Nyctospora
The Nyctospora, or "scattering into the night", is the collective name for several distinct waves of political and religious refugee migration to habitats deep in Extralegal Space, brought on by the turmoil of the Succession Crisis. Although scholarly opinions differ on the precise date range the Nyctospora should be partioned into - with some even arguing that it properly traces back before the Crisis, and that the first true wave of the Nyctospora should be considered as the Expulsion of Needles in ZY 3087.[1] Nonetheless, more conventional[2] views place the beginning of the Nyctospora with the Burning of Samsara and the fleeing of hundreds of Thahanese geno-technicians and their families to hopefully-safer (more remote, certainly) homes out in the dimly-lit, frozen, largely-uninhabited rockballs of the Outer Belt, ultimately scattering to hole up in twelve different Outer-Belt Objects and at least half a dozen habitats. They would not be the last - as disruptions and military action threatened the safety of many others over the following decades, tens of thousands more would flee to escape persecution, purging, mass psychosurgery, and warfare from all members of the Pentarchate, taking the months-long journey into the night and seeking shelter amongst the other displaced. The Devastation of Cassavaca, the Night of Crushed Eggs, the Ophiuchus Attack and subsequent Fragmentation - among many other events - would all trigger their own migrations.
As of today, the once-deserted space of the Outer Belt has actually built itself into a number of permanent communities, including several remnants of traditions, languages, and peoples now extinct in the former Pentarchate. Although still not-fully-counted, it is estimated that over a hundred and thirty thousand Selfmade, Baseline Thahanese, Divergent Thahanese, Avicites, Bathni, Dolsists, High Ergodicists, Inokhis, and Nolnekis[3] now reside in the various communities of the Nyctospora, and even with the "official" cessation of the Succession Crisis[4], this has gone on for so long that the belt has become their new home - as dark and as cold and as shitty as it is out here, we've got too much to lose to go back.
- ↑ The common term for scholars promoting this viewpoint is "blatantly wrong" and "a bunch of smartasses." Yes, the Disagreement could arguably be considered as the first warning tremor of the Thahanese and/or Iridist religious turmoil and latent schism that would later explode in the Succession Crisis, and yes the Redoubt of Not-Long-Blunted-Needles was established within the traditional boundaries of Extralegal Space, but this was an extremely small migration compared to the dispersion to follow later, the Redoubt was much closer to the inner system - actually within the orbit of Obscura, rather than out in the Far Belt - and quite frankly it's absurd academic hair-splitting to try and claim that such a minor event (relatively speaking) deserves to be grouped with the rest of the Nyctospora. Not to mention disrespectful to the many displaced. And the Needledicks had it coming, anyway.
- ↑ and also correct.
- ↑ This number is rapidly rising, as the establishment of the Jojerykh'henlek (lit. "Remembrance of Jojerykh") clusterhab has increasingly taken on a role as the new asylum for displaced Nolnekis after the implosion.
- ↑ As if. This will never REALLY be over, and everyone knows it. I'm staying out here in the dark, thank you very much.
-- Plumb Eldritch Depths, 8:00 PM CST, 1/7/2019
With all mindfulness to subjectivity, I ask the author to quit whining about pedantic academics ignoring the lived experience of their community when they themselves are dismissing the lived experiences of most of the system. Though it can’t be described honestly as a single political entity, the Pentarchate remains - as of this writing in 3197 - legally and culturally extant. The standards of interplanetary law, standards which the Pentarchate embodies as governing entity, while tenuous and near impossible to enforce across the system anymore, are generally still upheld on a day-to-day basis for average civilians. The ‘official’ end to the crisis, symbolic, yes, from a diplomatic standpoint, has done much to strengthen this ground-level de facto form of the Pentarchate and and it is petty to dismiss the significance in these cooling hostilities. It may not matter to Nyctospora who chose to abandon the inner system, but for their brethren left behind a unified Pentarchate remains the best hope for true peace.
R. Ebamac, NCH Eese (talk) 08:10, 10 January 2019 (PST)
