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aithir May 3, 2022

Kret

Aliens have always been the icing on the science fiction cake. When I was sixteen, I started imagining extraterrestrial worlds. Partly to understand our own world better. I called my first alien race the #Kret. The #worldbuilding went deep into details. During the next weeks, I'll continue posting some of them.

The Kret have a lot of similarities with the humans. Reasonable explanations will be provided for that aspect. However, their society and existence differ drastically from ours. But let's go through the bare facts first.

My aliens live on an earth-like planet called Kret, that orbits the star #Rana or Delta Eridani within its habitable zone. Rana is about 30 Ly away from earth. My choice for that system took me weeks at that time. Particularly it was pre-internet and before the discovery of #exoplanets. Today, we have proof of thousands of planets in almost every star system, but not in that one.

To be continued ...

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aithir May 9, 2022

The geography of Kret

The planet #Kret is slightly smaller than Earth. Also, gravity is lower. That's why the Kret themselves are on average a bit taller than humans.

The surface of the planet consists of 75% ocean. The 25% rest form a single, contiguous continent. The Kret all live along the west coast west of a large, long mountain chain. There are only a bunch of settlements on the other side of the continent.

The mountain range is the source of many big rivers, that flow into the sea after going through five vast deltas. Most of the 200 million inhabitants live in that region in smaller settlements till up to larger city-esque areas.

All rivers are connected through artificial channels with each other and form a widespread system of transport ways that made the Kret society prosper.

Where does this lead to? More to come ...

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aithir May 17, 2022

Clans of Kret

The #Kret, my own invention of an alien civilisation, have one characteristic difference from us. They live in Clans called "Arras". Arras are their only social grouping. They don't have countries or borders, they don't have the concept of cities as we know them.

These clans are comparable to large families of 30 to 70 members. The Kret in an Arra are not necessarily all related, yet they are tightly connected. Children are raised and educated together, old people are taken care of.

All of them live in the same huge building or rather structure, which they also call "Arra". It has a large debating and leisure hall called "Sune" as well as a similarly huge dining room called "Hol".

The families are equally led and represented by one matriarch and one patriarch.

Single persons don't have similar importance, weight or rights as in our world. Neither have regions, companies or other social structures.

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aithir May 24, 2022

Anatomy of the Kret

As mentioned in a posting before, the #Kret, my imagined aliens, are astonishingly (or let's say suspiciously) similar to us humans. They could even walk through Stockholm or Hamburg without being noticed.

However, they are slightly larger - about 1.89 m on average. This could be related to the lower gravity of planet Kret. Men often don't have any top hair and no beards. Women have dark and short hair.

After the first contact, scientists could dive deeper into that phenomenon, found similar DNA, but encountered a deviation in the genetic lines that date back to about 100,000 years. So all differences can be explained by the different environments and a small original gene pool.

On the planet, they found terrestrial genetic profiles based on DNA in plants and animals, but they also came across a second line of plants with very unique biology.

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The #Kret's State of Development

We know that the Kret are physically very similar to us and that they genetically have a 100.000-year-old history. But they have missed some of the tipping points of social development, that had led to this explosive exponential growth of us humans.

Studies from sociologists point to their social relations and the lack of larger entities that would foster such massive infrastructural efforts needed for exponential development.

All other aspects of their life point to a culturally rich history that dates back to civilisations at least twice as old as the first human ones. Especially there are also no signs of large scale disruptions like wars or pandemics.

Their craftsmanship and their understanding of arts for example are way ahead of ours. Their knowledge and capabilities in the field of mechanics and their insights into mathematics are extraordinary.

#sciencefiction #aliens #sff

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aithir Jun 9, 2022

#Kret - Hierarchy Of Arras

There is a strong hierarchy of social status within the arras, the #Kret families. But the system is not static. Families can rise and fall in their reputation.

Additionally, it's getting more formal on the top, because there has to be a committee that organises and monitors global streams and tendencies.

On Kret, there are nine high families, the so-called "Arram Sul", who discuss and tackle these global issues. Each of the nine again has nine allied families called "Arram Mas".

Each Arram Sul appoints four ambassadors, the "Kala". Together with the Matriarchs and the patriarchs of the high families, they form a council of 54 representatives called "Kalam Mas". This council could be seen as the world government. It has an appointed moderator but there is no single leader.

Up next, you can find out more about the law and the rulebooks that constitute life on planet Kret.

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aithir Jun 20, 2022

The #Kret Code of Law

The society of the Kret doesn't have a legislative power. As for all other parts of their life, everyday rules are made within the family clans, the Arras.

Instead, they have a code of conduct, a rulebook that is over 5000 years old. It is called Kanota Parchala and contains 1296 hard rules by which every Kret citizen including the high members of the Karam Mas has to live.

The rules are continuously enforced by a caste of judges and therefore turn into practical and modern interpretations.

There is also a second book, the Kanota Posa, that describes the structure of the Kret society and terms like property, ownership, heritage, consent and decision making as well as the family structures.

More about the caste of judges and jurisdiction in the next part ...

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aithir Jul 4, 2022

The Caste of Judges on #Kret

As previously described, the life of all Kret is taking place inside their Arras, their families. However, there is one caste that lives outside these structures. The judges or in the Kret language, the Kane (singular Kano).

These Kane enjoy a high reputation within all ranks and hierarchies of the Kret society. They are completely neutral and don't interfere in any way with the daily business of the Arras. They monitor each other with a complex system of overlapping responsibilities and territories. So corruption exists but its countermeasures are strong.

Next to the judges themselves, there is a full administrative infrastructure that takes care of their supply of daily goods, organisational tasks and even entertainment. The caste of the Kane is a world on its own.

Once a month there is a conference where the high council Kalam Mas and the supreme judges (Kane Kane) come together for a mutual exchange.

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aithir Sep 19, 2022

#Kret: Observations

The human expedition was planned for a lifetime commitment. Observing and studying a new species was the ultimate adventure that you could embark on in Earth's 23rd century.

But it would not be a job in isolation and deprivations like many other scientific expeditions. The team was huge. About 200 people were on the space station that circled planet Kret.

There were all kinds of disciplines involved. From microbiologists to theologists.

Besides the station in Kret's orbit, there also was a cloaked outpost on the planet that mainly hosted relay technology for small robots. They called them "The Bugs". They were only around 1 cm large but equipped with cameras, microphones, other sensors and mainly an intelligence that could take autonomous decisions.

First goal: Don't get caught! Second goal: Record and filter as much relevant information as possible.

The team on the space station had a lot of material to explore.

#scifi #aliens
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