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Mercury the closest world to the Sun was settled by around 820,000 people, most living in O'Neil Cylinders around the world and worked in the mines on the world itself. First Mercurian Merie-Sophie Matthieu knew that the United Nations of Mercury was eager to find out what had happened with the Deep Exploration Vessel, as many of them dreamed about finding and settling new colonial worlds itself. Most of Mercury was automatized mining and solar power operations, as well as mechanics and over watchers keeping it all running. Many of the Mercurian generations of miners and first settlers had been in mining families and the Mercurian Mining Guilds that had formed the first independent Mercury government during the Independence Wars in the Solar System. The Mercurians themselves had supplied a few of the resources that had made the Deep Space Exploration Vessel possible, as their aid for the project. Not only that, some crew members had been Mercurians, among them Takeshi Koyatsu the hero of the Hellhole Mining Accident who saved around 183 lives back then by carefully digging a additional supply, air and rescue tunnel for the trapped survivors, even if the Mercurian Mining Guild had forbidden it for being potentially so dangerous that the mine might collapse above them. To the Mercurians it therefore was about saving their hero as much as it was about saving the rest of humanities most daring, furthest away explorers and diplomats. While not all had believed there would be intelligent alien life out there, many had at least hoped to find some form of it and establish a first diplomatic contact and make humanity and it's worlds known on a galactic stage of other powers. Whatever they would find, they had been mentally and physically prepared to interact with anything out there, at least they hoped so by preparing them for intelligent life, as well as possible diseases, animals, fungi, plants or other things that possible could be found out there. Still no plan truly held when meet with reality and therefore First Mercurian Merie-Sophie Matthieu did everything in her power to ensure the rest of the United Nations of Humanity, the Untied Nations of Mankind that the United Nations of Mercury would have their back.

Whatever it would be Mercurians would stand their ground and help drive humanity forward, as they had done for the first time when they settled Mercury these century ago. With mankind's ambitions to reach out for the stars, Mercury was the farthest away human settled planet for quit some time, but had never been settled extensively. That had partly been because Mercury was harsh and had very little liquid water or ice to terraform and change it to a habitable world with the limited technology mankind had by then. Still the Mercurians living in orbit or around their world in O'Neil Cylinders did the best they could and quickly grow rich from the resources mined on the world. With it's mines Mercury grew richer, soon adopting Solar Collector energy industries and further grew once the first genetically mutated special algae and plants were grown in greenhouses across the world that spread like the domed cities of Mercury itself, allowing the population to grow once again a little bit. Never reaching a million settlers, the United Nations of Mercury were small nation states, mostly made up of domed cities on the surface, or O'Neil Cylinders in it's orbit or nearby, each and every single one of them serving as a independent nation state in it's own right. They all together formed the United Nations of Mercury and together were one of the biggest mining worlds of humanity, but unlike Mars or Earth not that massive in terms of industrialization and mass production of goods out of these resources. First Mercurian Merie-Sophie Matthieu knew that many of her fellow Mercurians were hoping to find new worlds to settle and colonize, as many of the Mercury born generations were no longer the skilled and trained miners and prospectors, but had gotten soft over robot use and automation, now dreaming of a better life off the harsh world of their parents for themselves in the near future. Mercurian Dreams were big, despite having been shattered so often as their colonial world turned out to be not as be able to be terraformed and hospitable, then they first had hoped and wished for.

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Base maps for the Solar System Planets and Moons from:
www.deviantart.com/metallist-9…

Description

Mercury the closest world to the Sun was settled by around 820,000 people, most living in O'Neil Cylinders around the world and worked in the mines on the world itself. First Mercurian Merie-Sophie Matthieu knew that the United Nations of Mercury was eager to find out what had happened with the Deep Exploration Vessel, as many of them dreamed about finding and settling new colonial worlds itself. Most of Mercury was automatized mining and solar power operations, as well as mechanics and over watchers keeping it all running. Many of the Mercurian generations of miners and first settlers had been in mining families and the Mercurian Mining Guilds that had formed the first independent Mercury government during the Independence Wars in the Solar System. The Mercurians themselves had supplied a few of the resources that had made the Deep Space Exploration Vessel possible, as their aid for the project. Not only that, some crew members had been Mercurians, among them Takeshi Koyatsu the hero of the Hellhole Mining Accident who saved around 183 lives back then by carefully digging a additional supply, air and rescue tunnel for the trapped survivors, even if the Mercurian Mining Guild had forbidden it for being potentially so dangerous that the mine might collapse above them. To the Mercurians it therefore was about saving their hero as much as it was about saving the rest of humanities most daring, furthest away explorers and diplomats. While not all had believed there would be intelligent alien life out there, many had at least hoped to find some form of it and establish a first diplomatic contact and make humanity and it's worlds known on a galactic stage of other powers. Whatever they would find, they had been mentally and physically prepared to interact with anything out there, at least they hoped so by preparing them for intelligent life, as well as possible diseases, animals, fungi, plants or other things that possible could be found out there. Still no plan truly held when meet with reality and therefore First Mercurian Merie-Sophie Matthieu did everything in her power to ensure the rest of the United Nations of Humanity, the Untied Nations of Mankind that the United Nations of Mercury would have their back.

Whatever it would be Mercurians would stand their ground and help drive humanity forward, as they had done for the first time when they settled Mercury these century ago. With mankind's ambitions to reach out for the stars, Mercury was the farthest away human settled planet for quit some time, but had never been settled extensively. That had partly been because Mercury was harsh and had very little liquid water or ice to terraform and change it to a habitable world with the limited technology mankind had by then. Still the Mercurians living in orbit or around their world in O'Neil Cylinders did the best they could and quickly grow rich from the resources mined on the world. With it's mines Mercury grew richer, soon adopting Solar Collector energy industries and further grew once the first genetically mutated special algae and plants were grown in greenhouses across the world that spread like the domed cities of Mercury itself, allowing the population to grow once again a little bit. Never reaching a million settlers, the United Nations of Mercury were small nation states, mostly made up of domed cities on the surface, or O'Neil Cylinders in it's orbit or nearby, each and every single one of them serving as a independent nation state in it's own right. They all together formed the United Nations of Mercury and together were one of the biggest mining worlds of humanity, but unlike Mars or Earth not that massive in terms of industrialization and mass production of goods out of these resources. First Mercurian Merie-Sophie Matthieu knew that many of her fellow Mercurians were hoping to find new worlds to settle and colonize, as many of the Mercury born generations were no longer the skilled and trained miners and prospectors, but had gotten soft over robot use and automation, now dreaming of a better life off the harsh world of their parents for themselves in the near future. Mercurian Dreams were big, despite having been shattered so often as their colonial world turned out to be not as be able to be terraformed and hospitable, then they first had hoped and wished for.

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Base maps for the Solar System Planets and Moons from:
www.deviantart.com/metallist-9…