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[[File:Alexander Crummell.jpg|260px|right|thumb|An etching of Doon from the flyleaf of the third edition of his book ''Verdades y Creencias'', printed 1896.]]Luciano '''Doon''' d'Orange (born 1840, [[Saint-Hubert de l'Açan, DB]]; died 1913, [[Bahía de la Jacaranda, DB]]) was a noted philosopher and author in the [[Ardisphere]], who developed a significant body of work not just in epistemology but also in political theory and political economy, which had huge influence on the course of philosophy and political thought in the modern world.
'''Arhet''' is the name of a planet.


== Early Years and Education in Karolia ==
The planet Arhet is the planet currently hosted on the map portion of the Geofictician site (see link to left, "Geofictician map", or window below).


Doon was born to a landowning family in the Franquese-speaking northern edge of the Ardisphere in the earliest years of the Federation, when there was very little either culturally or politically to tie the far-flung region to the southern capital. Only 15 years old at the onset of the [[Ardispherian Civil War]], he nevertheless enlisted in the military, against his parents wishes, serving as a sailor during a few of the naval battles on the [[Marverde (Ardisphere)|Marverde]] (the largest of the Ardisphere's inland lakes) that occurred during the second year of the war. His father, a landowner, vintner and vociferous autonomist, disowned his son.
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As a consequence, Doon traveled extensively after the war. He was exposed to many cultures and languages before concluding that he needed to further his education. He returned to the Ardisphere and enrolled in the Universidad del Boreal (now called [[Universidad Autónoma del Boreal]]). Completing courses in classics and philosophy, he showed such promise as a thinker that he was invited by a visiting professor from [[Karolia]] to return with him to that country and continue his studies at the [[Fontjäna Ünivërsitat]]. Despite his difficulty with mastering the Karolian language, he eventually graduated with a doctor of philosophy, and at age 30 accepted a teaching position there.  
The server structure is similar to, but not identical to, that found at OpenGeofiction.


== Return to Saint-Hubert ==
I have decided to try an experiment. I am intending to open Arhet to a limited number of other mappers. In principle, this is no different from the OpenGeofiction model. However, in implementation, I plan to take a different route. Here is a first draft of planned rules.


Only a year later, in 1870, however, he received a letter from his mother that his father, terminally ill, had repented having disowned his only son. She urged Doon to return home to Saint-Hubert. Resigning his professorship, he returned home (which at that time took several weeks, including sailing from [[Fontjäna]] to [[Villa Constitución, DF|Villa Constitución]] and then taking the riverboat to [[Lagartópolis, DP|Lagartópolis]] and thence by stage to [[Mojique, DB|Moyica]]) only to arrive two days after his father had died. His mother and relatives urged him to take on the famly mantel of running the family vinyards at l'Açan, and reluctantly, he did so. After several years, however, he felt compelled to return to academia, and entrusting the management of the estate to his aged mother and a venal cousin, he secured a teaching position at his undergraduate alma mater, the Universidad del Boreal.
''This project is "live", now. I have added my first user. I'm hoping for feedback about the proposed ideas, below, and to gauge interest.''


== Return to Academia ==
==Rules==
# Luciano is god in Arhet. My word is law. Period.
# Arhet is not "open" in the way that OpenGeofiction is "open." Participation is by invitation. If you wish to request an invitation, you should contact me via email. If you can't figure out my email, you probably don't deserve to participate. Hint: my name, at my domain.
# For now, invites will only be offered to OGF participants in good standing. Anyone with a history of sockpuppetry, disrespectful mapping, etc., on that site will not be considered.
#* For now, I will ask users to use the same username as on OGF. This just makes it easier for me to decide if you're a decent person or not.
#* This might change in the future.
# Arhet is not to be the same kind of planet as OGF, however. I currently expect it will be quite a bit more chaotic. That's because...
#* There will be no wiki. This wiki, that you are reading, is mine. For my projects. If you want to wikify your mapping on Arhet, find or build your own wiki elsewhere.
#* There will be no verisimilitude rule. Map what you like - in your assigned area.
#* There will be no plan for a planet-wide coherent geology, ecology, history, culture, or language. Those things were neglected on OGF at the beginning, and efforts to retcon them later are depressing. We avoid the problem by stating at the outset that these things are irrelevant.
#* There will be no user diaries. If you want to write about your mapping, start a blog or something.
# There aren't that many rules, but there is zero tolerance for rule violations. Immediate banning, no discussion. Period.
# Mappers can be asked to leave for any reason, or for no reason. In general, if your map is interesting and you keep in your assigned area, I won't object.


He remained affiliated with that university for the remainder of his career, despite several prominent visiting professorships at other institutions, including a return to Karolia and a year in [[Gran-Lusland]]. It is partly the legacy of Doon as an academic and world-famous author and philosopher that that institution even today enjoys a reputation far beyond that normally associated with a rural, public university far-removed from the capital.  
==Implementation==
# Users are expected to connect to Arhet using JOSM. I have seen very little evidence that high-quality geofiction is possible using iD or Potlatch. So deal with it.
# For now, because I can't be bothered, there will be no automated map update. I'll set a job to run updates a few times through the day. I may get organized and implement something if things go well and the site becomes popular. So you won't get immediate feedback on the map for your work.
#* I will happily kick off the update manually on a request basis, if you ask politely and I'm not busy with something else. But I am often busy with something else...
# Users will be assigned territory by "degree square." This means exactly one degree of width, longitude, by one degree of height, latitude. You get open ocean. Build islands, collaborate with neighbors to build continents, whatever. If you map outside your assigned degree square (except with permission in one owned by another person), that's instant banning.
# Currently users will be granted any open degree square in Southern Hemisphere. I'm keeping the Northern Hemisphere in reserve.
# That's a lot of degree squares. Between 0 and 80 south, and from 180 west to 180 east, that's 28800 possible squares. So... additional degree squares will be granted to users who do something interesting to their first ones.
# The above doesn't mean I have tolerance for grandiose or megalomaniacal projects ("Hey can I have 2000 degree squares I wanna build a continent"). My own experience shows that we geoficticians generally bite off more than we can chew.


Although Doon lost control of the family estate in the 1880s, he is said to have never regreted his return to academia. He was fond of telling his students that money was nothing ("El dinero no es nada."). He was active as a professor, writing reviews and for journals, well into his elder years, and died peacefully at age 73 in his modest home near the university campus in Bahía de la Jacaranda. That house is now a museum open to the public.
==Territory List==
 
''Territories below are specified (for the most part) by coordinates: southwest corner to northeast corner.''
== Legacy: Writings and Thought ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
 
!Area
Doon is most known for two works.
!User
 
|-
In epistemology, he authored the foundational work ''Verdades y Creencias'' (''Truths and Beliefs''), 1873. He is noted for the aphorism, "Creo que existo. Pues, existo. ¿Qué más necesito?"
| Northern hemisphere
 
| luciano
In political theory, he wrote the three-volume study that provides some of the foundations of modern political economy, ''Los Laberintos del Poder'' (''The Labyrinths of Power''), 1884. His thinking is known to have influenced not just other philosophers but political activists such as [[Pancho Ulianov]] and the later president, [[Eva Shinoda]], the founders of the modern Ardispherian [[Partido Socialista (Ardisphere)|Partido Socialista]]. The term "doonismo" (Doonism) is sometimes used (perhaps inaccurately it must be admitted) to indicate a certain philosophical stance ''vis-a-vis'' political economy, favoring social democracy, communitarianism, syndicalism and state-guided capitalism. Although all these ideas were developed at length in his book, Doon himself would no doubt have rejected the implication he was actually directly advocating for any of them - he presented his ideas as historically determined or evolutional rather than requiring advocacy, and himself favored a radical, dialectical approach.
|-
 
| [http://test.geofictician.net/#map=7/-1.00/151.50&layers=H 2°S 148°E to 0°S 155°E]
[[Category:Ardispherian Authors and Artists]]
| luciano
[[Category:Ardispherian Biographies]]
|-
[[Category:Departamento Boreal (Ardisphere)]]
| [http://test.geofictician.net/#map=9/10.5/150.5&layers=H 10°N 150°E to 11°N 151°E]
[[Category:Ardisphere]]
| sockpuppet
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/#map=9/-4.5/150.5&layers=H 5°S 150°E to 4°S 151°E]
| Infrarrojo
|-
| [http://test.geofictician.net/#map=9/-0.5/-0.5&layers=H 1°S 1°W to 0°S 0°W]
| yours!
|}

Revision as of 15:47, 21 September 2019

Arhet is the name of a planet.

The planet Arhet is the planet currently hosted on the map portion of the Geofictician site (see link to left, "Geofictician map", or window below).

Loading map...

The server structure is similar to, but not identical to, that found at OpenGeofiction.

I have decided to try an experiment. I am intending to open Arhet to a limited number of other mappers. In principle, this is no different from the OpenGeofiction model. However, in implementation, I plan to take a different route. Here is a first draft of planned rules.

This project is "live", now. I have added my first user. I'm hoping for feedback about the proposed ideas, below, and to gauge interest.

Rules

  1. Luciano is god in Arhet. My word is law. Period.
  2. Arhet is not "open" in the way that OpenGeofiction is "open." Participation is by invitation. If you wish to request an invitation, you should contact me via email. If you can't figure out my email, you probably don't deserve to participate. Hint: my name, at my domain.
  3. For now, invites will only be offered to OGF participants in good standing. Anyone with a history of sockpuppetry, disrespectful mapping, etc., on that site will not be considered.
    • For now, I will ask users to use the same username as on OGF. This just makes it easier for me to decide if you're a decent person or not.
    • This might change in the future.
  4. Arhet is not to be the same kind of planet as OGF, however. I currently expect it will be quite a bit more chaotic. That's because...
    • There will be no wiki. This wiki, that you are reading, is mine. For my projects. If you want to wikify your mapping on Arhet, find or build your own wiki elsewhere.
    • There will be no verisimilitude rule. Map what you like - in your assigned area.
    • There will be no plan for a planet-wide coherent geology, ecology, history, culture, or language. Those things were neglected on OGF at the beginning, and efforts to retcon them later are depressing. We avoid the problem by stating at the outset that these things are irrelevant.
    • There will be no user diaries. If you want to write about your mapping, start a blog or something.
  5. There aren't that many rules, but there is zero tolerance for rule violations. Immediate banning, no discussion. Period.
  6. Mappers can be asked to leave for any reason, or for no reason. In general, if your map is interesting and you keep in your assigned area, I won't object.

Implementation

  1. Users are expected to connect to Arhet using JOSM. I have seen very little evidence that high-quality geofiction is possible using iD or Potlatch. So deal with it.
  2. For now, because I can't be bothered, there will be no automated map update. I'll set a job to run updates a few times through the day. I may get organized and implement something if things go well and the site becomes popular. So you won't get immediate feedback on the map for your work.
    • I will happily kick off the update manually on a request basis, if you ask politely and I'm not busy with something else. But I am often busy with something else...
  3. Users will be assigned territory by "degree square." This means exactly one degree of width, longitude, by one degree of height, latitude. You get open ocean. Build islands, collaborate with neighbors to build continents, whatever. If you map outside your assigned degree square (except with permission in one owned by another person), that's instant banning.
  4. Currently users will be granted any open degree square in Southern Hemisphere. I'm keeping the Northern Hemisphere in reserve.
  5. That's a lot of degree squares. Between 0 and 80 south, and from 180 west to 180 east, that's 28800 possible squares. So... additional degree squares will be granted to users who do something interesting to their first ones.
  6. The above doesn't mean I have tolerance for grandiose or megalomaniacal projects ("Hey can I have 2000 degree squares I wanna build a continent"). My own experience shows that we geoficticians generally bite off more than we can chew.

Territory List

Territories below are specified (for the most part) by coordinates: southwest corner to northeast corner.

Area User
Northern hemisphere luciano
2°S 148°E to 0°S 155°E luciano
10°N 150°E to 11°N 151°E sockpuppet
5°S 150°E to 4°S 151°E Infrarrojo
1°S 1°W to 0°S 0°W yours!
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