of state, called in response to the
increasing use of antimatter as a weapon, and has served as home to
the Confederation Assembly ever since. There are over 1,500,000
accredited diplomats and their staff, providing a substantial boost
to the local economy. As well as the Assembly compound, the
Confederation Navy has its main headquarters in Trafalgar, orbiting
110,000km above the planet. This asteroid was moved into position by
the Avon government, and handed over in its entirety to the
Confederation. Avon corporate orbital industry stations provide the
systems to maintain the asteroid, and Avon companies performed the
civil engineering work needed to produce the caverns.
Economy
Avon’s economy has
benefited enormously from the Confederation presence. Planetary
service industries support the Assembly compound and the embassies.
The asteroid settlement industry stations are heavily (though not
exclusively) involved with Confederation fleet contracts. As a
consequence, the starship manufacturing capability among the local
asteroid settlements is almost as advanced as Earth’s and the
Kulu Kingdom’s.
There are fifteen asteroid
settlements in orbit around the planet (including Trafalgar), and
eighty-four independent settlements in the asteroid belt. The
asteroid settlement population is 15,000,000.
The safety provided by
basing the 1st Fleet in this system means that piracy has become
essentially nonexistent, which in conjunction with the large influx
of starships on government business has helped establish Avon as a
substantial port in its own right.
He3Mining
There is a large Edenist
presence in the Avon system, orbiting Ocymum. There are twelve
cloudscoops mining the gas giants, providing fuel for the copious
starship traffic as well as the rest of the system’s industrial
facilities.
The cloudscoops are tended
by twenty-five bitek habitats, which possess a considerable number of
attendant industrial stations. Many joint commercial enterprises have
been formed with the Adamist asteroid settlements, and Avon
companies. The Edenist population is 45,000,000.
Trafalgar
Trafalgar is a stony-iron asteroid, approximately the shape of a
peanut, 11km long, and 4.5km at its widest. There are three
cylindrical chambers hollowed into it, each 3.5km long and 1.5km in
radius. All of these support numerous caverns. It has two large
spherical counter-rotating spaceports, and three docking ridge ledges
at each end for voidhawks and blackhawks. The asteroid has no
attendant industrial stations like ordinary asteroid settlements.
Legally, the asteroid is
Confederation territory and the First Admiral is its governor,
responsible for all civil and military aspects of its operation.
There is no internal industry or economy, all supplies coming from
the Avon system, although there are protein vats which can support
the population in an emergency.
Trafalgar is home to the
Navy Academy, which trains all career officers. It also houses the
principal Marine training barracks.
Its population is 80 percent
transient. There are many civilian employees providing basic
engineering and administrative services, and a small entertainments
and leisure activities trade flourishes, mainly restaurants and clubs
for off-duty personnel. These establishments are usually Avon company
franchises. For long-term leave, naval personnel normally visit the
planet itself.
The civilian contract worker
population is 125,000, and the naval personnel 190,000 (including 1st
Fleet crews).
6. Lalonde
Lalonde is a terracompatible
planet 319 light-years from Earth. Colonization is open to both
humans and Tyrathca.
Star System Physical Data
There are five solid planets
and five gas giants. The star is a G7 type. There is one asteroid
belt.
The solid planets:
The asteroid belt orbits
between 372m and 485m km from the star.
There are five gas giants.
Lalonde
Physical
Data
The planet has a rotation
period of 26 hours 19 minutes, and a year
increasing use of antimatter as a weapon, and has served as home to
the Confederation Assembly ever since. There are over 1,500,000
accredited diplomats and their staff, providing a substantial boost
to the local economy. As well as the Assembly compound, the
Confederation Navy has its main headquarters in Trafalgar, orbiting
110,000km above the planet. This asteroid was moved into position by
the Avon government, and handed over in its entirety to the
Confederation. Avon corporate orbital industry stations provide the
systems to maintain the asteroid, and Avon companies performed the
civil engineering work needed to produce the caverns.
Economy
Avon’s economy has
benefited enormously from the Confederation presence. Planetary
service industries support the Assembly compound and the embassies.
The asteroid settlement industry stations are heavily (though not
exclusively) involved with Confederation fleet contracts. As a
consequence, the starship manufacturing capability among the local
asteroid settlements is almost as advanced as Earth’s and the
Kulu Kingdom’s.
There are fifteen asteroid
settlements in orbit around the planet (including Trafalgar), and
eighty-four independent settlements in the asteroid belt. The
asteroid settlement population is 15,000,000.
The safety provided by
basing the 1st Fleet in this system means that piracy has become
essentially nonexistent, which in conjunction with the large influx
of starships on government business has helped establish Avon as a
substantial port in its own right.
He3Mining
There is a large Edenist
presence in the Avon system, orbiting Ocymum. There are twelve
cloudscoops mining the gas giants, providing fuel for the copious
starship traffic as well as the rest of the system’s industrial
facilities.
The cloudscoops are tended
by twenty-five bitek habitats, which possess a considerable number of
attendant industrial stations. Many joint commercial enterprises have
been formed with the Adamist asteroid settlements, and Avon
companies. The Edenist population is 45,000,000.
Trafalgar
Trafalgar is a stony-iron asteroid, approximately the shape of a
peanut, 11km long, and 4.5km at its widest. There are three
cylindrical chambers hollowed into it, each 3.5km long and 1.5km in
radius. All of these support numerous caverns. It has two large
spherical counter-rotating spaceports, and three docking ridge ledges
at each end for voidhawks and blackhawks. The asteroid has no
attendant industrial stations like ordinary asteroid settlements.
Legally, the asteroid is
Confederation territory and the First Admiral is its governor,
responsible for all civil and military aspects of its operation.
There is no internal industry or economy, all supplies coming from
the Avon system, although there are protein vats which can support
the population in an emergency.
Trafalgar is home to the
Navy Academy, which trains all career officers. It also houses the
principal Marine training barracks.
Its population is 80 percent
transient. There are many civilian employees providing basic
engineering and administrative services, and a small entertainments
and leisure activities trade flourishes, mainly restaurants and clubs
for off-duty personnel. These establishments are usually Avon company
franchises. For long-term leave, naval personnel normally visit the
planet itself.
The civilian contract worker
population is 125,000, and the naval personnel 190,000 (including 1st
Fleet crews).
6. Lalonde
Lalonde is a terracompatible
planet 319 light-years from Earth. Colonization is open to both
humans and Tyrathca.
Star System Physical Data
There are five solid planets
and five gas giants. The star is a G7 type. There is one asteroid
belt.
The solid planets:
The asteroid belt orbits
between 372m and 485m km from the star.
There are five gas giants.
Lalonde
Physical
Data
The planet has a rotation
period of 26 hours 19 minutes, and a year
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