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Melotes today consider themselves a part of [[Coscivian civilisation]], the culmination of a trend that began centuries before the islands' annexation by the Kiravian Federacy. Pressures on the Melotes to conform to continental, that is, Ixnayan and Levantine, cultural hegemony and Christian orthodoxy led many Melote scholars, religious leaders, and rulers to look towards Kiravia and [[ | Melotes today consider themselves a part of [[Coscivian civilisation]], the culmination of a trend that began centuries before the islands' annexation by the Kiravian Federacy. Pressures on the Melotes to conform to continental, that is, Ixnayan and Levantine, cultural hegemony and Christian orthodoxy led many Melote scholars, religious leaders, and rulers to look towards Kiravia and [[Dysona]], with their history of religious pluralism and philosophical traditions that bore similarities to the Melian religion, as a counter-hegemonic alternative. The monastic scribe Ataxes of Harambé developed an orthography for the Melotic language based on the Coscivian script in [YEAR], which almost completely displaced the Greek alphabet by [Later YEAR]. The modern literary register of the Melotic language has adopted some morphological features from High Coscivian and a significant quantity of Coscivian loanwords, while the local dialect of Kiravic has, in turn, absorbed a great deal of vocabulary and some phonological features from Melotic. | ||
In Melian society, ethnic background is thought of as correlating closely with altitude: Lower-altitude areas of the archipelago tend to be more heavily Melote, while higher altitudes with a more mild climate are more heavily populated by people of Éorsan Coscivian ancestry. This leads to certain expressions common to the islands such as ''álivāsdras ōvim'' ("doing it the up-slope way", referring to an upper-class and mainland Kiravian way of doing something), and the more idiomatic ''ēmribūvāsdras Kartikad'' ("just downslope of Kartika", referring to extremely high-altitude regions). | In Melian society, ethnic background is thought of as correlating closely with altitude: Lower-altitude areas of the archipelago tend to be more heavily Melote, while higher altitudes with a more mild climate are more heavily populated by people of Éorsan Coscivian ancestry. This leads to certain expressions common to the islands such as ''álivāsdras ōvim'' ("doing it the up-slope way", referring to an upper-class and mainland Kiravian way of doing something), and the more idiomatic ''ēmribūvāsdras Kartikad'' ("just downslope of Kartika", referring to extremely high-altitude regions). | ||
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A major contributor to the Melian economy is the [[Jade Coast Spaceport]], owned and operated by the [[Federal Spaceflight Authority]]. The spaceport is located on a large tract of land in County Seraïkan on the northeast coast of Astándra Island, and includes five launch sites for unmanned rockets and two for reusable manned spacecraft, which take advantage of the archipelago's position close to the equator to minimise the amount of energy required to enter orbit. It is currently the leading Kiravian spaceport for commercial sattelite launches and for manned space missions, especially logistical support for the FSA space station ''[[Starfield]]'', though concerns about possible Santherese surveillance have prompted the FSA to move more sensitive launches to other locations. The Jade Coast Spaceport is the largest single employer in the islands after the territorial government, and has drawn many highly-educated, high-income workers to Astándra Island. | A major contributor to the Melian economy is the [[Jade Coast Spaceport]], owned and operated by the [[Federal Spaceflight Authority]]. The spaceport is located on a large tract of land in County Seraïkan on the northeast coast of Astándra Island, and includes five launch sites for unmanned rockets and two for reusable manned spacecraft, which take advantage of the archipelago's position close to the equator to minimise the amount of energy required to enter orbit. It is currently the leading Kiravian spaceport for commercial sattelite launches and for manned space missions, especially logistical support for the FSA space station ''[[Starfield]]'', though concerns about possible Santherese surveillance have prompted the FSA to move more sensitive launches to other locations. The Jade Coast Spaceport is the largest single employer in the islands after the territorial government, and has drawn many highly-educated, high-income workers to Astándra Island. | ||
More conventional, sub-orbital transportation is also important to the Melian economy. The islands are an important way station between [[Great Kirav]] and the [[ | More conventional, sub-orbital transportation is also important to the Melian economy. The islands are an important way station between [[Great Kirav]] and the [[Dysona Islands]], and between the Dysonas and [[Kiravian Punth]]. Melian members of the [[Federal Stanora]] have pushed for closer trade relations between the Federacy and [[Pukhtunkhwa]], from which their territory would be geographically well-poised to benefit from. | ||
A tourist industry catering mostly to [[Levantia|Levantine]] visitors and Kiravian hikers and scuba divers is a key source of growth for the service sector, underpinning the economy of numerous coastal communities located near well-maintained beaches and reefs. | A tourist industry catering mostly to [[Levantia|Levantine]] visitors and Kiravian hikers and scuba divers is a key source of growth for the service sector, underpinning the economy of numerous coastal communities located near well-maintained beaches and reefs. | ||