This is actually my first post to a forum - here goes nothing. Thanks again to Bob wor welcoming me to the community.
While this is my first post, I've been catching up on things since I found the forum and wiki. While things are pretty well fleshed-out in Earth-Luna space and the Belt has received quite a bit of attention recently, Mars seems to have been overlooked a bit. Hopefully, these three posts - and can someone else add them to the wiki; I haven't got the faintest clue how - will correct that. Opinions, suggestions, criticisms, and, of course, compliments are all welcome.
~~~
Pavonis Arcology
Pavonis
Mons in Tharsis is home to not one but
several interconnected, quasi-subterranean communities that operate under the
banner of the Pavonis Arcology. All
of them were built and are still supported and partly managed by the NERV
Foundation. They are each a part of the multi-phase plan, Project RED EARTH,
that is the main focus of the foundation's Natural Environment Re-creation
Venture. It is worth mentioning that, similar to Canada, Pavonis is bilingual
in its signage and education: English and Japanese, reflecting its founders.
![[Image: MarsFlagArmitageIII.gif]](http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/Admiralvine/MarsFlagArmitageIII.gif)
Flag of Armitage III Mars, used by Pavonis
Using Binford's super-hardy
construction material vulcanocrete – a ceramic material made up of the lava
rock of Pavonis herself mixed with ground-up quartz and something else (generic
plaster mixed with pure handwavium, it's not a very good secret) – the NERV
Foundation successfully carved several Martian settlements into the extinct
volcano.
While originally rather bare of
settlers who didn't directly work for NERV members, the arcology had a boom in population
once construction on RED EARTH Phase Four started in March 2011 when the Elies,
at least for the foreseeable future, threw their lot in with Pavonis. It also
saw a slight increase during the Boskone War of Belters, but the majority who
went to Mars instead of cislunar space went to Port Lowell and Helium, instead.
The arcology' biggest population boom to date was after the opening ceremony
for New Port City when a surprising number of Japanese immigrants moved there.
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NERV Foundation
See
NERV Foundation article.
Red
Earth
Phase
One – NERV Headquarters (No First Ancestral Race Lifeforms were Harmed During
Construction... ): Started in
2010, the western quarter of "the Big Peacock" houses the primary production
lines, offices, and labs of the NERV Foundation and SEELE Council members. Declared
fully operational in January 2011.
Phase
Two – Hollow Fields Plantation (... or any Mad Scientist Students... ): More multi-sectioned, enormous
greenhouses than plantation, these sources of fresh foodstuffs are run by NERV
Section One's Agro Division and were
constructed at the same time as NERV HQ to provide local perishables and a
source of export revenue. Also like NERV HQ, while operational the moment the
first greenhouse was finished, constant improvements and the occasional
expansion continue.
Phase
Three – H.G. Wells Spaceport (... and Neither were any Tripod-Driving Natives): located in the southern portion of Pavonis Mons's cone, it
was completed in November 2012. Facilities include both slips for ships of
various sizes, several large joint hangars, as well as cheaply rentable three
to five room apartment flats called The Peacock Arms and simple but comfortable
temporary rooms at Hotel California. It was constructed at the same time as and
followed closely by...
Phase Four – The Town of Sheffield ("For the last time Kazuo
– NO SPACE ELEVATOR!!"): completed
in February 2013. Sheffield is built in an ancient (at least 2.2 billion years
old) secondary, vertical lava tube of Pavonis that was covered by its latter,
more obvious one. Uncovered and excavated during the spaceport's construction
(the precious stones recovered filled the foundation's joint project coffer
quite nicely), the resulting settlement proved amusingly funnel-shaped.
Phase Five – The City of New Port ("Yes, I know the city plan is out of NGE, but
using the original name just doesn't fit."): After the caldera's vulcanocrete lining and Genesis-made,
pitch black pressure dome were completed in January 2014, construction on Phase
Four was carried out in as secret an environment as possible using Cyberdyne's
T-Series non-sapient robots as laborers and with non-disclosure enforced
supervision. After a certain fellow with the initials "K.S." was granted
reluctant admission to assure the more paranoid that nothing untoward was
happening and agreeing to secrecy so long as this was true ("K.S." actually seems
to get a kick out of just grinning whenever someone asks him what he learned),
nothing but rumors about parks and "the first forests on Mars" managed to leak
out until the Convention at Coruscant, shortly after the Pan Incident, when the
SEELE Council decided that something ‘very positive' needed to occur at the
Convention for morale's sake... see story "Red Earth Opening Ceremony" [Soon To
Come]
![[Image: Tokyo-3.jpg]](http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/Admiralvine/Tokyo-3.jpg)
New Port City, main district (2024)
Phase
Six – The Geofront ("'How did it get hollow?' Oh, come on – where do you think all the raw material for the
vulcanocrete used in Phase Five came from?!"):
An attempt by the NERV Foundation to
create a self-sustaining ecosystem, The information gained during its
development will hopefully provide useful data to the Mars Terraforming
Project.
Rumors that the Geofront serves as
the base of operations for a secret section of the NERV Foundation are, of
course, complete hogwash.
![[Image: Geo-Front.jpg]](http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/Admiralvine/Geo-Front.jpg)
‘Ecosystem Monitoring Facility'/NERV
Section Five Complex
The Sightings:
In the countless manmade tunnels and caverns of Pavonis, sometimes the mind
plays tricks on you – or does it? Rumors of sightings of a mysterious teenage Japanese
boy wearing a bandana and carrying a backpack and umbrella wandering the
tunnels lost are told in the bars of Sheffield. And that isn't all...
Elysium
Cooperative
No
description of Pavonis can really be given without including a mention of the
basics about the Elysium Cooperative. Slayers Fen, Rune Soldier Fen, Zero
no Tsukaima Fen, GURPS and Palladium Fantasy Fen... Seemingly all fantasy-minded
short of the Wizards and D&Ders decided to band together to claim a
homeland for themselves on the Red Planet.
Or, at
least, to prepare for a future claiming of said homeland. The "Elies" have decided that, when the time comes once the
Mars Terraforming Project reaches that point, the Continent of Elysium and her
islands in the Sea of Utopia shall be their Promised Land.
Until then, however, the Elies have
hunkered down in Pavonis, some commuting daily to the future sites of their
individual or collective settlements to do what work they already can – the
(temporarily!) pressure-domed, pan-fandom city of Seiluun and her various
white-walled city districts seems to be coming right along – on Elysium, while
still others work for NERV or independent Pavonis employers to meet ends meat
and save up funds for their own special projects.
Education
Until what
became known as the Red Earth Opening Ceremony, the only educational facilities
available were those classes available at the Sheffield Community Center.
Once Akamatsu-sensei (who requested the Hinata-sou built as a private home for
himself in return) and other copyright holders secretly signed off on it,
however, Mahora Academy, with mixed and separate gender classes from
elementary to graduate (and later post-graduate) curriculums was ready to open following New Port City's big reveal.
Religion
Reflecting
the American and Japanese roots of its founders, religious needs can be met at the
non-denominational Travelers' Chapel in Sheffield and, later, the Tatsumiya
Shrine in New Port City. Several alternatives not sponsored by the foundation
also exist.
Infrastructure
The four
departments of the NERV Foundation and their various divisions handle most
public services throughout the arcology.
The Pavonis
Arcology Police Department, Pavonis Arcology Fire Department, and their
precincts, while started by the NERV Foundation, were immediately decentralized
form NERV to private control following completion.
Sheffield
and New Port City each possess a mayor and a town and city council,
respectively. H.G. Wells Spaceport has an administrator appointed by the SEELE
Council. NERV Headquarters and the Geofront are directly under NERV Foundation
control.
Entertainment
While
nowhere near the totality of Pavonis' entertainment options, some of them
include: various activities at the Sheffield Community Center, the same
community's four-screen Majestic Theatre, various clubs and the sixteen screen
Peacock Megaplex on NPC's Electric Avenue, and, starting in 2022, the fantastic
Kaleido Stage.
Food
In
addition to several common American and Japanese chain and franchise stores,
Pavonis also features: Cheers (an American-style bar based on the one in the
television show of the same name; Sheffield), Bar Nonbou (a combination
Japanese-style bar and Korean BBQ; Sheffield), The Italian Job (Italian food,
obviously; New Port City), My Big Fat Greek Restaurant (Greek cuisine, again
obviously; New Port City), Café Relish (a Japanese maid café; New Port City),
and The Ministry of Silly Walks (an English-style pub; Sheffield).
Trivia
Due to a
bit of secretly purposeful micro-managing by several SEELE Council members, Toyota
and Ford each opened shops on the same day at the same time on 24 May 2019 on
Copperhead Road in New Port City across from the Rubber Duck Trucking Company –
they each claim right of "first car dealership off of Earth."
~~~
NERV Foundation
The NERV Foundation is essentially a business conglomerate with a board
of directors – the SEELE Council – who, while maintaining complete control over
their own enterprises, cooperate heavily with one another in various joint
projects and philanthropic ventures.
![[Image: NERV-Emblem2.png]](http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/Admiralvine/NERV-Emblem2.png)
Emblem used by the NERV Foundation
The most ambitious of the
foundation's philanthropic ventures and the plan from which the foundation
draws its name is its Natural Environment Re-creation Venture, the natural
environment in question being the natural environment for humanity, the current
focus project of which is Project RED EARTH (see Pavonis Arcology article).
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NERV Section One
The Pavonis Arcology Support Services (PASS)
provide and service electrical utilities, water supply and treatment, life
support, running Hollow Fields (Agro Division), and similar work for the
Pavonis Arcology.
NERV
Section Two
The Special Tactics And Rescue Service (STARS)
is a paramilitary organization whose Security Division, Defense Division, Intelligence
Division, Emergency Division, Logistics Division, and Hazard Division serve the
NERV Foundation and Pavonis Arcology.
![[Image: stars_badge12.jpg]](http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/Admiralvine/stars_badge12.jpg)
Badge
prototype; RPD shield replaced with Armitage
III planet-in-tree symbol in final version
Note: The
STARS do not provide regular police and firefighting services.
NERV
Section Three
Technological Research And
Development (T-RAD)...
enough said.
NERV
Section Four
Biological Research And Development (B-RAD)... ditto.
Joint
Projects
Ongoing
joint research and development projects between the NERV Foundation members
include:
Project FRAGMENT (Altimit/Heartland
project that produced a working version of the DotHack franchise in-series
MMORPG, The World [available November 2012])
Project ATF (energy fields and force fields)
Project SUPER SOLENOID (energy generation)
Project EGO BOUNDRY (man-machine interfaces)
Project HEINFLICK LIMIT (FTL technologies)
Project REFRESHER (following Struve Conspiracy, data on
biomoding the Boskones considered ‘useless' recovered during investigation used
to offer those getting on in years and otherwise down in health an option of
several ‘controlled biomods' – Antarctic Press Furries [‘too strong and free
willed'] and Fantasy Short Folk [‘too limited a customer base'] surprisingly
popular, as is the Mischievous Kitsune Biomod)
Project DIRAC SEA (dimensional studies [after
Interdimensional Incursion Incident and release of WFC])
Project LONGINUS LANCE (paranormal studies [after
Interdimensional Incursion Incident and release of WFC])
Project BLACK MOON (Boskone War development plan for defense
programs; discontinued after the war; rumors that some continued under a secret
NERV section are, of course, entirely preposterous)
DECA
The
Digital Enclave and Cyberspace Archive
is the central computer core of the foundation. It is connected, but not
integral, to the Pavonis Intranet, and can be isolated at a moment's notice
both manually and automatically.
As
one might imagine, it is controlled by the three MAGI – but each MAGI is itself
composed of three artificial intelligences. Casper is made up of three based
upon several ‘Vagrant AIs' from the DotHack franchise: Aura, Lycoris, and
Macha. Balthazar is made up of Meg, Lou, and Nam from Bubblegum Crisis. Whoever Melchior consists of, however, is
classified.
NERV
Section Five
***WHITENOISE***
This
section of NERV – the U.N. Mars Force
(UNMF) – does not exist.
![[Image: ficbuframmilitia.gif]](http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/Admiralvine/ficbuframmilitia.gif)
ZotE Bufram Militia flag. Used by the U.N.
Mars Force
DETAILS
FORTHCOMING
Project
WHITE MOON
***WHITENOISE***
STARS Intelligence
Division File 1028.4
Investigative
Report: White Umbrella (underworld organization)
Cross-Reference
IR(s) x6: Umbrella Corporation; Jennings & Rall, Incorporated; CyberConnect
Corporation; PMC Ravenwood; Tricell Pharmaceutical Company; Struve, Harry
DETAILS
FORTHCOMING
~~~
SEELE Council
The
NERV Foundation is essentially a business conglomerate with a board of
directors – the SEELE Council – who,
while maintaining complete control over their own enterprises, cooperate
heavily with one another in various joint projects and philanthropic ventures.
The
seven people presently on the council are: SEELE Chairman Alex Xanatos, CEO
Cyberdyne; Biwa Mishima, CEO Mishima; Mary Gamblin, CEO Altimit; James "Jimmy"
Blake, CEO Binford; Kazuo Jenkins, CEO Ajax; Lana Izavia, CEO Heartland; and The
O, CEO DeLorean.
Former
council members consist of: the late Airi Ikuhara-Xanatos, CEO Ikuhara; and
Harry Struve, ex CEO WilPharma, on the run and wanted by Great Justice
following the Battle of Serenity Valley.
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Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, Limited
Producing
human-use bionics and non-sapient robots, it originally outsourced a goodly
amount of its electrical components from daneside sources and later fellow
councilmember Ikuhara Electronics. Following the Battle of Serenity Valley,
Cyberdyne absorbed Ikuhara and its product lines in keeping with the prior
owner's wishes.
Its
bionics fall under the C-Series of products, which are increasingly
customizable by the generation.
Its main
line of robots come under the T-Series which, while having an internal computer
brain, possesses only a number of AI-designed specialist systems that are
designed to be easily modifiable and reprogrammable, o and consist of:
T-100 GASAR (Ground Assault and Support Actions Robot; based
on the T-1s/T-10s from the T3 movie; 70 were made for NERV HQ defense; 10 units
designated T-110, based on the versions from the Salvation movie, were made and sold to Operation Great Justice, at
cost; neither are legally available to the public)
T-200 Maintenance and Repair Robot (made in various chassis
configurations, the earliest T-202 model was available to the public on 11
January 2011)
T-300 Specialist Combat Robot Series (Project BLACK MOON
programs to replicate the T-325 Mototerminator, T-350 Snowterminator, and T-375
Hydrobot; programs ‘requested' by Great Justice to be suspended following
Boskone War conclusion; see ‘NERV Section Five')
T-400 Stealth Combat Humanoid Robot (Project BLACK MOON
program to replicate the T-HX; program ‘requested' by Great Justice to be
suspended following Boskone War conclusion; see ‘NERV Section Five'; no
successful prototype yet produced as of 2020)
T-500 "Harvester" Heavy Construction Robot (customizable
heavy labor robot; available to the public 18 March 2012)
T-600 Multi-Function Humanoid Robot (first successful
fully-humanoid robot approved for mass production; most noted quirk is that any
attempt at disguising a unit as being human fails [often humorously], much like
with its rubber-skinned source of inspiration; available to the public 5
November 2013; AI-Avatar capability upgrade package sold separately at same
time)
T-700 Heavy-Function Humanoid Robot (essentially a larger
and more durable version of the T-600, and available to the public at the same
time as its ‘little brother')
T-800 Advanced-Function Humanoid Robot (available to the
public starting on 12 August 2018, the T-800 Series initially comes in the
T-801 "Governator" Classic Model, T-825 "Cameron" Customizable Female Model,
and T-850 "" Customizable Male Model; utilizing WilPharma pioneered CMS-101
Synthflesh, it is half again as expensive as the still-available T-600)
WilPharma
Corporation
Initially
acting as a middle-man for Earth-made supplies, WilPharma began coming into its
own in early 2011 when it began producing its own hospital grade basic
materials, and received a hard won victory when the several daneside health
organizations certified its products in 2012.
The
corporation received a major shake-up following the Battle of Serenity Valley,
where evidence recovered by the Roughriders revealed that not only had CEO
Harry Struve been supplying the Boskones via daneside intermediaries, but had
concocted a plot with the terrorists to kill the other members of the SEELE
Council – of the nine members, only he did not attend SerenityCon – and allow
him to subsume control of the NERV Foundation and the Pavonis Arcology.
Following
these events, with the corporation routed of Boskones and their supporters,
control of WilPharma was seized by the SEELE Council until such a time as the
surviving seven members could appoint a replacement as CEO. This presents
problems (see Ikuhara section).
Mishima
Heavy Industries
Your
friendly, neighborhood defense concern.
Like many
of the original SEELE Council members, Mishima started out supplying Fenspace
with products it bought daneside as a middleman. Uniquely to Mishima's case,
and a source of much groaning and headaches once the rest found out about it, a
goodly amount of its start-up capital went to purchasing items off of black
market arms dealers – partly to keep them out of the wrong hands, mostly
because Biwa, being the military otaku she is, just couldn't help herself.
Fortunately, the council members managed to keep any of this from leaking out
(they hope), though they now have a secret stockpile of weapons to make any
Third World dictator envious.
This being
Fenspace, and Ms. Mishima being a Japanese military otaku, one would think her
company's products would include mecha – one would be right.
Following
the mobile suit scale MHI-M1 to M3's failures, a try at arm slave scale
produced and admittedly underpowered and unimpressive MHI-M4 "Mistral II" for
sale in July 2011. The much improved MHI-M5 "Type-96" was available by April
2013, with a slightly better MHI-M6 "Bushnell" arriving in May 2015.
Rumors of a
large, metal container labeled "MHI-M9" and "GERNSBACK" being spotted in
transit through a NERV Personnel Only tunnel in Pavonis is denied outright (see
‘NERV Section Five').
Altimit
Corporation
Internet
service, network setup, software development, specialist programs, computer
games – if it needs to speak 010010, Altimit are the folks to talk to –
especially as most of the employees are AI themeselves. Starting by purchasing
the rights to the DotHack series and its related material, a LINUX-based
operating system, ALTIMIT OS, has been in use by the NERV Foundation and SEELE
Council members since 2010 (upgraded to ALTIMIT MINE OS following the ‘Struve
Conspiracy').
Binford
Tools Company
Producing
first hand tools and basic parts, then power tools, and finally actual heavy
equipment, an unknown fen working for a building crew at Mars Vegas once
famously commented that Binford could be described as "the backbone of any
construction project on Mars." Needless to say, they take great pride in this.
Two of
Binford's earliest successes – so early that the CEO was also sole employee –
were also critical to the development of the Pavonis arcology: vulcanocrete and
the ultrasonic laser. Vulcanocrete is a ceramic material made up of lava rock
mixed with ground-up quartz and something else (generic plaster mixed with pure
handwavium, it's not a very good secret). The ultrasonic laser is more the
former than the latter, it is made out of old sonogram and sonar equipment and
modeled after the device of the same name from The Core – unfortunately, its not quite as effective as its
inspiration and, thus far, all attempts at making unobtanium have proven
futile.
In a quirk
that alternately annoys and amuses the company's employees and owner to no end,
no handwaved Binford product will work correctly unless it bears a ‘6100
Series' label.
Ajax
Material Supply Company
Growing
out of initial obscurity in the early 2010s, whether it's a product they
produce themselves or import from Earth, Ajax as of 2022 is recognized as the
largest chemical, wood, paper, plastic, and stone supplier outside of cislunar
space.
They're
initially tried to supply metals as well, but there was so much competition
there already that they just gave up on it – the main reason that metals of
various sorts are now one of Pavonis' largest imports.
Heartland
Play Systems
Handwavium
and toys... there exists not the space to encompass the joy and madness conceived.
Note:
Never ask about the Chucky dolls... just don't...
Extra
Note: Their Jumanji holographic board game is pretty fun, though.
DeLorean
Motor Company
Purchased
outright from Stephen Wynne, The O (never forget the ‘The') now slaps the DMC
logo on both waved and unwaved nich-market products both space- and
planet-side.
Products
include the DMC-12 Classic, the DMC-38 Yako (based Yak 38 Custom jet interceptor
in Evangelion; space-capable), the
DMC-40 Blue Angel (shuttle based on ‘UN 789' plane in Evangelion), the DMC-48 AD-Police Interceptor (chiefly exported to
Genaros; ‘Car 48, Where are You?' opening music must be played before
starting), and the DMC-50 Peel (based Peel P50; rights purchased 2016).
Ikuhara
Electronics
Selling
waved, partly waved, and non-waved electronics and electrical components, Ikuhara
was a successful business from its start to its end. Following Airi
Ikuhara-Xanatos' death at the Battle of Serenity Valley, the company was
absorbed by Cyberdyne, per its late owner's wishes.
According
to the SEELE Council Charter, the membership of the council must remain at nine
persons. This means that another business enterprise must be invited to join
both the council as well as the NERV Foundation. This also means revealing a
number of secrets to said invitee, some still only in the planning stages. The
council is debating its choices...
~~~
Well, there it is. *releases breath*
I guess I'll just come back in a couple of hours and check for any responses.
While this is my first post, I've been catching up on things since I found the forum and wiki. While things are pretty well fleshed-out in Earth-Luna space and the Belt has received quite a bit of attention recently, Mars seems to have been overlooked a bit. Hopefully, these three posts - and can someone else add them to the wiki; I haven't got the faintest clue how - will correct that. Opinions, suggestions, criticisms, and, of course, compliments are all welcome.
~~~
Pavonis Arcology
Pavonis
Mons in Tharsis is home to not one but
several interconnected, quasi-subterranean communities that operate under the
banner of the Pavonis Arcology. All
of them were built and are still supported and partly managed by the NERV
Foundation. They are each a part of the multi-phase plan, Project RED EARTH,
that is the main focus of the foundation's Natural Environment Re-creation
Venture. It is worth mentioning that, similar to Canada, Pavonis is bilingual
in its signage and education: English and Japanese, reflecting its founders.
Flag of Armitage III Mars, used by Pavonis
Using Binford's super-hardy
construction material vulcanocrete – a ceramic material made up of the lava
rock of Pavonis herself mixed with ground-up quartz and something else (generic
plaster mixed with pure handwavium, it's not a very good secret) – the NERV
Foundation successfully carved several Martian settlements into the extinct
volcano.
While originally rather bare of
settlers who didn't directly work for NERV members, the arcology had a boom in population
once construction on RED EARTH Phase Four started in March 2011 when the Elies,
at least for the foreseeable future, threw their lot in with Pavonis. It also
saw a slight increase during the Boskone War of Belters, but the majority who
went to Mars instead of cislunar space went to Port Lowell and Helium, instead.
The arcology' biggest population boom to date was after the opening ceremony
for New Port City when a surprising number of Japanese immigrants moved there.
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- 1 NERV Foundation
- 2 Red Earth
- 3 Elysium
Cooperative
- 4 Education
- 5 Religion
- 6 Infrastructure
- 7 Entertainment
- 8 Food
- 9 Trivia
NERV Foundation
See
NERV Foundation article.
Red
Earth
Phase
One – NERV Headquarters (No First Ancestral Race Lifeforms were Harmed During
Construction... ): Started in
2010, the western quarter of "the Big Peacock" houses the primary production
lines, offices, and labs of the NERV Foundation and SEELE Council members. Declared
fully operational in January 2011.
Phase
Two – Hollow Fields Plantation (... or any Mad Scientist Students... ): More multi-sectioned, enormous
greenhouses than plantation, these sources of fresh foodstuffs are run by NERV
Section One's Agro Division and were
constructed at the same time as NERV HQ to provide local perishables and a
source of export revenue. Also like NERV HQ, while operational the moment the
first greenhouse was finished, constant improvements and the occasional
expansion continue.
Phase
Three – H.G. Wells Spaceport (... and Neither were any Tripod-Driving Natives): located in the southern portion of Pavonis Mons's cone, it
was completed in November 2012. Facilities include both slips for ships of
various sizes, several large joint hangars, as well as cheaply rentable three
to five room apartment flats called The Peacock Arms and simple but comfortable
temporary rooms at Hotel California. It was constructed at the same time as and
followed closely by...
Phase Four – The Town of Sheffield ("For the last time Kazuo
– NO SPACE ELEVATOR!!"): completed
in February 2013. Sheffield is built in an ancient (at least 2.2 billion years
old) secondary, vertical lava tube of Pavonis that was covered by its latter,
more obvious one. Uncovered and excavated during the spaceport's construction
(the precious stones recovered filled the foundation's joint project coffer
quite nicely), the resulting settlement proved amusingly funnel-shaped.
Phase Five – The City of New Port ("Yes, I know the city plan is out of NGE, but
using the original name just doesn't fit."): After the caldera's vulcanocrete lining and Genesis-made,
pitch black pressure dome were completed in January 2014, construction on Phase
Four was carried out in as secret an environment as possible using Cyberdyne's
T-Series non-sapient robots as laborers and with non-disclosure enforced
supervision. After a certain fellow with the initials "K.S." was granted
reluctant admission to assure the more paranoid that nothing untoward was
happening and agreeing to secrecy so long as this was true ("K.S." actually seems
to get a kick out of just grinning whenever someone asks him what he learned),
nothing but rumors about parks and "the first forests on Mars" managed to leak
out until the Convention at Coruscant, shortly after the Pan Incident, when the
SEELE Council decided that something ‘very positive' needed to occur at the
Convention for morale's sake... see story "Red Earth Opening Ceremony" [Soon To
Come]
New Port City, main district (2024)
Phase
Six – The Geofront ("'How did it get hollow?' Oh, come on – where do you think all the raw material for the
vulcanocrete used in Phase Five came from?!"):
An attempt by the NERV Foundation to
create a self-sustaining ecosystem, The information gained during its
development will hopefully provide useful data to the Mars Terraforming
Project.
Rumors that the Geofront serves as
the base of operations for a secret section of the NERV Foundation are, of
course, complete hogwash.
‘Ecosystem Monitoring Facility'/NERV
Section Five Complex
The Sightings:
In the countless manmade tunnels and caverns of Pavonis, sometimes the mind
plays tricks on you – or does it? Rumors of sightings of a mysterious teenage Japanese
boy wearing a bandana and carrying a backpack and umbrella wandering the
tunnels lost are told in the bars of Sheffield. And that isn't all...
Elysium
Cooperative
No
description of Pavonis can really be given without including a mention of the
basics about the Elysium Cooperative. Slayers Fen, Rune Soldier Fen, Zero
no Tsukaima Fen, GURPS and Palladium Fantasy Fen... Seemingly all fantasy-minded
short of the Wizards and D&Ders decided to band together to claim a
homeland for themselves on the Red Planet.
Or, at
least, to prepare for a future claiming of said homeland. The "Elies" have decided that, when the time comes once the
Mars Terraforming Project reaches that point, the Continent of Elysium and her
islands in the Sea of Utopia shall be their Promised Land.
Until then, however, the Elies have
hunkered down in Pavonis, some commuting daily to the future sites of their
individual or collective settlements to do what work they already can – the
(temporarily!) pressure-domed, pan-fandom city of Seiluun and her various
white-walled city districts seems to be coming right along – on Elysium, while
still others work for NERV or independent Pavonis employers to meet ends meat
and save up funds for their own special projects.
Education
Until what
became known as the Red Earth Opening Ceremony, the only educational facilities
available were those classes available at the Sheffield Community Center.
Once Akamatsu-sensei (who requested the Hinata-sou built as a private home for
himself in return) and other copyright holders secretly signed off on it,
however, Mahora Academy, with mixed and separate gender classes from
elementary to graduate (and later post-graduate) curriculums was ready to open following New Port City's big reveal.
Religion
Reflecting
the American and Japanese roots of its founders, religious needs can be met at the
non-denominational Travelers' Chapel in Sheffield and, later, the Tatsumiya
Shrine in New Port City. Several alternatives not sponsored by the foundation
also exist.
Infrastructure
The four
departments of the NERV Foundation and their various divisions handle most
public services throughout the arcology.
The Pavonis
Arcology Police Department, Pavonis Arcology Fire Department, and their
precincts, while started by the NERV Foundation, were immediately decentralized
form NERV to private control following completion.
Sheffield
and New Port City each possess a mayor and a town and city council,
respectively. H.G. Wells Spaceport has an administrator appointed by the SEELE
Council. NERV Headquarters and the Geofront are directly under NERV Foundation
control.
Entertainment
While
nowhere near the totality of Pavonis' entertainment options, some of them
include: various activities at the Sheffield Community Center, the same
community's four-screen Majestic Theatre, various clubs and the sixteen screen
Peacock Megaplex on NPC's Electric Avenue, and, starting in 2022, the fantastic
Kaleido Stage.
Food
In
addition to several common American and Japanese chain and franchise stores,
Pavonis also features: Cheers (an American-style bar based on the one in the
television show of the same name; Sheffield), Bar Nonbou (a combination
Japanese-style bar and Korean BBQ; Sheffield), The Italian Job (Italian food,
obviously; New Port City), My Big Fat Greek Restaurant (Greek cuisine, again
obviously; New Port City), Café Relish (a Japanese maid café; New Port City),
and The Ministry of Silly Walks (an English-style pub; Sheffield).
Trivia
Due to a
bit of secretly purposeful micro-managing by several SEELE Council members, Toyota
and Ford each opened shops on the same day at the same time on 24 May 2019 on
Copperhead Road in New Port City across from the Rubber Duck Trucking Company –
they each claim right of "first car dealership off of Earth."
~~~
NERV Foundation
The NERV Foundation is essentially a business conglomerate with a board
of directors – the SEELE Council – who, while maintaining complete control over
their own enterprises, cooperate heavily with one another in various joint
projects and philanthropic ventures.
Emblem used by the NERV Foundation
The most ambitious of the
foundation's philanthropic ventures and the plan from which the foundation
draws its name is its Natural Environment Re-creation Venture, the natural
environment in question being the natural environment for humanity, the current
focus project of which is Project RED EARTH (see Pavonis Arcology article).
[table]
[hide]
- 1 NERV Section One
- 2 NERV Section Two
- 3 NERV Section
Three
- 4 NERV Section
Four
- 5 Joint Projects
- 6 DECA
- 7 NERV Section
Five
- 8 Project WHITE
MOON
NERV Section One
The Pavonis Arcology Support Services (PASS)
provide and service electrical utilities, water supply and treatment, life
support, running Hollow Fields (Agro Division), and similar work for the
Pavonis Arcology.
NERV
Section Two
The Special Tactics And Rescue Service (STARS)
is a paramilitary organization whose Security Division, Defense Division, Intelligence
Division, Emergency Division, Logistics Division, and Hazard Division serve the
NERV Foundation and Pavonis Arcology.
Badge
prototype; RPD shield replaced with Armitage
III planet-in-tree symbol in final version
Note: The
STARS do not provide regular police and firefighting services.
NERV
Section Three
Technological Research And
Development (T-RAD)...
enough said.
NERV
Section Four
Biological Research And Development (B-RAD)... ditto.
Joint
Projects
Ongoing
joint research and development projects between the NERV Foundation members
include:
Project FRAGMENT (Altimit/Heartland
project that produced a working version of the DotHack franchise in-series
MMORPG, The World [available November 2012])
Project ATF (energy fields and force fields)
Project SUPER SOLENOID (energy generation)
Project EGO BOUNDRY (man-machine interfaces)
Project HEINFLICK LIMIT (FTL technologies)
Project REFRESHER (following Struve Conspiracy, data on
biomoding the Boskones considered ‘useless' recovered during investigation used
to offer those getting on in years and otherwise down in health an option of
several ‘controlled biomods' – Antarctic Press Furries [‘too strong and free
willed'] and Fantasy Short Folk [‘too limited a customer base'] surprisingly
popular, as is the Mischievous Kitsune Biomod)
Project DIRAC SEA (dimensional studies [after
Interdimensional Incursion Incident and release of WFC])
Project LONGINUS LANCE (paranormal studies [after
Interdimensional Incursion Incident and release of WFC])
Project BLACK MOON (Boskone War development plan for defense
programs; discontinued after the war; rumors that some continued under a secret
NERV section are, of course, entirely preposterous)
DECA
The
Digital Enclave and Cyberspace Archive
is the central computer core of the foundation. It is connected, but not
integral, to the Pavonis Intranet, and can be isolated at a moment's notice
both manually and automatically.
As
one might imagine, it is controlled by the three MAGI – but each MAGI is itself
composed of three artificial intelligences. Casper is made up of three based
upon several ‘Vagrant AIs' from the DotHack franchise: Aura, Lycoris, and
Macha. Balthazar is made up of Meg, Lou, and Nam from Bubblegum Crisis. Whoever Melchior consists of, however, is
classified.
NERV
Section Five
***WHITENOISE***
This
section of NERV – the U.N. Mars Force
(UNMF) – does not exist.
ZotE Bufram Militia flag. Used by the U.N.
Mars Force
DETAILS
FORTHCOMING
Project
WHITE MOON
***WHITENOISE***
STARS Intelligence
Division File 1028.4
Investigative
Report: White Umbrella (underworld organization)
Cross-Reference
IR(s) x6: Umbrella Corporation; Jennings & Rall, Incorporated; CyberConnect
Corporation; PMC Ravenwood; Tricell Pharmaceutical Company; Struve, Harry
DETAILS
FORTHCOMING
~~~
SEELE Council
The
NERV Foundation is essentially a business conglomerate with a board of
directors – the SEELE Council – who,
while maintaining complete control over their own enterprises, cooperate
heavily with one another in various joint projects and philanthropic ventures.
The
seven people presently on the council are: SEELE Chairman Alex Xanatos, CEO
Cyberdyne; Biwa Mishima, CEO Mishima; Mary Gamblin, CEO Altimit; James "Jimmy"
Blake, CEO Binford; Kazuo Jenkins, CEO Ajax; Lana Izavia, CEO Heartland; and The
O, CEO DeLorean.
Former
council members consist of: the late Airi Ikuhara-Xanatos, CEO Ikuhara; and
Harry Struve, ex CEO WilPharma, on the run and wanted by Great Justice
following the Battle of Serenity Valley.
[table]
- 1 Cyberdyne
Systems Corporation, Limited
- 2 WilPharma
Corporation
- 3 Mishima Heavy
Industries
- 4 Altimit
Corporation
- 5 Binford Tools
Company
- 6 Ajax Material
Supply Company
- 7 Heartland Play
Systems
- 8 DeLorean Motor
Company
- 9 Ikuhara
Electronics
Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, Limited
Producing
human-use bionics and non-sapient robots, it originally outsourced a goodly
amount of its electrical components from daneside sources and later fellow
councilmember Ikuhara Electronics. Following the Battle of Serenity Valley,
Cyberdyne absorbed Ikuhara and its product lines in keeping with the prior
owner's wishes.
Its
bionics fall under the C-Series of products, which are increasingly
customizable by the generation.
Its main
line of robots come under the T-Series which, while having an internal computer
brain, possesses only a number of AI-designed specialist systems that are
designed to be easily modifiable and reprogrammable, o and consist of:
T-100 GASAR (Ground Assault and Support Actions Robot; based
on the T-1s/T-10s from the T3 movie; 70 were made for NERV HQ defense; 10 units
designated T-110, based on the versions from the Salvation movie, were made and sold to Operation Great Justice, at
cost; neither are legally available to the public)
T-200 Maintenance and Repair Robot (made in various chassis
configurations, the earliest T-202 model was available to the public on 11
January 2011)
T-300 Specialist Combat Robot Series (Project BLACK MOON
programs to replicate the T-325 Mototerminator, T-350 Snowterminator, and T-375
Hydrobot; programs ‘requested' by Great Justice to be suspended following
Boskone War conclusion; see ‘NERV Section Five')
T-400 Stealth Combat Humanoid Robot (Project BLACK MOON
program to replicate the T-HX; program ‘requested' by Great Justice to be
suspended following Boskone War conclusion; see ‘NERV Section Five'; no
successful prototype yet produced as of 2020)
T-500 "Harvester" Heavy Construction Robot (customizable
heavy labor robot; available to the public 18 March 2012)
T-600 Multi-Function Humanoid Robot (first successful
fully-humanoid robot approved for mass production; most noted quirk is that any
attempt at disguising a unit as being human fails [often humorously], much like
with its rubber-skinned source of inspiration; available to the public 5
November 2013; AI-Avatar capability upgrade package sold separately at same
time)
T-700 Heavy-Function Humanoid Robot (essentially a larger
and more durable version of the T-600, and available to the public at the same
time as its ‘little brother')
T-800 Advanced-Function Humanoid Robot (available to the
public starting on 12 August 2018, the T-800 Series initially comes in the
T-801 "Governator" Classic Model, T-825 "Cameron" Customizable Female Model,
and T-850 "" Customizable Male Model; utilizing WilPharma pioneered CMS-101
Synthflesh, it is half again as expensive as the still-available T-600)
WilPharma
Corporation
Initially
acting as a middle-man for Earth-made supplies, WilPharma began coming into its
own in early 2011 when it began producing its own hospital grade basic
materials, and received a hard won victory when the several daneside health
organizations certified its products in 2012.
The
corporation received a major shake-up following the Battle of Serenity Valley,
where evidence recovered by the Roughriders revealed that not only had CEO
Harry Struve been supplying the Boskones via daneside intermediaries, but had
concocted a plot with the terrorists to kill the other members of the SEELE
Council – of the nine members, only he did not attend SerenityCon – and allow
him to subsume control of the NERV Foundation and the Pavonis Arcology.
Following
these events, with the corporation routed of Boskones and their supporters,
control of WilPharma was seized by the SEELE Council until such a time as the
surviving seven members could appoint a replacement as CEO. This presents
problems (see Ikuhara section).
Mishima
Heavy Industries
Your
friendly, neighborhood defense concern.
Like many
of the original SEELE Council members, Mishima started out supplying Fenspace
with products it bought daneside as a middleman. Uniquely to Mishima's case,
and a source of much groaning and headaches once the rest found out about it, a
goodly amount of its start-up capital went to purchasing items off of black
market arms dealers – partly to keep them out of the wrong hands, mostly
because Biwa, being the military otaku she is, just couldn't help herself.
Fortunately, the council members managed to keep any of this from leaking out
(they hope), though they now have a secret stockpile of weapons to make any
Third World dictator envious.
This being
Fenspace, and Ms. Mishima being a Japanese military otaku, one would think her
company's products would include mecha – one would be right.
Following
the mobile suit scale MHI-M1 to M3's failures, a try at arm slave scale
produced and admittedly underpowered and unimpressive MHI-M4 "Mistral II" for
sale in July 2011. The much improved MHI-M5 "Type-96" was available by April
2013, with a slightly better MHI-M6 "Bushnell" arriving in May 2015.
Rumors of a
large, metal container labeled "MHI-M9" and "GERNSBACK" being spotted in
transit through a NERV Personnel Only tunnel in Pavonis is denied outright (see
‘NERV Section Five').
Altimit
Corporation
Internet
service, network setup, software development, specialist programs, computer
games – if it needs to speak 010010, Altimit are the folks to talk to –
especially as most of the employees are AI themeselves. Starting by purchasing
the rights to the DotHack series and its related material, a LINUX-based
operating system, ALTIMIT OS, has been in use by the NERV Foundation and SEELE
Council members since 2010 (upgraded to ALTIMIT MINE OS following the ‘Struve
Conspiracy').
Binford
Tools Company
Producing
first hand tools and basic parts, then power tools, and finally actual heavy
equipment, an unknown fen working for a building crew at Mars Vegas once
famously commented that Binford could be described as "the backbone of any
construction project on Mars." Needless to say, they take great pride in this.
Two of
Binford's earliest successes – so early that the CEO was also sole employee –
were also critical to the development of the Pavonis arcology: vulcanocrete and
the ultrasonic laser. Vulcanocrete is a ceramic material made up of lava rock
mixed with ground-up quartz and something else (generic plaster mixed with pure
handwavium, it's not a very good secret). The ultrasonic laser is more the
former than the latter, it is made out of old sonogram and sonar equipment and
modeled after the device of the same name from The Core – unfortunately, its not quite as effective as its
inspiration and, thus far, all attempts at making unobtanium have proven
futile.
In a quirk
that alternately annoys and amuses the company's employees and owner to no end,
no handwaved Binford product will work correctly unless it bears a ‘6100
Series' label.
Ajax
Material Supply Company
Growing
out of initial obscurity in the early 2010s, whether it's a product they
produce themselves or import from Earth, Ajax as of 2022 is recognized as the
largest chemical, wood, paper, plastic, and stone supplier outside of cislunar
space.
They're
initially tried to supply metals as well, but there was so much competition
there already that they just gave up on it – the main reason that metals of
various sorts are now one of Pavonis' largest imports.
Heartland
Play Systems
Handwavium
and toys... there exists not the space to encompass the joy and madness conceived.
Note:
Never ask about the Chucky dolls... just don't...
Extra
Note: Their Jumanji holographic board game is pretty fun, though.
DeLorean
Motor Company
Purchased
outright from Stephen Wynne, The O (never forget the ‘The') now slaps the DMC
logo on both waved and unwaved nich-market products both space- and
planet-side.
Products
include the DMC-12 Classic, the DMC-38 Yako (based Yak 38 Custom jet interceptor
in Evangelion; space-capable), the
DMC-40 Blue Angel (shuttle based on ‘UN 789' plane in Evangelion), the DMC-48 AD-Police Interceptor (chiefly exported to
Genaros; ‘Car 48, Where are You?' opening music must be played before
starting), and the DMC-50 Peel (based Peel P50; rights purchased 2016).
Ikuhara
Electronics
Selling
waved, partly waved, and non-waved electronics and electrical components, Ikuhara
was a successful business from its start to its end. Following Airi
Ikuhara-Xanatos' death at the Battle of Serenity Valley, the company was
absorbed by Cyberdyne, per its late owner's wishes.
According
to the SEELE Council Charter, the membership of the council must remain at nine
persons. This means that another business enterprise must be invited to join
both the council as well as the NERV Foundation. This also means revealing a
number of secrets to said invitee, some still only in the planning stages. The
council is debating its choices...
~~~
Well, there it is. *releases breath*
I guess I'll just come back in a couple of hours and check for any responses.
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