Fostering a diverse community is a vital tenement to life on Jaladri, especially in the 1st city of New Cascade. When the first city ships landed, socializing was very tight knit as one can expect. It wasn't long before world-specific holidays, days of remembrance, and important events began to separate the fabric between Jaladri and planet Earth.

Decades later, many of these traditions have replaced any preconceived world-specific holidays from Earth.

Community Event Night now is an essential nostalgic memory for people who grew up on-world. Once a month, neighborhoods get together at the park or rec center to just be together and talk about life, discuss ways to improve the area, or just relax together.

mattari (suru) [まったりする].

The Center for Built Environments is an organization founded in 1972 by Ottica Davis. ( Program Ops Lead for JLA ) . With a focus on integrating nature and architecture, this organization helped create the New Cascade you see today.

Composed of architects, construction professionals, biologists, botanists, arborists, and more, you can rest assured knowing your workplace or living arrangement is low impact, and one with the world around it.

If anywhere were to be known for having many different words for the forms and performances of water, then Jaladri would be that planet.

With nearly 90% of the planet being covered in oceans, the possibilities are endless.

With vast oceans comes vast weather. Water resistance and water proofing have become a highly regarded science and industry on Jaladri along with the advancement of massive rainwater collection.

With the exception of Port Worden, all of Jaladri's municipalities have moved on from any ground wells, and have instituted programs to refill water tables depleted by First Landing era settlements and city ships. All thanks to rainwater collection and distribution.

What to do if you want a synshrimp burger and a kelp milk at 14:30 and the weather is horrid? How do you get groceries home from Cozymart or Mark-It Market when there is a storm surge?

You just carry on as usual!

Because over the decades, people on Jaladri have learned to live with the weather. It's their drinking water, it heats and cools their buildings, it powers electrical generators, it grows all of the lush vegetation all over the planet ...and it's always happening.

The absolute jewel of New Cascade. Construction on The Mother Atrium began 10 years after first landing.

The city lies on a 2 mile thick lava field that covers over 9000 square kilometers. This allowed the foundations of the city ships secure drilling, without being invasive to the natural bedrock and water tables of the planet. It was only when they actually arrived that they discovered that over half the lava field had already formed a new ecosystem.

The thick blanket of nature that envelops the city grew in and around our infrastructure. This was planned and expected.

Near the center of the city is a massive crater: 284 meters deep, and a kilometer wide. This was the site chosen for The Mother Atrium. A decades-long project to join Earth's Flora and Fauna with Jaladri's.

Two separate sections that were slowly joined together over 10 years. Hundreds of cross species of plants, fruits, vegetables, herbs, and more have been engineered here.

The structure is formed like a giant screw or spiral going into the ground. There are multiple biomes with temperature and weather controlled areas. The first level represents a "natural state" of vegetation that receives whatever weather the rest of the surface is.

Subsequent levels transition between different controlled biomes. Desert, High Altitude, Low Light, Heavy Canopy Jungle, with the final sublevel devoted solely to fungi. There is also service access to the satellite coastal facility for non freshwater aquatic flora.

Once an impotent digital citation from a City Ship's Ops Core, now a term of endearment, Unauthorized Designs are a part of the rich fabric of the human life on Jaladri.

When On-World development outside of City Ships first began to ramp up, all construction plans were already designed, stored in the ships memory. Every single one of them needed editing, rewriting, or simply deletion.

They were all flagged as Unauthorized Design and quarantined by the Ops Core. This was not the first (and not the worst), but a memorable moment in the cascading events that led to the complete decoupling of Earth's Laws from Jaladri's.

There was no way to accurately predict how the planet would accept humans. Let alone humans that came to build. First Landers were among some of humanity's most hopeful people. Almost entirely under 35, these families and individuals represented what the Earth was trying to become. Conscious of each other, of the planet, existing together, as best as we can.

There was a lot of doubt in sending "unproven" professionals to another planet. So there were a lot of "stop-gap" measures implemented by worried old men and women of Earth.

For First Landers, Earth was nothing but a memory.

These people found their own way. All of the design modifications were done to increase stability, reduce environmental impact, and to better integrate with the surrounding nature. They quickly discovered that the only way to flourish on their new home planet was to establish, from the beginning, a set of rules, laws, and philosophies that were the antithesis to those which almost ruined their home world.

Jaladri is about how despite our best efforts, the human aspect will always corrupt natural order, but the entire point of existence without "god" is to do the absolute best you can for your fellow people, nature, and the space you occupy.

Of the many advancements made on Jaladri, Bio Thermoplastic is one of particular interest.

In the Epipelagic and Mesopelagic Zones of the Niamh-Kaori Sea, an extremely peculiar neocrustacean resides. Resembling a medium sized earth shark, the fulvutiburus maritima or Armored Niamh Yellowshark spends most of its time swimming, or rather, floating.

Over its yellow carapace grows massive plates of a type of naturally occurring aerogel which allows buoyancy with the creature itself providing ballast. It uses its many legs to propel itself. Imagine a medium sized Earth shark with armor, and claws resembling a pistol crab's that can sprint over very short distances when walking on the seabed, or attack with deadly thrust attacks while swimming.

This buoyant gel is a form of aerosolized chitin that Yellowsharks shed every 12-24 days and is then regrown within 48 hours. After it falls to the ocean floor it quickly changes form into something resembling a massive pork rind. Scientists discovered vast underwater fields of these rinds while doing floor mapping.

After study and experimentation, we are led to the use of thermoplastic engineered from the chitinous aerogel husk rinds of Armored Niamh Yellowsharks!

Thermoplastic on Jaladri is non toxic. It can be ground down for recycling and is usually used as a building material in the recycled state. Many tools, parts, devices and more use bio thermoplastic.

How does your pocket media keep you entertained? What moves your citycar, expovan, or micro lorries?

Battery Gel.

Battery Gel is made from microscopic creatures. They live inside it. Like a plant, they take light and convert it to food. But instead of growing stems and leaves, they produce energy! These creatures naturally find tight enclosed spaces. They live for decades and when they die they are reintegrated into the colony and reborn.

Now we help each other out by an equal exchange of protected environments for them, away from predators and inclement weather. With reusable, sustainable, low waste and pollution energy for us.

Battery Gel comes in cassettes. From the size of your pocket media, up to massive cells used for large equipment and mobile Ops Cores. Cassette Stations are all wired into the massive network of solar, tidal, wind, and thermal energy all over developed Jaladri.

Cassettes are recharged overnight here and stored for future use.

Log your pattern card, swap out your cassette, and be on your way!

Gravity Yellow is the name of a specific shade of yellow found to be incredibly therapeutic after a multi year flight. You are essentially asleep in zero gravity nearly the entire time. Just like airsickness or jet lag, it affects people differently. The worst cases involve a few weeks of nausea when sitting up or trying to walk and sensitivity to light.

Reitoru Skyport features a Recovery Center that serves as first stop lodging for all incoming flights. Everybody is required to spend 24 hours there to have a checkup done and recuperate. Most new arrivals are fine after this period and report symptoms similar to adjusting to drastically new time zones on Earth.

The color went through a period of being quite unpopular, but re-emerged in the late 80s as it was used in different devices, products, art, and interior design.