Tellus Ring Survey Administration

When humankind sent some of their first interstellar probes (the Sojourner twins) to the neighboring Alpha Centauri system in the 22nd century, the one thing they never expected to find was an abandoned alien megastructure. Naturally, this was exactly what Sojourner 2 discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri B. Dubbed the Tellus Ring, after an ancient Roman goddess of the Earth, its discovery changed humanity’s understanding of the universe forever. But questions about its origins would only be answered with centuries of research and exploration.

Tellus was built an estimated eleven thousand metric years ago by the now-extinct skgri civilization, which inhabited the system quite extensively at the time. Wreckage documented in the Toliman Belt indicates at least eleven more rings identical to Tellus once orbited in an evenly-spaced configuration, meaning that just over ten thousand years ago the Toliman Belt alone held some three billion skgri lives in its span. The ultimate fate of the ring's first populace, like the fate of the entire skgri civilization, is unknown.

In the modern age, just over three hundred thousand people -the vast majority of them human- have taken up residence on the ring. Tellus is effectively one enormous archaeological site; as such, it has no independent state or national government. Instead the ring is managed by a provisional department of the Centauri Republic: the Tellus Ring Survey Administration. This organization is empowered by the Republic to handle all matters associated with the ring, including but not limited to: immigration, exploration, conservation, supply import, communications, municipal governance, law enforcement, and local space traffic. Any person wishing to visit, live on, or leave the ring is required to file with the TRSA to prevent excessive interference with the construct and its biosphere.