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{{drop|I}}t was a little chilly in Room 691. Not for a reason out of anyone's control mind you. The Huxleyville city council decided to crank up the environmental cooling on the residential blocks this "winter" to mimick the holiday feel back on Earth. Everyone's space heaters would be going, giving off a familiar heat profile and leaving smells of roasting (burning) dust wofting as the blocks woke up. Inefficient? Very, but this Christmas everyone was feeling nostalgic.
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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}}Hendrix clacked "6-0" seconds into the cream enamel keys on his microwave. He liked his milk—or the powder the block mart passed off as milk—warm for his breakfast cereal. Slumped over his counter, he craned his neck over to take stock of his space. The space heater glowed a deep red in the corner and his lamp was still sheathed by a red light filter to ease him into a day of nothing but cold, flickered fluorescent lighting. Hendrix swore he could see the individual cycles of his school's lights—all 120 flicks a second—for which he wore sunglasses indoors. No one believed him. His room was basically furnished, as was tradition for a college boy. Turquoise enamel-coated steel walls hung some posters of bands he maybe only listened to a few songs of. He had one rug so his tootsies wouldn't freeze immediately upon getting out of bed and a second-hand couch he got off of a sketchy uninet marketplace. He also had one luxury most Huxleyville Tech students did not have: a LUREK VPC-450  personal computer. The glow of its emerald phosphor, clack of its keys, and cracklish hum would persist well into the night. He was definitely a power user of the library's cassettes.
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}}The tinny rattle of the microwave's bell clamored. Warm peanut buttery corn puffs, a fitting dessert-for-breakfast on the cheap.
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}}Hendrix took his bowl over to the couch and began munching as he surveyed his agenda. Clicking through tabs on his handheld terminal—connected to his main computer by a cable—he groaned as a full day greeted him. Physics labs from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., a 30 minute lunch, followed by materials science lectures from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. It was the first day back from the Thanksgiving 4-day weekend, so this was the last week of major work before dead week, finals, and Christmas break. Congruent to Hendrix's late night cassette crawler lifestyle, he only woke up 40 minutes before his first class. It normally only took 15 minutes to get to school on the trolleyway, provided it was on time.  
==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}}With the cereal dusted off, Hendrix swapped his sleep-grade gym shorts for jeans, slippers for Docs, bunged a stick of gum, and was "ready" for the day. He'd get a vending machine coffee outside of class so no use brushing his teeth yet, so his logic went. With a lever pull, his door slid open with a pneumatic ''hiss''.
==List of settlements==
 
:''This list is incomplete''.
{{Indent vig}}Hendrix was immersed in a dim copper glow, barely bright enough to glint off the edges of the floor paneling, shone in both directions ''ad infinitum''. The ceiling of the corridor was lined with the best technology of 80 years ago, screen after screen simulating the outside world in an amber edging fed by exterior cameras—just vector lines, no fill. The automatic projection refresh attempting to make it seem like the walking viewer was actually looking out into the sky was in effect highly disorienting. Huxleyville was one of the launch sites for this tech alongside Chicago O'Hare International back on Earth, although instead of stimulating scenes of planes taking off from a belly-perspective the residents of Huxleyville only got the Ravern L1 Elevator's tether, the crater ridge where the tether terminated, occassional military flights on approach to Henson, and stars (far more visible than in reality). The city decided to project Santa's sleigh flying about for the Christmas season though; meager scraps of homely comfort in such a sterile place. A simple glass skylight might have been more economical and indeed common in the more aspirational neighborhoods, but the eminently subsidized residence halls of HX Buena Vista were—ironically—underground and 10 floors deep. The territorial government wanted a place to put the installation without too much public-private headache.
{| 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}}Each step left an echoey metallic clang against the chequerplate surface. For a notionally slip-resistant floor, it was one of the slipperiest Hendrix had ever walked on. Plus, the raised cuts in the plate were cheese graters on an exposed knee, so running was explicitly forbidden in the block. Overhead the ceiling screens continuously updated their drawings of the outside every 2 steps or so, trying to mimick the changing view of the landscape as angles changed. Hendrix kept his eyes on the ground to avoid the nausea.
!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}}The corridor went on for give or take 1000 yards, flanked by endless studio apartment modules. Traversing his repetitious residence was the longest part of his journey thanks to being assigned to the last trolley stop before school. Buena Vista had been Hendrix's home ever since he started college at Huxleyville Tech 3 years ago. He'd grown skinny over the years, muscles atrophied from living the Moon life at 25 effective pounds while dodging the government-mandated Resistive Training Program—called RESTRAP—designed to keep those health impacts at bay. Buena Vista as a primarily low-income and student neighborhood was so under-resourced that no one bothered to enforce the regimen though. Although, with Hendrix's mandatory health screening coming up in February, he feared he'd be ordered to attend with threats of deportation back to Earth after graduation, lest he strain Huxleyville's healthcare system with a voluntary case of osteopenia and kidney stones. He already managed to creak and click as he walked—not the typical soundboard of a 21-year-old.
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" | Remarks
 
|-
{{Indent vig}}Hendrix passed by an open door. Inside, about 40 schoolchildren were reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, just in the middle of mumbling through "indivisible" without quite knowing what the word meant. It was the Buena Vista Block 600 Primary Class, 1 of 11 such classrooms for schoolchildren Kindergarten to grade 1 dispersed along the Buena Vista corridor. As just another room in the hall, there was a somewhat unsettling amount of public access to the classrooms. Things were a little more high trust in Huxleyville than back on Earth, Hendrix guessed—he'd never actually talked to his next door neighbors. It wouldn't be until 2nd grade that kids started going to the Buena Vista Elementary School, which was more separated primarily because of the need for specialist, interconnected rooms more so than security.
| 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}}After about 11 minutes of walking, Hendrix came upon the Buena Vista trolley station. Electric trolleys, powered by Huxleyville's nuclear reactor, travelled along two tracks in a big loop linking the residential blocks to the college, the "downtown" (a couple of shops, the hospital, and government wing), and trains for onward travel to industrial sites and the border control point to other the cities of other nations. Luckily, or perhaps unluckily, most of the humanities students had gotten Monday off, and the block's workers had to start their journey at least 2 hours earlier to catch the morning train to Shackleton, so the station was sparse of riders. Unlike the dim orange hall Hendrix had just exited, the station was bright, blue, and very fluorescent.
|-
 
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Chernykh'''  
{{Indent vig}}"How's it going boss?" The trolley station attendant greeted Hendrix. It was Willy, the only attendant that ever talked to Hendrix—whether Hendrix wanted to or not. He wore a silky red vest, black button up shirt, and a rifle green képi (some sort of tradition to do with the old city militia before it became part of the Army National Guard).
|  style="text-align: center;" |47,720 || Named after {{wpl|Nikolai Chernykh}}, astronomer ||
 
|-
{{Indent vig}}"It's going, Willy," Hendrix replied dryly.
| 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}}"Late night?"
|-
 
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Korolev'''  
{{Indent vig}}"Oh you know me," Hendrix smirked. "Always is."
|  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}}"Next trolley should be 6 minutes. Relax and let me know if you need anything."
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Lunokhodsk'''
 
|  style="text-align: center;" |93,200 || Named after the {{wpl|Lunokhod programme}} ||
{{Indent vig}}Hendrix took a seat on one of the perforated aluminum benches facing towards the tracks. While treated like one, the station wasn't exactly like a train station. The tracks were basically embedded into a concrete floor level with where people stood. Newer trolleys had these slick, glass-encased, cylindrical elevators on their ends for passengers in wheelchairs to compensate for the lack of platforms. The walls were lined with blueish, nearly glassy brushed aluminum panelling and a big white-on-black sign reading "Buena Vista". Being a relatively small neighborhood their station didn't have a ton of features, but some of the larger ones—like College Station—had roving informational robots and huge cathode ray tubes displaying where each trolley was along its route. To his left a large flip clock rested atop a poll, its block letters reading <code>08:23</code>. He was running late.
|-
 
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Sakko i Vancetti'''
{{Indent vig}}After some anxious, foot-tapped waiting, Hendrix could make out the squeeling of the trolley's wheels as it rounded the last corner. As it poked out of the tunnel, it revealed itself as one of the older models—bought from the Australian Coonabarabran council back in 2042 as they were replacing their trams. It was one of the few non-chrome trolleys in Huxleyville, instead painted a deep burgundy with bronze fittings and a green roof.
|  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}}As the low electric whir of the trolley motor pitched down for the approach, Hendrix picked himself up. He was in a bit of a sweat. Based on the experience of hundreds of trips, he'd almost certainly be exactly 6 minutes late. He just loved reading his cassettes and sleep too much to set off earlier, though.
| 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}}Suddenly, the lights shuttered. Nothing but the faint inner glow of the trolley's interior light bulb.
|-
 
| style="text-align: center;" | '''Zhukovsky'''<br><small>(Capital)</small>  
{{Indent vig}}A brief darkness was broken by redlights and a single of the fluorescent lights. The trolley doors closed, and it began driving back the way it came. The speakers overhead squelched and let out a single cycle of a buzzing siren before giving way to a thunderous barking voice.
|  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
 
|}
{{Indent vig}}<span style="color:#db593d">"Now hear this, now hear this,"</span> he droned. <span style="color:#db593d">"Huxleyville is at Alert Level 1. This is not a drill. Return to your residences. Trolleys in both directions are only running outward. Shelther in place and prepare to occupy your assigned shelthers. Your block civil defense leader will distribute further instructions."</span>
 
{{Vignette End}}

Latest revision as of 06:24, 28 March 2025

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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