ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA Edition 428193 - Earth English Definition: 'Inuksuk' In origins an Earth Inuktitut1 word representing an ancient class of stone landmark constructed by the Arctic peoples native to Earth North America.2 Consisting of human assembled unworked stone, they function as a navigational and communications aid within a sparse, rugged environment which presents few discernible guides.3 The plural form is inuksuit. The term is now applied to landmarks created by nomadic intelligences for the long term guidance of their memberships. Civilizations or cultures within civilizations may be either predisposed to nomadic life or adapt to it as the consequence of some key historical event such as an Eden Crisis.4 Regardless of circumstance, all leave some marker of their presence to aid others of their kind towards suitable habitats in which to dwell. The largest nomadic society in the Milky Way was Civilization Lacerta. Members of Lacerta are an amphibiod species who migrated out of galaxy NGC 31095 in the constellation of Hydra 821 million years ago.6,7 They dwelt in the Scutum-Centaurus spiral arm for 209 generations of their species, colonizing nine (9) suitable planets.8 During this period, they are known to have created 452 inuksuit within the neighbouring star systems as well as on their colonies. A Lacertan inuksuk is a ring of 10501 equidistant towers aligned along a colony's equator and that of other selected bodies. A pattern that is not interrupted when supportive terrain subtends. Nor are the towers displaced by tectonic shifts, each enabled to move retaining equatorial alignment to within 0.3mm. Physically, such towers are comprised of a cylindrical shaft 10.1m in diameter and 1.67km in height. The shaft is composed of molecularly programmed silicates that maintain a transmitive nanotube substructure for strength, regeneration and, by extension, mobility. Nutrient materials are drawn from the surrounding landscape. An 11.9m diameter sphere of weak entangled energized diamond crowns the shaft.9 Depending upon the size of the host planet, tower separation varies between 3.6km to 4.3km. Because of their self renewing properties only twenty-six (26) of these towers are known to have failed or collapsed over time. For the exception of their own colonies, Lacertan inuksuit were not grown on planets possessing biospheres. Such a practice is considered unethical to their membership.10 Hence sites were established on lifeless bodies around stars ranging up to fifty-seven (57) light years from a colony. However, in the case of planet EGO 0327-03005077202, though frozen when its inuksuk was planted, its central star (EGO 0327-00001048201) later evolved into a red super-giant. The consequent warming process permitted the evolution of a native biosphere which now co-exists with the inuksuk. Anthropologists have remarked that the towers have a vague though distorted resemblance to the biological form of Lacertan members. A tall slender body with spheroidal heads bearing reflective (or shining) bluish-white eyes. Because of this resemblance some experts prefer to describe Lacertan tower sites as inunnguaq, a special class of inuksuk landmarks. Notes: EGO: Encyclopedia Galactica Object See references: 1Civilization Humanity: Linguistic Types 2Planet Earth: Geography 3Civilization Humanity: Inuit History, Culture 4Definition: 'Eden Crisis' 5Incorrectly dubbed 'Galaxy Lacertan' 6Event: Migration of Civilization Lacerta 7Civilization Humanity: Scientific Standards, Temporal Perception 8Civilization Lacerta: History, Social Order, Life Cycle 9Energy Linkage Through Weak Cosmic Entanglement 10Definition: The Ethic Of The Community'