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=== Gabriel ===

A system that roundly rejected standard naming conventions, the major inhabited planet is called Gabriel's Tear.  It has an earthlike climate but is an ocean world, with only perhaps 20% of the land surface area of ancient Terra.  The population is small, only half a billion people, many of which live in floating cities.  Civilization here dropped to TL0 or 1 at some point during the Silence, and the silence-era civilizations built many huge monuments and monoliths during that time. They are considered cultural treasures and access to them is restricted.  The system has a wealth of rare minerals, and the people take naturally to space mining, so it is considered a zone of substantial economic opportunity.  Gabriel's Tear is currently TL3 with a major language of Afrikaans.  The government has historically been a system of city-states, each one focused on one of the islands that make up the world's limited land-area.  They have now created a sort of UN to handle extraplanetary affairs, but it is weak and the nations often compete with each other to undercut it.  The State is slowly gaining more of a hold here by playing one nation against another.  Three nations have currently been bribed with the use of spike-drive equipped shuttles.

'''Vital Statistics'''
*Coordinates: 06.03
*Government: Federation of democratic city-states, strongly technocratic.
*Laws & Restrictions: Varies by individual polity.
*Population: 30M
*Languages: Afrikaans, French, Arabic
*Technology: TL3
*Fleets: 6 non-militarized shuttles, 1st Generation.