Approved Location Hosk-240

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: A proof-of-concept shadowport.

• Image Credit: Andrew Averkin
• Canon: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Links: Corporate Authority of Denon Direx Board, molecular furnace, Diviak Manfloon

SETTING INFORMATION

• Astronomical Location Name: Hosk-240
• Classification: Planetoid
• Location: Near Wann Tsir, in the Expansion Region
• Rotational Period: N/A (extremely wobbly rotation)
• Orbital Period: 240 standard days
• Size: Medium
• Affiliation: Corporate Authority of Denon
• Population: Insignificant
• Demographics: Standard Rim milieu (e.g. humans, Twi'leks, Rodians, Klatooinians, Trandoshans, Gran)
• Accessibility: Not especially secret, not especially guarded, and not especially close to major hyperroutes.
• Description: Hosk-240 is a chewed-up irregular planetoid, the remains of a once-habitable world whose resources have been extracted - including its metal-rich core. Now Hosk-240 is virtually worthless from a mass-mining perspective.

POINTS OF INTEREST

• Stiglen's Landing, the only noteworthy settlement. Its porthand logo elements:
  • System Primaries: Red dwarf
  • Habitable: Enclosed only
  • Services: Minimal
  • Amenities: Minimal
  • Hazards: Earthquakes, low gravity outside
  • Cops: Lax to nonexistent

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

• 383 ABY: Mining interests settle on this obscure little planet. They deplete the accessible resources through the usual means. The planet remains modestly settled for a few decades.
• 425 ABY: The Gulag Virus wipes out the mining settlements, leaving Hosk-240 uninhabited.
• 822 ABY: In the last years of the Dark Age, local interests re-settle the ostensibly depleted mining world.
• 863-864 ABY: The Corporate Authority of Denon takes control of the region.
  • By now Hosk-240 has a population of a few tens of thousands.
  • The CAD Direx Board's mining magnate, Diviak Manfloon, determines that Hosk-240 is a perfect test site for ambitious new extraction technologies, including large-scale molecular furnace variants.
  • CorpSec relocates the population to be wage slaves on Denon.
  • Within the year, Hosk-240 is no longer a spherical, habitable little planet. It is now a considerably smaller asymmetric planetoid without appreciable mineral value.
  • A few of the original inhabitants come back and settle in cheap habitation domes, making a living off bits of ore too small to be worth CAD's time.
  • Hosk-240 regains its local reputation as a sleepy little hardscrabble port.
  • The Spacer Guild establishes a fuel depot and waystation in the Stiglen's Landing settlement. Darkwire connects with the local gray market.
  • Life goes on.

 

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