Antarct

Antarct is the colloquial name given to a specific planet icon seen on the visitors’ craft and on labeled vials recovered from a landed probe. The image shows a world with a large ice continent at the lower edge of the depiction (orientation not confirmed). Observers on Arbre use “Antarct” to index one of the four inferred visitor-origin groups, the Antarcts, alongside similar nicknames such as “Pangee,” “Diasp,” and “Quator.”

Context and Usage

• Role in current events: The iconography helps participants in ongoing dialogs distinguish among four visitor‑associated lines of evidence without presuming the visitors’ own names. The same set of four planet depictions appears both on the vessel and paired with sample vials thought to be biological.
• Relationship to the visitors: “Antarct” functions as a label of convenience tied to the Geometers. Whether the icon represents an actual homeworld, a symbolic emblem, or a stylized map is not established in current accounts.

Notable Features (from the icon)

• A single, prominent polar ice continent dominates one pole of the depicted world.
• The pole indicated as “south” or “bottom” on the image is a matter of presentation; no planetary orientation has been confirmed.

Status

• Provisional, observer‑coined designation used for clarity in discussion. No self‑designation from the visitors is known, and no direct confirmation has been made that the depicted world corresponds to a real planet accessible to Arbrans.