Platon (world)

Platon (Imperial UWP A83A468-G)
       (Human    UWP C83A4U9-C)
       (Awaken   UWP C83A377-G)

Platon was a Strephons most important science station. Together with small scale productions of known TL:G applications like white globes, improved gravity and HPGs, research of arcane science nobody was able to understand except the core team working on that area was also Platons playground. Those include TL:G applications of CABAl, that are linked neuro activity scanners and the Avery project.

When virus arrived in form of a mother strain, it mutated to a hobbyist. The scientists first didn't recognized why the computer sometimes found unusual answers out of range of their Tl:G holographic expert system. The virus didn't harm them, and she preferred to stay in background as longs as her children are playing so nice. Some humans had their mind about what happened, but the last ship send to Usdiki for question didn't return.

Platon was even recontacted by the Empire of Last Sane at 41, and everything was fine, except that the C section had a power plant failure, and ripped of for spare parts to have the live support for the other sections working. Nobody knew about still ongoing experiment in this section. Only robots were send there because of contamination.

When in 17-1143 a liner of the Last Sane arrived with the spare parts for section C and two containers of technicians (about 60 people in 4*17 dt) to bring it up and running again, unexpected laser fire from starport destroyed the ship. The following examination of section C killed about 5000 humans and 34 robots of the Last Sane until the mother hobbyist was disabled. While several subsections were contaminated to fake a dirty power plant failure, most parts were up and running and still working on the CABAl project, and other applications of neuro technology and psionic neuro enhancements.

The Moot decided not to continue the CABAl project for ethical reasons.

As the CABAl project was linked with Strephons last project called Avery. A liner was sent to the Regency, because of importance of the Avery project for the next generations. FDR intelligence reported that Avery left the Regency 1149 core wards. On board he had the complete liners crew including the 3 mainframes and 5 robots. Strephon had intended to use TL:G emulation of synaptic linked networks, to have an AI on silicoid base for backup astrogation, as human astrogators encounter problems with the wave and probately fail. Using an awaken crew was a well found alternative for the Regency to speed up the Avery project, and to avoid problems like Kinunir or Moscito accidents.

Platon is now back to be the most important science station. Main projects are TL:C firewalling technique, neural activity scanners, white globes, and life support systems. Especially firewalling sells well to humans, while neural activity scanners is the bestseller to awaken, so the system is prospering well to allow more arcane experiments like those of the recently discovered misjump drive.

The city itself is floating and able to dive to a deep of 2000 miles under water, and to become nearly invisible to even the most sophisticated sensors. The actual position is only known to fleet commanders. As Platon is a primary target for a black war strike, the main world has a force of at least a CruRon in high guard positions. Any travel has to stop at the naval base in a 70 diameters orbit. Only a fleet of special vessels are allowed to enter the atmosphere, and to deliver passengers and freight to the city. As any research section has to be open to any absolvent of the university, to avoid a second CABAl affair, Platon sees a high amount of interorbital traffic and the fleet of support shuttles is increasing every year. Its thought to move the TL:C research to Usdiki to lessen this pressure.

Because of the known freedom of speech in Platon, many ships are sailing under Platons flag.