=Tethys= 
**Excerpted from:** //Travel Saturn Visits Godwinhead//
Tethys is a mid-sized moon, approximately 1,060 kilometers across. It has two co-orbital moons, Telesto and Calypso, at its L4 and L5 Lagrange points respectively.
==Godwinhead== 
**Station Type:** [[Beehives|Beehive]]
**Allegiance:** Autonomist Alliance ([[Anarchists|Anarchist]])
**Primary Languages:** English, Hindi, Punjabi
**Population:** 200,000
Godwinhead is a nice place to visit, but unless you’re a xenobiologist or an archaeologist, it’s a lousy place to live. Settled by a group calling itself the Rioters, this alarming name belies the placid nature of this community. Yes, there are more than 200,000 transhumans living here, many of them self-identiﬁed as anarchists, but most people attend the regular town meetings, either in person or via mesh, and there are a number of local festivals that are very popular and involve most of the community.
The ship that brought the original colonists to Godwinhead ﬁfteen years ago, the //Caleb Williams//, has been turned into a kind of living museum, a must-see for both visitors and new residents. Godwinhead was founded after the discovery of tiny extinct microorganisms here by the //Caleb Williams//’s crew. Using the good will and capital generated by this discovery, they expanded the settlement and bought a large number of morphs, which they offered up to needy refugees willing to work to make a real community. The original Indo-British autonomist culture of the settlement remains largely intact, with the new arrivals integrating their beliefs and practices into the local customs. The locals did an excellent job of attracting people with similar interests and temperaments. I’m told that Godwinhead is a lot like it was a dozen years ago, except considerably larger.
The //Caleb Williams// is the centerpoint of Godwinhead, parked in a cavern at the bottom of the 5-kilometer high Ithaca Chasma, a 2,000-kilometer trench that wraps almost all of the way around Tethys. The valley wall around it is pockmarked with habitat modules and ice tunnels, with trusswork and cabling stretching across the gap for micrograv ziplines and cable cars.
Outside of the extinct original settlers of Godwinhead, the Tethyan ﬂatworms, the strangest section of Godwinhead are the ice tunnels stretching out and away from Godwinhead. As part of their search for new frozen life forms, prospectors, explorers, and biologists used plasma drills to create a large network of tunnels, most between three and ﬁve meters in diameter. There are more than 3,000 kilometers of tunnels. The close-in tunnels have been ﬁtted with habitat modules and are a normal part of Godwinhead. However, the rest of the tunnels are not heated though they are usually sealed. Instead, they have a thin breathable atmosphere that comes from a few dozen makers placed strategically throughout the tunnels. Waste heat from the more habitable regions of Godwinhead keep these tunnels at temperatures ranging from –40 to –70 C. This means that anyone with some fairly basic augmentations can live comfortably in these tunnels, and more than a few people do, tapping in to the superconducting power lines the run the length of the tunnels for their basic needs.
The ofﬁcial population of Godwinhead is around 200,000, but that doesn’t include the almost 12,000 people who live in the ice tunnels. They’ve got cold-adapted makers using ice and the occasional mineral deposits as raw materials and live in dwellings carved out of the ice or fabbed up from various cold-tolerant materials. They have even excavated a large central market called Bartertown, where all the merchants work in brightly colored tents. This market has become a tourist attraction and has been growing. The ice tunnels are home to artists, eccentrics, fossil prospectors, amateur naturalists, and people who want to disappear but don’t have anyone who is actually interested in chasing them.

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