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| <div style="width:60%;"> | | <p style="font-size:60px;">Vex Haragan</p> |
| =Tango Urilla=
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| <b>Role:</b> Agriculture and mining<br>
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| <b>Circumference:</b> 24,550 miles<br>
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| <b>Population:</b> 155,000<br>
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| <b>Orbital Path:</b> Fourth<br>
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| <b>Rotational Period (days):</b> 1.07<br>
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| <b>Orbital Period (days):</b> 3381<br>
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| <b>Primary Function:</b> Agriculture and mining<br>
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| <b>Retention Index:</b> 2<br><br>
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| Though Tango Urilla makes valuable contributions to the
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| Federation, the colonists have long been aware of the fact
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| that their home is of low status when compared to other
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| stellar colonies. Recently, after SICON compiled the
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| Retention Index numbers for each of the stellar colonies,
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| someone in SICON leaked Tango Urilla’s ranking to the
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| colonists, deepening the realisation that this distant outpost
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| of humanity is not considered valuable by the government.
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| This knowledge has created a divide in the population,
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| though until the Retention Index ranking came out, the
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| divide was subtle enough that most outsiders would not have
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| noticed it without looking. The attitude of SICON and
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| the Federation toward Tango Urilla has made some of the
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| colonists angry, even hostile and there have been whispered
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| talks of separatism in some corners of Altair City, the colony’s
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| capital. On the other side of the divide, representing a larger
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| portion of the population, are those who remain loyal to the
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| Federation and only want to find a way to make their home
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| more valuable, to encourage SICON to defend it. They fear
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| the whisperings of the would-be separatists will only serve to
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| make SICON even less interested in retaining Tango Urilla
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| in the face of an attack by the Skinnies or the bugs.
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| By and large, the people of Tango Urilla feel somewhat
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| isolated from the Federation, less a part of humanity at large
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| than the other colonies. To an outsider, they tend to seem
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| desperate and nervous, qualities that can make the most
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| innocent of them be seen as suspicious.
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| ==History==
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| In light of the encounter with the mysterious aliens, SICON
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| decided to establish a colony on Tango Urilla, both as a
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| means of demonstrating possession of the Altair system and
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| in hopes of managing to establish communication with the
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| aliens should they ever return. Of course, they never have
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| but the colony has found other ways to be of use to the
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| Federation.
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| Tango Urilla had a difficult time getting started as a colony,
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| located as far from Sol as it was and so near alien and
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| potentially hostile space. Though it was founded some 45
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| years ago, the colony’s population remained below 20,000
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| or the first decade of its existence until the complete lack of
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| any military action convinced other potential colonists on
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| Earth that it was safe to go.
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| Over the course of its existence, Tango Urilla has built up a
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| reputation as a supply world – generating far more food and
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| raw materials than it needs to survive. The excess is picked
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| up by SICON and civilian transports, then either stockpiled
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| or conveyed to Luna for processing and distribution.
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| The ionic nebula surrounding the Altair system continues
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| to be a problem for Tango Urilla. The havoc the nebula
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| can wreak on a starship’s systems means no ship visits Tango
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| Urilla that does not absolutely have to. In the past, this has
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| left the colony undersupplied or unsupplied in certain goods. | |
| Fortunately for the colonists, the agricultural resources of
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| the colony mean that food with never be lacking, even if
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| their FedNet programming is months old by the time they
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| receive it.
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| Recently, rumours of bug activity in nearby space (and even
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| on the planet itself) have begun circulating through the
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| colony. SICON has thoroughly investigated each of these
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| rumours and has told the colonists there is no danger
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| ==Laws and Government==
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| Tango Urilla is governed by a single leader, a citizen appointed
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| by the governor of the system. Both the governor and the
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| leader occupy offices in the Federal Building in Altair City.
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| The laws of Tango Urilla are exactly the same as those of the
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| Federation at large, with no additional provisions unique
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| to the planet. For the most part, however, there is rarely a
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| need for these laws as Tango Urilla’s small population has
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| an equally small criminal element. Despite the rumours of
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| separatist sentiment, no one has yet been caught or tried on
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| such charges.
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| ==Economy==
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| One of the contributing reasons for Tango Urilla’s low
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| Retention Index score is the fact that there is very little
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| corporate investment in the colony. Unlike other agricultural
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| and resource production worlds, the majority of the viable
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| farmland and mineral deposits are worked by private
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| citizens and civilians. Without a powerful corporation back
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| on Earth to stress the need of maintaining its holdings to
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| SICON, it is easy for a planet like Tango Urilla to become
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| virtually forgotten.
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| The fact that most people of Tango Urilla work for
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| themselves (or for another citizen or civilian of the colony)
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| rather than as cogs in a giant corporation has translated into
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| a slightly larger median income for the colony. The surplus
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| production of the colony is considerable and most transport
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| ships depart the planet leaving a good amount of money
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| behind. However, there is little enough on the planet for the
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| colonists to spend it on.
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| ==Points of Interest==
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| There is very little of interest on the planet of Tango Urilla or
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| even in the entirety of the Altair system, except to scientists.
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| Aside from transport and supply ships, the only visitors to
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| the colony tend to be astronomers in the system to study
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| the ionic nebula (known colloquially as the Tango Cloud),
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| or from geologists come to study the makeup of the young
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| planet.
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