Vinea
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Vinea is a fictional planet that appears in the Yoko Tsuno comic book series by Roger Leloup. Main species from Vinea are called Vineans. Vineans are blue-skinned, and their physiology is magnetic rather than biological. Otherwise, they perfectly resemble humans. Vinea is a binary star system about 2,500,000 light years from Earth somewhere in M33 galaxy. When one of their suns was about to regress in an unstable orbit millions of years ago it was decided to send out a series of spaceships containing millions of their people in hibernation, so the planet could at least be partially evacuated. After a long journey one of these ships discovered Earth, but because of a primitive intelligent species emerging on the planet it was decided to move underground and to not disturb the natural evolution of these humans. Large tunnels and underground cities emerged while on the surface the human species slowly developed. At some point in the 20th century a project was staged to create an artificial island, by diverting undersea lava flows. This plan was diverted in favor of creating a faster-than-light technology capable of reaching Vinea in less than 3 months. This technology was discovered when a machine for the purpose of creating a wormhole arrived in the solar system, indicating that at least until the probe was sent, some 100,000 years after the Earth-Vineans left Vinea, there was still an advanced society in the Vinean solar system.
When an expedition was sent out to Vinea, it seemed that the local population had become rather primitive, being governed by a group of artificial copies of the minds of great leaders in the Vinean past. Due to the solar disaster, the planet had entered a wider, synchronous orbit around its suns. The effects on Vinea's climate were more or less compensated for by an artificial temperature regulation system, including large space mirrors acting as artificial suns for the 'night' side. A project for relocating the Earth-Vinean population was issued, and the rebuilding of the planet was soon started. It was however discovered that a species of giant insects had colonised a remote region of Vinea. After some difficult cultural clashes the species agreed to leave Vinea and settle on another planet.
Vineans and Vinea have been the subject of several Yoko Tsuno stories, such as:
- Le Trio de l'étrange
- La Forge de Vulcain
- Les Trois soleils de Vinéa
- Les Titans
- La Lumière d'Ixo
- Les Archanges de Vinéa
- Les Exilés de Kifa
- La Porte des âmes
Among the key Vinean technologies are
- magnetic rail trains
- artificial intelligence
- laser weapons (with vaporition mode)
- interplanetary travel at near-lightspeed
- wormhole technology for FTL travel
- hibernation
- advanced tunneling devices
- advanced building materials
- advanced space structures
- large thermal weapons
- universal translators
Key Vinean characters are:
- Khany
- Poky
- Synda
