Galactic Culture (Living in Luridity)

~I'm Coming Home, I'm Coming Home, Tell the Worlds I'm Coming...~

Standardization of certain aspects of culture have spread galaxy-wide. Most, if not all, rose from the most dystopian Zone in Luridity, clinging to planetary societies as its influence spread. Ways of life, rumor, and realities were shared with friends and enemies and strangers, just like an overplayed song that chafes one's memory and yet...will never let you down. Across the stars the worlds may be crumbling, but here in Luridity Galaxy are people living their lives, people still doing people things...despite reality and its woes.   Of course, just how dire that reality may be depends on where one calls home. And what part of the social ladder one finds themself on...which, again, stems from just how Luridity's people crossed the stars in the first place.  

Land Rush

Luridity has 6 distinct Zones, each containing a notable amount of technological diversification from one another.   Centralvest Zone led the race to space. It is the cyberdelic dystopic home of the company- and subsidiary-bundling Conglomerates. These monolithic organizations steadily connected easier paths to star systems from other Zones to Centralvest using their incredible Ghet Rail, a space train established first as resource-bearing freights and frigates, and expanding to a bustling tourism trade with passenger cars.   The Conglomerates themselves have spread from their augmented reality and neon-drenched strongholds to lay claim to much of the Luridity Express Zone, as wealthy Elites grabbed planets and entire star systems as company assets. Why wouldn't they? With no one there to protest or defend worlds previously untouched, it simply made good business sense.  
Centralvest and Luridity Express are two tightly entwined Zones, in the same gut-wrenching way that a populous city is with rural neighbors, pushing outward with subdivisions and creeping over, around, and through borders until what was once picturesque and largely untouched becomes absorbed by "industry" and "progress".
 

Onward and Outward

Raw materials and mineral rights may have inspired the first tendrils of space tech and planetary ownership, but independent traders, explorers, and long-haulers have pushed further, identifying and reaching into Zones not owned by the conglomerates. (Yet.) For at least a century, these go-getters have been establishing makeshift docks in the more distant corners of the Galaxy. Some are used for return trips, others mere stopover points to make repairs or refuel.   With lower tech worlds not yet aware of the possibilities outside of their atmosphere, an unspoken agreement is held between travelers: some trips--and docks--should be made in secret. Other times, as with the Eros Zone's limited docking capabilities, it has been fine to do so overtly, as they have reached space on a different technological path. Local populations on worlds like these benefit from trading goods or taking on work among the motley of spaceships carving paths across the stars.  

Influenced Realities

Visits from space strangers, known or unknown, have done much to spread commonalities across the Galaxy; certain galactic standardizations originate in Centralvest and continue to be carried outward. Popular galactic currencies, currency carrying and processing methods, a common Luridity calendar and clock, VID feeds with starbound and star-based broadcasting signals, slang terms entering local vernacular, security patrol routines...........even the revolutionary BioID method of personal identification can all be traced back to the conglomerates' need to equalize communication and social echelons with distant bases of operations.   Such galactic standards are explored in the articles linked to the right!
This article is a WIP created during WorldEmber 2022 and may contain incomplete sections. Please stay tuned!


 

Life in Luridity Articles

COMING SOON!

   

Centralvest Zone Living Series

  • Working in Centralvest
  • Shopping in Centralvest
  • Eating in Centralvest
  • Housing in Centralvest
  • Law in Centralvest
  • Travel in Centralvest
  • Entertainment and Arts in Centralvest
   
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