.com/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Howardtayler&feedformat=atomOvalkwiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T22:45:29ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.37.1https://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php?title=Captain_Landon&diff=2814Captain Landon2019-01-01T16:19:40Z<p>Howardtayler: /* Affiliations & Relationships */</p>
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<div>[[File:CaptLandon.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-20]]<br />
=Description= <br />
Captain Justice Landon of JSCIA (Jurisindependent Security Covenant, Internal Affairs) is an ursumari. Since his introduction in DELEGATES and DELEGATION he's been transferred to UNS embassy security on Jumpstar Prime in Eina-Afa, and has a cybernetic right arm and left eye, courtesy of Tenzy, his sapient weapon and possible paramour.<br />
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=Bio= <br />
Little has been revealed about the Captain in the strip<br />
<br />
He's about 780 kilos of [[Ursumari]] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26 2015-04-25].<br />
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=Affiliations & Relationships= <br />
*Captain in the [[Jurisindependent Security Covenant]]<br />
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*Captain in command of embassy security for the UNS embassy on [[Jumpstar Prime]]<br />
*Close friend of [[Lieutenant Haley Sorlie]]<br />
*Very close friend of [[Tenzy]]<br />
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=Appearances= <br />
==First appearance== <br />
First appears [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-20 2014-09-20] investigating the assassination attempt of Prime Tangent Andreyasn.<br />
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==Other notable appearances=<br />
[[File:Landon'sNewArm.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26]]= <br />
Rescued [[Major Alexia Murtaugh|Murtaugh]], losing his arm in the process. He is seen with a mechanical arm that Tenzy, his AI-enhanced weapon built for him [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26 2015-04-26]. Howard commented on FaceBook "Tenzy's relationship with Landon is complicated, but can be stated more simply this way: If it doesn't look like part of a polar bear, it's part of Tenzy."<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/2372714756/permalink/10154348920294757/</ref><br />
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=Author's Note= <br />
[This space is reserved ''exclusively'' for Howard!]<br />
Justice Landon (that's his first name, yes) was born in Dom Atlantis, and was a career LEO until the events of DELEGATES AND DELEGATION. <br />
<br />
His less-famous cousin, Samantha "Sam" Landon, also born in DA, trained for a LEO career on Mars, and worked there as a detective. She moved to the Kelrik Hub and did undercover work there in the anti-organized crime unit. She appears as a pre-gen character in the 2016 Planet Mercenary Gen Con adventure, so her story is no longer mine to tell.<br />
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NOTE: Capt. Justice Landon, JSC, is a tuckerization of Howard's friend Justin Landon, who, while tall, looks almost nothing like a polar bear. <br />
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=Speculation= <br />
[Insert uncertain and speculative facts about the character.]<br />
I can't find the link (hence this is under speculation), but Capt. Landon is based on/is an homage to Doc from [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/ The Whiteboard] webcomic.<br />
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=External References= <br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:bk-015]]<br />
[[Category:bk-016]]<br />
[[Category:characters]]<br />
[[Category:JSC]]</div>Howardtaylerhttps://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php?title=Captain_Landon&diff=2813Captain Landon2019-01-01T16:18:02Z<p>Howardtayler: /* Affiliations & Relationships */</p>
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<div>[[File:CaptLandon.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-20]]<br />
=Description= <br />
Captain Justice Landon of JSCIA (Jurisindependent Security Covenant, Internal Affairs) is an ursumari. Since his introduction in DELEGATES and DELEGATION he's been transferred to UNS embassy security on Jumpstar Prime in Eina-Afa, and has a cybernetic right arm and left eye, courtesy of Tenzy, his sapient weapon and possible paramour.<br />
<br />
=Bio= <br />
Little has been revealed about the Captain in the strip<br />
<br />
He's about 780 kilos of [[Ursumari]] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26 2015-04-25].<br />
<br />
=Affiliations & Relationships= <br />
*Captain in the [[Jurisindependent Security Covenant]]<br />
<br />
*Captain in command of embassy security for the UNS embassy on [[Jumpstar Prime]]<br />
*Close friend of [[Haley Sorlie]]<br />
*Very close friend of [[Tenzy]]<br />
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=Appearances= <br />
==First appearance== <br />
First appears [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-20 2014-09-20] investigating the assassination attempt of Prime Tangent Andreyasn.<br />
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==Other notable appearances=<br />
[[File:Landon'sNewArm.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26]]= <br />
Rescued [[Major Alexia Murtaugh|Murtaugh]], losing his arm in the process. He is seen with a mechanical arm that Tenzy, his AI-enhanced weapon built for him [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26 2015-04-26]. Howard commented on FaceBook "Tenzy's relationship with Landon is complicated, but can be stated more simply this way: If it doesn't look like part of a polar bear, it's part of Tenzy."<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/2372714756/permalink/10154348920294757/</ref><br />
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=Author's Note= <br />
[This space is reserved ''exclusively'' for Howard!]<br />
Justice Landon (that's his first name, yes) was born in Dom Atlantis, and was a career LEO until the events of DELEGATES AND DELEGATION. <br />
<br />
His less-famous cousin, Samantha "Sam" Landon, also born in DA, trained for a LEO career on Mars, and worked there as a detective. She moved to the Kelrik Hub and did undercover work there in the anti-organized crime unit. She appears as a pre-gen character in the 2016 Planet Mercenary Gen Con adventure, so her story is no longer mine to tell.<br />
<br />
NOTE: Capt. Justice Landon, JSC, is a tuckerization of Howard's friend Justin Landon, who, while tall, looks almost nothing like a polar bear. <br />
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=Speculation= <br />
[Insert uncertain and speculative facts about the character.]<br />
I can't find the link (hence this is under speculation), but Capt. Landon is based on/is an homage to Doc from [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/ The Whiteboard] webcomic.<br />
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=External References= <br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:characters]]<br />
[[Category:JSC]]</div>Howardtaylerhttps://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php?title=Captain_Landon&diff=2812Captain Landon2019-01-01T16:11:27Z<p>Howardtayler: /* Affiliations & Relationships */</p>
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<div>[[File:CaptLandon.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-20]]<br />
=Description= <br />
Captain Justice Landon of JSCIA (Jurisindependent Security Covenant, Internal Affairs) is an ursumari. Since his introduction in DELEGATES and DELEGATION he's been transferred to UNS embassy security on Jumpstar Prime in Eina-Afa, and has a cybernetic right arm and left eye, courtesy of Tenzy, his sapient weapon and possible paramour.<br />
<br />
=Bio= <br />
Little has been revealed about the Captain in the strip<br />
<br />
He's about 780 kilos of [[Ursumari]] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26 2015-04-25].<br />
<br />
=Affiliations & Relationships= <br />
Captain in the [[Jurisindependent Security Covenant]]<br />
<br />
Captain in command of embassy security for the UNS embassy on [[Jumpstar Prime]]<br />
<br />
=Appearances= <br />
==First appearance== <br />
First appears [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-20 2014-09-20] investigating the assassination attempt of Prime Tangent Andreyasn.<br />
<br />
==Other notable appearances=<br />
[[File:Landon'sNewArm.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26]]= <br />
Rescued [[Major Alexia Murtaugh|Murtaugh]], losing his arm in the process. He is seen with a mechanical arm that Tenzy, his AI-enhanced weapon built for him [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26 2015-04-26]. Howard commented on FaceBook "Tenzy's relationship with Landon is complicated, but can be stated more simply this way: If it doesn't look like part of a polar bear, it's part of Tenzy."<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/2372714756/permalink/10154348920294757/</ref><br />
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=Author's Note= <br />
[This space is reserved ''exclusively'' for Howard!]<br />
Justice Landon (that's his first name, yes) was born in Dom Atlantis, and was a career LEO until the events of DELEGATES AND DELEGATION. <br />
<br />
His less-famous cousin, Samantha "Sam" Landon, also born in DA, trained for a LEO career on Mars, and worked there as a detective. She moved to the Kelrik Hub and did undercover work there in the anti-organized crime unit. She appears as a pre-gen character in the 2016 Planet Mercenary Gen Con adventure, so her story is no longer mine to tell.<br />
<br />
NOTE: Capt. Justice Landon, JSC, is a tuckerization of Howard's friend Justin Landon, who, while tall, looks almost nothing like a polar bear. <br />
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=Speculation= <br />
[Insert uncertain and speculative facts about the character.]<br />
I can't find the link (hence this is under speculation), but Capt. Landon is based on/is an homage to Doc from [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/ The Whiteboard] webcomic.<br />
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=External References= <br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:bk-015]]<br />
[[Category:bk-016]]<br />
[[Category:characters]]<br />
[[Category:JSC]]</div>Howardtaylerhttps://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php?title=Captain_Landon&diff=2811Captain Landon2019-01-01T16:11:02Z<p>Howardtayler: /* Affiliations & Relationships */</p>
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<div>[[File:CaptLandon.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-20]]<br />
=Description= <br />
Captain Justice Landon of JSCIA (Jurisindependent Security Covenant, Internal Affairs) is an ursumari. Since his introduction in DELEGATES and DELEGATION he's been transferred to UNS embassy security on Jumpstar Prime in Eina-Afa, and has a cybernetic right arm and left eye, courtesy of Tenzy, his sapient weapon and possible paramour.<br />
<br />
=Bio= <br />
Little has been revealed about the Captain in the strip<br />
<br />
He's about 780 kilos of [[Ursumari]] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26 2015-04-25].<br />
<br />
=Affiliations & Relationships= <br />
Captain in the [[Jurisindependent Security Covenant]]<br />
Captain in command of embassy security for the UNS embassy on [[Jumpstar Prime]]<br />
<br />
=Appearances= <br />
==First appearance== <br />
First appears [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-20 2014-09-20] investigating the assassination attempt of Prime Tangent Andreyasn.<br />
<br />
==Other notable appearances=<br />
[[File:Landon'sNewArm.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26]]= <br />
Rescued [[Major Alexia Murtaugh|Murtaugh]], losing his arm in the process. He is seen with a mechanical arm that Tenzy, his AI-enhanced weapon built for him [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26 2015-04-26]. Howard commented on FaceBook "Tenzy's relationship with Landon is complicated, but can be stated more simply this way: If it doesn't look like part of a polar bear, it's part of Tenzy."<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/2372714756/permalink/10154348920294757/</ref><br />
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=Author's Note= <br />
[This space is reserved ''exclusively'' for Howard!]<br />
Justice Landon (that's his first name, yes) was born in Dom Atlantis, and was a career LEO until the events of DELEGATES AND DELEGATION. <br />
<br />
His less-famous cousin, Samantha "Sam" Landon, also born in DA, trained for a LEO career on Mars, and worked there as a detective. She moved to the Kelrik Hub and did undercover work there in the anti-organized crime unit. She appears as a pre-gen character in the 2016 Planet Mercenary Gen Con adventure, so her story is no longer mine to tell.<br />
<br />
NOTE: Capt. Justice Landon, JSC, is a tuckerization of Howard's friend Justin Landon, who, while tall, looks almost nothing like a polar bear. <br />
<br />
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=Speculation= <br />
[Insert uncertain and speculative facts about the character.]<br />
I can't find the link (hence this is under speculation), but Capt. Landon is based on/is an homage to Doc from [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/ The Whiteboard] webcomic.<br />
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=External References= <br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:bk-015]]<br />
[[Category:bk-016]]<br />
[[Category:characters]]<br />
[[Category:JSC]]</div>Howardtaylerhttps://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php?title=Captain_Landon&diff=2810Captain Landon2019-01-01T14:55:01Z<p>Howardtayler: /* Description */</p>
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<div>[[File:CaptLandon.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-20]]<br />
=Description= <br />
Captain Justice Landon of JSCIA (Jurisindependent Security Covenant, Internal Affairs) is an ursumari. Since his introduction in DELEGATES and DELEGATION he's been transferred to UNS embassy security on Jumpstar Prime in Eina-Afa, and has a cybernetic right arm and left eye, courtesy of Tenzy, his sapient weapon and possible paramour.<br />
<br />
=Bio= <br />
Little has been revealed about the Captain in the strip<br />
<br />
He's about 780 kilos of [[Ursumari]] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26 2015-04-25].<br />
<br />
=Affiliations & Relationships= <br />
Captain in the [[Jurisindependent Security Covenant]]<br />
<br />
=Appearances= <br />
==First appearance== <br />
First appears [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-20 2014-09-20] investigating the assassination attempt of Prime Tangent Andreyasn.<br />
<br />
==Other notable appearances=<br />
[[File:Landon'sNewArm.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26]]= <br />
Rescued [[Major Alexia Murtaugh|Murtaugh]], losing his arm in the process. He is seen with a mechanical arm that Tenzy, his AI-enhanced weapon built for him [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26 2015-04-26]. Howard commented on FaceBook "Tenzy's relationship with Landon is complicated, but can be stated more simply this way: If it doesn't look like part of a polar bear, it's part of Tenzy."<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/2372714756/permalink/10154348920294757/</ref><br />
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=Author's Note= <br />
[This space is reserved ''exclusively'' for Howard!]<br />
Justice Landon (that's his first name, yes) was born in Dom Atlantis, and was a career LEO until the events of DELEGATES AND DELEGATION. <br />
<br />
His less-famous cousin, Samantha "Sam" Landon, also born in DA, trained for a LEO career on Mars, and worked there as a detective. She moved to the Kelrik Hub and did undercover work there in the anti-organized crime unit. She appears as a pre-gen character in the 2016 Planet Mercenary Gen Con adventure, so her story is no longer mine to tell.<br />
<br />
NOTE: Capt. Justice Landon, JSC, is a tuckerization of Howard's friend Justin Landon, who, while tall, looks almost nothing like a polar bear. <br />
<br />
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=Speculation= <br />
[Insert uncertain and speculative facts about the character.]<br />
I can't find the link (hence this is under speculation), but Capt. Landon is based on/is an homage to Doc from [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/ The Whiteboard] webcomic.<br />
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=External References= <br />
<references/><br />
<br />
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[[Category:bk-015]]<br />
[[Category:bk-016]]<br />
[[Category:characters]]<br />
[[Category:JSC]]</div>Howardtaylerhttps://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php?title=Captain_Landon&diff=2809Captain Landon2019-01-01T14:51:29Z<p>Howardtayler: /* Author's Note */</p>
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<div>[[File:CaptLandon.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-20]]<br />
=Description= <br />
Internal Affairs officer in the JSC<br />
<br />
=Bio= <br />
Little has been revealed about the Captain in the strip<br />
<br />
He's about 780 kilos of [[Ursumari]] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26 2015-04-25].<br />
<br />
=Affiliations & Relationships= <br />
Captain in the [[Jurisindependent Security Covenant]]<br />
<br />
=Appearances= <br />
==First appearance== <br />
First appears [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-20 2014-09-20] investigating the assassination attempt of Prime Tangent Andreyasn.<br />
<br />
==Other notable appearances=<br />
[[File:Landon'sNewArm.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26]]= <br />
Rescued [[Major Alexia Murtaugh|Murtaugh]], losing his arm in the process. He is seen with a mechanical arm that Tenzy, his AI-enhanced weapon built for him [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-04-26 2015-04-26]. Howard commented on FaceBook "Tenzy's relationship with Landon is complicated, but can be stated more simply this way: If it doesn't look like part of a polar bear, it's part of Tenzy."<ref>https://www.facebook.com/groups/2372714756/permalink/10154348920294757/</ref><br />
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=Author's Note= <br />
[This space is reserved ''exclusively'' for Howard!]<br />
Justice Landon (that's his first name, yes) was born in Dom Atlantis, and was a career LEO until the events of DELEGATES AND DELEGATION. <br />
<br />
His less-famous cousin, Samantha "Sam" Landon, also born in DA, trained for a LEO career on Mars, and worked there as a detective. She moved to the Kelrik Hub and did undercover work there in the anti-organized crime unit. She appears as a pre-gen character in the 2016 Planet Mercenary Gen Con adventure, so her story is no longer mine to tell.<br />
<br />
NOTE: Capt. Justice Landon, JSC, is a tuckerization of Howard's friend Justin Landon, who, while tall, looks almost nothing like a polar bear. <br />
<br />
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=Speculation= <br />
[Insert uncertain and speculative facts about the character.]<br />
I can't find the link (hence this is under speculation), but Capt. Landon is based on/is an homage to Doc from [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/ The Whiteboard] webcomic.<br />
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=External References= <br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:bk-015]]<br />
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[[Category:JSC]]</div>Howardtaylerhttps://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php?title=Lieutenant_Para_Ventura&diff=2463Lieutenant Para Ventura2018-09-04T06:38:57Z<p>Howardtayler: </p>
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<div>[[File:ParaVentura.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-28]]<br />
=Description= <br />
Roboticist, enlisted with the toughs because she wanted "out" [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-28 2008-03-28]. She is about four and a half feet tall, lightly built, and has tan skin. She has purple hair, done up in a ponytail. Doing the math, Para is eighteen years old: [[schlockmercenary/Captain Kaff Tagon|Tagon]] is 49 [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-10-01 2008-10-01], and Para says that Tagon is thirty-one years older than she is [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-04-21 2009-04-21].<br />
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=Bio= <br />
She had a reputation on the //[[schlockmercenary/UNS Battleplate Morokweng|Morokweng]]'', as evidenced by the instant helpfulness of the drydock 'bots working on the ''[[schlockmercenary/Touch-and-Go|Touch-and-Go]]// [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-30 2008-03-30]. Hired on as an ensign, she was soon promoted to Lieutenant [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-02-09 2009-02-09]. She has a green belt in Shotokan Karate, a skill she combines with her powered armor to devastating effect [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-01-24 2009-01-24]. She has occasional attacks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorder PTSD] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-02-06 2009-02-06] , [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-07-14 2011-07-14].<br />
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During the [[Tagon's Toughs|Toughs']] expedition to [[Haven Hive]], she suborned the [[Sanctum Adroit]] tar-bots with a dental implant similar to [[Maximillian Haluska|Max Haluska's]] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-10-20 2011-10-20], thus turning the tables both on Max [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-09-18 2011-09-18] and on [[Major Alexia Murtaugh|Major Murtaugh's]] force [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-10-09 2011-10-09].<br />
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It was revealed during the [[Oisrí|Oisri]] incident that Para was an agent of [[@schlockmercenary/United Nations of Sol|UNS]] [[schlockmercenary/Int Aff Int|Internal Affairs Intelligence]] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-08-22 2012-08-22]. After the insane Tagii destroyed the ''Morokweng,'' Para activated a kill-switch to disable Tagii [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-12-24 2012-12-24].<br />
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Para was rehired by Tagon as a coxswain during the mission to [[Eina-afa]] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-03-29 2013-03-29], since [[Bristlecone]] would take orders only from her [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-03-28 2013-03-28].<br />
<br />
=Affiliations & Relationships= <br />
* Civilian contractor for the UNS aboard the ''Morokweng'' [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-28 2008-03-28]<br />
* Currently enlisted with [[schlockmercenary/Tagon's Toughs|Tagon's Toughs]] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-30 2008-03-30]<br />
* Creator of [[schlockmercenary/LOTA|LOTA]] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-06-22 2008-06-22]<br />
* Programmer of [[schlockmercenary/Tagioalisi|Tagioalisi]] and creator of her personality [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-04-22 2009-04-22]<br />
* Former agent of [[Int Aff Int|Int-Aff-Int]] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-08-22 2012-08-22].<br />
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=Appearances= <br />
==First appearance== <br />
Ventura's first appearance was on [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-03-27 2008-03-27]<br />
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=Author's Note= <br />
[This space is reserved ''exclusively'' for Howard!]<br />
The speculation below makes me giggle, because very little of it is correct. <br />
<br />
1) Nope. The scale predates her by centuries.<br />
2) Nope. I won't go into the details about where her name DID come from, but that very much was not it.<br />
3) Aaaand nope. No nod to Paracelsus.<br />
4) It should be pretty clear by now that she's not a double agent. <br />
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=Speculation= <br />
Possibly the 'Ventura' for which the HV scale for AI intelligence is named, or related? [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-03-13 2001-03-13]<br />
<br />
"Per Avventura" in Italian, or "Por Aventura" in Spanish, could be translated as "by or through chance/hazard/adventure"<br />
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Name may have been inspired by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus Paracelsus] (meaning "on a par with Celsus"), in reference to the Ventura of the HV scale. The lieutenant is a bit young to have had the AI scale named after her, and if it was, she would not be likely to have been a civilian contractor on the Morokweng.<br />
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If you take into account her technical background, she would have been able to give far more specific intelligence on the beach-head cage. If she is an agent for UNS she is possibly a double agent for Petey. The strip on [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-02-04 2012-02-04] may well just indicate a UNS agent on [[schlockmercenary/Parnassus Dom|Parnassus Dom]]. That should surprise nobody considering the wide range of sophonts seen strolling around, and the probability of assorted embassies.<br />
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[[Category:uns]]</div>Howardtaylerhttps://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php?title=Eina-afa&diff=2438Eina-afa2018-07-13T17:53:55Z<p>Howardtayler: /* Notable Residents and Expatriates */</p>
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<div>[[File:Eina-afa.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20]]<br />
=Description= <br />
[[Oafa|Oafan]] habitat/station.<br />
==Size== <br />
The central cylinder is approximately 8100 kilometers across. The atmosphere extends from the rim all the way to the spindle. The habitable space is spun for gravity; This habitat appeals to the Oafa since it is, in essence, a big can full of sky. It is large enough to fit [[Mars]], [[Luna]], and [[Europa]] inside [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20 2013-04-20].<br />
The spindle has a circumference of 600 km [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-25 2013-04-25] The radius of the can is 4050 km. The spindle radius is 95.5 km. The "troposphere-like" air depth is 3500 km. [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-05-12 2013-05-12], with roughly 100km of very thin air existing between the edge of the spindle and the top of the troposphere (this rare-air layer is what creates the "tree line" on the pillars, and is likely created in part by the heat of the lighting system on the spindle.)<br />
<br />
From spindle center to "sea level" ground is ~3695.5km. The distance between the outer hull and the inner floor (the ground) is therefore 354.5km. The thickness of the ground itself is unknown, but based on the cliff height of The Stormring, and the sea's depth, it's at least 140km. For comparison, Earth's crust is roughly 30km deep (5km under the oceans)<br />
<br />
=History= <br />
Lost to time, Eina-afa was rediscovered by the [[Prabstdi]] after 500 years of searching. Their search was based on information read from data fragments recovered from the derelict Oafan ship ''Mialhoua-ua'' that had been drifting for millions, perhaps tens of millions of years [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-08-25 2013-08-25]. Eina-Afa was made using post-trans-uranic elements (PTUs) in quantities staggeringly large to the people of the 30th century [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-09-12 2013-09-12].<br />
<br />
When the Oafan people fled the [[Pa'anuri]] millions of years ago to hide aboard Eina-afa, their ships were left stasis-gelled and stored aboard the station. When Tagon's Toughs befriended the station AI, T'kkkuts Afa, they received many of these ships (and later sold most of them [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-09 2014-03-09]). One large ship became the Toughs' new ship ''Broken Wind,'' with T'kkkuts Afa (now renamed Iafa [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-07 2014-03-07]) as AI. A smaller ship became Ennesby's corvette //[[Neosynchronicity]]// [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-13 2014-03-13], and a weaponless freight hauler became //[[Cindercone]]//, the new hull for the AI of the heavily damaged gunship Bristlecone [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-14 2014-03-14].<br />
<br />
=Notable Residents and Expatriates= <br />
*Chinook, Goddess of Earth, Wind, and Plumbing<br />
*T'kkkuts Afa<br />
*Various dangerous fauna<br />
*Ambassador Bala Amin<br />
*Captain Haley Sorlie<br />
*Captain Landon and Tenzy<br />
*Chief Justice Massey Reynstein<br />
*Yaeyoefui, Soulcrypt Librarian<br />
*Hioefua Far Wanders<br />
*Unuaiyya<br />
*Maiamumla<br />
<br />
= '''Notable Locations'''= <br />
==='''Jumpstar Prime'''=== <br />
Capitol city of Eina-Afa. Centrally located atop Soulcrypt Eight. Built from a U.N.S. Tricorn Battleplate, the city takes advantage of the modular pod structure common to battleplates, and is laid out with those pods mounted atop Soulcrypt Eight. The city is perched there, 1000 km above the ground.<br />
<br />
===Soulcrypts=== <br />
Also called "Godwalls," these are giant baffles stretching between pillars. They're 1400km long and 1000 km high, reaching just 25% of the way to the spindle. They're roughly 300m wide, and their interiors are filled with racks for Oafan soul foils. It is unknown how many racks are actually full, but there are at least several hundred billion soul foils in storage. They are numbered, with Soulcrypt One at the firstlight end of Eina-Afa, and Soulcrypt Fifteen at the lastlight end.<br />
<br />
'''''Architectural note:''' ALL of the interior structures of Eina-Afa are sculpted in a set of languages. The large sculpts have depths of between 5 and 25 meters. The small ones are centimeter-scale, and are more uniformly deep, between 10cm and 20cm. There is millimeter-scale script as well, and within that there is a microscopic layer of encoding. The amount of information encoded here has not been calculated.''<br />
<br />
==='''The Stormring'''=== <br />
'''('''sometimes called '''The Stormring Sea,''' or **The Stormring Ocean)** is a continuous ring of ocean 1400km wide, 25,000 km in circumference, with an average depth of 15km. //(''<br />
''R'''ough math:''' It contains 500 million cubic kilometers of water. For comparison, all of Earth's salt-water bodies add up to 1,338 million cubic kilometers.)//<br />
<br />
It was carved over millions of years by a pair of giant, cylindrical storms that roll around the ring opposite each other. The Oafan hives named these storms [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-03-07 Akkrok and Kutsko], which roughly translate as "Acid" and "Base" respectively. In the chemistry-centric language of the hive Oafans, this pair of names have a meaning very similar to "Anvil" and "Hammer." The storms travel windward around the ring at roughly 120 km/hr. It's 10,000 km from the trailing edge of one to the leading edge of the next, which means that any given patch of ocean will have a monster storm roll over it every three-and-a-half days. [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-03-06 The storms have sustained winds of over 230 km/h].<br />
<br />
The Stormring was created (as far as anyone knows) when Soulcrypt Six, empty at the time, was cut down, giving the rotational winds a continuous path. It is believed that at this time the interior floor of Eina-Afa was one great ocean, and that the atmosphere was shallow. The storms drew water into the air, creating much more energetic weather systems throughout the can, and in carving the Stormring they spread material necessary for the jungles that climbed the pillars and soulcrypts.<br />
<br />
===Isthmus Galactica=== <br />
All that can be seen of Soulcrypt Six is its upper edge. The rest is submerged and silted over. This visible strip of PTU composite is just under 1400km long and about 25km wide. The uppermost lip of the isthmus is around 1000m above the surface of the water<br />
<br />
[[File:IsthmusGalactica-2016-03-20.jpg]]<br />
<br />
Roughing out the math here, Isthmus Galactic has an average incline of 2.3°, and the deepest edge is just under 40km below the surface of the water. 25km of that depth is silt.<br />
<br />
=Affiliations & Relationships= <br />
[[Oafa]]<br />
<br />
=Appearances= <br />
==First appearance== <br />
First mentioned (though not by name) [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-01-06 2013-01-06] by Hioefua Far-Wanders, who describes it as having "attractive open spaces", but "infested with vermin".<br />
First seen as well as mentioned by name [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20 2013-04-20].<br />
==Other notable appearances== <br />
<br />
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=Author's Note= <br />
My schematics, created by Brook West: The leftmost circle is a cross-section. The center image is the layout of pillars and soulcrypts, the half-circle is a draft image, not accurate, depicting half of a lengthwise cross-section, along with some external superstructure.<br />
<br />
I don't always draw it "correctly," so inferring dimensions from the strip art is fraught.<br />
[[File:EinaAfaSchematic.png]]<br />
<br />
MATH NOTES:<br />
<br />
These are the official measurements as of Jan 18, 2017. I’ve checked all the earlier sources and these are consistent. Surface area calculations made previously may be inaccurate, because the calculator I was using included cylinder caps in their volumes. I got sloppy, yes.<br />
<br />
Length: 12,000 km<br />
Radius: Exterior 8,100 km<br />
Radius: Interior 3695 km (center of spindle to avg ground level [ABOVE stormring sea])<br />
Surface area of “ground” (cutouts for pillars & Stormring not subtracted) - 279,000,000 km² (279 million km²)<br />
(Pillar cutouts subtracted) - 275,375,000 km²<br />
(Subtract cutout for Stormring) 272,125,000 km²<br />
TOTAL “GROUND” + lake SURFACE: 272.125 million km² <br />
(COMPARISON: Earth’s land masses add up to 149 million km²)<br />
<br />
<br />
Pillar radius: 45 km (yes, huge.)<br />
Pillar Length: 3600 km<br />
Pillar tree-line: 2800 km<br />
Forested Pillar area (1): 792,000 km²<br />
No. of Pillars: 570 (31 groups of 18, 2 groups of 6)<br />
Forested pillar area (all): 451.44 million km²<br />
<br />
<br />
Baffle (soulcrypt) size: 0.3km wide x 1000km high x 1400km long<br />
Baffle Surface vertical surface: 1.4 million km²<br />
Baffle top surface: 420 km²<br />
No. of Baffles: 14 standing, one fallen. <br />
Baffle vertical surface (all): 19.6 million km²<br />
<br />
<br />
Total vertical forests: 471.44 million km²<br />
<br />
<br />
NOTE: there is more vertical jungle than horizontal jungle<br />
<br />
<br />
CABLES: Cable surfaces add up to about 1 million km² and are not in these totals. Also some of that is upside-down. Call it a 380,000 km² of cable surface that can be walked on?<br />
Stormring Sea width: 1400 km<br />
Length: 23,844km at sea level. <br />
Surface area of sea: 33.4 million<br />
Cliff height: 100km<br />
Ocean depth: 15km<br />
Volume of water: 500 million km³ (earth has 1.34 billion km³)<br />
<br />
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=Speculation= <br />
[Insert uncertain and speculative facts about the place.]<br />
<br />
The Eina-Afa is big. The main "Canister" is 8100 Kilometers in diameter and This image compares it to several planetary objects in our system. The image below is 2500 pixels wide and tall. Each pixel is 10 kilometers on a side. This means that each pixel is roughly the size of Brooklyn. A battle plate would fit easily into one of them.<br />
<br />
[[File:EinaAfaCompare.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
The length of the can has never been stated. There are only two exterior views of the can suitable for measurement, The image from [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20 2013-04-20] (seen at the top of this page) gives 135 px long vs 98 px diameter gives L/D ratio of 1.35. The below from 2015-06-28 gives 80/52 pixels for an L/D of 1.53 This gives a range of 11,000 km to 12,400 km for the length of the can.<br />
[[File:eina-afa-size.png|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-06-28]]<br />
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=External References= <br />
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<div>[[File:Eina-afa.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20]]<br />
=Description= <br />
[[Oafa|Oafan]] habitat/station.<br />
==Size== <br />
The central cylinder is approximately 8100 kilometers across. The atmosphere extends from the rim all the way to the spindle. The habitable space is spun for gravity; This habitat appeals to the Oafa since it is, in essence, a big can full of sky. It is large enough to fit [[Mars]], [[Luna]], and [[Europa]] inside [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20 2013-04-20].<br />
The spindle has a circumference of 600 km [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-25 2013-04-25] The radius of the can is 4050 km. The spindle radius is 95.5 km. The "troposphere-like" air depth is 3500 km. [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-05-12 2013-05-12], with roughly 100km of very thin air existing between the edge of the spindle and the top of the troposphere (this rare-air layer is what creates the "tree line" on the pillars, and is likely created in part by the heat of the lighting system on the spindle.)<br />
<br />
From spindle center to "sea level" ground is ~3695.5km. The distance between the outer hull and the inner floor (the ground) is therefore 354.5km. The thickness of the ground itself is unknown, but based on the cliff height of The Stormring, and the sea's depth, it's at least 140km. For comparison, Earth's crust is roughly 30km deep (5km under the oceans)<br />
<br />
=History= <br />
Lost to time, Eina-afa was rediscovered by the [[Prabstdi]] after 500 years of searching. Their search was based on information read from data fragments recovered from the derelict Oafan ship ''Mialhoua-ua'' that had been drifting for millions, perhaps tens of millions of years [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-08-25 2013-08-25]. Eina-Afa was made using post-trans-uranic elements (PTUs) in quantities staggeringly large to the people of the 30th century [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-09-12 2013-09-12].<br />
<br />
When the Oafan people fled the [[Pa'anuri]] millions of years ago to hide aboard Eina-afa, their ships were left stasis-gelled and stored aboard the station. When Tagon's Toughs befriended the station AI, T'kkkuts Afa, they received many of these ships (and later sold most of them [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-09 2014-03-09]). One large ship became the Toughs' new ship ''Broken Wind,'' with T'kkkuts Afa (now renamed Iafa [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-07 2014-03-07]) as AI. A smaller ship became Ennesby's corvette //[[Neosynchronicity]]// [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-13 2014-03-13], and a weaponless freight hauler became //[[Cindercone]]//, the new hull for the AI of the heavily damaged gunship Bristlecone [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-14 2014-03-14].<br />
<br />
=Notable Residents and Expatriates= <br />
*Chinook, Goddess of Earth, Wind, and Plumbing<br />
*T'kkkuts Afa<br />
*Various dangerous fauna<br />
*Ambassador Bala Amin<br />
*Captain Haley Sorlie<br />
*Captain Landon and Tenzy<br />
*Chief Justice Massey Reynstein<br />
*Yaeoefui, Soulcrypt Librarian<br />
*Hioefua Far Wanders<br />
*Unuaiyya<br />
*Maiamumla<br />
<br />
= '''Notable Locations'''= <br />
==='''Jumpstar Prime'''=== <br />
Capitol city of Eina-Afa. Centrally located atop Soulcrypt Eight. Built from a U.N.S. Tricorn Battleplate, the city takes advantage of the modular pod structure common to battleplates, and is laid out with those pods mounted atop Soulcrypt Eight. The city is perched there, 1000 km above the ground.<br />
<br />
===Soulcrypts=== <br />
Also called "Godwalls," these are giant baffles stretching between pillars. They're 1400km long and 1000 km high, reaching just 25% of the way to the spindle. They're roughly 300m wide, and their interiors are filled with racks for Oafan soul foils. It is unknown how many racks are actually full, but there are at least several hundred billion soul foils in storage. They are numbered, with Soulcrypt One at the firstlight end of Eina-Afa, and Soulcrypt Fifteen at the lastlight end.<br />
<br />
'''''Architectural note:''' ALL of the interior structures of Eina-Afa are sculpted in a set of languages. The large sculpts have depths of between 5 and 25 meters. The small ones are centimeter-scale, and are more uniformly deep, between 10cm and 20cm. There is millimeter-scale script as well, and within that there is a microscopic layer of encoding. The amount of information encoded here has not been calculated.''<br />
<br />
==='''The Stormring'''=== <br />
'''('''sometimes called '''The Stormring Sea,''' or **The Stormring Ocean)** is a continuous ring of ocean 1400km wide, 25,000 km in circumference, with an average depth of 15km. //(''<br />
''R'''ough math:''' It contains 500 million cubic kilometers of water. For comparison, all of Earth's salt-water bodies add up to 1,338 million cubic kilometers.)//<br />
<br />
It was carved over millions of years by a pair of giant, cylindrical storms that roll around the ring opposite each other. The Oafan hives named these storms [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-03-07 Akkrok and Kutsko], which roughly translate as "Acid" and "Base" respectively. In the chemistry-centric language of the hive Oafans, this pair of names have a meaning very similar to "Anvil" and "Hammer." The storms travel windward around the ring at roughly 120 km/hr. It's 10,000 km from the trailing edge of one to the leading edge of the next, which means that any given patch of ocean will have a monster storm roll over it every three-and-a-half days. [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-03-06 The storms have sustained winds of over 230 km/h].<br />
<br />
The Stormring was created (as far as anyone knows) when Soulcrypt Six, empty at the time, was cut down, giving the rotational winds a continuous path. It is believed that at this time the interior floor of Eina-Afa was one great ocean, and that the atmosphere was shallow. The storms drew water into the air, creating much more energetic weather systems throughout the can, and in carving the Stormring they spread material necessary for the jungles that climbed the pillars and soulcrypts.<br />
<br />
===Isthmus Galactica=== <br />
All that can be seen of Soulcrypt Six is its upper edge. The rest is submerged and silted over. This visible strip of PTU composite is just under 1400km long and about 25km wide. The uppermost lip of the isthmus is around 1000m above the surface of the water<br />
<br />
[[File:IsthmusGalactica-2016-03-20.jpg]]<br />
<br />
Roughing out the math here, Isthmus Galactic has an average incline of 2.3°, and the deepest edge is just under 40km below the surface of the water. 25km of that depth is silt.<br />
<br />
=Affiliations & Relationships= <br />
[[Oafa]]<br />
<br />
=Appearances= <br />
==First appearance== <br />
First mentioned (though not by name) [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-01-06 2013-01-06] by Hioefua Far-Wanders, who describes it as having "attractive open spaces", but "infested with vermin".<br />
First seen as well as mentioned by name [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20 2013-04-20].<br />
==Other notable appearances== <br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
=Author's Note= <br />
My schematics, created by Brook West: The leftmost circle is a cross-section. The center image is the layout of pillars and soulcrypts, the half-circle is a draft image, not accurate, depicting half of a lengthwise cross-section, along with some external superstructure.<br />
<br />
I don't always draw it "correctly," so inferring dimensions from the strip art is fraught.<br />
[[File:EinaAfaSchematic.png]]<br />
<br />
MATH NOTES:<br />
<br />
These are the official measurements as of Jan 18, 2017. I’ve checked all the earlier sources and these are consistent. Surface area calculations made previously may be inaccurate, because the calculator I was using included cylinder caps in their volumes. I got sloppy, yes.<br />
<br />
Length: 12,000 km<br />
Radius: Exterior 8,100 km<br />
Radius: Interior 3695 km (center of spindle to avg ground level [ABOVE stormring sea])<br />
Surface area of “ground” (cutouts for pillars & Stormring not subtracted) - 279,000,000 km² (279 million km²)<br />
(Pillar cutouts subtracted) - 275,375,000 km²<br />
(Subtract cutout for Stormring) 272,125,000 km²<br />
TOTAL “GROUND” + lake SURFACE: 272.125 million km² <br />
(COMPARISON: Earth’s land masses add up to 149 million km²)<br />
<br />
<br />
Pillar radius: 45 km (yes, huge.)<br />
Pillar Length: 3600 km<br />
Pillar tree-line: 2800 km<br />
Forested Pillar area (1): 792,000 km²<br />
No. of Pillars: 570 (31 groups of 18, 2 groups of 6)<br />
Forested pillar area (all): 451.44 million km²<br />
<br />
<br />
Baffle (soulcrypt) size: 0.3km wide x 1000km high x 1400km long<br />
Baffle Surface vertical surface: 1.4 million km²<br />
Baffle top surface: 420 km²<br />
No. of Baffles: 14 standing, one fallen. <br />
Baffle vertical surface (all): 19.6 million km²<br />
<br />
<br />
Total vertical forests: 471.44 million km²<br />
<br />
<br />
NOTE: there is more vertical jungle than horizontal jungle<br />
<br />
<br />
CABLES: Cable surfaces add up to about 1 million km² and are not in these totals. Also some of that is upside-down. Call it a 380,000 km² of cable surface that can be walked on?<br />
Stormring Sea width: 1400 km<br />
Length: 23,844km at sea level. <br />
Surface area of sea: 33.4 million<br />
Cliff height: 100km<br />
Ocean depth: 15km<br />
Volume of water: 500 million km³ (earth has 1.34 billion km³)<br />
<br />
<br />
----<br />
=Speculation= <br />
[Insert uncertain and speculative facts about the place.]<br />
<br />
The Eina-Afa is big. The main "Canister" is 8100 Kilometers in diameter and This image compares it to several planetary objects in our system. The image below is 2500 pixels wide and tall. Each pixel is 10 kilometers on a side. This means that each pixel is roughly the size of Brooklyn. A battle plate would fit easily into one of them.<br />
<br />
[[File:EinaAfaCompare.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
The length of the can has never been stated. There are only two exterior views of the can suitable for measurement, The image from [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20 2013-04-20] (seen at the top of this page) gives 135 px long vs 98 px diameter gives L/D ratio of 1.35. The below from 2015-06-28 gives 80/52 pixels for an L/D of 1.53 This gives a range of 11,000 km to 12,400 km for the length of the can.<br />
[[File:eina-afa-size.png|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-06-28]]<br />
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=External References= <br />
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<div>[[File:Eina-afa.png|right|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20]]<br />
=Description= <br />
[[Oafa|Oafan]] habitat/station.<br />
==Size== <br />
The central cylinder is approximately 8100 kilometers across. The atmosphere extends from the rim all the way to the spindle. The habitable space is spun for gravity; This habitat appeals to the Oafa since it is, in essence, a big can full of sky. It is large enough to fit [[Mars]], [[Luna]], and [[Europa]] inside [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20 2013-04-20].<br />
The spindle has a circumference of 600 km [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-25 2013-04-25] The radius of the can is 4050 km. The spindle radius is 95.5 km. The "troposphere-like" air depth is 3500 km. [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-05-12 2013-05-12], with roughly 100km of very thin air existing between the edge of the spindle and the top of the troposphere (this rare-air layer is what creates the "tree line" on the pillars, and is likely created in part by the heat of the lighting system on the spindle.)<br />
<br />
From spindle center to "sea level" ground is ~3695.5km. The distance between the outer hull and the inner floor (the ground) is therefore 354.5km. The thickness of the ground itself is unknown, but based on the cliff height of The Stormring, and the sea's depth, it's at least 140km. For comparison, Earth's crust is roughly 30km deep (5km under the oceans)<br />
<br />
=History= <br />
Lost to time, Eina-afa was rediscovered by the [[Prabstdi]] after 500 years of searching. Their search was based on information read from data fragments recovered from the derelict Oafan ship ''Mialhoua-ua'' that had been drifting for millions, perhaps tens of millions of years [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-08-25 2013-08-25]. Eina-Afa was made using post-trans-uranic elements (PTUs) in quantities staggeringly large to the people of the 30th century [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-09-12 2013-09-12].<br />
<br />
When the Oafan people fled the [[Pa'anuri]] millions of years ago to hide aboard Eina-afa, their ships were left stasis-gelled and stored aboard the station. When Tagon's Toughs befriended the station AI, T'kkkuts Afa, they received many of these ships (and later sold most of them [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-09 2014-03-09]). One large ship became the Toughs' new ship ''Broken Wind,'' with T'kkkuts Afa (now renamed Iafa [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-07 2014-03-07]) as AI. A smaller ship became Ennesby's corvette //[[Neosynchronicity]]// [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-13 2014-03-13], and a weaponless freight hauler became //[[Cindercone]]//, the new hull for the AI of the heavily damaged gunship Bristlecone [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-14 2014-03-14].<br />
<br />
=Notable Residents and Expatriates= <br />
Chinook, Goddess of Earth, Wind, and Plumbing<br />
T'kkkuts Afa<br />
Various dangerous fauna<br />
Ambassador Bala Amin<br />
Captain Haley Sorlie<br />
Captain Landon and Tenzy<br />
Chief Justice Massey Reynstein<br />
Yaeoefui, Soulcrypt Librarian<br />
<br />
= '''Notable Locations'''= <br />
==='''Jumpstar Prime'''=== <br />
Capitol city of Eina-Afa. Centrally located atop Soulcrypt Eight. Built from a U.N.S. Tricorn Battleplate, the city takes advantage of the modular pod structure common to battleplates, and is laid out with those pods mounted atop Soulcrypt Eight. The city is perched there, 1000 km above the ground.<br />
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===Soulcrypts=== <br />
Also called "Godwalls," these are giant baffles stretching between pillars. They're 1400km long and 1000 km high, reaching just 25% of the way to the spindle. They're roughly 300m wide, and their interiors are filled with racks for Oafan soul foils. It is unknown how many racks are actually full, but there are at least several hundred billion soul foils in storage. They are numbered, with Soulcrypt One at the firstlight end of Eina-Afa, and Soulcrypt Fifteen at the lastlight end.<br />
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'''''Architectural note:''' ALL of the interior structures of Eina-Afa are sculpted in a set of languages. The large sculpts have depths of between 5 and 25 meters. The small ones are centimeter-scale, and are more uniformly deep, between 10cm and 20cm. There is millimeter-scale script as well, and within that there is a microscopic layer of encoding. The amount of information encoded here has not been calculated.''<br />
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==='''The Stormring'''=== <br />
'''('''sometimes called '''The Stormring Sea,''' or **The Stormring Ocean)** is a continuous ring of ocean 1400km wide, 25,000 km in circumference, with an average depth of 15km. //(''<br />
''R'''ough math:''' It contains 500 million cubic kilometers of water. For comparison, all of Earth's salt-water bodies add up to 1,338 million cubic kilometers.)//<br />
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It was carved over millions of years by a pair of giant, cylindrical storms that roll around the ring opposite each other. The Oafan hives named these storms [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-03-07 Akkrok and Kutsko], which roughly translate as "Acid" and "Base" respectively. In the chemistry-centric language of the hive Oafans, this pair of names have a meaning very similar to "Anvil" and "Hammer." The storms travel windward around the ring at roughly 120 km/hr. It's 10,000 km from the trailing edge of one to the leading edge of the next, which means that any given patch of ocean will have a monster storm roll over it every three-and-a-half days. [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-03-06 The storms have sustained winds of over 230 km/h].<br />
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The Stormring was created (as far as anyone knows) when Soulcrypt Six, empty at the time, was cut down, giving the rotational winds a continuous path. It is believed that at this time the interior floor of Eina-Afa was one great ocean, and that the atmosphere was shallow. The storms drew water into the air, creating much more energetic weather systems throughout the can, and in carving the Stormring they spread material necessary for the jungles that climbed the pillars and soulcrypts.<br />
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===Isthmus Galactica=== <br />
All that can be seen of Soulcrypt Six is its upper edge. The rest is submerged and silted over. This visible strip of PTU composite is just under 1400km long and about 25km wide. The uppermost lip of the isthmus is around 1000m above the surface of the water<br />
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[[File:IsthmusGalactica-2016-03-20.jpg]]<br />
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Roughing out the math here, Isthmus Galactic has an average incline of 2.3°, and the deepest edge is just under 40km below the surface of the water. 25km of that depth is silt.<br />
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=Affiliations & Relationships= <br />
[[Oafa]]<br />
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=Appearances= <br />
==First appearance== <br />
First mentioned (though not by name) [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-01-06 2013-01-06] by Hioefua Far-Wanders, who describes it as having "attractive open spaces", but "infested with vermin".<br />
First seen as well as mentioned by name [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20 2013-04-20].<br />
==Other notable appearances== <br />
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=Author's Note= <br />
My schematics, created by Brook West: The leftmost circle is a cross-section. The center image is the layout of pillars and soulcrypts, the half-circle is a draft image, not accurate, depicting half of a lengthwise cross-section, along with some external superstructure.<br />
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I don't always draw it "correctly," so inferring dimensions from the strip art is fraught.<br />
[[File:EinaAfaSchematic.png]]<br />
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MATH NOTES:<br />
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These are the official measurements as of Jan 18, 2017. I’ve checked all the earlier sources and these are consistent. Surface area calculations made previously may be inaccurate, because the calculator I was using included cylinder caps in their volumes. I got sloppy, yes.<br />
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Length: 12,000 km<br />
Radius: Exterior 8,100 km<br />
Radius: Interior 3695 km (center of spindle to avg ground level [ABOVE stormring sea])<br />
Surface area of “ground” (cutouts for pillars & Stormring not subtracted) - 279,000,000 km² (279 million km²)<br />
(Pillar cutouts subtracted) - 275,375,000 km²<br />
(Subtract cutout for Stormring) 272,125,000 km²<br />
TOTAL “GROUND” + lake SURFACE: 272.125 million km² <br />
(COMPARISON: Earth’s land masses add up to 149 million km²)<br />
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Pillar radius: 45 km (yes, huge.)<br />
Pillar Length: 3600 km<br />
Pillar tree-line: 2800 km<br />
Forested Pillar area (1): 792,000 km²<br />
No. of Pillars: 570 (31 groups of 18, 2 groups of 6)<br />
Forested pillar area (all): 451.44 million km²<br />
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Baffle (soulcrypt) size: 0.3km wide x 1000km high x 1400km long<br />
Baffle Surface vertical surface: 1.4 million km²<br />
Baffle top surface: 420 km²<br />
No. of Baffles: 14 standing, one fallen. <br />
Baffle vertical surface (all): 19.6 million km²<br />
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Total vertical forests: 471.44 million km²<br />
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NOTE: there is more vertical jungle than horizontal jungle<br />
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CABLES: Cable surfaces add up to about 1 million km² and are not in these totals. Also some of that is upside-down. Call it a 380,000 km² of cable surface that can be walked on?<br />
Stormring Sea width: 1400 km<br />
Length: 23,844km at sea level. <br />
Surface area of sea: 33.4 million<br />
Cliff height: 100km<br />
Ocean depth: 15km<br />
Volume of water: 500 million km³ (earth has 1.34 billion km³)<br />
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=Speculation= <br />
[Insert uncertain and speculative facts about the place.]<br />
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The Eina-Afa is big. The main "Canister" is 8100 Kilometers in diameter and This image compares it to several planetary objects in our system. The image below is 2500 pixels wide and tall. Each pixel is 10 kilometers on a side. This means that each pixel is roughly the size of Brooklyn. A battle plate would fit easily into one of them.<br />
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[[File:EinaAfaCompare.jpg]]<br />
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The length of the can has never been stated. There are only two exterior views of the can suitable for measurement, The image from [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-04-20 2013-04-20] (seen at the top of this page) gives 135 px long vs 98 px diameter gives L/D ratio of 1.35. The below from 2015-06-28 gives 80/52 pixels for an L/D of 1.53 This gives a range of 11,000 km to 12,400 km for the length of the can.<br />
[[File:eina-afa-size.png|link=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-06-28]]<br />
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PLACE<br />
Uupl (Planet) orbiting Gruluupl (star). Inhabited by Uuplechans (featured at the beginning of Book 18.<br />
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Far Uupl is the part of the star system roughly corresponding to Sol System's trans-Neptunian orbits and Kuiper Belt.<br />
Outer Uupl corresponds (roughly) to the scattered disc. <br />
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Notable characters<br />
Doctor Viki Gugro, sister to Corporal Peri Gugro of Tagon's Toughs. (Fobott'r)<br />
Captain (unnamed as yet) of Gruuli's Legacy (Uuplechan)<br />
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First appearance - Sept 18 2017. Outer Uupl first mentioned by name on Sept 27.</div>Howardtayler