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Triogenix at 13:42, 16 August 2025

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The7thLain: Made a minor edit that fixed some typos and changed the religion section slightly.

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Made a minor edit that fixed some typos and changed the religion section slightly.

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	The floating cities of Medina generally contain a healthy variety of people from all walks of life. While there is no major distinction between those not from the planet and people born planetside, the lifestyles may vary tremendously. Most of the planet’s long-term residents are Elyran citizens, though there is a significant population of elderly Elyrans, usually from [[Persepolis]] or [[New Suez]], moving to the planet in their retirement.		The floating cities of Medina generally contain a healthy variety of people from all walks of life. While there is no major distinction between those not from the planet and people born planetside, the lifestyles may vary tremendously. Most of the planet’s long-term residents are Elyran citizens, though there is a significant population of elderly Elyrans, usually from [[Persepolis]] or [[New Suez]], moving to the planet in their retirement.

	About 85.6% of the population of Medina are practitioners of varying sects of Islam. Religious doctrines are quite loose, however, and interpretations of the Quran among Madani are considered more liberal and progressive. ~~Notably in~~ the ~~past two decades, a movement has spread among~~ the ~~younger populace where pre-Abrahamic faiths~~ such as ~~Zoroastrianism~~, ~~Arabian polytheism~~, and Turkic spiritism are beginning to be practiced and ritualized in small groups. However, only a very small percentage of citizens are actually registered as having a non-Abrahamic faith as their religion, and data on how widespread the ~~movement actually is is inconclusive~~.		About 85.6% of the population of Medina are practitioners of varying sects of Islam. Religious doctrines are quite loose, however, and interpretations of the Quran among Madani are considered more liberal and progressive. The remaining 14.4% of the population falls into one of the various religious minorities on the planet such as Christians, Jews, or the irreligious.

	=== Non-Citizen Persons ===		=== Non-Citizen Persons ===

La Villa Strangiato: infobox yaaaay

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infobox yaaaay

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	~~[[File:~~Medina ~~Flag~~.png\|~~thumb~~\|~~The flag of Medina~~, ~~with its brown, white, and violet colors respectively representing the planet's terrain from where its wealth came, the purity~~ of ~~its peoples' ideals, and the color~~ of ~~phoron.~~]]		\|Name = Medina
			\|System = Jedeed-Isfahan
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			\|Capital = Drifa
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			\|Nation = [[Republic of Elyra\|Serene Republic of Elyra]]
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	'''Medina''', nicknamed the Republic’s Prize, is a planet located within the Jedeed-Isfahan star system. Considered one of the core worlds of the [[Republic of Elyra]], it is one of the most populated planets in the nation. Medina’s population lives atop city-sized, hovering land vehicles that float over a constantly-shifting landscape. These hovering vehicles are supported by magpulse drives, a technological marvel supported by the Republic’s investment in phoronic research. Over weeks, no single location remains the same, as the entire tectonic assembly of the planet shifts. The largest industry on the planet is the export of fine goods and valuable commodities. The second largest is a unique bounty list referred to as the Phoron Bulletin, where the Elyran government contracts experts from across the galaxy to hunt phoron as it is uprooted across the planet’s ever-churning surface.		'''Medina''', nicknamed the Republic’s Prize, is a planet located within the Jedeed-Isfahan star system. Considered one of the core worlds of the [[Republic of Elyra]], it is one of the most populated planets in the nation. Medina’s population lives atop city-sized, hovering land vehicles that float over a constantly-shifting landscape. These hovering vehicles are supported by magpulse drives, a technological marvel supported by the Republic’s investment in phoronic research. Over weeks, no single location remains the same, as the entire tectonic assembly of the planet shifts. The largest industry on the planet is the export of fine goods and valuable commodities. The second largest is a unique bounty list referred to as the Phoron Bulletin, where the Elyran government contracts experts from across the galaxy to hunt phoron as it is uprooted across the planet’s ever-churning surface.
	== History ==		== History ==
	~~[[File:Medina.png\|An image of Medina from orbit, displaying its rather dull features from a glance.\|thumb]]~~
	<center>''“I think there are better ways to build a society than draining the life and light from its best citizens.”'' - Mahmud ibn Amin (2328 - 2419), physicist and second team lead of “Project Hubris”</center>		<center>''“I think there are better ways to build a society than draining the life and light from its best citizens.”'' - Mahmud ibn Amin (2328 - 2419), physicist and second team lead of “Project Hubris”</center>

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	== Culture and Demographics ==		== Culture and Demographics ==
			[[File:Medina Flag.png\|thumb\|The flag of Medina, with its brown, white, and violet colours respectively representing the planet's terrain from where its wealth came, the purity of its peoples' ideals, and the colour of phoron.]]
	<center>''“If you value your lover, don’t vacation on Medina.”'' - Damascene saying</center>		<center>''“If you value your lover, don’t vacation on Medina.”'' - Damascene saying</center>

La Villa Strangiato: Overhauls the Medina page. Expands the history. Expands the environment and gives names to the moons of Medina. Adds cryptid lore. Expands on the economy and tourism lore. Adds Madani culture. Also changes the demonym of Medina to Madani. Establishes a Madani counter-culture; "ghoulpunk". Explains more about NCPs.

2024-01-16T22:01:37Z

Overhauls the Medina page. Expands the history. Expands the environment and gives names to the moons of Medina. Adds cryptid lore. Expands on the economy and tourism lore. Adds Madani culture. Also changes the demonym of Medina to Madani. Establishes a Madani counter-culture; "ghoulpunk". Explains more about NCPs.

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La Villa Strangiato: adds medina's flag, made by lain

2023-11-10T21:48:35Z

adds medina's flag, made by lain

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	'''Medina''', or the Republic’s Prize, depending on who you ask, is an [[Republic of Elyra\|Elyran]] core world and one of the most populous planets in the Republic itself. It is located within the Jedeed Isfahan star system. Built atop enormous, shifting and suspended land vehicles they call their own cities is a population praised for its elegance and artistic prowess. The climate of Medina is calm, with little atmosphere - just enough to generate a warm red sky at day, and to breathe with respiratory gear. However, on the surface, the land constantly quakes and shifts with each passing moment - over weeks, no single location remains the same, as the entire tectonic assembly of the planet shifts. The largest industry on the planet is the export of finer goods and valuable commodities. The second largest is a unique bounty list referred to as the Phoron Bulletin, where the Elyran government contracts experts from across the galaxy to hunt phoron as it is uprooted across the planet’s ever-churning, twisting surface.		'''Medina''', or the Republic’s Prize, depending on who you ask, is an [[Republic of Elyra\|Elyran]] core world and one of the most populous planets in the Republic itself. It is located within the Jedeed Isfahan star system. Built atop enormous, shifting and suspended land vehicles they call their own cities is a population praised for its elegance and artistic prowess. The climate of Medina is calm, with little atmosphere - just enough to generate a warm red sky at day, and to breathe with respiratory gear. However, on the surface, the land constantly quakes and shifts with each passing moment - over weeks, no single location remains the same, as the entire tectonic assembly of the planet shifts. The largest industry on the planet is the export of finer goods and valuable commodities. The second largest is a unique bounty list referred to as the Phoron Bulletin, where the Elyran government contracts experts from across the galaxy to hunt phoron as it is uprooted across the planet’s ever-churning, twisting surface.

Caelphon at 06:05, 22 August 2022

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	'''Medina''', or the Republic’s Prize, depending on who you ask, is an [[Republic of Elyra\|Elyran]] core world and one of the most populous planets in the Republic itself. It is located within the Jedeed Isfahan star system. Built atop enormous, shifting and suspended land vehicles they call their own cities is a population praised for its elegance and artistic prowess. The climate of Medina is calm, with little atmosphere - just enough to generate a warm red sky at day, and to breathe with respiratory gear. However, on the surface, the land constantly quakes and shifts with each passing moment - over weeks, no single location remains the same, as the entire tectonic assembly of the planet shifts. The largest industry on the planet is the export of finer goods and valuable commodities. The second largest is a unique bounty list referred to as the Phoron Bulletin, where the Elyran government contracts experts from across the galaxy to hunt phoron as it is uprooted across the planet’s ever-churning, twisting surface.		'''Medina''', or the Republic’s Prize, depending on who you ask, is an [[Republic of Elyra\|Elyran]] core world and one of the most populous planets in the Republic itself. It is located within the Jedeed Isfahan star system. Built atop enormous, shifting and suspended land vehicles they call their own cities is a population praised for its elegance and artistic prowess. The climate of Medina is calm, with little atmosphere - just enough to generate a warm red sky at day, and to breathe with respiratory gear. However, on the surface, the land constantly quakes and shifts with each passing moment - over weeks, no single location remains the same, as the entire tectonic assembly of the planet shifts. The largest industry on the planet is the export of finer goods and valuable commodities. The second largest is a unique bounty list referred to as the Phoron Bulletin, where the Elyran government contracts experts from across the galaxy to hunt phoron as it is uprooted across the planet’s ever-churning, twisting surface.

Lonefly: Category consistency.

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Category consistency.

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NewOriginalSchwann at 16:42, 6 June 2022

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	Those from off the planet seeking the Phoron Bulletin are often surprised by the cutthroat nature of other phoron hunters. Others who hear stories of how things work come prepared, knowing full well that the next deposit may spell disaster in the form of accidents or even illegal ambushes by foreign parties.		Those from off the planet seeking the Phoron Bulletin are often surprised by the cutthroat nature of other phoron hunters. Others who hear stories of how things work come prepared, knowing full well that the next deposit may spell disaster in the form of accidents or even illegal ambushes by foreign parties.

			Medinan Clothing is an artform unto itself. Due to the thin atmosphere of the planet, most Medinans choose to wear light, comfortable oxygen equipped clothing, with their own Medinan spin. The Medinan culture of perfection is seen in their clothing especially, with masks, helmets and other internals systems being adorned with gemstones both faux and genuine, intricate stitching, and vivid colors.

	==Environment==		==Environment==
	Planetside, the environment of Medina is highly unpredictable. The extent of the earthquakes and tremors which perpetually plague the planet make any sort of stationary settlement impossible to sustain. As well, travel by ground is incredibly dangerous, and every form of traffic is in some way aerial in nature. Even the native wildlife has long adapted to the nature of the planet, with only birds of prey and small flying creatures being the extent of notable fauna found. Stationary flora has proven to be nonexistent.

			The planet of Medina itself is a dry and desolate one, though not entirely barren. Due to the disparate gravity fields produced by Medina’s six moons and the resulting near-permanent tectonic activity, the planet’s cracked and dune-strewn surface is entirely unsuitable to perrmanent inhabitation. Phoron collection teams scour the surface with hover-propulsed phoron rigs and barges, and the great floating cities cast shadow across the perilous dunes. Hardsuit or RIG suits are needed at all times to conduct work on Medina’s surface, as in some places the phoron concentration is toxic enough to make breathing hazardous. Medina is dotted in purplish-white sand dunes of silica and tiny granules of phoron, and in some places great spikes of crystalline phoron point towards a blood-red sky. Medina’s surface is also home to one of the most dangerous natural occurrences in the republic: the violet haboob, in which tiny grains of phoron are swept up into and incorporated into the sediment of a sandstorm. All Medinan cities have robust shielding and atmospheric systems for such occurences, but these storms can - and often do - spell a painful death for those unprepared outside of Medina’s cities.

			'''Drifa''' -- The floating capitol of Medina, Drifa rests on the back of over a thousand magpulse drives. Due to the seemingly endless profits phoron has brought to the planet, Drifa is overwhelmingly middle-and-upper-class. It is populated with luxurious SuezBank resorts and other get-aways, and is known for artificial greenhouses that produce upscale goods such as high-end coffee, chocolate and dates. As one of the more liberal planet capitols, Drifa’s abundant nightlife is popular with local youth and those visiting the planet from offworld, wishing to get away from the more restrictive law of their homeworlds. The current mayor of Drifa and governor of Medina is Layla Bint Hussein Al-Shahi of the League of United Republicans party. The city has a sizeable synthetic population, where the precision and skill of IPC workers are highly prized in achieving the obsessive levels of perfection that the planet is known for. Detractors believe that as IPCs lack souls, they do not have the ‘human touch’ required to produce competent works of art.

			'''Najada''' -- A city where fortunes are made and lost overnight, Najada is unusual in the fact that its local governance is almost entirely Artisan free synthetics. Najada began as a simple shuttleport established early on in the planet’s history by a group of ambitious positronic settlers, wishing to seek their fortunes in reaping the ripening fruits of the phoron industry. The city has since sprawled from their port during the planet rush and now caters to the phoron mercenary population of Medina, being widely regarded as one of the seedier cities in the Republic as a whole. With a local government that is interested in profiting from the needs of the Phoron Bulletin above all else, almost anything goes in Najada provided it does not attract the ire of the Medinian Planetary Authority, who turn a blind eye to most of the goings-on of the city due to it’s high phoron yield. The headquarters for most of Medina’s mercenary companies are found here amidst the luxurious high-rises and mercenary bunk-housing, with it’s thriving black market providing all of the equipment required for their bloody work and more. The Najadi ‘Banafsajee District’ is famous for it’s high-stakes gaming, where rich clientele gamble with the rights to mine entire deposits of mass quantities of phoron over dice-games and blackjack. The careful balance of Najada has been recently disturbed by the arrival of danger tourists from the rest of the Elyran Core following the dramatized depiction of the city in the hit Elyran series Blood on The Sands.

			'''Harba''' -- More a fortress than a city, the floating enclave of Harba is among the most secure on Medina, and is where the EAF Command for the entire Jedeed Istafan System resides. Harba is closely connected to the Medinian Capitol, and acquiring property here is notoriously difficult. The city is directly governed by the Planetary Authority rather than any local authority, and housing is typically reserved for government officials and their families, or occasionally awarded to exceptional soldiery for their service. Regardless of one’s background, government clearance is required to enter the city at all due to security concerns, and most civilians come to Harba for work from elsewhere on Medina, inevitably finding themselves under a strict NDA. Harba is the main vector of getting Medinian Phoron off-world and into the rest of the Republic, and it is fiercely protected with a military exclusion zone for all ground and air activity. It is rumored that Osman Electric Industries has a government-contracted facility here which is in the process of developing military AI for the Elyran Navy, but OEI has repeatedly claimed that it is just another factory developing QQs.

			'''Turaif''' -- Turaif is the academic heartland of Medina, home to several learning institutions and the headquarters of one Elyran Megacorp. Turaif’s primary export is phoron research and education. The headquarters of Osman Electric Industries is found here in the grand Burj Osman, a tower known first for it’s many amenities, and second for it’s unique quirk in that it also functions as a research facility. The Burj Osman’s lower floors open to the public and present a typical offering of shopping malls, high-end restaurants, spas, and even hotels. The upper floors, however, are access restricted and home to OEI’s most prominent phoron research facilities, where all manner of phoron technology is researched and presented to the wider Republic. Also in Turaif, the Khalil Osman Institute for Applied Phoronics is Elyra’s foremost learning institute for phoron sciences, and many of the Spur’s greatest phoron researchers graduate from the institute. The rest of Turaif is home to closely-packed city housing, with most residents working in education or research fields. A local student art collective dubbed The Turaif School produces popular work that regularly pushes the boundaries of Elyran Futuro-Impressionism, much to the government’s annoyance. Their latest work is a series of 24 murals across Turaif showing the struggle of Medina’s NCP populace, and was widely published on Elyran social media despite the government’s attempts to the contrary. The League of United Republicans expressed quiet approval for the works, though local Republican Revolutionary Society members disapproved it for “rocking the boat.”

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TheBurninSherman: Minor edits and rewordings.

2022-01-17T08:27:05Z

Minor edits and rewordings.

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	This bulletin is essentially a bounty system established by the Elyran government for the sake of outsourcing massive workloads to external parties of all varieties. These workloads include but are not limited to phoron location and extraction, and is a highly dangerous form of work. While forms of travel are granted by Elyran officials in the way of hover-barges and extraction vessels, the usual Bulletin hunter is found using their own ships or even daring to make expeditions on foot.		This bulletin is essentially a bounty system established by the Elyran government for the sake of outsourcing massive workloads to external parties of all varieties. These workloads include but are not limited to phoron location and extraction, and is a highly dangerous form of work. While forms of travel are granted by Elyran officials in the way of hover-barges and extraction vessels, the usual Bulletin hunter is found using their own ships or even daring to make expeditions on foot.

	The craggy surface of Medina obscures the real rules of the bulletin. The areas outside of the floating cities are exceptionally hazardous. The Elyran government keeps a close watch on the various teams they contract out to find phoron on the hazardous surface of the planet and has explicitly forbidden armed conflict between phoron hunters over phoron deposits on the planet's surface, with harsh penalties ranging from heavy fines and a stripping of phoron-hunting licenses, to even execution. Despite these risks, some phoron hunters still take their chances both with the Elyran state and other hunting parties and fighting and killing over deposits on the planet is not unheard of. The planetary authorities operate patrols around areas with high known phoron concentrations to both protect hunting parties and uncover the remains of those that have been lost to Medina, either through natural causes or conflict. Even so however, the Elyran Government has been known to overlook the transgressions of some hunting parties or dismiss their charges, coincidentally those parties being the ones with the largest phoron hauls		The craggy surface of Medina obscures the real rules of the bulletin. The areas outside of the floating cities are exceptionally hazardous. The Elyran government keeps a close watch on the various teams they contract out to find phoron on the hazardous surface of the planet and has explicitly forbidden armed conflict between phoron hunters over phoron deposits on the planet's surface, with harsh penalties ranging from heavy fines and a stripping of phoron-hunting licenses, to even execution. Despite these risks, some phoron hunters still take their chances both with the Elyran state and other hunting parties and fighting and killing over deposits on the planet is not unheard of. The planetary authorities operate patrols around areas with high known phoron concentrations to both protect hunting parties and uncover the remains of those that have been lost to Medina, either through natural causes or conflict. Even so however, the Elyran Government has been known to overlook the transgressions of some hunting parties or dismiss their charges, coincidentally those parties usually being the ones with the largest phoron hauls or strongest connections to Elyran government or Elco officials.

	==Life on Medina==		==Life on Medina==

NewOriginalSchwann at 08:25, 17 January 2022

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	Planetside, the environment of Medina is highly unpredictable. The extent of the earthquakes and tremors which perpetually plague the planet make any sort of stationary settlement impossible to sustain. As well, travel by ground is incredibly dangerous, and every form of traffic is in some way aerial in nature. Even the native wildlife has long adapted to the nature of the planet, with only birds of prey and small flying creatures being the extent of notable fauna found. Stationary flora has proven to be nonexistent.		Planetside, the environment of Medina is highly unpredictable. The extent of the earthquakes and tremors which perpetually plague the planet make any sort of stationary settlement impossible to sustain. As well, travel by ground is incredibly dangerous, and every form of traffic is in some way aerial in nature. Even the native wildlife has long adapted to the nature of the planet, with only birds of prey and small flying creatures being the extent of notable fauna found. Stationary flora has proven to be nonexistent.


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