Prex Oda Duun
Prex of Tetron Centrex
- Intent: To flesh out the Parthovian Cluster with various planets and locations for RP purposes, primarily for corporate RP.
- Image Credit: Screenshot from The Outer Worlds 2
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Parthovian Cluster, Corporate Development Zone
- Planet Name: Aurado ('Or-Ah-Doh')
- Demonym: Auradon ('Or-Ah-Din')
- Region: Wild Space
- System Name: Aurado
- System Features:
- Sector: Parthovian Cluster
- System: Aurado System
- Grid square: T-4
- Suns: 1: Auro
- Orbital Position: 2
- Moons: 1: Argen
- Rotation period: 34 hours
- Orbital period: 304 standard days
- Trade routes: Hydian Way, via Praedium
- Location: Hex Link
- Major Imports: Mining Equipment, Liquid Water
- Major Exports:
- Crystalline Vertex
- Data Crystal
- Piezo-Electric Crystal
- Energization Crystal
- Quartz Crystal
- Unexploited Resources: N/A
- Gravity: 1.1 Standard
- Climate: Temperate / Terrestrial
- Primary Terrain: Mountainous Desert
- Atmosphere: Type I, thin Ozone Layer
- Capital City: None
- Planetary Features:
- Despite being habitable, the planet suffers from a thin ozone layer - the light is harsh and bright, protective eye coverings and skin protection is needed
- Primarily wild in nature, with sporadic mining operations
- Sprawling buttes, mesas, and canyons streaked with pyrite
- Periodic crystalline outcroppings of quartz
- While primarily mountainous, most canyon floors are filled with sand and dunes
- What liquid water there is are sulfuric in nature, and are typically bright blue and ringed by yellow mineral deposits
- Major Locations:
- Corporate Battlefield Remnants: a massive battlefield spanning over a hundred square miles can still be seen here, the remnant of a Corporate War fought between Tetron Centrex and LIKON Engineering. Pockmarked craters cover the area, and forgotten trenches and bunkers wind through the fields in complex mazes. What machinery that remains in this graveyard has rusted over, and despite the heavy mining presence on the planet, the battlefield remains untouched by corporate decree.
- Force Nexus (Optional): N/A
- Native Species: None
- Immigrated Species: Various
- Population: Sparse
- Demographics:
- Primary Languages:
- Galactic Basic
- Culture:
- Corporate: all activity on Aurado is corporate sponsored, with daily life revolving around crystal extraction, refining and cutting, and then shipping to factories across the galaxy. While life is hard, employees on Aurado are paid extremely well for their work on what Tetron Centrex considers a vital resource world. There is little in the way of relaxation on Aurado aside from saloons and gambling - most settlements are mobile mining encampments that can pack up and relocate at a moments notice to more profitable ore veins.
- Government: Corporatocracy
- Affiliation: Tetron Centrex
- Wealth:
- Wealthy - Aurado has vast reserves of crystalline vertices underneath its crust, though most of its crust is covered in striated pyrite.
- Stability: Medium
- Freedom & Oppression:
- Corporate: as a corporate world, Aurado has relatively equal freedom and oppression. Once locked into a corporate contract, you're more or less required to fulfill that contract to its completion via indentured employment. Despite this, Tetron is generally quite fair in releasing its employees once contract terms have been fulfilled; while a fair amount promptly leave the harsh conditions of Aurado, an equal number choose to stay as contractors to try and make their fortunes.
- Military:
- Corporate: Aurado is protected by corporate security forces of roughly a thousand security officers, and has no navy itself beyond a small Planetary Defense Force of about a dozen starfighters. Like many Tetron worlds, it is dependent on Tetron itself for military action and defense.
- Technology:
- Galactic Standard (Emphasis on Mining Technology)
Aurado's early history is inseparable from Tetron Centrex's expansionist ambitions in the Parthovian Cluster. Initially surveyed as a potential candidate for full-scale terraforming, the planet's thin ozone layer and uniquely reactive mineral composition made such efforts unfeasible with Tetron's early-generation equipment. Instead, Aurado was reclassified as a high-value extraction world when massive deposits of crystalline vertex and related piezo-electric minerals were discovered beneath its mountainous deserts. As the Hydian Way's auxiliary route opened through Praedium, Tetron leveraged the improved logistics to establish a Corporate Development Zone around Aurado—one of its first attempts to carve out a semi-autonomous micro-sector. This transformation marked the beginning of Aurado's role as both a profit engine and a proving ground for Tetron's maturing industrial empire.
The planet's later history is dominated by the Corporate War between Tetron Centrex and Likon Engineering. After Likon illegally encroached upon the Aurado System—claiming Tetron's failed terraforming attempt as forfeiture—months of proxy skirmishes escalated into a full-scale resource conflict. The battlefield, still preserved by corporate decree, stands as a testament to that struggle: a hundred-square-mile scar of craters, rusted walkers, trench networks, and abandoned mineral grinders left untouched both as a warning and a monument. Tetron's eventual victory cemented its control over the Aurado System and further justified its application to the Corporate Sector Authority for recognition and investment backing. In the decades since, Aurado has stabilized into a disciplined but lucrative corporate world—one where harsh conditions, high wages, and steady mineral yields continue to draw fortune-seekers from across Wild Space.
