=IOCC-226 //TYCHO BRAHE// (8,000 AU)= 
**Station Type:** Swarm
**Allegiance:** Independent (Out’ster)
**Primary Languages:** English
**Population:** 460
//Tycho Brahe// is the farthest known ship/habitat in the solar system. It was originally launched before the Fall as a versatile automated research probe. It was breached by the Gorillas, a group of [[Anarchists|anarchist]]hacktivists seeking to liberate it from government control. Following much scandal, funding for the project was cut. Access to the probe was bought and stolen many times, sometimes simultaneously, until the ﬁrst homesteaders uploaded themselves directly into the computers and shut off access during the Fall. The out’ster colonists have since utilized the probe’s nanofabricator to extract resources from several deep space objects and build additional ships and upgrades.
The swarm is made up of sixty-eight ships. The inhabitants live in simulspace environments or sleeve directly into the ships themselves. Due to the scarcity of power, ships normally coast, mostly disabled.
Even within the group, ships are highly isolationist. Fragmentary reports suggest the out’sters spend much of their time in simulspace worlds, in quiet observance of outer space, or in hibernation. Ego-mixing on ships is common, causing psychoses such as dissociative identity disorder, weak ego boundaries, false memories, and social disorders. Contact with the swarm is unusual, but has revealed a complex mythology orienting around the belief in an unknown intelligence active in the cloud.

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