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Earth, the capital world of the Earth United Nations and homeworld of the human species, is the most industrialized and militarized world in the entire Orima Cluster, and like many other homeworlds have suffered severe environmental damage due to pre-fusion industrial expansion. Along the major coastlines massive walls were constructed in the late 21st century to manage the resulting sea rise from glacial melting, and much of the continents are spanned by massive eco-management structures that keep the areas habitable, with natural wildlife confined to small, and select few, national parks to make way for the sprawling industries and metropolises, and the farmlands and mines needed to feed them, while most of the seas are heavily polluted. After the invention of high-gain nuclear plasma rockets in the 2040ies exploiting off-world objects for their resources became all more realistic, and serious steps began to be taken to avoid further habitability reduction and environmental destabilization after the Great Floods of 2049 largely swallowed up the metropolitan area covering what is now the eastern coast of the United North America. Many former deserts have been transformed into habitable and fertile lands with largely artificial ecologies, while the former equator has become completely uninhabitable beyond the coastline; with inland temperatures often reaching above 70 Celsius during the daytime and hard-UV scouring through the depleted ozone layers, this area is commonly known as 'The Scorch'. With the help of terraformation specialist corps from various Starfarer Ring species, many nations have tried to recover in biodiversity; as bioforming is a long-term process it is to early to judge the success, although many coral reefs have been resuscitated in the last 200 years and marine biodiversity has started recovering.
Despite their heavy involvement in colonial wars and proxy warfare, the nations Earth have only been directly struck by non-Earth forces in suicide attacks, the most notorious being the 2248 bombing of the Euro-Atlantic Boundary Wall performed by a group of Capriconian-funded and trained insurgents, and the 2374 Johannesburg Cataclysm when a religious extremist movement, the Converts of Cthitonic Cleansing, boarded an African Union cruiser and detonated its warheads while at port.
After the galactic community's first contact with humanity, the Kunari Restrictions, which ban the deployment of megaton and larger scale ordinance in areas sporting natural ecologies, were redefined to also preclude the deployment of such weapons on homeworlds.
Orbits: Sol, 1 AU.
Mean temperature: 21 celsius.
Mean altitude: 801 metres ASL.
Surface Gravity: 1 g.
Day/Night cycle: 24 hours.
Capital: Earth United Nations General Assembly: Manhattan, Manhattan DMZ. Supreme Court: Geneva, Switzerland. Executive Office of the General Secretary: Seoul, United Koreas. United Nations Electoral Congregation: Singapore, Singapore. United Nations Office of Extraterrestrial Affairs: Bajkonur, Kazakhstan. United Nations Interspecies Commission: Hanoi, Vietnam.
Military: The interstellar nations of Earth possess a combined 18 590 ships (30% are supported by Earth industries), the United Nations Peacekeeping Command maintains some 4510 vessels (10% are supported by Earth industries).
Population: 18.5 billion divided between 53 sovereign nations and 9 major superstates.
GNP: 35 trillion credits.
Natural satellites: Luna, 1.1 billion population.

Several battlegroups can be found in orbit, the on-pic being the African Union's Homeworld Defense Unit with its 3 dreadnoughts and dozens of escorts each, lying in a solsynchronous polar orbit past the African east coast, ready to respond to any situation in a moments notice.

Updated: 14/08/2023
Authors Note: the orange glowy stuff is cities and megastructures.

Description

Earth, the capital world of the Earth United Nations and homeworld of the human species, is the most industrialized and militarized world in the entire Orima Cluster, and like many other homeworlds have suffered severe environmental damage due to pre-fusion industrial expansion. Along the major coastlines massive walls were constructed in the late 21st century to manage the resulting sea rise from glacial melting, and much of the continents are spanned by massive eco-management structures that keep the areas habitable, with natural wildlife confined to small, and select few, national parks to make way for the sprawling industries and metropolises, and the farmlands and mines needed to feed them, while most of the seas are heavily polluted. After the invention of high-gain nuclear plasma rockets in the 2040ies exploiting off-world objects for their resources became all more realistic, and serious steps began to be taken to avoid further habitability reduction and environmental destabilization after the Great Floods of 2049 largely swallowed up the metropolitan area covering what is now the eastern coast of the United North America. Many former deserts have been transformed into habitable and fertile lands with largely artificial ecologies, while the former equator has become completely uninhabitable beyond the coastline; with inland temperatures often reaching above 70 Celsius during the daytime and hard-UV scouring through the depleted ozone layers, this area is commonly known as 'The Scorch'. With the help of terraformation specialist corps from various Starfarer Ring species, many nations have tried to recover in biodiversity; as bioforming is a long-term process it is to early to judge the success, although many coral reefs have been resuscitated in the last 200 years and marine biodiversity has started recovering.
Despite their heavy involvement in colonial wars and proxy warfare, the nations Earth have only been directly struck by non-Earth forces in suicide attacks, the most notorious being the 2248 bombing of the Euro-Atlantic Boundary Wall performed by a group of Capriconian-funded and trained insurgents, and the 2374 Johannesburg Cataclysm when a religious extremist movement, the Converts of Cthitonic Cleansing, boarded an African Union cruiser and detonated its warheads while at port.
After the galactic community's first contact with humanity, the Kunari Restrictions, which ban the deployment of megaton and larger scale ordinance in areas sporting natural ecologies, were redefined to also preclude the deployment of such weapons on homeworlds.
Orbits: Sol, 1 AU.
Mean temperature: 21 celsius.
Mean altitude: 801 metres ASL.
Surface Gravity: 1 g.
Day/Night cycle: 24 hours.
Capital: Earth United Nations General Assembly: Manhattan, Manhattan DMZ. Supreme Court: Geneva, Switzerland. Executive Office of the General Secretary: Seoul, United Koreas. United Nations Electoral Congregation: Singapore, Singapore. United Nations Office of Extraterrestrial Affairs: Bajkonur, Kazakhstan. United Nations Interspecies Commission: Hanoi, Vietnam.
Military: The interstellar nations of Earth possess a combined 18 590 ships (30% are supported by Earth industries), the United Nations Peacekeeping Command maintains some 4510 vessels (10% are supported by Earth industries).
Population: 18.5 billion divided between 53 sovereign nations and 9 major superstates.
GNP: 35 trillion credits.
Natural satellites: Luna, 1.1 billion population.

Several battlegroups can be found in orbit, the on-pic being the African Union's Homeworld Defense Unit with its 3 dreadnoughts and dozens of escorts each, lying in a solsynchronous polar orbit past the African east coast, ready to respond to any situation in a moments notice.

Updated: 14/08/2023
Authors Note: the orange glowy stuff is cities and megastructures.