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A good question...
11 years ago
Reader:
"*snip* In your SpaceBitches story, the Dalmanatrix, is she the same Nadya that was part of the spacecrew that rescued Leif? Or was this a different girl with the same name? But if it she is the same Nadya, that would imply that she was a Dalmanatrix before she became a Pilot? *snip*"
Ref:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12740981/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13106198/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13151678/
####
Me:
First of all:
There are still bugs in the details.
Second:
Before having had offspring for the first time, habitats are reluctant to see people of their population leave their safety to engage in dangerous activities.
Although constantly "dreaming", the AC ( artificial consciousness ) systems of a habitat are like protective mothers or, in a way, like very dilligent breeders careful of their pet's genepool.
As a result almost everyone in the habitats has two job-qualifications.
Huh?
Well, I may need to explain a bit around the issue to make it better understandable.
The job learned first, usually as the ending part of the schoolyears ( think of it as a topic / major of their general education ) is typically a job in civil or social services ( of which Sociolatrice, or "Dalminatrix" in Nadya's case, is one ), engineering, research, or any other job you would have found as a common occupation on earth in the last 200 years.
With most life support system in the habitats and ships being based around plants, insects and fish (for oxygen waste processing and food ), agricultural skills are as important in the habitats as are nuclear engineers.
Note:
Radiation poisoning kills you less rapidly than asphyxiation due to lack of oxygen.
The Jobs of a sociolatrice are many.
First of all they are trained to introduce humans rescued from the Reich into the much more open and sexualized society of the Asgard habitats.
Next they serve as psychologists, as both canine males and females as well as human males have problems at times.
Canine males sometimes have a problem with the fact that they lag behind in the uplift process which a lot of canine females can cut short by mating with a human male ensurign their offspring is a fully anthro canine, whilst the male canines would need human females to achieve the same for their offspring - but Asgard developed because there are no human females available.
Female nonanthro canines find it much more difficult to find human partners, which sometimes is doubly hard for them as they are much more influenced by their insticts than female anthro canines - and by the fact that both the old humans from earth as well as many from the human males rescued from the Reich do not perceive them as potential mates, often not even as casual copulation partners.
Human males often come for advice when they don't understand canine behaviour, or when they have stress or anxieties. This is in particular the case with terra-born and Reich-born humans, who have issues with the absence of human females, and the many implications they do see with that.
The most "popular" service - although it's only a fraction, about 10% , of their daily business - of a Sociolatrice is by far the collection of human male seed for the human breeding programme, which is where most nonanthro canine families get their human children from. How it is collected and extracted, well ,you read.
The job of a Sociolatrice is interesting for doggygirls, too, because it is one of the ways how a habitat will give it's clearance even without oneself having had offspring. As a "good" sociolatrice manages to organize the siring of hundreds of doggygirls and a dozen humans, their duty to the society is considered fulfilled after one or two years.
####
Next explanatory arc is about the way Habitats interact with their population.
Habitats are huge machines. With a diameter between 2 and 7 kilometers, and a height between 1 ( pure biosphere habitat ) and 5 kilometers ( Industrial capability to build other habitats and spacestations plus a large biosphere )
they are actually fully autonomuous, nonmobile robots, guided by an artifical consciousness that is in a sleep state until the AI / expert systems decide that the full mental capacity of the Habitat is needed to solve a problem, like deciding if an action of sapients is actually an aggressive act or just a totally stupid misunderstanding. Like active deforestation / logging in a densely wooded habitat.
A habitat will provide for every person living in it the bare essentials for surviving.
That is so that the person remains capable to be a part of the genepool, as genetic diversity is paramount for a habitat.
Having offspring is, just as participating in a socially or culturally meaningful life ( judgement of this is one of the activities that the AI's LOVE to hand over to the AC ), an activitiy valued by the habitat.
A family just beeding offspring like bunnies will be considered valuable. A family creating music, organizing festivities, is considered likewise important. Social and cultural activities are rated a bit more important than activities enriching the genepool - a conclusion the Habitats came to after actively conferring with their populations and running weeks of computational models showing that mindless breeding actually might result in a collapse of the ecospheres, whilst a rich cultural and social life shows no risk of resulting in a shrinking of the genepool, yet prevents the long term problems of purely procreational models.
Thus most habitats set up a simple, very clearly phrased "social contract" with their populations, which typically includes such rules as not to use the capabilities of the Habitat to plan or execute a genocide, and....
Ah, more of that in a moment.
First now on how the social contract between the population and the habitat affect the education and life-planning of the people.
Assume 12 years of school, with the last 2 years including a focus on a selected occupation, including on-site trainings.
These 12 years are what the habitats found was needed that the populations are able to provide the specialists to do whatever is needed to be done inside the habitat.
On earth the "educational level" equals a bachelor degree.
Habitats prefer to have their populations do the work inside them and remove their robots from those tasks as soon as there is a sufficiently large population.
Children's upkeep is covered fully by the habitat, so a mother has no reduction in her ressource pools, irrelevant of how many children she has.
However, she also has no increase.
It's just that all basic ressources for the kid are fully covered by the habitat.
So there is no cause NOT to have children, but also no incentive to have a plentitude of children.
At the end of the educational period a person is considered to be "indebted" to society and to the habitat.
The Habitat's request is simple: Have some offspring to stabilize the genepool.
Society's requirements might be different.
As long as a person is considered "indebted", a person will receive no support from the habitat to engage in any dangerous activity.
Each person that has biological offspring compensating the loss of the individuum is free to engage in whatever activity she or he enjoys.
=> As long as the genepool is secured a habitat will in no way involve itself with an individuums life.
=> That is why many of the canine females have their first litter already during school - which includes involvment of the available males.
A person that has worked about 5 years in a social job is considered to have worked off it's debt toward the society, in which case the habitat considers the persons duty to itself to be fulfilled, too
=> Such a person will most likely have helped either offspring of others to grow up successfully or
=> will have enabled others to have (more) offspring, sating the habitats needs. In case of a Sociolatrice there can be an exact measure - How many offspring was made through her activities.
A person rescueing another person from a life-threatening danger is considered to be debt-free - a life for a life.
=> Persons that got into danger due to their own stupidity can be publically reprimanded. Being mentioned that way is a huge public shame - and will make mating less likely.
=> After initially also reprimanding rescuers who acted recklessly the strong reaction of the population resulted in number of robots appearing at both the human leaders as well as at the most successfull sociolatrice's and the canine council's leaders doorstep, and asking for explanation of human / canine perception of the social value of risking ones own life to rescue another ones.
As all three gave more or less the same answer , and randomly choosen individuums were asked to verify this view, reprimands to rescuers are now only sent secretly and in written form, and only when the person in question has no offspring as of yet.
=> All Rescuers are lauded in public, with their names being listed in a public register.
=> People that got into danger due to a malfunction of the habitat that the habitat hadn't reported for repairs , or due a natural effect like a meteorite hit which the defense systems didn't intercept, receive a public letter of apology from the habitat
=> People that endangered other people in any way are publically reprimanded. Psychological reasons are hard to track, but since conferring with the sociolatrices of itself and neighbouring habitats, habitats score more and more often correct guesses. I.e. Bullying of any kind is a sure way to get one's name into the "Hall of Shame" with all consequences.
After a person is considered debt-free, a second job training can proceed to the point ( they can be begun beforehand ) of where risky activities can be undertaken by the person.
Persons are expected to keep on working a certain amount of time in their initial profession whilst they train for higher qualified jobs as this ensures a sufficient ressource provision for the person by the habitat.
Alternatively a person can work for a private employer, in which case the employer has to provide the upkeep of the person.
Risky jobs are for example:
- Outside / hard vacuum maintenance jobs
- Any job on a free-space-installation or -vessel ( pilot, engineers, astrogators, ... )
- Ressource Prospector
The habitats accept that sentient beings need challenges, however after the two oldest of them lost their sentient population in the early days, they all are afraid of ever facing the full loss of their population, which is why they are a bit clingy. As a result they expect their reqirements, which are logically based and argued upon keeping the genepool intact and healthy, to be honored, but, too, accept great social service as important for the "health" of their population as participation in enriching the genepool.
The great exception here are habitats which have environments that are per definition more or less lethal for their population.
The habitats have the problem that they support special ecosystems ( Like the taiga-style Polaris and the arctic Titan habitat ) which have their lifeforms which can't thrive anyplace else, so they are obliged to keep their ecospheres in their original state, yet the sapient populations which they actively enjoy harbouring are in a constantly dangerous environment.
As a result these habitats put no restrictions whatsoever on their populations, but also keep out of their way much, much more, as their assumption is that those that decide to live in them did freely choose to do so because of the dangers.
Other habitats would call those habitats fatalistic and pessimistic.
However these habitats tend to try to build much more personal bonds to selected individuals at times, resulting in the personal gift of a whole shuttle for a pilot who saved a group of people, or "suggestions" for improvements to a design an engineer with a big number of children is working on, yet taking his time for the children.
Or a hefty ressource-pool extension ( read : lots of money ) for a sociolatrice who did her job exceedingly well, or , for example, for a couple with children, a recommendation and the covering of holidays in a habitat which's climate seems to meet what the people seem to like.
Which might result, for example, for a young couple that enjoy kinky sex, a visit in Cloudhome, which is, as habitats go, actually a pretty boring place, but the small colony that settled there is well known for their lifestyle.
Cloudhome, aware of it's shortcomings, but, as Habitats go, stinking rich for sitting over a He³ source which most other habitats need for their fusion reactors, is a habitat that supports the lifestyle of it's population also for another reason - it's it's second ressource: It exports... population.
Within the autonomuous ressource exchange the habitats have independantly of the trade of their sentient population, exporting sapient population is actually the greatest and most valued ressource.
People that look into the databanks of Cloudhome often are amazed to find that Cloudhome's AC has a number of manufacturing contracts with other habitats that are specialized on large part production, and that since Cloudhome started exporting population in the year 2003 ( i.e. people permanently leaving Cloudhome, yet the population growing even subtracting the permanent influx of new inhabitants ), other habitats, especially those yet uninhabited, trade megatons of materials and months of production capacity for the copies of the biological and social data and especially Cloudhome's annotated comments to them.
####
Accordingly, back to the original question:
Yes, it is our Nadya, and you may guess who the two assistants of her are.
Nadya enjoys her primary job, but also her second one, which she was able to start very early on as she's quite the expert on fertility and human breeding and mating.
She made the term "Dalminatrix" popular as she not only humps, but also seduces and counsels exceedingly well, and so is a guest welcomed at almost every occasion.
Heck she's even often invited to kids birthdays to tell educational stories with ( canine ) moral values!
A Geisha has little on her other than actually being a human.
Which is, in part a disadvantage.
As Nadya sees it.
"*snip* In your SpaceBitches story, the Dalmanatrix, is she the same Nadya that was part of the spacecrew that rescued Leif? Or was this a different girl with the same name? But if it she is the same Nadya, that would imply that she was a Dalmanatrix before she became a Pilot? *snip*"
Ref:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12740981/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13106198/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13151678/
####
Me:
First of all:
There are still bugs in the details.
Second:
Before having had offspring for the first time, habitats are reluctant to see people of their population leave their safety to engage in dangerous activities.
Although constantly "dreaming", the AC ( artificial consciousness ) systems of a habitat are like protective mothers or, in a way, like very dilligent breeders careful of their pet's genepool.
As a result almost everyone in the habitats has two job-qualifications.
Huh?
Well, I may need to explain a bit around the issue to make it better understandable.
The job learned first, usually as the ending part of the schoolyears ( think of it as a topic / major of their general education ) is typically a job in civil or social services ( of which Sociolatrice, or "Dalminatrix" in Nadya's case, is one ), engineering, research, or any other job you would have found as a common occupation on earth in the last 200 years.
With most life support system in the habitats and ships being based around plants, insects and fish (for oxygen waste processing and food ), agricultural skills are as important in the habitats as are nuclear engineers.
Note:
Radiation poisoning kills you less rapidly than asphyxiation due to lack of oxygen.
The Jobs of a sociolatrice are many.
First of all they are trained to introduce humans rescued from the Reich into the much more open and sexualized society of the Asgard habitats.
Next they serve as psychologists, as both canine males and females as well as human males have problems at times.
Canine males sometimes have a problem with the fact that they lag behind in the uplift process which a lot of canine females can cut short by mating with a human male ensurign their offspring is a fully anthro canine, whilst the male canines would need human females to achieve the same for their offspring - but Asgard developed because there are no human females available.
Female nonanthro canines find it much more difficult to find human partners, which sometimes is doubly hard for them as they are much more influenced by their insticts than female anthro canines - and by the fact that both the old humans from earth as well as many from the human males rescued from the Reich do not perceive them as potential mates, often not even as casual copulation partners.
Human males often come for advice when they don't understand canine behaviour, or when they have stress or anxieties. This is in particular the case with terra-born and Reich-born humans, who have issues with the absence of human females, and the many implications they do see with that.
The most "popular" service - although it's only a fraction, about 10% , of their daily business - of a Sociolatrice is by far the collection of human male seed for the human breeding programme, which is where most nonanthro canine families get their human children from. How it is collected and extracted, well ,you read.
The job of a Sociolatrice is interesting for doggygirls, too, because it is one of the ways how a habitat will give it's clearance even without oneself having had offspring. As a "good" sociolatrice manages to organize the siring of hundreds of doggygirls and a dozen humans, their duty to the society is considered fulfilled after one or two years.
####
Next explanatory arc is about the way Habitats interact with their population.
Habitats are huge machines. With a diameter between 2 and 7 kilometers, and a height between 1 ( pure biosphere habitat ) and 5 kilometers ( Industrial capability to build other habitats and spacestations plus a large biosphere )
they are actually fully autonomuous, nonmobile robots, guided by an artifical consciousness that is in a sleep state until the AI / expert systems decide that the full mental capacity of the Habitat is needed to solve a problem, like deciding if an action of sapients is actually an aggressive act or just a totally stupid misunderstanding. Like active deforestation / logging in a densely wooded habitat.
A habitat will provide for every person living in it the bare essentials for surviving.
That is so that the person remains capable to be a part of the genepool, as genetic diversity is paramount for a habitat.
Having offspring is, just as participating in a socially or culturally meaningful life ( judgement of this is one of the activities that the AI's LOVE to hand over to the AC ), an activitiy valued by the habitat.
A family just beeding offspring like bunnies will be considered valuable. A family creating music, organizing festivities, is considered likewise important. Social and cultural activities are rated a bit more important than activities enriching the genepool - a conclusion the Habitats came to after actively conferring with their populations and running weeks of computational models showing that mindless breeding actually might result in a collapse of the ecospheres, whilst a rich cultural and social life shows no risk of resulting in a shrinking of the genepool, yet prevents the long term problems of purely procreational models.
Thus most habitats set up a simple, very clearly phrased "social contract" with their populations, which typically includes such rules as not to use the capabilities of the Habitat to plan or execute a genocide, and....
Ah, more of that in a moment.
First now on how the social contract between the population and the habitat affect the education and life-planning of the people.
Assume 12 years of school, with the last 2 years including a focus on a selected occupation, including on-site trainings.
These 12 years are what the habitats found was needed that the populations are able to provide the specialists to do whatever is needed to be done inside the habitat.
On earth the "educational level" equals a bachelor degree.
Habitats prefer to have their populations do the work inside them and remove their robots from those tasks as soon as there is a sufficiently large population.
Children's upkeep is covered fully by the habitat, so a mother has no reduction in her ressource pools, irrelevant of how many children she has.
However, she also has no increase.
It's just that all basic ressources for the kid are fully covered by the habitat.
So there is no cause NOT to have children, but also no incentive to have a plentitude of children.
At the end of the educational period a person is considered to be "indebted" to society and to the habitat.
The Habitat's request is simple: Have some offspring to stabilize the genepool.
Society's requirements might be different.
As long as a person is considered "indebted", a person will receive no support from the habitat to engage in any dangerous activity.
Each person that has biological offspring compensating the loss of the individuum is free to engage in whatever activity she or he enjoys.
=> As long as the genepool is secured a habitat will in no way involve itself with an individuums life.
=> That is why many of the canine females have their first litter already during school - which includes involvment of the available males.
A person that has worked about 5 years in a social job is considered to have worked off it's debt toward the society, in which case the habitat considers the persons duty to itself to be fulfilled, too
=> Such a person will most likely have helped either offspring of others to grow up successfully or
=> will have enabled others to have (more) offspring, sating the habitats needs. In case of a Sociolatrice there can be an exact measure - How many offspring was made through her activities.
A person rescueing another person from a life-threatening danger is considered to be debt-free - a life for a life.
=> Persons that got into danger due to their own stupidity can be publically reprimanded. Being mentioned that way is a huge public shame - and will make mating less likely.
=> After initially also reprimanding rescuers who acted recklessly the strong reaction of the population resulted in number of robots appearing at both the human leaders as well as at the most successfull sociolatrice's and the canine council's leaders doorstep, and asking for explanation of human / canine perception of the social value of risking ones own life to rescue another ones.
As all three gave more or less the same answer , and randomly choosen individuums were asked to verify this view, reprimands to rescuers are now only sent secretly and in written form, and only when the person in question has no offspring as of yet.
=> All Rescuers are lauded in public, with their names being listed in a public register.
=> People that got into danger due to a malfunction of the habitat that the habitat hadn't reported for repairs , or due a natural effect like a meteorite hit which the defense systems didn't intercept, receive a public letter of apology from the habitat
=> People that endangered other people in any way are publically reprimanded. Psychological reasons are hard to track, but since conferring with the sociolatrices of itself and neighbouring habitats, habitats score more and more often correct guesses. I.e. Bullying of any kind is a sure way to get one's name into the "Hall of Shame" with all consequences.
After a person is considered debt-free, a second job training can proceed to the point ( they can be begun beforehand ) of where risky activities can be undertaken by the person.
Persons are expected to keep on working a certain amount of time in their initial profession whilst they train for higher qualified jobs as this ensures a sufficient ressource provision for the person by the habitat.
Alternatively a person can work for a private employer, in which case the employer has to provide the upkeep of the person.
Risky jobs are for example:
- Outside / hard vacuum maintenance jobs
- Any job on a free-space-installation or -vessel ( pilot, engineers, astrogators, ... )
- Ressource Prospector
The habitats accept that sentient beings need challenges, however after the two oldest of them lost their sentient population in the early days, they all are afraid of ever facing the full loss of their population, which is why they are a bit clingy. As a result they expect their reqirements, which are logically based and argued upon keeping the genepool intact and healthy, to be honored, but, too, accept great social service as important for the "health" of their population as participation in enriching the genepool.
The great exception here are habitats which have environments that are per definition more or less lethal for their population.
The habitats have the problem that they support special ecosystems ( Like the taiga-style Polaris and the arctic Titan habitat ) which have their lifeforms which can't thrive anyplace else, so they are obliged to keep their ecospheres in their original state, yet the sapient populations which they actively enjoy harbouring are in a constantly dangerous environment.
As a result these habitats put no restrictions whatsoever on their populations, but also keep out of their way much, much more, as their assumption is that those that decide to live in them did freely choose to do so because of the dangers.
Other habitats would call those habitats fatalistic and pessimistic.
However these habitats tend to try to build much more personal bonds to selected individuals at times, resulting in the personal gift of a whole shuttle for a pilot who saved a group of people, or "suggestions" for improvements to a design an engineer with a big number of children is working on, yet taking his time for the children.
Or a hefty ressource-pool extension ( read : lots of money ) for a sociolatrice who did her job exceedingly well, or , for example, for a couple with children, a recommendation and the covering of holidays in a habitat which's climate seems to meet what the people seem to like.
Which might result, for example, for a young couple that enjoy kinky sex, a visit in Cloudhome, which is, as habitats go, actually a pretty boring place, but the small colony that settled there is well known for their lifestyle.
Cloudhome, aware of it's shortcomings, but, as Habitats go, stinking rich for sitting over a He³ source which most other habitats need for their fusion reactors, is a habitat that supports the lifestyle of it's population also for another reason - it's it's second ressource: It exports... population.
Within the autonomuous ressource exchange the habitats have independantly of the trade of their sentient population, exporting sapient population is actually the greatest and most valued ressource.
People that look into the databanks of Cloudhome often are amazed to find that Cloudhome's AC has a number of manufacturing contracts with other habitats that are specialized on large part production, and that since Cloudhome started exporting population in the year 2003 ( i.e. people permanently leaving Cloudhome, yet the population growing even subtracting the permanent influx of new inhabitants ), other habitats, especially those yet uninhabited, trade megatons of materials and months of production capacity for the copies of the biological and social data and especially Cloudhome's annotated comments to them.
####
Accordingly, back to the original question:
Yes, it is our Nadya, and you may guess who the two assistants of her are.
Nadya enjoys her primary job, but also her second one, which she was able to start very early on as she's quite the expert on fertility and human breeding and mating.
She made the term "Dalminatrix" popular as she not only humps, but also seduces and counsels exceedingly well, and so is a guest welcomed at almost every occasion.
Heck she's even often invited to kids birthdays to tell educational stories with ( canine ) moral values!
A Geisha has little on her other than actually being a human.
Which is, in part a disadvantage.
As Nadya sees it.
Well, you had a glimpse of what kind of society exists in Cloudhome.
The canines that settled in the Cloudhome habitat found that it lacked actual livingquarters. There are no buildings, aside of, really, just mere dens.
The canines, especially the nonanthro ones, loved it, the anthro ones found it very wildly romantic.
The two humans who had initially accompanied then, found it.. catastrophic, but they remained out of their feel of duty.
Cloudhome, already capable of understanding human languages and having received the basic psychological profiles of the young society that started to populate the habitats, made a slightly different social contract - or call it population control parameters - than most other habitats.
First of all, Cloudhome opted for a contract with the clause that the Habitat might modify it at a later time, stating that itself was experimental, and so would it's society be.
Next, breeding offspring was very highly valued, rewarding the mother. The males, however, have no incentive, to prevent aggression from the males side.
Furthermore, Cloudhome after hearing about the large imbalance between males and females, actively trades seed as well as fertilized eggs with other habitats.
A drop sperm or two fertilized eggs easily trade for a ton of exotic raw materials such as phosphorus or sulfur, or hours of production capacity.
Other habitats, if asked properly, would state that Cloudhome's sleep-code is somewhat stunted, or it's AI's keep the AC almost permanently awake for whatever reason.
The point is that Cloudhome was not thought to be settled as there are certain risks living upon a He³ mine. Which is why it's ecosphere is only there to keep a ( large ) population of technicians ( esiding only durign their work-time in cloudhome ) alive.
All habitats have the instict to foster sentient populations inside them, and Cloudhome is no exception.
Cloudhomes AC however struggles with the fact that it is a dangerous environment for living beings, although it must seem like an idyllic garden-habitat for every visitor.
As a result it's AC is constantly either really awake, or at least it's slumber is much more lively than that of other habitats.
The opportunity to actually earn a good living just by breeding offspring is not exactly a dream of any female.
However, indulging at least once for a year or two in a lifestyle that some canines have a romantic idea about - living in a cave with a pack of other canines, one's live centered on caring for and being caressed by a human who is the pack-leader - attracts many.
Naughty humans often decide to give it a try, but having about 40 promiscuous canines expecting certain activities on a regular base exhausts all but the most ... ahh...
Well, it exhausts most human males.
Not that any off those that went there would ever have to feel bad about their virility, but almsot everybody who went and returned opts for a more sedate lifestyle.
The habitats found that the "very large extended family" of the Cloudhome model has it's perks, but consciously the Asgardians prefer the smaller pack or rather the "big family" - a structure you would have found a few centuries ago to be quite common in the US amongst some populations, with one husband and two to three wives. A structure you still find in a large part of the arabic world, although it is much more seldom there than monogamuous pairings.
The latter the Habitats don't know about, but they know that people that lived in Cloudhome are very happy and dedicated members of "normal" families in their later life, a point much in favour for receiving people from Cloudhome as new settlers or members of society.
With temperatures easily around a mediterranean or florida / california type of area, clothes are totally superfluous for humans.
As an additional bonus, Cloudhome sponsors people founding their own companies quite generously - which means that in the beginning it lends it's mental capacities into helping, which carries a long way, plus the ressources needed.
As you may guess, a lot of it is about Sextoys and equipment surrounding the topic.
However, asa He³ mine and refinery, Cloudhome also has some of the finest jobs working with fusion technology equipment, and likewise heavy hard vacuum mining equipment. It boosts as one of the few habitats - after seeing the swift population grow it's policies support - "dangerous" jobs as first qualification.
Cloudhome wants to foster not only the promiscuous, but also the smart and the daring.
And it does.
Many, especially doggygirls, move to Cloudhome for the last 2 years of their schoolyears to specialize in low-g and hard vacuum relevant jobs.
Where else can you drive a 3000 ton heavy, fusion powered tunnel-digger?
Gladiolus as well as Gladius habitats, although very far away, recruit some of their personnel from Cloudhome, paying premiums.
This, in a way, is one of the aspects the other habitats cherish the most about Cloudhome's policies.
The daring are important to keep a society vital, however, they're usually those that suffer the greatest attrition.
Knowing that genetics alone do not decide about a persons character, but having seen that the population Cloudhome manages to nurture is either the socially and culturally active ones ( those that leave Cloudhome from.. ahh.. sexual exhaustion , lets name it , tend to put a lot more energy into other activities to proove their value in society ) as well as the dashing and daring ones. Few habitats however dare to contemplate copying Cloudhomes policies.
They are too afraid to loose a valuable specimen, and many prefer to keep "their" population rather than exporting it although it is a thing they admire.
AC's are not AI's, they can be illogical about things, even when they know them to be illogical.
Heinrich Martel, who was a person with intimate understanding of the human soul, said that Cloudhome showed the guy with the big balls that big balls are just big and very sore balls after a while. And to the female that thinks that having a nice ass would be enough to earn a living, that the.. Well, his analogy went along similar lines as for the males.