Good Ol' Scoundrel
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: Expand pirate lore on Chaos. Space Tortuga.
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SETTING INFORMATION
Space Station Name: Tantus Gate
Station Model: n/a
Classification: Shadowport
Location: Rakata Prime Hex
Affiliation: Pirates, scum, outlaws
Population: Sparsely Populated
Demographics: Melting pot of humans, near humans and aliens
Accessibility: Hard. Not close to a hyperlane. Its location is almost exclusively known by outlaws of all sorts since its a shadowport. Middle of nowhere. Uninhabited system.
Description: As a shadowport it serves as a safe haven for every outlaw but is predominantly known and visited by pirates. Smugglers are rare to be seen but not impossible. Among outlaw circles the Tantus Gate is renown as a pirate hive.
Tantus Gate is an inactive, complete disabled and impossible to reactivate in any scenario hypergate. Its construction, mass and location allowed it to become a useful escape for those fleeing the law. As it was initially found by pirates it was created as a safe haven for pirates where they could refuel, relax or get more news regarding looting opportunities.
SECURITY
Low. Security is mainly, if not only, the currently docked pirates and their ships and crews. There is no law enforcement on Tantus.
POINTS OF INTEREST
- The Docks: While generally the whole shadowport could be considered as 'The Docks', the docks on Tantus are known for how busy they are and occassionally chaotic when too many pirates dock. It is fitted with old but accessible fuel depots and each dock is big enough to host maintenance repairs of a ship.
- The Market: A black market of all wares including slaves. It is usually the most cacophonoc location on Tantus as it hosts also brothels and cantinas or both as usually one always had the other. The black markets wares variety depended on busyness of the shadowport as a whole.
- The Unexplored: A lot of the Gate still remains a mystery and what lies within is left to the imagination.
-Jump Gate Accelerator: While it could not longer be as before, the pirates were pragmatic enough to refitt a jump gate accelerator for quick escape
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Tantus Gate used to be a functional hypergate eons ago belonging to a prehistoric race seeking interstellar travel faster than light. Due to the extinction or complete migration of the technologically advanced race the future shadowport was left to 'rot' in the middle of nowhere till it became permanently inactive and impossible to restore its main function.
Thus when Captain Elda arrived by accident with his crew a few years before the end of the Gulag Plague, he realized the great opportunity of turning it into something useful - A shadowport. Named after the uninhabited star system of Tantus. Elda's ambition grew wanting the shadowport all for himself to boss
others around. To his unfortune when the Netherworld took more than half of his crew the shadowport's reign was ended with his death.
It is currently not owned.
