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|Name=Earth
|Image=Iskander.png
|Description=The home world of the human race - an overpopulated mess filled with extreme haves and the extreme have-nots often separated by little more than a wall in some places.
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|Name=Iskander
|Name=Iskander
|Image=[[Iskander.png]]
|Image=Iskander.png
|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.
|Description=Iskander is 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.
|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
|Name=Hesperus
for SICON, or for one of the private corporations building
|Image=Default.png
spacecraft for commercial use, the people of Hesperus put a
|Description=Hesperus was the first of the Federation's colonies outside of the Solar System, has massive reserves of resources, and serves as the Federation's premier shipbuilding colony. Its people are known for two things: their renowned work ethic, and their devotion to religion.
great deal of stock in a hard day’s work. So it has been for
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decades and so it is likely to remain for decades more.
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Hesperus is unusual in that its population is almost evenly split
|Name=Epsilon Prime
between citizens and civilians at any given time. Certainly,
|Image=Default.png
more civilians than citizens call this mineral-rich world their
|Description=The business on Epsilon Prime is business. With all the huge corporations on EP, money rules the streets. "Everyone has their price" is especially true on Epsilon Prime and goes for the majority of people there.
home but given the immensity of SICON’s investment in
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the colony, there are large numbers of military men and women here at any given time, acting as supervisors, guards
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and even additional labour for the shipyards that operate
|Name=Castus
around the clock.
|Image=Default.png
|Description=Castus is a grim and humourless place. A gas giant in which colonists live on one of four oribital platforms, it lacks any distinct culture, as most of the population are itinerant workers for the Castus Corporation.
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While not quite as utilitarian as the initial structures on
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the planet’s surface, the domed habitations of the Hesperus
|Name=Hod
colony are anything but luxurious. Despite the advances
|Image=Default.png
over the years in construction of domed habitations, space
|Description=Hod is the agricultural twin of Hesperus. Founded to supply Hesperus with food and agriculture, colonists from Hod often find themselves in competition with their twin.
within them is still limited. Consequently, most people
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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
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of work. Entertainment venues are few and far between,
|Name=Karrus
generally limited to small exercise facilities, a few fieldball
|Image=Default.png
courts and one small theatre for musical, theatrical or video
|Description=Karrus is home to the largest population of humans anywhere outside the Sol system. The people of Karrus tend to be proud, optimistic and confident, cultural traits that are easily understandable given all the colony has accomplished in its relatively young life.  
entertainment. The citizens and civilians of Hesperus do,
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of course, enjoy access to FedNet and, considering the near constant traffic between Hesperus and Earth, they never
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experience the significant lag some of the more distant and
|Name=Wolf Run
less vital colonies do.
|Image=Default.png
 
|Description=A series of mining stations within an asteroid belt. Mining  is only slightly less hazardous than combat duty and it is rare for more than a month to go by without an accidental fatality, lending a certain callousness and gallows humour to the men and women of Wolf Run.
Perhaps because of the work-centred nature of their daily
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lives, or perhaps because most of the original colonists
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of Hesperus hailed from the southern regions of Europe,
|Name=Pollor
religion has always been an important factor in the lives
|Image=Default.png
of the people of Hesperus colony. As a result, this small
|Description=With a population primarily devoted to the mining of the eponymous gas giant, the people of Pollor fall under the purview of a vast civilian consortium.  
colony boasts a higher ratio of places of worship (churches,
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synagogues, mosques – though churches are by far the most
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numerous) than any other colony in the UCF. Education
|Name=Illidan
for children on Hesperus is fairly limited – only the
|Image=Default.png
Federation-sponsored schools are available to teach children
|Description=Illidan prides itself on its raw material abundance and it's lush flora, being a Mining and R&D Colony with focus on hard-work and technological advance. Illidan is home to Earthly traditions with it's colonists being big on Federal Service - thinking of themselves higher than the average civilian
up through high school age. Any student seeking to further
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his education by going on to college must leave Hesperus;
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there are no higher education facilities in the colony.
|Name=Riin
The people of Hesperus take great pride in their work and
|Image=Default.png
rightly so, for the ships that roll off the assembly lines in
|Description=The dirty secret of Iskander. Riin is a small moon orbiting the lush planet, dotted with numerous mining and starship fuel production facilities. Ten atmospheric processing domes provide shelter from the harsh landscape outside. Its citizens are loyal to the Federation, but notoriously humorless and xenophobic.
the colony’s mammoth shipyard facilities are some of the
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best in the Federation. This constant exposure to ships and
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all aspects of naval life is considered the primary reason so
|Name=Shackleton
many young people of Hesperus colony choose to enter
|Image=Default.png
Federal Service, with the vast majority of them expressing a
|Description=A small world beyond the edge of civilised space. The people of Shackleton are hardened frontiersmen who provide the last safe harbour on the edge of the Skinnie Quarantine Zone, and are known for their stark sense of justice and isolation.
preference for service with the Fleet. Hesperus has produced
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a large number of capable and sometimes famous captains
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over the years. The most recent example and one of the
|Name=Kailash
most famous, is Captain Nandine Capritta, captain of the
|Image=Default.png
J.E.B. Stuart.
|Description=Times are dire on Kailash, a world renowned for its vast boron mines. Currently facing an Arachnid invasion due to its strategic placement along a hyperlane chokepoint, the people of Kailash have grown steadfast, and increasingly common within the Mobile Infantry.  
 
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==Laws and Government==
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Considering the level of investment and involvement
|Name=Other
SICON has in Hesperus Colony, the laws here are identical
|Image=Default.png
to those elsewhere in the United Citizens’ Federation. The
|Description=You come from somewhere not listed here.
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.
}}
}}

Latest revision as of 16:13, 25 December 2022

Earth

The home world of the human race - an overpopulated mess filled with extreme haves and the extreme have-nots often separated by little more than a wall in some places.

Iskander

Iskander is 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.

Hesperus

Hesperus was the first of the Federation's colonies outside of the Solar System, has massive reserves of resources, and serves as the Federation's premier shipbuilding colony. Its people are known for two things: their renowned work ethic, and their devotion to religion.

Epsilon Prime

The business on Epsilon Prime is business. With all the huge corporations on EP, money rules the streets. "Everyone has their price" is especially true on Epsilon Prime and goes for the majority of people there.

Castus

Castus is a grim and humourless place. A gas giant in which colonists live on one of four oribital platforms, it lacks any distinct culture, as most of the population are itinerant workers for the Castus Corporation.

Hod

Hod is the agricultural twin of Hesperus. Founded to supply Hesperus with food and agriculture, colonists from Hod often find themselves in competition with their twin.

Karrus

Karrus is home to the largest population of humans anywhere outside the Sol system. The people of Karrus tend to be proud, optimistic and confident, cultural traits that are easily understandable given all the colony has accomplished in its relatively young life.

Wolf Run

A series of mining stations within an asteroid belt. Mining is only slightly less hazardous than combat duty and it is rare for more than a month to go by without an accidental fatality, lending a certain callousness and gallows humour to the men and women of Wolf Run.

Pollor

With a population primarily devoted to the mining of the eponymous gas giant, the people of Pollor fall under the purview of a vast civilian consortium.

Illidan

Illidan prides itself on its raw material abundance and it's lush flora, being a Mining and R&D Colony with focus on hard-work and technological advance. Illidan is home to Earthly traditions with it's colonists being big on Federal Service - thinking of themselves higher than the average civilian

Riin

The dirty secret of Iskander. Riin is a small moon orbiting the lush planet, dotted with numerous mining and starship fuel production facilities. Ten atmospheric processing domes provide shelter from the harsh landscape outside. Its citizens are loyal to the Federation, but notoriously humorless and xenophobic.

Shackleton

A small world beyond the edge of civilised space. The people of Shackleton are hardened frontiersmen who provide the last safe harbour on the edge of the Skinnie Quarantine Zone, and are known for their stark sense of justice and isolation.

Kailash

Times are dire on Kailash, a world renowned for its vast boron mines. Currently facing an Arachnid invasion due to its strategic placement along a hyperlane chokepoint, the people of Kailash have grown steadfast, and increasingly common within the Mobile Infantry.

Other

You come from somewhere not listed here.

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