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{{Vignette Start|In a Faraway Land|USAF Battery Blue, Henson Crater SW Rim, South Pole, Moon|''Guardiamarina'' Alejandro Navarro, Mexican Navy|June 9th, 2062}}
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{{drop|T}}he clank of the air conditioner compressor kicking on jolted Alejandro upright. He'd been stuck in that superposition between sleep and daydream for 3 hours, so the shock of compressor combined the sensations of falling off a building whilst also being hit in the head with a cartridge with rattling nails. The dull amber lights mounted on the four corners of his barracks room flickered into a low hum. Back sore, feet swollen, nose dry like in the midddle of a long-haul flight. Fitting, because he had done just that.
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}}'''Novozvezdan Soviet Socialist Republic''' (Russian: Новозвездная Советская Социалистическая Республика, Ukrainian: Новозірка Радянська Соціалістична Республіка, Kazakh: Жаңажұлдыз Советтік Социалистік Республикасы), abbreviated as the '''Novozvezdan SSR''', also known as '''Novozvezda''' and '''Soviet Luna''', is a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. Encompassing all Soviet territory on Luna, it was founded on 16 December 2014 from the Novozvezdan ASSR, an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR.


{{Indent vig}}Three days ago Alejandro and 11 other foreign military servicemembers had set off for the Moon from the American Space Terminal Pontiac—last stop on the Great North American Space Elevator (GNASE, pronounced ''gee-naze''). The GNASE was anchored 50 miles north of Detroit, Michigan, a location that the government commercials say was chosen to give ready access to America's Canadian friends. Although it was more realistically selected due to a confluence of cheap and available land, proximity to people and industry, and President of the day Ralla Singh Khatter's former station as Governor of Michigan. Most terminals along GNASE's length were operated by private companies, but Pontiac—the final useable terminal located at geostationary orbit—was publicly inaccessible, operated by the U.S. Army's 10th Terminal Battalion for exclusively military uses. Alejandro was slightly sad that they wouldn't stamp his passport. Common applications at Terminal Pontiac included resupply trips to the Moon or the asteroid belt, orbital spacecraft factories, and, a classic, the good old militarization of space.
Novozvezdan is the largest lunar territory by area and second largest by population after the United States. It is located on the far side of the moon, with its largest settlement and capital being the city of Zhukovsky situated in {{wpl|Mare Moscoviense}}.


{{Indent vig}}Alejandro's trip was the first, part of a biannual rotation of foreign servicemembers to the USAF Battery Blue. The battery, called "the bluff" when the officers weren't around, was one of many exoatmospheric defense installations on the Moon. It was basically an array of missiles and lasers to protect American private interests and military operations. The foreign servicemembers were part of an exchange program, one of the few that could take them into space. Most Alejandro's fellow passengers were members of their respective air forces as Battery Blue was an air force installation. However, Alejandro was different. While everyone else wore blue, he wore white. His black shoulder boards showed a thin ribbon looping in the center. He was a ''Guardiamarina'' in the Mexican Navy, a recent grauate of ''la Heroica Escuela Naval Militar'' as a Marine Infantry officer.
Initially during the existence of the Novozvezdan ASSR and the first six years of the Novozvezdan SSR, Russian was the republic's only official language. However, because of the Soviet policy of involuntary population transfer to Luna between 1978 and 2005 to provide labor and the initial waves of colonization a significant portion of the Novozvezdan population was not ethnically Russian. The largest Soviet ethnic groups represented on Luna aside from the Russians were the Ukrainians (28%) and Kazakhs (21%), with numerous others represented. As well, while most ethnic Russians had volunteered for lunar settlement or were military personnel and their families, the plurality of ethnic minorities did not have a choice in the matter. The intent of the Soviet government was to {{wpl|Russification|Russify}} these minorities and create a new, single, Russian-dominant identity for Novozvezda without further {{wpl|National delimitation in the Soviet Unio|national delimitation}} over time. However, after Novozvezda's elevation from ASSR to SSR, ethnic tensions that had been building since the 1970s boiled over and rumors of ethnic mismanagement in Soviet Luna began to be publicized in the west. Following the 2019 wildcat strike in Zhukovsky and riots in Korolev led by minority workers, Ukrainian and Kazakh were officially made co-equal languages with Russian. Despite the conflict's racist origins, on Earth the newly instituted nativization policy was spun by the Soviet government as its first republic in space being a shining multiethnic endeavour and an example of a new {{wpl|korenizatsiia}}.


{{Indent vig}}Space postings for Marines were rare. The Department of the Navy had lost the fight for a significant space presence to the Air Force guarding its rice bowl almost a century ago. However, because Battery Blue was a common public relations stop for politicians and generals wanting to make a big show of the Moon's militarization—and it housed nuclear warheads deep underground—the bluff had a Marine Detachment of about 300. Guarding dignitaries and nuclear weapons was a mission of the U.S. Marine Corps as set by law, so much to the Air Force's chagrin they'd have to put up with some Marines. While Alejandro would not be let within a mile of a nuke, he would be billeted in the Marine wing of the base, take part in their perimeter patrols, receiving the less valuable visitors, and getting schooled by the Lieutenants. The Marine wing was much more ratty than the Air Force wing—where his fellow passengers would be staying—but beggars can't be choosers. There was no other conceivable way for a Mexican naval officer to get into space and Alejandro won the lottery.
==Etymology==
The name ''Novozvezda'', meaning "New Star", was decided by the People's Commissariat for Space Settlement prior to the construction of Zhukovsky. It was named after the Zvezda moonbase, the Soviet Union's first continuously inhabited outpost on Luna.


{{Indent vig}}The speaker mounted on his barrack room ceiling squelched on and a pathetically faint rendition of reveille, seemingly composed on a synthesizer, began to drone. Down the hall he could hear two men slamming their fists on their fists door by door. It was at least 10 doors until they got to Alejandros.
==List of settlements==
 
:''This list is incomplete''.
{{Indent vig}}<span style="color:#db593d">"Everyone front and center for sanitary inspection!"</span> They barked out of sync. <span style="color:#db593d">"Get up!"</span>
{| class="wikitable" border="1" border-color:#33291b; width:100%; border-color:white;"  
 
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" | Settlement
{{Indent vig}}Alejandro scrambled to his feet and out the door, still in his white skivvies. He was stiff as a board, not really sure of what the procedure was. Marines began to saunter out in drab skivvy shirts and shower shoes, so expectations couldn't be that high.
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" | Population
 
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" | Etymology
{{Indent vig}}To his left the double doors at the end of the hall opened. A Marine lieutenant, silver bar on his khaki collar, was flanked by two duty Marines with red brassards on their arms and chunky tablets in their hands. They walked up to Alejandro, first door on the right.
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" | Remarks
 
|-
{{Indent vig}}<span style="color:#285a80">"We got a squid here?"</span> The Lieutenant mumbled, poking at the green phosphor mini-screen sunken into the wall outside Alejandro's room. <span style="color:#285a80">"Ah, Midshipman Alejandro Navarro Martin, Mexican Marine Corps. Which one is your last name?"</span>
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Barabashovo'''  
 
|  style="text-align: center;" |3,800 || Named after {{wpl|Nikolai Barabashov}}, astronomer || Small town built to support a scientific research outpost
{{Indent vig}}<span style="color:#058743">"Navarro, sir."</span> Alejandro replied.
|-
 
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Chernykh'''
{{Indent vig}}<span style="color:#285a80">"Right Nav, you a student?"</span>
|  style="text-align: center;" |47,720 || Named after {{wpl|Nikolai Chernykh}}, astronomer ||
 
|-
{{Indent vig}}<span style="color:#058743">"No sir,"</span> Alejandro channelled every bit of the USMC slang training he got before flying out to Detroit. <span style="color:#058743">"In Mexico, Midshipman is like your Butter Bar or Master Guns. I am the first."</span>
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Dollezhal'''
 
|  style="text-align: center;" |56,700 || Named after {{wpl|Nikolay Dollezhal}}, nuclear reactor designer || An ''atomgrad'' built to serve the Dollezhal Nuclear Power Plant and house its workers
{{Indent vig}}The Lieutenant looked quizzical, but in the most aloof way possible. <span style="color:#285a80">"Thanks for the tip. Do you have any illness, injury, appointment, or barracks room maintenance issues to report?"</span>
|-
 
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Korolev'''
{{Indent vig}}Alejandro paused, not exactly knowing what constituted a reportable "maintenance issue."
|  style="text-align: center;" |487,800 || Named after {{wpl|Sergei Korolev}}, rocket engineer and spacecraft designer || The largest Soviet settlement outside of Mare Moscoviense.
 
|-
{{Indent vig}}<span style="color:#058743">"Well sir, the air circulator does not sound healthy and I think my speaker is broke."</span>
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Lunokhodsk'''
 
|  style="text-align: center;" |93,200 || Named after the {{wpl|Lunokhod programme}} ||
{{Indent vig}}<span style="color:#285a80">"Yeah well you'll get used to that,"</span> the Lieutenant sighed. <span style="color:#285a80">"The HVAC probably hasn't gotten proper maintenance since 2045. Contractors spend all their time in the Air Force wing. But if you get something like an air leak on your bulkhead or a Geiger starts clicking you tell me."</span>
|-
 
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Sakko i Vancetti'''  
{{Indent vig}}The two paused in silence for a few seconds as the Lieutenant tapped away at the duty Marine's tablet. Coughs and sighs were audible down the hall. Obviously the Marines were slightly annoyed that a new arrival was messing with the flow of their morning ritual and keeping them in the hall. Alejandro's forehead clammed up, but he was honestly more concerned with his flight-induced sciatica and getting a bloody nose from the dry air.
|  style="text-align: center;" |21,340 || Named after {{wpl|Sacco and Vanzetti|Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti}} || A military town constructed solely to house and serve the families of a nearby Strategic Missile Forces base.
 
|-
{{Indent vig}}<span style="color:#285a80">"Alright Nav, if you don't have any reason to go to sickbay, get dressed in whatever PT gear you brought and follow my Marines as they file out. PT is scheduled in the multipurpose hall for 0630. After that, shower, get breakfast, and you'll be with Staff Sergeant Romano for the rest of the day. He's leading the perimeter patrol detail today so you'll get to try on a space suit and draw a weapon. Roger?" </span>
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Tukhachevskoye'''
 
|  style="text-align: center;" |130,230 || Named after {{wpl|Mikhail Tukhachevsky}}, general and military theorist || A military town constructed primarily to house and serve the families of a nearby Soviet Army base.
{{Indent vig}}<span style="color:#285a80">"Yes sir."</span>
|-
 
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Zhukovsky'''<br><small>(Capital)</small>  
{{Indent vig}}The trio moved on. The true streamlining of their whole morning ritual was much more evident down the hall. In most cases, the Lieutenant just pointed at each Marine without even stopping, and they'd recite "No issues, sir." After about 45 seconds of that, everyone shuffled back into their rooms to get changed for PT.
|  style="text-align: center;" |2,450,300 || Named after {{wpl|Nikolay Zhukovsky}}, a founder of the field of aerodynamics || The largest settlement by area and population in Novozvezda
{{Vignette End}}
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Novozvezdan Soviet Socialist Republic
  • Russian:Новозвездная Советская Социалистическая Республика
    UkrainianНовозірка Радянська Соціалістична Республіка
    KazakhЖаңажұлдыз Советтік Социалистік Республикасы
Flag of
Flag:
Top: Obverse
Bottom: Reverse
State Emblem
State Emblem
Motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Russian)
"Пролетарі всіх країн, єднайтеся!"(Ukrainian)
"Барлық елдердің пролетарлары, бірігіңдер!"(Kazakh)
"Workers of the world, unite!"
StatusSoviet socialist republic
CapitalZhukovsky
Official languagesRussian, Ukrainian, Kazakh
Religion
State atheism
Demonym(s)Novozvezdan, Soviet
GovernmentUnitary Marxist-Leninist one-party Soviet socialist republic
• First Secretary
Zakhar Volyntsev
LegislatureSupreme Soviet
Establishment
• First permanent lunar settlement
30 December 1974
• Established as ASSR
4 April 1995
• Elevation to a Union Republic
16 December 2014

Novozvezdan Soviet Socialist Republic (Russian: Новозвездная Советская Социалистическая Республика, Ukrainian: Новозірка Радянська Соціалістична Республіка, Kazakh: Жаңажұлдыз Советтік Социалистік Республикасы), abbreviated as the Novozvezdan SSR, also known as Novozvezda and Soviet Luna, is a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. Encompassing all Soviet territory on Luna, it was founded on 16 December 2014 from the Novozvezdan ASSR, an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR.

Novozvezdan is the largest lunar territory by area and second largest by population after the United States. It is located on the far side of the moon, with its largest settlement and capital being the city of Zhukovsky situated in Mare Moscoviense.

Initially during the existence of the Novozvezdan ASSR and the first six years of the Novozvezdan SSR, Russian was the republic's only official language. However, because of the Soviet policy of involuntary population transfer to Luna between 1978 and 2005 to provide labor and the initial waves of colonization a significant portion of the Novozvezdan population was not ethnically Russian. The largest Soviet ethnic groups represented on Luna aside from the Russians were the Ukrainians (28%) and Kazakhs (21%), with numerous others represented. As well, while most ethnic Russians had volunteered for lunar settlement or were military personnel and their families, the plurality of ethnic minorities did not have a choice in the matter. The intent of the Soviet government was to Russify these minorities and create a new, single, Russian-dominant identity for Novozvezda without further national delimitation over time. However, after Novozvezda's elevation from ASSR to SSR, ethnic tensions that had been building since the 1970s boiled over and rumors of ethnic mismanagement in Soviet Luna began to be publicized in the west. Following the 2019 wildcat strike in Zhukovsky and riots in Korolev led by minority workers, Ukrainian and Kazakh were officially made co-equal languages with Russian. Despite the conflict's racist origins, on Earth the newly instituted nativization policy was spun by the Soviet government as its first republic in space being a shining multiethnic endeavour and an example of a new korenizatsiia.

Etymology

The name Novozvezda, meaning "New Star", was decided by the People's Commissariat for Space Settlement prior to the construction of Zhukovsky. It was named after the Zvezda moonbase, the Soviet Union's first continuously inhabited outpost on Luna.

List of settlements

This list is incomplete.
Settlement Population Etymology Remarks
Barabashovo 3,800 Named after Nikolai Barabashov, astronomer Small town built to support a scientific research outpost
Chernykh 47,720 Named after Nikolai Chernykh, astronomer
Dollezhal 56,700 Named after Nikolay Dollezhal, nuclear reactor designer An atomgrad built to serve the Dollezhal Nuclear Power Plant and house its workers
Korolev 487,800 Named after Sergei Korolev, rocket engineer and spacecraft designer The largest Soviet settlement outside of Mare Moscoviense.
Lunokhodsk 93,200 Named after the Lunokhod programme
Sakko i Vancetti 21,340 Named after Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti A military town constructed solely to house and serve the families of a nearby Strategic Missile Forces base.
Tukhachevskoye 130,230 Named after Mikhail Tukhachevsky, general and military theorist A military town constructed primarily to house and serve the families of a nearby Soviet Army base.
Zhukovsky
(Capital) 		2,450,300 Named after Nikolay Zhukovsky, a founder of the field of aerodynamics The largest settlement by area and population in Novozvezda
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