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+=== Races | Culture ===
 ====== THE LAST FRONTIER PROJECT ======
-The Last Frontier Project was a space mission of the [[the_humans|Humans]] in the [[the_alpha_age|Alpha Age]]. The starting point of the project was the worsening climate crisis on [[Earth]], as a result of which the Earth became less and less habitable for mankind. To create a new home for humanity, the goal of the Last Frontier project was to create  a multigenerational spacecraft to carry 30,000 selected pioneers to the star system Trappist-1, 40 light-years from Earth, where
+===== Overview =====
+The Last Frontier Project was a space mission of the [[the_humans|ExoHumans]] in the [[the_alpha_age|Alpha Age]]. The starting point of the project was the worsening climate crisis on [[the_earth|Earth]], as a result of which the Earth became less and less habitable for mankind. To create a new home for humanity, the goal of the Last Frontier project was to create  a multigenerational spacecraft to carry 30,000 selected pioneers to the star system Trappist-1, 40 light-years from Earth, where
 astrophysicists had discovered seven Earth-like planets. On one of these planets, the pioneers were to lay the foundation for a new home for humanity.
-The initiator of the project was the European Space Agency (ESA). It worked closely with NASA, Russia's Roskosmos, China's national space agency and the Japan Space Exploration Agency on the project. Together, the five agencies selected the 25,000 most suitable passengers from among several million applicants for the journey of the first multigenerational spacecraft.
+The initiator of the project was the European Space Agency (ESA). It worked closely with NASA, Russia's Roskosmos, China's national space agency and the Japan Space Exploration Agency on the project. Together, the five agencies selected the 30,000 most suitable passengers from among several million applicants for the journey of the first multigenerational spacecraft.
-After twenty-one years of research and development, the Last Frontier launched in the year 2421 from the ESA-spaceport Kourou in North Africa towards Trappist-1,
+After twenty-one years of research and development, the [[last_frontier|Last Frontier]] launched in the year 2421 from the ESA-spaceport Kourou in North Africa towards Trappist-1,
 The journey of the Last Frontier ended with the landing of the spaceship in the year 2625 on the [[the_planet_voi_700_d|planet VOI 700 D]]. Since the spaceship caught fire during the landing, it was forced to make an emergency landing. The fire destroyed a large part of the spaceship. Its wreckage has been on the planet VOI 700 D ever since.
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 The Last Frontier's propulsion system was a tribid system consisting of an antimatter drive, solar panels on the outside of the spacecraft, and ion thrusters.
-For propulsion and energy generation the Last Frontier relied on a threefold system consisting of an antimatter drive, solar panels on the outside of the spacecraft, and ion thrusters.
+For propulsion and energy generation the Last Frontier relied on a threefold system consisting of an antimatter drive, solar panels on the outside of the spacecraft, and ion thrusters. The outer skin of the spacecraft was made of a combination of aluminum-lithium alloys, titanium and carbon fiber-active plastics.
 The entire spacecraft was designed to serve its passengers as a supplier of raw materials and ready-to-use building modules upon arrival on the new planet, based on the [[human_settlement_plan_hsp|Human Settlement Plan (HSP)]]. This means that the Last Frontier was to be built completely from scratch and that it was to become dwellings, industrial complexes, mines, machinery and administrative buildings.
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 ===== Communication with Earth =====
-Because the Last Frontier was on a long interstellar journey, it could not maintain continuous real-time contact with Earth - due to the vast distances involved and the limited speed of communications technologies. Nevertheless, various methods were used to maintain limited communication between the spacecraft and Earth:
+Because the Last Frontier was on a long interstellar journey, it could not maintain continuous real-time contact with Earth. This was due to the vast distances involved and the fact that all communication technology was limited to the speed of light. Nevertheless, various methods were used to maintain limited communication between the spacecraft and Earth. All of them were based on electromagnetic waves, so they had to take into account obstacles like suns, planets or black holes and different types of Cosmic radition. They differed primarily in range, noise level and data size side effective communication:
-  * **Laser communications:** Using laser pulses that the spacecraft exchanged with special observation stations on Earth, the Last Frontier was able to send encoded data packets in the form of light pulses to Earth's observation stations, where they were decoded. The signals enabled a relatively fast communication speed of one second per light-year distance. This means that at a distance of 10 light years between the spacecraft and Earth, the transmission of a light pulse took 10 seconds.
+  * **X-ray communications**: Using highly directed, high energy x-ray pulses, the Last Frontier could exchange encoded data packages with special observation stations on Earth. The signals traveled at the speed of light – thus, it would take one year for it to cover a one light year (9.5 trillion kilometers) distance.
-  * **Microwave communications:**  * In addition to laser communications, the Last Frontier always used microwave communications as a backup solution for data exchange with Earth. This involved exchanging data packets using microwave transmission between the spacecraft and ground stations on Earth.   This method enables reliable data transmission over longer distances, but is generally slower than laser communications.
+  * **Infrared laser communicationa**: In addition, the Last Frontier used infrared laser signals as a backup for data exchange with Earth. The frequency was much lower than in the X-ray band, therefore the amount of data carried per second was much smaller.
-  * **Long-range radio as an emergency solution:** In the event that the laser or microwave communication was not possible, the spacecraft was also equipped with powerful communications equipment to send and receive signals over long distances. This included the use of directional antennas and high range, low attenuation radio frequencies. However, due to the long distance, radio signals could only be exchanged with significant delay as the travel time increased. Thus, it can be roughly said that each light-year distance between Earth and spacecraft means about one year delay in radio transmission. At a distance of, say, ten light-years, this would mean that a radio signal sent from the spacecraft would take ten years to be received on Earth.
+  * **Long-range radio as an emergency solution**: In case both X-ray and infrared laser communication failed, the spacecraft was equipped with powerful emitters and antennae on each side for sending and receving microwave and radio signals. While due to their long wavelegths they were the most stable means of communication, they could also the least information. Only short messages could be send this way. Furthermore, they had to compete with cosmic background radiation. In practice, a message needed to be broadcast multiple times to make sure that it could be pieced together back on earth.
+As the distance increased between vessel and home planet, messages had to be increasingly carefully chosen and formulated – for they would take e.g. 20 years to reach their destination 20 light years away. A question and answer dialogue would take decades, short-term exchange was soon impossible, and both side were basically on their own in making important decisions.
 ===== The legal system on the Spaceship =====
-To strengthen togetherness and establish rules, a so-called Starship Council was set up on board the spaceship. The council consisted of 14 members and a council chairman. It was elected every two years and is considered a model for the so-called [[federal_council|Federal Counci]]l, which is elected by the settlers in the [[the_gamma_age|Gamma Age]] on the planet [[the_planet_voi_700_d|VOI 700 D.]]
+To strengthen social cohesion and establish rules, a so-called Starship Council was set up on board the spaceship. The council consisted of 14 members and a council chairperson. It was elected every two years and was considered a model for the so-called [[federal_council|Federal Council]], which was elected by the settlers in the [[the_gamma_age|Gamma Age]] on the planet [[the_planet_voi_700_d|VOI 700 D.]]
-The first official act of the first Starship Council is the ratification of the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights|External Link]]  as the basic law for the coexistence of the Last Frontier community in space. Subsequently, a comprehensive Civil Code and an extensive Criminal Code were created by the various councils on the Last Frontier's 200-year journey, both of which - based on the Human Rights Charter - regulated everyday interaction.
+The first official act of the first Starship Council was the ratification of the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights|External Link]]  as the basic law for the coexistence of the Last Frontier community in space. Subsequently, a comprehensive Civil Code and an extensive Criminal Code were created by the various councils on the Last Frontier's 200-year journey, both of which - based on the Human Rights Charter - regulated everyday interaction.
 ===== Culture on the Spaceship =====
-The culture on the spaceship was primarily characterized by the limited living space as well as the close coexistence of different ethnic groups and cultures. For this reason, adaptability and tolerance were the most important core values for the pioneer community.
+The culture on the spaceship was primarily characterized by the limited living space as well as the close coexistence of different ethnic groups and cultures. For this reason, adaptability and tolerance were core values for the pioneer community.
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 ===== Birth control and common family planning on the Spaceship =====
-The original passenger count at the launch of the Last Frontier was 30,000 passengers. Of these, 15,000 were young couples who wanted to implement their family planning on the spacecraft. This was to ensure that there would be a basic potential for a new generation on the spaceship. The other 15,000 passengers, who were not couples, were divided into 7,250 men and women each and 500 members of the "third sex."
+The original passenger count at the launch of the Last Frontier was 30,000 passengers. Of these, 15,000 were young couples who wanted to implement their family planning on the spacecraft. This was to ensure that there would be a basic potential for a new generation on the spaceship. The other 15,000 passengers, who were not couples, were divided into 7,250 men, 7,250 women and 500 people who identified e.g. as nonbinary, gender fluid or agender.
 To ensure that the resources as well as the space available on board the Last Frontier were not overly burdened and, on the other hand, that the future viability of the rice mission could also be ensured, family planning was a "community matter".  This means that at the beginning of each new year, the artificial intelligence GAIA calculated how many newborns would be needed by the community.
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 ===== Health care and life expectancy on the Spaceship =====
 During the 204-year voyage of the Last Frontier, the average life expectancy of the passengers was 92 years. The value increased from 87 years in the first generation to 92 in the second generation. Since the third and fourth generations are still alive to a large extent, no conclusive value is available here yet.
+The high life expectancy in comparison with the human population on earth was due on one hand to the fact that health and genetic criteria were also taken into account in the selection of the passengers, and on the other hand to the living conditions on board that were constantly optimal. Every passenger had access to a first-class health care infrastructure.
-The high life expectancy in comparison with the human population on earth was due on the one hand to the fact that health and genetic criteria were also taken into account in the selection of the passengers, and on the other hand to the fact that the living conditions at on board were constantly optimal. Every passenger had access to a first-class health care infrastructure.
+Moreover, since the food was organized collectively, the passengers ate a balanced diet for the most part. And the environmental conditions
-Moreover, since the food was organized collectively, the passengers ate a balanced diet for the most part. And the environmental conditions in the artificial environment of the spaceship were constantly in an ideal state for humans.
 ===== Working life on the Spaceship =====
-Most of the physical work on board was done by so-called [[Maid Bots]]. Maid Bots are robots that are connected to the GAIA system and perform tasks such as cleaning, cooking, farming, waste disposal and manual labor for humans. In addition, there were also so-called [[Med Bots]] aboard the Last Frontier that took care of basic medical care.
+Most of the physical work on board was done by so-called [[Service Bots]]. Service Bots are robots that are connected to the GAIA system and perform tasks such as cleaning, cooking, farming, waste disposal and manual labor for humans. In addition, there were also so-called Med Bots aboard the Last Frontier that took care of basic medical care.
-Nevertheless, work played an important role for people as an occupation during the long travel time as well as a structuring element. Each adult passenger was required to spend at least four hours a day serving the community and assisting the other passengers. This commitment was fulfilled mainly through social activities. Thus, there were many people who worked as nurses, midwives, social workers, librarian, psychologists, chaplains, or even companions for the dying.
+Nevertheless, work played an important role for people as an occupation during the long travel time as well as a structuring element. Each adult passenger was required to spend at least four hours a day serving the community and assisting the other passengers. This commitment was fulfilled mainly through social activities. Thus, there were many people who worked as nurses, midwives, social workers, librarian, psychologists, chaplains, or companions for the dying.
 In addition to these more voluntary occupations, there was also a contingent of five hundred [[guarding_troopers|Guarding Troopers]] and one hundred firefighters selected by the GAIA system, each serving four years of mandatory service.
+===== Related Pages and Further Information =====
+  * [[the_alpha_age|Alpha Age]]
+  * [[the_earth|Earth]]
+  * [[the_planet_voi_700_d|VOI 700 D]]
+  * [[The Blues|The Blues]] (Hidden Passengers of the Last Frontier)