<div class="floatright">(http://s16.postimg.org/50g16yr9h/paradiso_banner.png)</div>Profunda- Outer System hot-spot, genehacker's wet dream, and Extropian paradise. The largest and most prosperous non-Titanian habitat in Saturn's orbit, it hurdles along on and under the surface of Enceladus, the sixth-largest Saturnine moon. Its architecture beautiful and inspired, its people happy, and its creations  the envy of even the Lunar fashion groups- could Profunda be anything less than a paradise?<br/><br/>That is, at least, could it be anything less on a good day? Today is a somewhat<em>less</em>than good day for Profunda. It started off well enough, at least until a large firefight erupted, between what appeared to be the Night Cartel and the Wushuang Corporation. Once the smoke cleared (which admittedly took some time, after number of defense-insurance automated drones joined the fight, then proceeded to continue fighting until overridden by their wards), the streets once again filled with people, though slightly jumpier than they were that morning, bustling their way to Deep Gardens. Its is here, a side tunnel of the beehive colony, not too far from the day's livelihood, that Profundans and tourists alike gather to ease their stress. Morph designers, retail shopping, underground botanical gardens, food and entertainment.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>The idea at the moment is that the players are simply free-roaming in Deep Gardens, what some might view as a sort of tourist locale within Profunda. We'll all spend some time freeforming around the area, getting to know each other, and then from there we can think about what we'd like to see or do as a group RP next!<br/><br/>Feel free to talk about any existing relationships or ideas for interactions here, and I'll have some places and pictures for settings up shortly!<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">About Profunda</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Station Type:</strong> Beehive<br/><strong>Allegiance: </strong>Autonomist Alliance (Extropian)<br/><strong>Population:</strong> 850,000<br/><br/>Profunda is the most prosperous Saturnian habitat that’s not part of the Commonwealth. The guidebooks describe it as anarcho-capitalist, which elsewhere almost always implies a high level of income disparity as well as a large and often somewhat desperate lower class. That’s most deﬁnitely not the case here; the rich are very rich indeed, but no local is poor, and nearly all residences have a quality of life far in excess of the system average. The local government is non-existent, all business is conducted through contracts between parties, and failure to make good on a contractual agreement has negative effects on the violating party’s future business dealings. The biggest ﬁsh, and the dominant force on Enceladus, is Profunda Corp, for which the city is named. This corporation is by far the largest engaged in mining and reﬁning the abundant organic chemicals on Enceladus. Profunda’s answer to rivals in this ﬁeld is to ignore small ﬁrms and aggressively buy out any that become large or proﬁtable enough to become even a potential threat.<br/><br/>Every citizen that lives in Profunda has at least one share in Profunda Corp. Dividends go first to providing living necessities, with more shares bringing a higher standard of living and more wealth. Locals can sell their share, and there are plenty of buyers, but doing so means the seller loses permanent rights to necessities and has to buy them on a pro-rated basis. Almost no one who isn’t interested in moving elsewhere ever does this. As the mines and reﬁneries expand, the number of shares in Profunda Corp increases; some are purchased by the upper class, while others are either purchased by prospective immigrants or given to especially valuable immigrants by various local corporations or wealthy private individuals. Needless to say, many people would love to move here, but if you aren’t a citizen-shareholder, the most you can get is a temporary tourist or work visa.<br/><br/>Originally a large but mostly automated mining station, the abundant local resources allowed the few hundred locals to rapidly build a large habitat, which was then primarily settled by refugees from both Indonesia and New Zealand during the Fall. Profunda has a large Southeast Asian Muslim population and at one time boasted the tallest and most elaborate minarets in the Saturnian system, a title recently taken away by Salah. Like most of the truly grandiose local architecture, these minarets are located on the surface. Life in the tunnels is prosperous and no one lacks for space, but the wealthiest inhabitants live on the surface. The surface portions of the habitat primarily consists of large domes where the distinction between lush tropical or temperate parkland and living space has largely been erased. The biggest of these domes is more than 50 kilometers across and is the single most visible feature on this relatively small moon’s surface.<br/><br/>Profunda is also home to some of the system’s premier genetic engineers and morph designers. Genehackers have their pick of employers here. Because the moon has minute gravity, only slightly more than 1% of Earth’s, all of the plants and animals in the parks and tame wilderness areas have been genengineered to deal with the exceptionally low gravity. Naturally, the more successful designs are then sold to other habs, providing income to support even more experimental genetic research. Two of the major triumphs of the Profunda gene designers are the aerial plants, which ﬂoat using small hydrogen gas bags, and the multitude of small- to medium-sized animals that possess the capability and instincts for low-g ﬂight. The semi-sapient cats with gliding membranes and prehensile tails are popular pets all across the Saturnian system, but are also regarded as pests by some people, as they have spread widely since their introduction.<br/><br/>While other habitats and hypercorps dominate the trade in exotic morphs or morphs for specialized work environments, the local Glitter Bloc dominates the trade in high-end luxury morphs. Their latest model, the Saturn elite, is merely the latest of a series of major hits that have come out of Profunda. Several sylph variants currently popular on Mars and the ring ﬂier are some of their other more popular designs. The people at Skinaesthesia and Skinthetic don’t like to hear it, but when it comes to really slick high fashion morphs, Profunda is ﬁrmly in the lead.</div></div>