Xi Tauri updates, mostly general setting info

pages/cypher/black/index.md

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 * Characters: "mercs fighting the good fight"?
     * Think about if any of you is going to need piloting skills.
 
+### The Xi Tauri System
+
+A separate page organizes the emerging detail of [the Xi Tauri system](xi-tauri).
+
 ## Character Creation
 
 At their basic level, characters are defined as *NAME is a [adjective] [noun] who [verbs]*. Adjectives are
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 ### Sources
 
 The majority of the options below are found, and best described, in the *Cypher System Rulebook*, with an open gaming
-version available via the [Cypher SRD](http://www.cyphersrd.com/). Most others come from *The Stars Are Fire*.
-Anything homebrew we'll write up and link to here.
+version available via the [Cypher SRD](https://screwtapello.gitlab.io/cypher-system-reference/). Most others come from
+*The Stars Are Fire*.  Anything homebrew we'll write up and link to here.
 
 I skipped listing a lot of the core content, because there's no point in repeating that everything in the core book/SRD
-are fair game --- the exception to this are the foci, which are tailored below.
-
-*...*
+are fair game --- and you can probably grok the appropriate foci or come up with a plausible explanation for anything
+weird.
 
 ## Science Stuff
 

pages/cypher/black/xi-tauri.md

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