Part Three: The Modern Era: Contemporary Life

[Overview of the Era] Three thousand years after Stargate Calendar, the known public network has entered a long-term stable development stage. By around the time of the Stargate Calendar 12760, most areas with stable access had formed relatively complete systems of residence registration, basic education, vocational certification, public medical care, relocation management, and local rescue. Due to the huge environmental differences between stars, worlds, and places, there are still significant differences in the lifestyles of various places. Qingqiong Realm floating land residents, Weien Star bookstore students, Luojia star port workers, Wuhe Land drifters, Thousand-Dream Interspace dream life, Almu star mechanical citizens, Messatu star water storage city farmers, Ruomu land tree dwelling families and ordinary medium-sized planet town residents rely on different living systems and local traditions. The main materials of modern life history come from local chronicles, public registers, school archives, hospital records, professional certification documents, relocation registration, local museum materials and the seventh general census of various sects. Unlike ancient times, when most ordinary residents appeared only briefly in tax rolls, service rolls, sect directories, or war compensation books, modern residents more often leave continuous records as students, workers, teachers, doctors, immigrants, patients, family members, local volunteers, art participants, and ordinary citizens. This change in data enables modern social history to describe residents' lives in a more systematic manner, rather than relying solely on major events and a few figures.

【Residential form】 Modern living forms are still based on local environment. Most of the residents of the Life Star live in star cities, towns, port areas, agricultural belts, mining areas, school cities, industrial cities and pastoral areas. Weien Star North Book City and South Book City are mainly composed of dense libraries, college dormitories, archive towers and citizen blocks; Beichen Low-temperature houses, common heat storage halls, and winter pastoral settlements are common in the cold plains of Star; Baichaomen Port, Nanting City, and Dongchao City in Luojia form urban spaces with port areas, boathouses, tidal streets, market islands, and sea plant breeding areas; the urban forms of medium-life stars such as Amiluo Star, Nanhu Star, and Gwen Star are closer to ordinary agricultural and industrial societies, with towns, agricultural belts, small university districts, vocational schools, and regional hospitals as the core. The way of living within the boundary is greatly affected by the boundary rules. The floating land city of Qingqiong Realm needs to deal with the safety issues of wind belts, boundary currents and floating land edges for a long time. Residential areas are usually divided into inland areas, wind bridge areas, foreign academic palace areas and old sect areas. Sayongje Green Crown City is intertwined with a tree tribe reserve, a planting hospital, a medicinal plant garden and an ecological residential area. Moranjiajie Rain Curtain City makes extensive use of viaducts, drainage courts, rain curtain materials and cloud bridge transportation. Xianlu City has strict requirements for building acoustics, and public housing must be reviewed by the Acoustic Safety Administration to prevent resonance from disturbing the residents' bodies or consciousness. The living patterns in the earth world are more diverse. Wuhe Land drifting settlements are usually not fixed in a single location, but move according to the fog flow cycle. Residential houses are mostly lightweight structures that can be disassembled, spliced, and fog-sealed. Schools, clinics, and civil affairs offices often move with the settlement. Ruo Mu Di’s tree-dwelling city is mainly composed of branch bridges, tree cabins, root warehouses and upper branch public halls. The old layer town of Amberdi is built in layers along the semi-solidified ground veins. The residential area is adjacent to the museum, the collection restricted area and the Shizang workshop. Due to its mild environment, Lomde is home to shallow valley villages, hot spring sanatoriums and low-density farms. Living in the interspace requires additional adaptations. The Thousand-Dream Interspace echo zone does not entirely rely on physical buildings. The residence of dream residents can be composed of dream patterns, memory anchors, public dream courts and a small amount of stable material spaces. Some residents of Yujujian Zheying City do not own fixed houses, but maintain their living status by confirming spatial continuity with their companions. Queluojian Low-light Street stipulates that bright lights and loud-sounding objects are not allowed to be used in public residential areas. Residents of the second shore between the mirror and the tide often use the space around the mirror, tide line and identity theater as a common living area. Modern public law does not require the same housing system in all areas. A more common approach is for the local civil affairs agency, the Land Affairs Bureau or the corresponding public agency to confirm the stable living relationship of the residents. For physical inhabitants, proof of residence usually includes a home, family, lease, or local registry; for dreaming, reflected, machine-minded, or leyline peoples, proof of residence may come from memory anchors, peer communities, core maintenance files, leyline imprints, or public school records.

【Education System】 The modern education system has no unified shape. Different worlds still retain various forms such as local schools, academic palaces, sect colleges, vocational workshops, family inheritance, community schools, distance courses and public universities. However, in areas with stable access, basic education registration systems are already relatively common. Residents, regardless of their origins in the star, world, place or world, can in principle enter the corresponding education system in accordance with local laws or public agreements. In Life Star, local schools are still the most common educational institutions. Schools in Luonan City of Amero Star, Nanzhi District of Gwen Star, Baitai University Town of Nanhu Star and other places mostly teach local language, Stargate Calendar conversion, local history, basic mathematics, natural environment, public law knowledge, career preparation and off-site safety. Beichen Star Pastoral School usually adjusts its semester with the winter pastoral course, while Luojia Star Port District School has tidal holidays and port worker internship courses. Messatu Xingchushuicheng School lists water conservation laws, history of water rights and agriculture in dry areas as basic courses. Education within the realm often runs in parallel with schools, sects and local offices. Qingqiong Realm Beiyuan Public College, Changfeng Zongmen School and Southern Floating Land Technical School jointly undertake boundary roads, floating land maintenance, regular medicine and general education. The sect registration system in the Chaqi world makes many sect colleges subject to the review of both the Practice Security Bureau and the Education Commission. After the reform of the New Seven Cities in Polan Realm, young residents can choose different learning paths between Seven Oaths School, ordinary public schools and the Forsworn Academy District. Earth and space education developed relatively late in modern times. Institutions such as Wuhe Land Third Drifting School, Youjujian Baiju School, Thousand-Dream Interspace Awareness Education Agency, Ruomudi Senhe School Group, Amber Geostatic Layer School, etc. have all gradually matured after the expansion of the underground branch. Such schools usually need to deal with special issues: how children in the drifting area maintain continuous school status, how dream students confirm their learning progress, whether students with mechanical consciousness need to take the same exam as physical students, how to arrange common courses for long-lived tree tribes and short-lived foreign students, and how the oral traditions of the earth line tribe are transformed into publicly certified education records. Modern distance education gives small and medium-sized areas more opportunities. Weien Cangqiong Bookstore, Shenlu Gongdeng University, Nanhu University Association, Beichen Far Star Observatory, QingqiongBeiyuan Public College and Almu Cold Nuclear Maintenance Institute all offer cross-world distance courses. Since time, language, life forms, and perception methods are very different in different worlds, distance education usually requires a translation layer, a school time layer, a form adaptation layer, and local counselors. Ordinary students can access knowledge about other worlds through distance courses, but most education still requires local teachers and community support. Nine thousand years after the Stargate Calendar, local revitalization trends have pushed many regions to reorganize local curricula. Institutions such as Chenlu Star Gongdeung University, Messatu Chusui College, Wakagi Chie School, and Romuchi Health and Education Center have added local language, local history, traditional crafts, ecological maintenance, and community services to their public courses. This change does not weaken cross-world education, but allows local education to form a parallel structure with public online education.