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|Description=Iskander is both the capital of the Federation but also home to many farms that have fed humanity's space frontier for centuries, earning it the title "the Breadbasket of the Federation". Over 80% of its adult population are citizens, having served in the Federal Armed Forces.
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|Long=The culture of the Hesperus colony is extremely work oriented. Citizens and civilians tend to work longer hours
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than almost anywhere else in the UCF, with the possible
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exception of the agricultural worlds. Whether they labour
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for SICON, or for one of the private corporations building
spacecraft for commercial use, the people of Hesperus put a
great deal of stock in a hard day’s work. So it has been for
decades and so it is likely to remain for decades more.
Hesperus is unusual in that its population is almost evenly split
between citizens and civilians at any given time. Certainly,
more civilians than citizens call this mineral-rich world their
home but given the immensity of SICON’s investment in
the colony, there are large numbers of military men and women here at any given time, acting as supervisors, guards
and even additional labour for the shipyards that operate
around the clock.
 
While not quite as utilitarian as the initial structures on
the planet’s surface, the domed habitations of the Hesperus
colony are anything but luxurious. Despite the advances
over the years in construction of domed habitations, space
within them is still limited. Consequently, most people
on Hesperus colony must make do with accommodations
significantly smaller even than the government-supplied
housing on Earth.
 
As mentioned above, the culture of Hesperus is the culture
of work. Entertainment venues are few and far between,
generally limited to small exercise facilities, a few fieldball
courts and one small theatre for musical, theatrical or video
entertainment. The citizens and civilians of Hesperus do,
of course, enjoy access to FedNet and, considering the near constant traffic between Hesperus and Earth, they never
experience the significant lag some of the more distant and
less vital colonies do.
 
Perhaps because of the work-centred nature of their daily
lives, or perhaps because most of the original colonists
of Hesperus hailed from the southern regions of Europe,
religion has always been an important factor in the lives
of the people of Hesperus colony. As a result, this small
colony boasts a higher ratio of places of worship (churches,
synagogues, mosques – though churches are by far the most
numerous) than any other colony in the UCF. Education
for children on Hesperus is fairly limited – only the
Federation-sponsored schools are available to teach children
up through high school age. Any student seeking to further
his education by going on to college must leave Hesperus;
there are no higher education facilities in the colony.
The people of Hesperus take great pride in their work and
rightly so, for the ships that roll off the assembly lines in
the colony’s mammoth shipyard facilities are some of the
best in the Federation. This constant exposure to ships and
all aspects of naval life is considered the primary reason so
many young people of Hesperus colony choose to enter
Federal Service, with the vast majority of them expressing a
preference for service with the Fleet. Hesperus has produced
a large number of capable and sometimes famous captains
over the years. The most recent example and one of the
most famous, is Captain Nandine Capritta, captain of the
J.E.B. Stuart.
 
==Laws and Government==
Considering the level of investment and involvement
SICON has in Hesperus Colony, the laws here are identical
to those elsewhere in the United Citizens’ Federation. The
most common infraction faced by law enforcement on
Hesperus is trespassing, usually an innocent case of someone
wandering into an area of the shipyards they should not
be in. Nonetheless, because of the immense military
importance of those shipyards, all such cases are thoroughly
investigated and the trespasser is held in police custody until
his background has been researched and cleared.
Col. Silas Burke, the governor of the Alpha Centauri system,
lives on Hesperus, where he acts as head of the planetary
council, a group of six citizens elected to oversee local issues.
Generally, Governor Burke does not involve himself in the
deliberations of the council unless there is a deadlock among
its six members, in which case he casts the tie-breaking
vote.
 
==Economy==
The economy of Hesperus is based entirely on mining and
shipbuilding, two things the colony does extremely well.
More than a third of all ships that have every served in
SICON’s Fleet have been launched from one of the literally
hundreds of berths in the orbital shipyards of this world.
Though not as rich as the mines of its nearby neighbour
Hod, Hesperus has a wealth of mineral assets, used primarily
in the construction of the endless ranks of ships rolling from
her shipyards.
There is a tremendous amount of wealth tied up in Hesperus
but that does not mean the colonists themselves are wealthy.
Few if any have a standard of living that could be described
as anything but blue collar – honest, hardworking people
who make do with what they have.
Points of Interest
Aside from the mining encampments scattered about over
the surface of the planet, there are only two places on
Hesperus of any interest. The fi rst is Hesperus City, the
primary settlement of the colonists and the place more than
three-quarters of them call home. Though it is still contained
within atmospheric domes, the surface of the world being
unsuitable for environmental confi guration, the colonists
have had nearly a century in which to expand it. Today,
the domes of Hesperus City cover nearly 20 square miles,
sprouting like mushrooms from the forbidding surface of
the world.
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Iskander

Iskander is both the capital of the Federation but also home to many farms that have fed humanity's space frontier for centuries, earning it the title "the Breadbasket of the Federation". Over 80% of its adult population are citizens, having served in the Federal Armed Forces.

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