Diasp

Diasp is the Arbran nickname for a world whose self‑designation is Tro, identified during a shielded session at Tredegarh by a visitor from Antarct. In current usage it denotes one of the four origin worlds behind the Geometers.

Not to be confused with Troäns, the people from Tro.

Naming and iconography

The name “Diasp” arose from a planet emblem read as showing many islands; this icon appears on the visitors’ craft and on labeled vials recovered at Orithena. “Diasp” remains a local handle, while “Tro” is the name given by those aligned with that world. The people are referred to by the informant as Troäns (ASCII: "Troans").

Alliances and role (reported)

According to the same Laterran source, Tro stands with Urnud (locally called Pangee) in an alliance known by them as the Pedestal. This bloc is opposed by the side associated with Fthos (locally, the Quators), while Laterre (Antarct) is internally divided. Aboard the Daban Urnud, children of Urnud, Tro, Laterre, and Fthos are described as competing for positions within the ship’s leadership (“the Command”), reflecting Tro’s active role in the shipboard society sometimes called the Forty Thousand.

Descriptions of the vessel note pressurized corridors linking the living spheres; Urnudans, Troäns, Laterrans, and Fthosians use these passages to move between orbs. Within the spheres, inhabitants live on houseboats atop the water surface under spin‑gravity that mimics conditions on their home worlds.

Historical note (as told by the informant)

The first sustained encounter between Urnud and Tro—referred to as an Advent—spanned roughly a century and a half and left Tro in ruins. Thereafter, Urnudans and Troäns rebuilt the ship called Daban Urnud to carry both peoples and departed toward Laterre. These details are presented as the visitor’s account rather than direct observation from Arbre.

Subsequent analysis by avout working from captured Urnud/Tro documents—using Urnudan timestamps matched to known Arbran events—suggests that the first inter‑cosmic departure of Daban Urnud occurred roughly nine centuries ago (in Arbran years). In the same account, “Urnudans, and later the Troäns,” are said to have wandered for a long time between Advents, implying that Tro joined the voyaging after Urnud’s initial departure.

Additional details from a later shipboard account describe a recurring pattern at each Advent in which some of the visitors settle in the visited cosmos. In this account, Urnudans remained on Tro, and later Troäns remained on Laterre (Antarct), while the ship departed rebuilt and crewed by those continuing the voyage.

Status

• Identity: “Tro” is the reported self‑name for what Arbrans had been calling Diasp.
• Observation: Aside from iconography and testimony, no direct survey of the planet is available to Arbrans.
• Usage: “Diasp/Tro” serves as a practical label in ongoing dialogs about the four‑world presence now above Arbre.
• Chronology: The timeline above is an estimate based on the informant’s accounts and avout conversion of Urnudan timestamps; it may be refined as more material is interpreted.