Aeo

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Aeo is the capital planet of the Arcadian Federation.

Aeo
Nation: Arcadian Federation
Capital: Oured
Leader: Govener Harling

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Aeo’s surface is extremely temperate, dominated by rolling hills, thick forests, lush farmland, golden beaches, and large seas. With most of its famed manufacturing centers lifted into orbit, the planet remained largely rural and undeveloped, with small villages and farming communities comprising the bulk of urban development. The largest cities were Aeries- the planetary capital, the tourist city Korellia and the mountain hamlets of Daoba and North Belka. Space above Aeo was dominated by massive Shipyards.

History

Aeo was the landing site of the two sleeper ships Rhineland and liberty (See Arcadian Federation) over the 500 years since then the Arcadian's have made it their own.

Arcadian population centers developed mostly around coastal areas with the exceptions of mountain hamlets and other small cities because at the time water was still one of the most efficient ways of travel. Oured appeared as the nation's capital after rising as the premiere economic center due to its key location in trade routes. A trend in all Aeo cities is the tendency to keep urban sprawl to a minimum and instead build up, making most Aeo cities filled with frighteningly high skyscrapers connected by suspended highways.

When the Arcadian people had developed to a more stable level they immediately began to look to the stars and for ways to reach them easier. Because most space travel was propelled by chemical rockets getting anything into orbit was terribly expensive and the government scrambled for a solution. The Arcadian engineering Company came up with the solution of the orbital elevator, a structure with a mile wide base that extends upwards all the way into orbit. After the success of the first space elevator a new era of discovery was created and a second one was quickly constructed on the opposite side of the planet. After more efficient forms of star travel were discovered the space elevators still remained a widely used transportation system for low cost heavy lifting.

As the Arcadian people explored the stars they founded new colonies in other solar systems expanding from their new home and making it the center of their new federation.