BIG Z1776
Baboon with a MAAWS
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Crossroads-30 was a colony started by a contract deal between Kuat Drive Yards and Crossroads Defense Industries. With a population almost entirely descended from Kuati workers who were hired on to build Crossroads Prime's fleets they have stayed due to the excellent working conditions, opportunities for advancement, lower taxes, and distance from the conflicts closer to the Core. Ever since then, Crossroads-30 has been a unique colony of Crossroads Prime with unique agriculture, industrial practices (Part of its colonization deal with KDY), and unique architecture. It is a more formal group of citizens, who are proud of their Kuati heritage, but as part of their colonization deal the current residents are full citizens with requirements to military service like anyone else with Crossroads citizenship.
- Intent: Create a colony for the faction Crossroads Republic Armed Forces
- Image Credit: N/A
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Crossroads, Crossroads Republic Armed Forces
- Astronomical Location Name: K-20
- Classification: Moon
- Location: Terminus System
- Rotational Period: ~16 Hours
- Orbital Period: 63 Days (Around Crossroads)
- Size: Medium (x0.6 Earths @0.4G)
- Affiliation: Crossroads Republic Armed Forces
- Population: Moderate
- Demographics: ~230,000,000
- 90% Human (Predominantly descended from Kuati colonists)
- 10% Other
- Accessibility: Next to a trade hub
- Description:
- A pock-marked grayish-white rock which is too small to support an atmosphere. There are several semi-underground cities on the surface with durasteel and transparisteel with a mix of underground and on-surface highway tubes with rails for mag-lev trains and speeder traffic. All of the lived-in facilities with artificial gravity are, by law, required to set their gravity to mimic the heavier gravity of Crossroads Prime to insure that military recruits possess the biological strength that is required to potentially serve on Crossroads Prime, which makes it somewhat harder to live on Crossroads-30 for non-humans whose physiology may not be as adaptable to heavy gravity.
- Large transparisteel domed botanic farms growing a vast variety of produce and small herds of livestock surround the cities on the surface. They are successful enough to grow enough produce to export much of it for sale. These crops and livestock are almost entirely from Kuati sources due to the fact that the colony is almost entirely Kuati.
- Structures are quite safe from the moon itself due to lack of strong tectonic activity.
- Has some huge shipbuilding complexes built identically to those on Crossroads-4 except that the gravity is much lighter on this world and allows for much larger ships and components to be manufactured and assembled here beneath retracting shielded protective hangars with their cranes and material-movers built into the superstructure that are mostly there to protect the slipways from small asteroids and from passive recon attempts.
- Most of the shipbuilding facilities are civilian-oriented, but the largest facilities are Crossroads Defense Industries facilities, with large defense networks.
- There are some mines on the surface which are there to gather duracrete raw aggregate.
- Domed semi-underground cities.
- Large spreads of domed botanical farms.
- Large military shipyards dug into the surface.
- Widespread surface and underground factories and civilian shipyards.
- Surface mines.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Crossroads-30 was a colony started by a contract deal between Kuat Drive Yards and Crossroads Defense Industries. With a population almost entirely descended from Kuati workers who were hired on to build Crossroads Prime's fleets they have stayed due to the excellent working conditions, opportunities for advancement, lower taxes, and distance from the conflicts closer to the Core. Ever since then, Crossroads-30 has been a unique colony of Crossroads Prime with unique agriculture, industrial practices (Part of its colonization deal with KDY), and unique architecture. It is a more formal group of citizens, who are proud of their Kuati heritage, but as part of their colonization deal the current residents are full citizens with requirements to military service like anyone else with Crossroads citizenship.
