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ES Encyclopedia supplies an ever-growing body of
short articles and descriptions of people, places and things that inhabit the
world of The Eylau Sequence. It is a great help to those wishing for a
better understanding of the background to current Eylau Sequence short stories
and gaming. If there is a favorite entry that you would like to see added,
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L5 Complex (Japan) — The gigantic complex at
Lagrange Point Five which now comprises the "island nation" of Japan was the
subject of technical speculation long before the Japanese decision to relocate
their population in the face of extinction. The first major decision in favor
of an L5 location and against a lunar base was rooted in two major concerns: a)
That the moon was equally vulnerable to disasters similar to that suffered by
earth, and b) that humanity needed to make the proverbial leap into space for
the sake of long term survival. They made their greatest intellectual
breakthrough when they abandoned an engineering solution to the problem of
artificial gravity in deep space, and instead decided on a biological solution
of adaptation.
In tandem with the question of physiology came the
equally thorny issue of station keeping for the complex. It was ultimately
decided to build a string of megastations which would remain in the general
vicinity of each other, but which were individually free to change relative
position as they migrated around the L5 circuit. The resulting station network
allowed populations in various stages of physical adaptation to live in
dedicated zones, and it also helped to prevent any disasters in one area from
becoming a disaster for the entire nation. With different stations having been
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| Lagrange Points — One of several points around
a planet where its gravitational pull and that of its parent star appear to be
neutral, allowing objects at those positions to remain in a stationary position
relative to the planet without having to be in orbit around the planet. There
are five Lagrange points to each one of these relationships, ranging from the
Sun-Jupiter system to much smaller ones like the Earth-Moon system. The most
important Lagrange points relating to humanity belong to the Sun-Earth system.
The points in the Sun-Earth system allow numerous stations, platforms,
installations and science projects to be placed with little or no need to
expend extra energy for station keeping. |
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