Salvage Team Six
- Intent: To create a moon base for Laphisto.
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- Astronomical Location Name: Moon 174
- Classification: Moon.
- Location: Iego, one of the planet's 1,000 moons.
- Rotational Period: 24 hours.
- Orbital Period: 365 days.
- Size: Large, Moon 174 is one of Iego's larger moons, though still nowhere near the size of the planet that it orbits.
- Affiliation:
- Moon 174 is currently under the stewardship of Laphisto and the Lilaste Order, who are responsible for running the day to day mining operations taking place on the moon. Of course, that also means that Laphisto is responsible for bringing in any mining equipment onto the moon and constructing and facilities on or underneath its surface. Because the Imperial Remnant does not share in any of the profits generated from the mining on Moon 174, it does not feel obligated to provide support to any operations taking place, though it does reserve the right to "drop in" unannounced should they feel it necessary to do so.
- Population: Insignificant, Moon 174 would be essentially uninhabited if not for the workers and employees brought onto the moon by Laphisto.
- Demographics: Those who reside on Moon 174 are primarily workers and droids brought in by of various different species and models. Moon 174 does not possess any single majority species of alien or model of droid, and those who work here are to subject to change at the bequest of Laphisto.
- Accessibility: Because the planet Iego is rather isolated and out of the way, accessing Moon 174 can be quite challenging. Furthermore, as a part of the thousand moons orbiting the planet, actually finding the moon within the plethora of celestial bodies around Iego can be quite difficult. Any restrictions on visiting the moon itself are subject to Laphisto himself, though Imperial authorities have permission to visit the moon completely unannounced should they wish to do so.
- Description: A volcanic moon similar to Mustafar, Moon 174 is a dangerous and foreboding celestial object for anyone to live on for any period of time. Dominated by lava fields, jutting obsidian spires and numerous volcanoes, Moon 174 is not the kind of place most people would willingly choose to visit, let alone take ownership over for an extended period of time. That being said, while a difficult environment for anyone to live in, Moon 174 does have to redeeming qualities that make it somewhat desirable to own. Firstly, buried within the many volcanoes and lava fields are numerous minerals and metals of high value, though extracting them from where they lie is much easier said than done. Secondly, though a volcano moon, the volcanic ash spread across Moon 174 is excellent for growing crops and foodstuff in, though the threat of incineration remains quite real no matter how well protected these crops might be. The constant volcanic ash in the air gives Moon 174 a Type II atmosphere.
- Moon 174 is a primarily volcanic moon, covered in ash and lava in every conceivable direction. Because of this, most of the planet's surface is relatively bare, though occasionally broken up but jutting obsidian spires and other rock formations. Of the volcanos located on the moon, the largest one by far is Mount Worriden, which is in a constant state of volcanic activity. The same can be said for all the other volcanos also located on the moon, and Moon 174 itself is constantly changing as new land is created from the volcanic flow occurring across the moon.
- Though mostly valued for the rare metals and minerals found beneath the moon's surface, Moon 174 is also suitable for farming due to the high concentration of rich, volcanic soils, though any attempts at actually farming on the moon must take into consideration the high likelihood that advancing lava flows and volcanic eruptions may incinerate any plant life that is grown in the first place
When the Mahporeem Imperial Remnant completed its conquest of the Iego system, it suddenly found itself in possession of over a thousand different moons, all of which orbited the rogue planet Iego and were just as mysterious and diverse as Iego itself. Though the Imperial Remnant found immediate use for a small number of these moons, most were judged to be too insignificant to warrant any serious attempts to develop. Instead, the Imperial Remnant decided to offer the galactic community the ability to purchase individual moons to do with as they might see fit.
Moon 174 was somewhere in the middle of this assessment. On one hand, the volcanic moon is an extremely hostile environment to try and live on, as anyone on the moon's surface would have to contest with pyroclastic flow from the moon's many volcanoes, choking volcanic ask throughout the moon's atmosphere and hostile terrain consisting of sprawling fields of lava and jutting rock formations. Conversely, however, Moon 174 also possesses a plethora of valuable metals beneath its surface and is actually suitable for farming due to the widespread volcanic soil covering most of the moon.
The allure of metals and foodstuff proved to great to ignore for Laphisto and his Lilaste Order, who were looking for a location that would allow them to harvest valuable resources on a larger scale than they were currently doing. After a brief negotiation, the Imperial Remnant approved the sale of the moon to Laphisto, with the understanding that he would be solely responsible for developing and running his operations there. Of course, doing so remains easier said than done, and Laphisto will need to invest considerable effort into his endeavor if he wishes to turn a profit on Moon 174.
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