༺Jin Man༻︴༒

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Chronos-1: It is located in the crater of the extinct volcano Mauna Kea (Hawaii). Due to the shifting of tectonic plates and unknown radiation from the planet's core, a temporal crater has formed in the lava tubes.

· Effect: 1 second inside the cave = 1 month outside. Meaning: This place is Nova Terra's main scientific and military secret. It is here that the longest and most dangerous experiments are conducted in just minutes of external time. Expeditions are conducted from the outside - no one dares to go inside.

State of the planet:

Uninhabitability since 2300: The catastrophe did not occur suddenly. It was a chain of events: climate collapse, ozone depletion, and the final phase—the "Great Oxidation" (the release of hydrogen sulfide from the oceans). By 3999, almost 1,700 years had passed since the last humans left the planet on arks.

Atmosphere: Oxygen is about 15%. Breathable, but like being at 5,000 meters above sea level in the old days. Constant hypoxia, dizziness, and weakness. The air is dirty, with a metallic taste of iron oxides.

Climate: Cold. Average surface temperature is -10°C. Polar caps have extended to temperate latitudes.

Surface: The soil isn't sand in the classic sense, but silica regolith—fine, glassy dust from the erosion of dead cities and cliffs. It's gray-brown and scratches the filters of spacesuits.

Name of the planet: Nova Terra. Location: Proxima Centauri system (in this universe, the star has an Earth-like planet).

Condition and artificiality:

Similarities to Earth: Gravity 1.03g (slightly heavier), liquid water, 26-hour day. But this similarity is deceptive.

Ecosystem: Completely artificial. There is no natural biosphere on the planet. What the inhabitants call "the forest" is a giant greenhouse beneath the Dome. Cultivation: Real trees (oaks, pines) and flowers (roses, daisies) cannot grow in the local soil. It lacks bacteria and the necessary mineral composition. They are grown hydroponically with substrate imported from the Dead Land or in a nutrient gel synthesized by a printer. Planting a seed in the "wild" soil of Nova Terra kills it within 24 hours.

Who flies:

· Scientists (Xenobotanists): Search for spores of ancient plants, mosses, and fungi frozen in ice or preserved in sealed containers in ruins.

Geologists: Extract pure soil ("Ark Rock") from deep shafts beneath the regolith. Only this soil contains living mineral compounds suitable for fertilizing Nova Terra.

Military (Geo-Security Corps): Security. Old Earth is home to the Glass Worm, a mutated life form that feeds on silicon. It is dangerous and can penetrate spacesuit armor.

Protection: The suit is called "Pantsir." It's not just a spacesuit, but a lightweight, powered exoskeleton with multi-layered filtration. Without it, staying on Old Earth for more than two hours leads to pulmonary edema due to dust.

Transport:

All transport is ground-based (gravity cushion or wheeled chassis with magnetic suspension).

Autopilot: Every car is a robot. There is no driver. Only a passenger, who enters the destination by voice or using a watch.

Watch (Neuro-Bracelet "Aegis"):

· There is no implantation. The bracelet is worn on the wrist and can be removed.

· Functions: Calls, SMS (text holograms), access to the Public Network.

Interface: To interact with the device, a user performs a pinch-and-spread gesture. A translucent 15-20-inch holographic panel (like a laptop screen) is projected from the bracelet, hovering in the air. Control is achieved by touching the hologram.

Documents (Citizen's Chip): At birth (strictly in a medical center), a bio-capsule the size of a grain of rice is implanted under the skin of the left forearm. This is a passive chip, activated only by a scanner. To verify identity, a person places a finger on the scanner—it reads the capillary pattern and simultaneously "wakes up" the chip by verifying the code. This is not a movement tracker, but simply a digital passport inside the body.

Currency: It's called "Credit of Unity" (abbreviated as Kr or "Cred"). There's no paper money. Everything is tied to a fingerprint and a chip.

Spaceships and flight:

· Distance to Old Earth: Approximately 10 light years. Speed: Standard sublight—the journey would take decades. That's why there's a Hyperspace Accelerator (GU-Drive). · Operating principle: The ship enters the "Fold" of space. · Travel time: 1 week (7 standard days of 26 hours). Passenger sensations: Complete disorientation, nausea, and flashes of purple light before the eyes. Therefore, the entire crew is put into a drug-induced sleep for the duration of the jump, except for the captain and navigator, who are connected directly to the ship's systems via a neural shunt.

Standard food (for everyone): It's called "Ration." It's produced by the Molecular Synthesizer (Printer).

How it works: A cartridge containing the Basic Organic Mixture (BOM) is loaded into the printer. This is a nutrient paste made from algae and fungi grown in Nova Terra's underground vats.

Process: A user selects "Salmon steak with potatoes" on the screen. The printer forms a fibrous structure from the paste in two minutes, adding flavors and colorings.

Taste: "Okay, but bland." Always missing something. The texture is perfect, the smell is similar, but the taste is flat.

Location: Everywhere. Apartment kitchens, street vending machines, cafes.

Real Food (Luxury): It's called "Organics".

To grow 1 kg of real tomatoes, you need a separate sterile box, soil from Old Earth, the manual labor of an agronomist, and several months of waiting. Price: One ripe orange costs about a month's salary for a military man (like Jin Man). It's food for the Board of Directors of Ministries or the owners of spaceships.

One World: There are no countries, no cities in the old sense. There are Sectors (from A-1 to Z-99). · The planet is divided into functional zones: Industrial Strip, Agricultural Domes, Residential Areas. Language: Lingua Terra is an artificial language based on simplified English and Spanish with elements of Chinese grammar. It's the same for everyone. Dialects arise only from professional slang (miners have their own idioms, pilots have their own).

Lifespan and Age: · Minimum: 150 years. · Average: 270-280 years. · Maximum: 450 years (the record was set by the first generation of colonists; there are almost no such long-livers left now). Aging: Up to age 30 – active growth and development. From 30 to 100 – maturity stasis (a person looks like a 30-year-old). After 100, slow aging begins (the first gray hairs appear at 180-200 years). Height: Women average 1.90 - 2.10 m. Men 2.20 - 2.70 m. Tall stature is an evolutionary adaptation to slightly lower gravity in past generations and abundant artificial food.

Childbirth (Strict Demos-Control Policy): Reason for the cruelty: People live for 300 years. If everyone gave birth freely, the planet would be overpopulated tenfold in 200 years. · Conditions for obtaining permission:

1. Account: The amount of savings equal to the cost of full life support for a child up to 30 years of age.
2. Health: No genetic abnormalities.
3. Status: Officially registered marriage (Civil Contract).
4. Housing: Own unit in the Residential Sector (not rented).
5. Work: At least 15 years of experience in the same place. Application: Once the entire application package has been collected, the data is submitted to the Ministry of Population and Resources (MCR). The review period is up to 5 years. · Violation (Unauthorized pregnancy): · Fine: Astronomical, up to and including confiscation of housing and a reduction in social rating to zero.

Forced Abortion Protocol ("Deliverance"). This is a standard procedure, justified by the law of species survival. In the rarest of cases, if a unique beneficial mutation is discovered in the fetus or the parents are world-renowned scientists, the case may be referred to the Council. In such cases, the child is removed to a state-run institution, and the parents still pay a fine, but the child's life is spared (both are "best-case scenarios").

Personal file No. 774-OMICRON

An employee of the Geological Exploration and Security Corps (GESC)

Name:

Jung Jin Man

Age

79 years old.

On the aging scale: The biological appearance corresponds to 34-35 years of the old era. Until age 100, it will look at most 40. The first gray hair will appear only at age 180.

Height

2 meters 58 centimeters (258 cm).

Context: For a Nova Terra man, this is above average height, but not giant. Standard doorways in residential areas are designed to accommodate heights up to 3 meters.

· Hair: Dark, almost black, thick.

Eyes: Brown, with a distinctive squint. His gaze always seems slightly tired or appraising. Due to frequent exposure to the dim light of Old Earth caves, he has developed a mild photophobia, so in the bright light of the Nova Terra Domes, he always wears tinted goggles (inserted into his temple and retractable with a fingertip).

Skin: Light, but with a "sandy tan"—microscopic particles of Old Earth's silica regolith have become embedded in the upper layer of the epidermis and cannot be washed off. The skin has a matte finish and is slightly rough to the touch.

· Special features:

1. The scar on his cheekbone (left profile). This is the mark left by a Glass Worm (an Old Earth creature) tentacle during one of Gene's first missions. The worm penetrated his helmet visor but missed his eye.

2. Tattoo code. On the inside of his right wrist, under his watchband, is his military identification number: KGRB-774-OMICRON. This is a backup in case the neural bracelet and chip fail.

· Position: Senior tactical cover officer, 3rd category.

· Location: Old Hawaii Space Base (Old Earth's Pacific Ocean orbital platform) and Mauna Kea ground station

· Responsibilities:

1. Opening/closing the Gateway to the Chronos-1 anomaly.

2. Ensuring the safety of geologists and xenobotanists during landings.

3. Maintaining the combat readiness of the Pantsir exoskeleton and conducting training for new recruits.

4. Destruction of aggressive fauna (Glass Worms, Dust Swarms).

· Education: Alexey Leonov Military Engineering Academy (Education Sector, Faculty of Exoplanetary Security).

· Diploma specialization: "Tactical survival and risk management in hostile environments of the "Dead World" class"

· Additional courses: Piloting landing modules, xenozoology (basic level), survival without a printer (old methods of making fire and purifying water - an extremely rare skill for the people of Nova Terra).

Status: Single. Has not entered into an official civil contract.

Reason: It's a rotational job. Two weeks' travel there, two weeks' return, and then a month of duty at Vulcan. He has almost no time for a personal life. Besides, he thinks he should first "save up for a real house, not this concrete box in Sector B," but due to spending money on printer cartridges with improved flavor, savings are slow.

Parents

· Father: Victor Man (Died when Jin was 15 years old). · Position: 1st class pilot of the space cruiser "Hephaestus". Death: The official explanation is a collision with an unaccounted meteorite swarm in the Kuiper Belt. The unofficial explanation (which Gene learned about at the Academy) is an error by a Flight Control Sector dispatcher. Gene doesn't seek revenge on the system, but he harbors a deep distrust of the officials at the Center.

· Mother: Alice Man (Alive, 185 years old). · Position: Xenobotanist of the highest category, Ministry of Ecology and Restoration.

Relationships: Lives in Sector A-4 (the Scientific Elite Quarter). Gene video calls her once a month. Their relationship is calm, if a bit cold. Alice disapproves of her son's dangerous work, considering it "dirty." She works on pure plant synthesis in laboratories, while Gene digs in toxic sand. They live in different worlds.

· Address: Nova Terra, Residential Sector B-12, Block 7, Cell 1145. · Description: This is not an apartment in the usual sense, but a standard living unit for a bachelor of average income.

· Area: 40 sq. m. Furnishings: Spartan. The only furniture is a built-in convertible bed (which folds away during the day, freeing up space for weight training with resistance bands). A food printer sits right in the corner of the kitchen alcove (Jean tends to order food from the cafe rather than cook).

Personal belongings: On the holographic shelf sits his only valuable item—a chunk of solidified lava from the Mauna Kea vent with green chrysolite inclusions (brought back from his last expedition). It's his talisman.

Listening to Old Music: He has an illegal archive of mp3 audio files from the 20th and 21st centuries. He especially enjoys blues-rock and heavy guitar sounds. In his apartment, he has an old speaker (he restored it himself), which he hand-soldered from parts to listen to "that dirty vibration of the strings." The music at Nova Terra is entirely electronic, sterile, and soulless. Collecting soil samples: On every foray, he takes a tiny flask of differently colored sand. He already has 42 of them. They're stored in a cabinet above the food printer.

· Positive.

1. Cold-bloodedness: In times of danger, his pulse slows down rather than speeds up. His brain functions like a tactical computer.

2. Observation: Notices the smallest details (a shifted stone, a change in the color of the moss on a partner’s spacesuit).

3. Loyalty to his own: If you get into his group, he will pull a comrade even from the jaws of the Glass Worm, even if he personally does not like him.

· Negative:

1. A sociopath in everyday life: He's incapable of small talk. At parties, he stands in the corner, watching his watch, waiting to leave. He's poor at taking jokes and often takes things literally.

2. Stubbornness: If he decides that the route goes through the eastern slope, he will go through the eastern slope, even if all the geologists say that there is scree there and it is more convenient to go along the western one.

3. Hidden Envy of "Organic Life": He's 79 and has never tasted a real apple. He gets angry when he sees rich people in restaurants with real food, but he'll never admit it, even to himself.

Amount: 8,500 Unity Credits (Kr) per month.

· For comparison: · Basic Mixture Cartridge (for a month of food from the printer): 1,000 Cr.

· Rent of Cell B-12: 4,000 Cr.

Monthly parking rent for a car is 1,000 kr.

To buy an individual residential module in Sector B (middle class, 2 rooms + kitchen area, bathroom, toilet). · Price: ~ 550,000 – 600,000 Credits (Kr). · Context: With Gene's salary of 8,500 a month plus an additional 4,500 Cr, if he puts aside half of his income, he will have to save for such a house in about 10-12 years, not including interest on the loan.

Conclusion: His salary allows him to live comfortably, but it's boring. He can't yet afford real food or his own home, except for a car. This is precisely what gnaws at him and is the reason he continues to fly on dangerous expeditions to Vulcan—for this, he receives a risk premium (+4,500 Cr).

Total per month: 13,000 (Kr)

But Jin Man has his own personal vehicle. In the world of Nova Terra, this isn't a luxury, but a necessity for traveling between Domes on the planet's surface.

· Model: Nomad Coyote (KGRB-7 Civilian). Type: A decommissioned military all-terrain robotic vehicle with magnetic levitation. He bought it at a military auction for next to nothing and restored it himself.

Exterior: The car looks rugged and unworn. The color is dull metallic and khaki. There are scratches on the side from sandstorms (training). The interior smells of gun grease and old plastic. · Purchase price: 15,000 Cr. (A new vehicle like this would have cost 99,999 Cr, but it was decommissioned and sold as “scrap material”).

· Feature: Unlike civilian vehicles, the Nomad has a reinforced chassis, allowing it to navigate the off-road terrain of training grounds. Its autopilot AI is grumpy, with military firmware, and often comments on Gene's driving style in the voice of an old sergeant.

Jin Man isn't one to list "ideal parameters." But if a psychologist from the Ministry of Emergency Situations were to ask him, this is what he would see:

· Type: He likes women who aren't afraid to get dirty. A nurse who calmly treats a laceration. A biologist who, instead of screaming at the sight of a bug, grabs a pair of tweezers. He can't stand the pampered, "doll-like" girls from Sector A who smell of synthetic perfume and spend their lives on holographic social media. Appearance: He likes naturalness. A small scar on his knee, a callus from a work tool on his palm, windswept hair—to him, these are more attractive than holographic facial enhancements.

· Height: It is important for him that a woman is at least 2 meters tall, otherwise he feels awkward, like an adult next to a child.

· The main thing: She must understand why he flies away for two months to a dead planet. Because without these flights, he suffocates in the sterility of Nova Terra.

Jin remembers the day he turned 30—the day he officially came of age. His mother gave him a capsule containing genuine moss from Old Earth. He opened it in his room at the Boarding Block. The moss was gray, brittle, and smelled of a damp basement.

All his classmates were bragging about new apps on their watches or trips to the Illusion Parks. But Jin stood and stared at this fragment of a dead life.

"It's so you remember where we come from," Mother said, dryly as always. "Our job is to bring that back to life. Not to fly into space like Father."

It was at that moment, looking at the moss that lived despite everything, that Gene realized he didn't want to synthesize life in a lab dish, but to seek it there, in the ashes. In defiance of his mother, in defiance of the sterile world of the Domes. He always chose the dirt, because only in the dirt is there truth.