Most of the Arkadian Ring is air of course. It wraps around an entire star, and there are not enough rocks left in the entire binary system to pave all the way around. So Arkadia is made up of islands of rock floating in the air while they orbit around the star. The center has air thick enough to breath unaided, and while it thins towards the edges, all aircraft are limited to atmospheric speeds when traveling between islands. It can take a while to get anywhere.
There are many people who are not normal. The hyperactive, the compulsive, the autistic, they are the ones that “normal” people find strange. They are different. And they are special. Most of those who stop aging have at least one issue that was called a disorder in previous centuries. They have to learn to live with or use those issues long before they stop aging. That is one thing you should remember about the Ageless. Their lives are rarely easy.
When the Peloran, Roderan, and Shang gave us examples of their gravitic drives, it revolutionized our future in a way that even the improved hyperdrives did not. True control over gravity, rather than simply beating it into submission with a rocket, gave as a whole new universe of possibilities. In the short term, we armed some of our warships with them. In the long term, we tore the other examples apart and learned how to practice a whole new field of science.
One of the things I’ll always remember Arkadia for is the amazing parties. You’ve never been to a real low-gee dance until you’ve been to one of theirs. You can drift forever, in air without end, no walls as far as the eye can see. There is nothing like it in all the worlds.
Antigonia is not the only moon in the Arkadian Ring of course. Over the millennia, they’ve towed most of the surviving rubble from their old home star to the ring. Most of it is asteroid-sized, but there are many very small moonlets and a few actual moons. Antigonia is the largest surviving fragment of the original Arkadian home system though, since the Ennead literally ripped everything larger than it apart.
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