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The Principality of Kanon is a ZOCU power founded in the 2090's by a number of financial and industrial groups owned by extraordinarily powerful and wealthy transgene dynasties. It was and continues to be well known for being a high technology center and its longstanding practice of fighting tooth and nail to reduce undesireable immigration, giving it quite a low population compared to other states of its influence.
Astrography
Shana (I)
The innermost planet, Shana is a hazy, reddish-gold terrestrial world. It orbits at 0.43 AU and masses about 0.285 Earths. Despite its low mass, its environment is quite Venus-like, with a thick atmosphere giving surface pressure of around an MPa.
Kanon (II)
Kanon orbits at 0.86 AU and has about 85% the mass of Earth.
Saki (IIb)
Saki is Kanon's enormous water moon whose presence causes dramatic tides and a very well lit natural night sky compared to Earth's. Although surface conditions are unpleasant to unprotected humans, Saki has an oxygenated atmosphere and a biosphere dominated by algaes and bacterias whose colorful cycles give the ocean moon repute as a wonder of galactic standing, equal to Kanon itself.
Saint's Ring
Tight debris ring at around 1.3 AU.
Sola (III)
A terrestrial planet that appears white-blue-violet due to its thick atmosphere - like Shana, it is also about an MPa at the surface and so is something of a cool Venus. It is almost exactly an Earth mass and orbits at about 2.14 AU. Although the mineral and chemical resources of Sola are believed to be economically significant if exploited, the vast untapped potential still on Kanon has relegated any interest in Sola to the distant future.
Sakura (IV)
Light pink to rose gas giant. About 80 Earth masses, making it somewhat smaller than Saturn, and orbits at 3.86 AU. Its gravitational presence keeps the inner system mostly safe from what would otherwise be catastrophic bombardment from the Robe.
The Robe
The Robe is a huge debris disk with an inner edge at around 7.3 AU and extends way out. Its collective mass is up to three orders of magnitude greater than that of the Kuiper Belt. Its density is sufficient to be nearly visible from Kanon itself. There are many objects of significant mass.
History
Established in the late 2090's by an alliance of corporate foundations ruled and owned by a class of newly established, enormously powerful and wealthy class of transgene dynasties. Though envisioned (and successful) as a long term economic venture, it was primarily a place of retreat against increasing anti-transgene backlash and restrictions being put in place on Earth. As an escape put in place by the richest of the rich primarily for themselves, control of the colony was heavily centralised, and remains tightly in the grip of a steadily growing but still relatively small number of prominent and extremely wealthy transgene families who heavily succeeded at business and finance during the decades of lax control on Earth. Though not openly nobility at first, they did fashion a political system wherein the paramount leader of the planet was selected in terms by "electors" on the Council of Guidance. Some time during the Breakdown, the constitution was quietly amended to officially create the Principality of Kanon.
Thanks to its founders, Kanon's economy is primarily high-tech and its population is overwhelmingly transgene to at least some degree. By the legal standards of the EU, the rate of "significant" genetic modification in the general population is about 91%. Above and beyond even most ZOCU members, Kanon has become known for tis stringent immigration policies - a product of the ruling class's desire to keep the planet to themselves, balanced only by the necessity. With plenty of room still for settlement on the planet, the principality essentially operates a pyramid scheme, allowing generations of immigrants and making sure they earn enough to move their descendents up the ladder.
Politics, Genetics, Economy
The Kanonian system is at its surface backwards by a thousand years. Of course, Kanonians consider it to make sense - the ancient assumptions that nobility ran in the blood are now scientific facts and a natural pathway of intergenerational social mobility. Kanon imports immigrants to operate the lower strata of society and in turn these immigrants fund the genetic upgrades of their children, who move upwards generation by generation. The noble titles of Kanon operate on the scientific principle that genetic upgrades are in fact heritable. Naturally, this also motivates high end lineages to avoid dilution of their genetic stock.
Paramount Leader
Kanon is non-democratic (obviously). At its highest level is an oligarchy which rules partly by consensus and partly by competitive politick. A paramount leader is selected by the electorate to represent Kanon as head of state and government. This selection is usually on the basis of charisma, political acceptability, function as a face and initiator of discussion rather than practical political assets.
Duke
A duke/duchess is the senior member of a recognized lineage. By definition the Duke of a lineage is generally tied for its least advanced member at any given time but would normally be in control of the family's considerable financial and political assets.
Branch Families
Breaking new ground in transgenics is expensive and difficult and generally pay-by-the-child but once a transgene line is established, further members of the same template on the next generation is (with some odd exceptions) as simple as having children. Family branching is a controverisal strategy that is sometimes formalised among upper class families - the designated leaders are enhanced or updated concurrently with supporting family members who are "mass produced" on the same generational template as their parents. This practice reared its ugly head in the media in 2190 when Kanako Kuga Reizei, branch member of the Kuga family took the lives of four half siblings of the main family in a mass murder believed to stem from intra-clan conflict. The Kuga lineage stated it would cease the practice.
Knight
A knight is a military transgene. This is generally not a popular upgrade as it does not provide the financial and, eventually, political advantages of having more balanced transgene offspring who eventually almost match knight class upgrades in their specialties anyhow. Moreover, the brightest commanders and officers are, obviously, mainstream nobility. However, it does have the advantage of government subsidy. Knights have their own classifications. The title is heritable within the military career - the genetically pure descendent of a knight who enlists is also a knight.
Stats
A1) Early National (+100 CIP)
A2) Dominantly Transgene (+2 Transgene)
A3) Garden World (A8)
A8) Cash Crops (+100 Wealth)
B1) Artifact Find (+100 Dust -> B4)
B4) Active Machinery (+300 Theta, -200 Dust)
C1) Artifact Find (+100 Dust -> B4)
B4) Reverse-Engineerable (+1 Tech)
D1) Broken Down (+100 PIP -> D3)
D3) Theta Hub (+200 Theta, +100 Wealth, -100 Dust)
E1) Solidarity! (+100 Dust, -Debt, Treaty of Sirius)
G1) Guiding Star (+1 Transgene, +1 ZOCU Relations, +1 Morale, +1 Tech)
G2) Center for Research (+2 Techlevel, +1 Tech, +100 CIP, -100 PIP)
G3) Midseason Uglies (+250 Theta, +1 Thetatech, +100 CIP, -50 Dust)
N1) Space Monarchy (+2500 Military, +100 PIP, +1 Transgene)
Z1) Development Hell (+1 Techlevel, -1 Tech)
Total: +4 Transgene, +200 Wealth, +100 PIP, +300 CIP, +750 Theta, +2500 Military, +3 Techlevel, +2 Tech, +1 Thetatech, +1 Morale, +1 ZOCU Relations, -Debt, -50 Dust
Applications
+1 Mega-Particle Application, +1 Power Application, +3 Hangarize Application, +4 Shipbuilding Application, Cruiser Construction
+1 Mecha Application, +1 Shield Application
Tech Levels
Global: 22
- +6 Transgenics
- +32 Hangarize
- +7 Mecha
- +7 Power Systems
- +32 Megaparticle Weapons
- +42 Basic Theotech
- +877 Advanced Theotech
- -3 Shipbuilding
Military
Warships
Impossible Request class battleship
The Impossible Request is the aptly named, rumored Pallada replacement battleship project being undertaken by Kanon. Its pan-ZOCU designation is Lydia class.
Mobile Weapons
One of the problems ZOCU had was that they had a zillion variants of everything. No one was ultimately guiltier than Kanon itself.
OMF-06KK2/KMF-165d Knightress
Despite being the primary originators of the OMF-06, it quickly became clear that while the Hoplite was a vital base system that could be produced easily on even undeveloped worlds, its basic, no frills design made it unsuited for Kanon's low volume but highly sophisticated industrial infrastructure. Before the first suit had even entered production offworld, a number of Kojima-Saitama's rivals had already licensed up and were retooling the design into something more suited to their own world's capabilities. The eventual winner of that short but incredibly vicious contest was the Knightress, which became Kanon's local variant of its own flagship mobile suit.
The Knightress shared over 80% parts commonality with the standard Hoplite Alpha but had uprated electronics, homegrown systems and a dizzying surfeit of gadgetry that made it a difficult but ultimately rewarding variant to pilot.
Origin: Ginte Group
Primary Operator: Principality of Kanon; exports to ZOCU and friendly Rim/Expanse governments
Alternate Names: Hoplite Kappa, Hoplite 2k, Hoplite 2000, Hoplite Knightress
Date Of Introduction: 2185
Role: 3rd generation mass production mobile suit; local variant
Control System: linear frame; pilot only
Height: 16.0 meters
Weight: 53.2 tons (standard combat loadout)
Powerplant: 2 x K-0N forced fusion
Main Thrusters: 4
Apogee Motors: 14
Fixed Armament:
Options:
Defensive Systems: laminate armour
OMF-06KT Hoplite Tau/KMF-168
OMF-13
OMF-21/KMF-219 Valkyria
Origin: -
Primary Operator: Principality of Kanon
Date Of Introduction: 2190
Role: 4th generation mass production mobile suit
Control System: 1080 panoramic/linear-seat; pilot only
Height: 16.0 meters
Weight: 55.0 tons (standard combat loadout)
Powerplant: 2 x dc reactor
Main Thrusters: Mercurion furnace
Apogee Motors: 18
Fixed Armament:
Options:
Defensive Systems:
KMF-225 Nanoha
Historic Mobile Weapons
KMF-042 Huntress
The Kanonian variant of the standard OMF-04 Peltast. Widely produced in an initial version and a homeworld defence version optimised for Kanon's wet climate and forested terrain. One test type eventually became the KMF-055 Marin.
KMF-162 Virago mobile suit
In addition
KMF-055 Marin
KMF-111 Acgal
KMF-180 Urin