PCBaller World/Byzantine Space Agency

The Byzantine Space Agency is the official government department concerned with space exploration and technological research in regards to space exploration. Yearly, it receives 1% of GDP as funding, or around 300B$/year as of now, however this figure is being increased as Byzantium begins to pivot towards the star. =Kyriakos Tamvakis Telescope= =Wow! Project= The Wow project is a Byzantine Space Agency project meant to look out for extraterrestrial life in the Sagittarius constellation, 10.600 light years away from our Solar System. The Byzantine Space Agency has launched the Jerry Ehman Probe, a faster-than-light probe named after Jerry Ehman, the man who first picked up the Wow signal back in 1977. Its goal however is to not just look for life in that constellation but also in nearby star systems. The probe has been camouflaged extensively to match the cosmic environment, so it isn't detected by any alien ships/satellites.

It is currently in the TRAPPIST-1 star system and the Jerry Ehman Probe has detected life on the planet Trappist-1e and has picked up information about its culture. It turns out that they have all united, have found world peace and are all just a bunch of hippies who worship the sun. It also turns out they have nationalistic and socialistic beliefs. It could be possible that the tidal locking of the planet to their star could be the reason why they're worshipping it. It is not known how they talk or how they even look. We have given a name for this civilization. That name being Solara.

The Jerry Ehman Probe is set to soon leave after exploring the Trappist-1e planet extensively and other planets, while concluding Trappist-1d does not have intelligent life (but microbial life nonetheless) and that the other planets are too hot or too cold for any actual life to develop.

[[File:IvAnt.png]] Solara [[File:IvAnt.png]]
Solara is the official, world civilization discovered on the planet of Trappist-1e. So far they haven't noticed the Jerry Ehman Probe through the few satellites they have in their orbit. It is indicated that their satellite technology is similar to ours in the 1980s. The year on the planet is 2023.

Here's the list of political parties, as gathered by the very advanced Jerry Ehman Probe (and radio communication in the planet, which was picked up by the probe):


 * [[File:IvAnt.png]] Peace & Prosperity Party


 * [[File:Contrarianism-Icon.png]] Wake Up Movement


 * [[File:Scientocracy_Small.png]] Party of Science and Rationality

It seems like in this world, the new counter-culture movement seems to not come from hippies, but rather from their world's version of Reaganite conservatives. We all knew this world would be different, but not this different.