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Title: The Xi Tauri System
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Footer: Numenera, the Cypher System, No Thank You, Evil!, Invisible Sun, and their respective logos are
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trademarks of Monte Cook Games, LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries. All Monte Cook Games
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Games, LLC. <a href="/cypher/fan-use-policy">Full Disclaimer</a>.
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# The Xi Tauri System
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The Xi Tauri star system consists of four stars in a hierarchy system.
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* **Xi Tauri Aa** and **Ab:** two B-type stars in a binary pair. These stars, and their respective bodies, make up the
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*core worlds*. The corporatocratic Ring is most prominent in these worlds, though their reach is incomplete.
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* **Xi Tauri B:** A third B-type star which orbits the binary pair. The most massive of the stars in the system, it was
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nevertheless at its distant aphelion when the arks reached the system, leading to its many worlds being less explored
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and populated than the core worlds. The planets and et cetera of Xi Tauri B are sometimes known as the *wastes*,
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despite being more uncharted than anything else.
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* **Xi Tauri C:** A F-type star orbiting the other three stars, the worlds of the *rim worlds* are more likely to support
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natural life with less terraforming effort, and are generally held to contain more exploitable resources than the core
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worlds. The Ring is best positioned to forcefully export these resources, despite their minimal involvement in
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governing this far out to the black.
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# Persons and Government
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## The Ring
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Forming from a variety of surviving corporations, The Ring is the dominant government and culture in the core worlds.
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Their dominance of resources, media, and infrastructure has guaranteed them financial and political monopolies,
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despite the core worlds (and whole of Xi Tauri) nominally being a democratic republic. The core worlds move to the tune
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of the Ring.
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## Rimworlders
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# Known Worlds
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# Lost History
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## The Arks
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Were it not for cryosleep, humanity would have never survived the unknown thousands, if not tens of thousands, years
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necessary to reach Xi Tauri.
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## Marauders
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It's not known from where those who were men came, but their appearance between worlds heralds nothing but ravage.
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## Old Cultures of Earth
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When Earth collapsed, its states scattered ships throughout the cosmos. Others may have survived long enough to find a
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new home among the stars. The details of Earth's failure, or those who escaped it, have been largely lost.
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## Intelligence Beyond
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Worlds that support life had nevertheless produced only bacterial life before humanity arrived to the system. Genetic
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mutation and biosequencing has introduced forms of life familiar to us on those worlds, though many believe (or fear)
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that there is still unexpected intelligent life soon to be discovered. Or encountered.
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