Draco Galaxy: Subsector: "The Black Patch"
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"THE BLACK PATCH"
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ASTROGRAPHICAL FEATURES
Cansar Ion Cloud
This feature is more like a nebula that is prone to Ion Cloud-like bursts of energy once every few days. The Cansar Ion Cloud is easily avoided but still lures some travelers to their doom by its apparent passivity. Unsubstantiated reports from those who were foolish enough to warp directly through the Ion Cloud state that they observed alien ships of unknown configuration moving at high warp speed within the cloud. These ships ignored hails and vanished at the first attempt at an active scan.
The Great Darksea
A huge expanse of space that has no stars and frequent clusters of dark matter. This big empty is like a bite out off the edge of Draco that with deep intergalactic space. Most ships avoid this desolate area, although some pirates are said to float in the Great Darksea because of its isolation and complete lack of patrols. Should generally be avoided.
The Oil Drum
Another vast expanse of empty space that has been the bane of many long distance ships without auxiliary engines. The Oil Drum has claimed 18 freighters during the history of The Black Patch’s settlement. Rescuers are unlikely to venture into this void for fear of the random malfunction that seems to be the cause for so many ships breaking down in this area. Suspicions are of Motaran Rift energy that is responsible for engine failures. The less educated believe The Oil Drum is simply cursed.
ANRUGAIRN
I6-U84A-O54
Anrugairn has been an anarchy since its foundation in the early 2200’s. It was initially a way point between Tiobex and Ala that attracted many settlers with its promise of freedom from the corrupt governments. That prompted a lot of companies into establishing warehouses on world to avoid shipping taxes and other dock tariffs. From this, Anrugairn gained a great influx of goods, and those of the population who wanted to work did. The money the corporations were spending on the world helped the anarchists fund various defense projects to protect the planet that gave them their freedom. The very same corporations sold their own defense hardware to the Anrugairn peoples at a discount as this would enable them to buy more units that would be defending their shipping for free.
It was only a decade after these systems were installed that the Chomisa-Antares forces launched their assault on the orbital shipyards. The people of Anrugairn rallied against the invaders with such alarming speed and ferocity that the Chomisa forces had to pull back. This bitter defeat communicated a simple fact to the whole sector; Anrugairn was going to stay free no matter the cost. Currently GalPol vessels have spotted suspected Brass Coat Gang ships leaving and entering the planets main starport. It is thought that the gang have a major base on the surface of Anrugairn.
| MGE | SERVICES | STRUCTURES | DEFENSES |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARM (2) | Assassination Service (6) | Shipyard | EW Stations (6) |
| Arms Dealers (7) | Fencing Operations (9) | Orbital Mines (5,8,9) | |
| Black Market (9) | ID change (7) | K-Sats (3,5,9) | |
| Bounty Hunters (4) | Laundering Services (7) | ||
| Drug Dealers (6) | Refuel (A,B,C) | ||
| Intrepids (4) | Rent-a-skill | ||
| MAT’s (3) | Slave Auctions (4) | ||
| Smugglers (8) | Weapons Shop (5) | ||
| Armour Station (5) |
CANSAR
A5-T01Y-X40-T
A small research facility has been set up on the surface of this toxin infested world. The atmosphere is laced with bio-toxins so lethal they could kill a Python within thirty seconds. Alliance science division personnel have been stationed on world to research the neighboring Cansar Ion Cloud. It is currently not advisable to visit Cansar unless in emergency as the three destroyers currently assigned to guard the system have opened fire on any ship that enters. No further information.
| MGE | SERVICES | STRUCTURES | DEFENSES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Patrol (5,5) |
CANTALA
U--v Cantala is currently unexplored. It has a poisonous atmosphere, and the survey satellites show it is rich in minerals. It seems no company is interested enough to send out ARSAP teams at this point in time.
| MGE | SERVICES | STRUCTURES | DEFENSES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
EDEN-V
I6-F04E-O48
Eden-V is the fifth planet of its system and is a multi-corporate owned tourist paradise. Scented freshwater oceans lap the white sand beaches of the many archipelagos that ring the planet. It sports the latest in tourist entertainment and the most luxurious resorts. Eden-V is famous for its drunken beach parties and the Trans Continental Roller Coaster. It is said that Eden-V is the best resort outside the Milky Way. Eden-V is so successful that it has its own limited function stargate that is directly two-way linked to Ala to service the incredible amount of tourists. The population given is for permanent residents of which over ninety percent are staff.
| MGE | SERVICES | STRUCTURES | DEFENSES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyball | Grade (A) Ti-Tritium | Arena | Starbase (3,5,10) |
| Drug Dealers (2) | Government Networks (4) | Trans Continental Roller Coaster | Automated Defense Systems |
| Silk Lambs (4) | Resorts (all) | Virtual Reality | Center Fleets (P) |
| Terrestrial Knowledge Service | Flux Shield (9) | ||
| K-Sats (3,4,6,9) | |||
| Early Warning Stations (9) |
NONTARR
O-H-
Nontarr is a restricted weapons research facility owned by Balshrom Science Corporation. So far, reports have the planet as earth sized with a variety of climes and small oceans. Rumor has it that an indigenous species of stone-age humanoids inhabits the planet and that Balshrom uses them as target practice. Investigations as to the origin of such slanderous lies is being undertaken by Balshrom officials through company mercenaries.
| MGE | SERVICES | STRUCTURES | DEFENSES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Unknown | Weapons | Research Centre Patrol (4,7) |
| K-Sats (2,4) | |||
| Orbital Mines (4,5,9) |
OPHEENA
A4-T33D-O66
Opheena is a democratic agri-world whose inhabitants are in the late computer age. Developments are under way for the installation of a planetary flux shield, and positions for space construction crews are opening constantly. In Opheena, people like to carry firearms to protect themselves from the Hugrill dragons that fly down from the mountains to hunt. The Hugrill dragon is a large beast approximately the size of an African elephant with wings a dull shade of ochre and a black belly. The Hugrill dragons were named after the party of xeno-biologists leader who discovered them and were promptly eaten. Opheenese often have town dragon safaris where the adults, and occasionally children, pack into an armored truck or APC and drive around the foothills of the mountains shooting anything that moves. This is how they keep the populations of dragons away from the larger civilian centers; good old fashion extermination.
| MGE | SERVICES | STRUCTURES | DEFENSES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington Association (4) | Armor Station (3) | Prison (1) | Patrol (2,2) |
| Intrepids (6) | Legal Networks (1) | Space Platform (3,6) | |
| Space Construction Crews (2) | Refuel (B,C) | Ground Based Particle Beam (4) | |
| Terrestrial Knowledge Service | |||
| Weapons Shop (4) |
QUAN-YU-LANG
I2-U24F-O54
This world is a Human separatist feudal society that believes the old ways of China are the best way to live. The recent production of black powder firearms is slowly causing a change in the worlds social structure as small revolutions take place in the smaller cities. The world itself is of lush even weathered forests, and agriculture is the main industry. The rulers of the world have contact with the Alliance to whom they sell bulk food at very reasonable prices. The Alliance pays them in defensive systems to ensure the planets safety from invasion. So far Quan Yu Lang has had bumper crops in the year round growing season. This also keeps the peasants too busy to revolt; until now.
| MGE | SERVICES | STRUCTURES | DEFENSES |
|---|---|---|---|
| None | None | None | Layered Array (3) |
| Early Warning Station (4) | |||
| Space Platforms (6,7,9) | |||
| K-Sats (6,10) |
QUAN-YUN-LING
A7-N56T-O52
Quan Yun Ling is not to be confused with its neighbor Quan Yu Lang. This world is a high tech cyber-society where the predominantly Human population pride themselves on the number of cybernetics they have installed. The cyber fashion industry is the prime economic provider, dealing with many companies including BioCyberdyne. All advancements are top quality and it is very likely that BioCyberdyne has many stock holdings in the on-world companies.
When the world was first settled the atmosphere was found to have traces of sulfuric cyanide that is lethal after about five months of exposure. Quarantine was issued on all settlers, and they were temporarily housed in a large arena converted for the purpose. Terraformers were set up on the boundaries of the settlement and the atmosphere was filtered. After a few months, the local atmosphere was of low enough levels for the inhabitants to return to their homes and lives. The whole affair was funded by on-world companies and the now defunct Alliance disaster relief fund. The surface is moderately flat with only two mountain chains on the single large continent. All of Quan Yun Ling’s metal is refined on world and, apart from weapons technology and food, is self-sufficient. Current events include the tender for a second space station that is being hotly fought over by SSDC and Erectus. It seems Teledyne is about to field an entry, and that the giant mega-corp is hiring mercenaries in the interim: but for what purpose is unknown.
| MGE | SERVICES | STRUCTURES | DEFENSES |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARM (3) | Armor Station (4) | Cyber Research Center | Base Station (4,7,9) |
| Arms Dealers (6) | Cybernetics Repair (5) | Medical Research Center | Complex Battle Array (3) |
| Black Market (4) | DNA Masking (2) | Prisons (2,4) | Bio-Sentient Organism (4) |
| Bounty Hunters (6) | Refuel (A,B,C) | Terraformers | Flux Shield (7) |
| Cuontol (1) | Rent-a-skill | EW Stations (4,5) | |
| Cyber Troops (7) | Resorts (1,2,4,5,7,9) | Fighter Base (large)x2 | |
| Drug Dealers (2) | Terrestrial Knowledge Service | Gunboat Squadron | |
| Silk Lambs (2) | Orbital Mines (6,9) | ||
| Smugglers (3) |
SALMAT
A5-N82M-T40
Salmat is a frontier world that is run like a front line military camp. One Colonel Briggs, who is in charge of the world, refers to it as the stink house because of trace bromide compounds in the atmosphere. The atmosphere is thin enough to require a filter mask or atmospheric processor, and the long term effects of exposure are unknown. So far prospectors and advanced survey vessels visit the camp on their way to the unclaimed worlds in the next subsector. The supply depot on Salmat is regularly re-stocked and the quartermaster sells weapons and other military equipment to the public at frontier discount rates.
Criminals and other fugitives come through Salmat on their way to the unsettled sub-sectors, and it is for this reason that many bounty hunters can be found lurking about the starport for an easy pick up. There are currently no restrictions on carried weaponry. This makes life easier for the soldiers stationed here. Not having to return weapons and amour to the arsenal each time they leave for a coffee or a beer is a time saving measure.
AMC, Sackville-Thorpe Mining and SSDC are competing for strip mining rights. The petition is going through the local branch of the Galactic Armed Forces and is being processed by a classified officer in the local area. Attempts at bribing Colonel Briggs to influence the unnamed officer have ended in failure or a duel with the exceptional gun-slinging Colonel.
| MGE | SERVICES | STRUCTURES | DEFENSES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bounty Hunters (6) | Armor Station(4) | None | Ground Defense Base |
| Black Market (2) | Cybernetics Repair (2) | Armor Divisions | |
| Cyber-Troops (4) | Fencing Operations (1) | Fighter Base (S) | |
| Mercenaries (7) | Refit | Layered Array (4) | |
| MAT’s (6) | Refuel (A,B,C) | EW Stations (2) | |
| Smugglers (3) | Weapons Shop (4) | Base Station (3,4,7) | |
| K-Sats (3,6,9) | |||
| Patrols (4,6) | |||
| Fleet (CNN) | |||
| Flux Shield (4) |
SHIPSHOME
A6-F33D-O51
Shipshome is a derelict vessel dumping site and a shipping storage facility, which supports the heavy mining industry that dominates this world. The atmosphere is rich oxygen and nitrogen, and the surface has small caches of indigenous life around the inland sea. These species are considered to be exact living replicas of pre-historic earth plant-life and simple animals. So far, the mining extends around the desolate mountain range to the north of the only sea. ARSAP teams have uncovered ruins in the jungles on the southeast coast of the sea that seem to be of Coreszian origin. Some scientists speculate that this planet was a seeding experiment initiated many millennia in the past that some how went wrong.
| MGE | SERVICES | STRUCTURES | DEFENSES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mining Away Teams (9) | Refuel (A,B,C) | Ruins | Base Station (3) |
| Ships Graveyard | Patrols (3,2) |
SHOREHAVEN
(A)4-N81Y-O59
This Alliance claimed ocean world is inhabited by Python Mense and other Pythons sympathetic to their plight. Sea-farming and other ocean agriculture is their only industry. Weapons are carried by all in defense against the indigenous species, which include sea-serpent like beasts and giant leaping sharks. The settlements are confined to the swampy shallows of this 98% water covered planet. The diverse animal life has yet to be fully cataloged, and teams are being hired by local mega-corporation LMX Conglomerates. Little else is known about this fledgling colony.
| MGE | SERVICES | STRUCTURES | DEFENSES |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAL | None | None | None |
TIOBEX
A7-T36D-053
Tiobex is the largest settlement in the whole of the Black Patch. It sports a large starbase and a GalCorp Astrodefense Station (#302). The stargate is in orbit over the third planet, which is Tiobex, and it has been operational for a few decades. The amount of traffic that flows through Tiobex is quite large as it is a popular refueling point for travelers from Worcsix and Anrugairn. Heavily industrialized, Tiobex produces the bulk of the Black Patch’s manufactured goods and technology. Many branch headquarters of the top twenty Draco mega-corps reside in the starport city on world. This is where most of the ARSAP teams are hired by local minor leagues such as Gavin James Explorers, Hurstville Enterprises and The Neo-Ghurka Recruitment Corp. Tiobex handles approximately three hundred thousand tonnes of cargo per day and is currently enjoying null inflation for the eighth year running. This is sure to keep Darby Natter, the Orion president, in power for the next term. Elections are to be held every three years and this year the campaigns are running hot.
| MGE | SERVICES | STRUCTURES | DEFENSES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington Association (1) | Armor Station (5) | Cloud Cities | GalCorp Astrodefense Station |
| Arms Dealers (2) | Assassination Services (3) | Matrix School | Starbase |
| Black Mondays (4) | Clonic Production (2) | Prison (4,5) | K-Sats (3,6,9) |
| Black Market (2) | Cybernetics repair (3) | Shipyard | Orbital Mines (7,9) |
| Cyball | Fencing Operations (2) | Complex Battle Array | |
| Intrepids (3) | Government Networks (2) | Fighter Base (L) | |
| Mentors (4) | Hyper Training (7) | G-Boat Squadron | |
| Mining Away Teams (6) | ID Change (3) | EW Stations (5) | |
| Moig Dua (2) | Laundering Services (2) | Bio-Sentient Organism (4) | |
| Smugglers (4) | Legal Networks (3) | Ground Based Slug Thrower (6) | |
| Silk Lambs (2) | Refit (5) | Ground Based Particle Beam (5) | |
| Refuel (A,B,C) | |||
| Rent-a-skill | |||
| Resorts (1,3,4,5,6,7,9,10) | |||
| Robotics Repair (3) | |||
| Terrestrial Knowledge Service | |||
| Weapons Shop (5) | |||
| DNA Masking (2) |
WORCSIX
A5-U51Y-M80
This ice world has a thick methane atmosphere that supports the predominantly Eridani mining operations. Superior metals and other minerals useful in military construction are extracted and refined on world, then shipped to the orbital station for transport to Tiobex. Worcsix has a native population of rat-like humanoids who breathe the methane atmosphere with as much ease as the Eridani and Phentari. The are commonly known as Worcsiscans. They were to be enslaved by the Eridani until the Alliance caught wind of the situation and granted the Worcsiscans potential citizen rights. The various Eridani mining operations work on a colony type administration and are all run effectively.
Mega-corps who have interests on Worcsix include Sackville-Thorpe Mining, LMX Conglomerates, Eridi-Corp, AMC and Teledyne. It is thought that a few of the privately run local operations are hiring mercenaries to protect themselves against sabotage.
Recent Black Monday attacks on some of the Eridi-Corp installations have caused security to be stepped up. The response on Eridi-Corp’s behalf has been an issuing of corporate sanctioned death warrants for the suspected sub-sector leaders of the groups responsible. The mega-corp has Eridani government backing in the matter, and for the most part, Alliance officialdom seem uninterested in the possible carnage this may cause. Reports of Cuontol activity have drifted in, and this supports the theory of government interests on world, as do the heavy planetary defenses.
| MGE | SERVICES | STRUCTURES | DEFENSES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cuontol | Refuel (B,C) | None | Base Station (5,9) |
| MATs | Slave Auctions (5) | Fleets (P,INE) | |
| Patrol (4,2) | |||
| Ground Defense Base | |||
| Fighter Base (S) | |||
| K-Sats (1,7,8) | |||
| Orbital Mines (8) | |||
| EW Stations (3) | |||
| Flux Shield (3) |
"THE BLACK PATCH" INTERSTELLAR STOCK MARKET TRADE INDEX
| Planet | Min | Narc | Man. Goods | Slaves | LGA | A.I. | HGA | Food | Luxury | Water | Tech | Med | Mach | Precious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anrugaim | 6 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
| Cansar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cantala | L6 | * | * | * | L13 | * | L14 | * | * | * | * | * | * | L16 |
| Eden-V | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
| Nontarr | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Opheena | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| Quan Yu Lang | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quan Yu Ling | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Salmat | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 9 |
| Shipshome | 4 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 |
| Shorehaven | L12 | 0 | 9 | 8 | L14 | 0 | L14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 8 | L16 |
| Tiobex | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| Worcsix | 4 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 4 |
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