System Profile:
Dixon's Star Source:Star Frontiersman Issue 12
NATIVE LIFE: Mostly small reptiles
System History
220 pf. Dixon's Star system discovered by Humans.
Laco was originally founded by Humans. During the First Sathar War tens of thousands fled to Laco from Pale and New Pale after Sathar attacks. As Laco was a prime industrial planet with no agricultural production, the survivors soon began to starve to death. If not for the intervention of the Capellan Free Merchants, the entire population might have been totally eliminated. Without any effective government and with a reduced population, Laco looked to the mega-corps for assistance. Conflicting interests soon arose and led to Laco's War between PGC and the Streel Corp. Today Laco's primary industries are owned by PGC.
Laco is an outpost world, a pit stop along the Prenglar/Truane's Star travel route. The system itself was discovered by the humans 220 years prior to the formation of the UPF, but the planet was sparsely populated one hundred years afterwards. The planet's axis is perpendicular to its orbit, so the surface receives an equal amount of sunlight year round (and lots of it thanks to a slow rotation). There isn’t a resulting seasons, although the polar regions are cooler and nearly hospitable. Aside from the two polar seas, typical landscape is sand and rock, with a mountain range in the equatorial region and several smaller outcroppings of rock dotting the rest of the world. Desert plant life grows abundantly. Being a rather inhospitable environment, it wasn't an ideal world to settle down on. As such it became a scientific research center and only one major settlement was ever established: Point Glass.
Point Glass is not a city, rather a small town of roughly 50,000 inhabitants located along the southern coast, but it does have a starport. Four smaller settlements are scattered across the surface:
Laconia borders the northern shore and boasts a population of 10,000.
Dixon's Peak is located in the southern foothills of the Lavaback Mountain range, yet far enough away from its series of active volcanoes and is home to 5000 inhabitants.
East of Laconia are a pair of oasis settlements in the sandy regions, Haven being the closer of the two and Castle Station just east of the terminator axis. Both are home to no more than 1000 beings each.
Laco Station orbits the world, a size 3 docking station.
POLITICAL STRUCTURE
Laco is not a governed world, although they are represented at the Council of Worlds. Star Law and several of the more prominent mega-corps have offices in Point Glass as well as in the orbital station. Industry would be considered as the primary economical movement, although the degrees of such production pale in comparison to civilized worlds. The mountain regions host rich deposits of aluminum, iron, magnesium, and tungsten; but barely sufficient to support the minimalist industrial activity and certainly not in sufficient quantities to support a civilized world.
Corporate Footprint
Capellan Free Merchants, PGC and Streel Corp.
Inter System Travel
Planetary Militia
A squadron of six fighter craft is stationed at Point Glass as the solitary measure of defense.
Ship Name:
UPF Fleet
! Assault Scout
1 Destroyer
Ship Name:
The Frontier
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