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Not to be confused with Ixchel, a different fictional planet Ixchel than the one described here, and included in a popular fictional book A Wrinkle in Time, written by Madeleine L'Engle.

Ixchel is a planet in fictional works of literature located in the galaxy of Pegasus in Universe 5. Ixchel is in an up-and-coming solar system in the outer rim of the Pegasus galaxy and serves as a diverse mid-way point for travelers ranging from galactic defenders to an everyday household traveling to the Surmalee galaxy. Due to its high traffic, growing population, and technologies far ahead of its region, Ixchel is controversially the most influential society in Pegasus.

Background

You may have heard the name Ixchel before. It is used to name the Mayan jaguar goddess of medicine and was later used in Madeleine L'Engle's popular book A Wrinkle in Time. L'Engle often took the names of deities in the Mayan religion and deemed her story's planets after them (i.e. Camazotz after Mayan bat god, Ixchel after Mayan medicine goddess).

She refers to Ixchel as a planet with dull, muted colors and large sightless creatures. Although this is one of the illustrations of the planet, it isn't the description used in this article. L'Engle's version varies from the information in following sections.

Many people write web articles on Ixchel, but use the Wrinkle in Time planet in name only. These people have fashioned an entirely new planet centered around different concepts from Madeleine L'Engle's classic version. These writers each build on the other's inputs and have created Ixchel with the folowing ideas. Ixchel, in this way, can continue to evolve its society, key basics, and fictional legacy.

Society

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Ixchel's national flag. The flag is divided into three seperate areas: one for each major region of Ixchel. The inverted colored dot-horizontal line-dot pattern across the flag is the “apixal″ or letter for “I″, the planet's initial.

In a stunning array of cultures and species, the permanent population of the planet varies from humans to "aliens" to fictionous creatures incapable of speech. Because of this diverisity, it is a desirable place to live and do work. Occupations are almost innumerable as are also the languages and traditions practiced there. Although Ixchel is influenced by many different cultures, the biggest being the Surmaleesian code, it has remained more of an ifluence to the rest of the galaxy than most other worlds.

In Depth

With seemingly dissimilar views on life, it seems that the people of Ixchel would have a difficult time cooperating and working toward the common goal of world-wide advancement. Since this is not the case, many researchers are speculating that independent efforts are forcably being combined under one control. Simply stated, people believe that Ixchel's government may be interfering with the planet's self-proclaimed free-enterprise system and are starting to secretly manipulate the major business leaders. If this secret effort is the real reason why Ixchel is advancing so far beyond other planets, it could either spell catastrophe (because this would mean Ixchel's government is much more powerful than expected) or it could mean unity, something with which Ixchel has had a minor struggle.

Language

The planet's language details:

• the language consists primarily of a pattern of dots with curved and straight lines
• roughly 26 letters
• each seperate letter is called an "apixal"
• the complete language will be deamed the "Ixchelian code".

Government

In this particular version of Ixchel (which varies drastically from L'Enlge's view), the fictional world prides itself as being one of the only societies in the outer rim that boasts elected leaders and leader panel. Having been established relatively long ago, it was the second planet in the outer rim to adopt the idea of elected leadership. It makes more political sense to have nominated heads of government in such a diverse community so that each culture feels represented.

Ixchel has many government projects, one of the most famous being the classified project Deployment Attempt 6. Still officially unreleased to the public, the project Deployment Attempt 6 leaked out by way of a retired government official connected to the project. It deals with sending willing experimentees to different worlds, not necessarily within Universe 5. Once deployed, the experimentees don disguises and live amongst the people of that world until they complete an assigned mission. It is rumored that some sujects deployed during the Deployment Attempt 6 project ended up on Earth and were contained by the government here. We can never confirm this because the information is either classified or because those deployed may be too well concealed.

Geography

Ixchel's geography, like most of its other information, is disclosed in fictional articles.