Editing Earths (section)

===Earth Gimel===
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'''Earth Gimel''' is an alternate Earth connected to [[Brockton Bay]] Bet, which seemed to have diverged from other human occupied earths roughly five thousand years ago.<ref name="21.5">The deviation point seems to be nearly five thousand years ago.  Several teams are working on analyzing the sites where humans settled, looking for the cause of extinction. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/imago-21-5/ Excerpt] from [[Imago 21.5]]</ref> There were a rare few native settlements.<ref name=P.6e2/> It was an underpopulated world and was designated for evacuation of much of the East Coast.{{cite}}<!-- this earth humans was wiped out by disease try and find that, also it apparently had some structures left? find reference --> 

As of two years after [[Gold Morning]], there were five points of settlement on Gimel, with civilization growing outward from those points. It had been checked by [[thinkers]] to ensure that it was somewhat safe, but much of the planet was still unexplored.<ref name=P.6e2>'''Earth Gimel''' has been partially explored and checked by thinkers.  There are no guarantees.  Except for some rare indigenous colonies, it is unsettled.  Gimel has five major points of settlement, with civilization finding its foothold around these points.  The City, as of yet unnamed, is the primary US point of settlement and one of the primary waypoints.  The City is a '''megalopolis''' with a commonly cited population of fifty million. A rough map (one month out of date) '''here.''' - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/10/31 Excerpt] from [[Glow-worm P.6]]</ref> Due to the lack of human development until recently, the world had regular climate shifts, unlike Earth Aleph with its global warming and Earth Bet's added Endbringer destruction.<ref>We each settled into chairs.  The metal was cold- even though it was only September, the weather was turning.  There was a gravity to the seasonal change that I couldn’t remember ever experiencing back home on Bet. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/19/torch-7-2/ Excerpt] from [[Torch 7.2]]</ref>

The American colony on Earth Gimel and associated territories became known as [[Gimel.US]].<ref name="P.3">[[Glow-worm P.3]]</ref><ref name="P.6">[[Glow-worm P.6]]</ref> It and the surrounding areas had a population of roughly 50 million. The major city established on Earth Gimel after Gold Morning was simply known as "[[The City]]".<ref name="P.2e1">[A18 11:11:47] Moonsong: And your family? Your parents? I liked them when I saw them.<br>[A18 11:12:00] Cap: alive. we’re in the city. they’re trying to come to terms with things<br>[A18 11:12:35] Cap: things are really coming together like crazy. new skyscrapers every day, new stores. good and almost like a city in Earth Bet but it isn’t really home<br>[A18 11:15:08] Moonsong: It isn’t. We’re in the city too.<br>[A18 11:16:17] Cap: You and your folks?  they’reokay?<br>[A18 11:17:40] Moonsong: They’re good.  Dad is taking a shot at mayor or councilman.  We’ll see what happens - [[Glow-worm P.2]]</ref><ref name=P.6e2/> 

At least by the era of [[Ward]], one popular computer operating system was "OS360", which featured a "radial menu" accessed by drawing a circle in the center of the monitor.<ref>Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Does your computer have a camera built into the monitor?<br>Mangled_Wings: Yes.<br>
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: OS360?<br>Mangled_Wings: Yes. I think.<br>Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Draw the circle in the center of the desktop to open the radial menu. Hit ‘C’ and camera should be something visible. Open it, wait for your image to appear. You’ll want to be in costume. Hit space.<br>
Mangled_Wings: It made a shutter sound. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/10/26/glow-worm-0-3/ excerpt] from [[Glow-worm P.3]]</ref> Smartphones in this era often used menus based around concentric circles, and contact details could be sent from phone to phone by "flicking" them toward a person.<ref>“Pass me your number?” Rain asked.  His phone was as battered as he was, with a crack running down the case.<br><br>I thumbed through the concentric rings, put my thumb on my phone number and profile information, and then flicked it in Rain’s direction.<br><br>“Got it,” he said.<br><br>His info appeared on my phone, at the top edge.  It was soon joined by Tristan’s, then Kenzie’s and Ashley’s, near simultaneously.  Kenzie’s name was framed with colorful symbols.  Chris’s and Sveta’s were the last to appear. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/30/flare-2-7/ excerpt] from [[Flare 2.7]]</ref> Some phones could even charge in rest mode using whatever ambient energy (solar, EM, etc) was available. Some smartphones would attempt to select songs or programs based on the user's activity, although this wasn't very reliable.<ref>I’d been idle for too long, because the ‘circle’ dropped down from the top, obscuring part of the screen. Two options were on the circle. On the left, the phone offered the option of trying to draw power by way of ambient, wireless energy, including solar, EM, and whatever else. It would put the phone in a ‘rest’ mode. On the right, a music note and a list of my music, with the phone browsing recent messages and context to try to smart-pick a playlist of music to listen to based on my guessed mood.<br><br>The phone left both up as choices, with an upward swipe to go back to what I was doing. Each option grew and diminished as a two-segment pie chart while the phone’s thinking process brought up words and ideas- distance from home, recent browsing.<br><br>Just about every part of that whole process was about two steps shy of being hot garbage in terms of accuracy and functionality, but watching it happen and seeing the pie slice of ‘rest’ shrink was a distraction. The countdown appeared, as the phone prepared to make its choice. - [[Beacon 8.5]]</ref> Programs included "Leash", a device tracker, and "Pitch", an online wallet/transaction service.<ref>Leash was the location tracker. Having the admin password let me open it. While it was on, I could see where Love Lost’s other tech was. Her phone was on her person, and her person was… very close to Ashley’s group. I sent a warning. “We could pack up,” Precipice said. “Disable it.” “It looks like disabling the location tracker means neither device knows where the other is. There’s no way to control it so we’re off but we can watch her.”<br> [...] <br>Pitch. An online wallet. Thirteen thousand dollars sat in the account. A transaction list showed a long list of transactions with nothing identifying the recipients or reasons. Only amounts.<br>[...]<br>Each entry had a set of options by them.<br><br>I moused over, looked over my shoulder, and saw that Foil and Precipice were behind me looking over my shoulder.<br>[...]<br>I hit ‘contest’. A bubble came up with a list of options around the radial.<br><br>“Service not rendered,” I said, as I selected the option. - [[Blinding 11.6]]</ref>

A New [[Parahuman Asylum]] facility is being founded in European territories.<ref name="F2.5">[[Flare 2.5]]</ref>