[World] Nimpora
(brief history and culture of a colony involved in a thread I'm doing.)
In the year 2459, a group of colonist set out from the Alpha Centauri system in a 4,500 person colony ship, on course for the distant Adrax system. They brought with them only what was necessary to survive, and intended to live nearly isolated from the rest of the ever-expanding human frontier.
After nearly 150 years, the colonist awakened out of stasis, and began to search for a new home. They settled on the 2nd planet of the system, a yellow, roughly Venus-sized body the same distance from it's parent star as Mars. Though it was the most habitable, it was still considered a harsh environment, with an incredibly thin atmosphere, no surface water, and high levels of radiation. The colonist christened the planet Nimpora, and began colonization.
The first decade was rough, for several reasons. First, the massive ship was damaged upon entry into the atmosphere, killing hundreds and ending any hope of return to civilization. The damaged ship was taken apart by the survivors and re purposed as shelters to protect them from the wide temperature swings, near-nonexistent atmosphere, and intense rain of charged particles from the star. The colony struggled on, barely scraping by with what nuclear reactors and hydroponics units survived the landing of the mother ship.
Life began to get better as the years wore on, and by 2633, the population had risen to 15,000. The colonial city, named Anea, was joined by more remote settlements around the planet. Life remained rough-and-tumble, and numerous lethal accidents kept the colonist on their toes. The human population continued to expand, mining the surface for minerals and capturing asteroids with short-range ships for water. Life remained rough-and-tumble, and numerous lethal accidents kept the colonist on their toes.
Early on, the colony encountered a problem with how to raise the new children. It became soon apparent (through several tragedies) that the traditional method of positive reinforcement and light discipline were unsuited to the fringe colony. More direct action had to be taken to keep children from suffocating and imploding unprotected in the atmosphere, driving a rover over a mile-deep sinkhole, or any other terrible means of death. Through trial and error, the use of physical punishment became the norm to keep children out of danger (though they had no way of knowing this, this system nearly always came about on fringe colonies unconnected to human civilization). It soon became mainstream, even so far as to implemented in schools, despite its taboo (and sometimes illegal) nature on Earth and her provinces.
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