AMCO
I'm Sorry Dave
- Intent: A Hive of Science and Villainy for the Galaxy's shady corporations (and governments, whoever has the credits, really).
- Image Credit: Unknown Artist, found on various wallpaper sites.
- Point Polaris: Moonbase by François Coutu
- Research Station: Mars Research Station by Eva Kosmos
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: The Erex Holdings Corporation
- Astronomical Location Name: Erex Minora
- Classification: Moon
- Location: Orbits the gas giant Erex in the otherwise unremarkable G-EXI-K31 system within the Deep Core.
- Rotational Period: ~9 Days
- Orbital Period: ~42 Days (Planetary Orbit) | ~373 Days (Solar Orbit)
- Size: Medium; an upper-mid sized moon, ~0.19 Standard Gravities.
- Affiliation: The Erex Holdings Corporation (EHC); a joint venture by various individuals, corporations, and black budget governmental shell companies that serves as the otherwise uninhabited and unremarkable system's sorry excuse for a government. In theory the eight members of its Board exert supreme executive power over the system, but in practice the almighty credit rules supreme.
- Population: Sparse
- Demographics: Galaxy standard with a human majority, but tilted towards scientifically inclined species such as Arkanians. The entirety of the populace is either involved in or supporting its various research projects, with most security, service, and manual labour covered by droids.
- Accessibility: Located in the outskirts of the Deep Core, the Erex system is difficult but not impossible to reach without the navigational data greedily hoarded by the Board; a small flotilla of defence craft should be sufficient to ward off private actors, though governments would be faced by legions of lawyers and lobbyists instead, all citing the "planetary sovereignty" of Erex Minora despite the fact that the ECH is not a proper government and Erex Minora not a proper planet. Their
bribesdonations are quite good, however. - Description: A barren moon with no natural life nor even a stable atmosphere, Erex Minora would have remained unimportant, perhaps with the exception of a mid-sized mining colony or two, had it not been for the intervention of a consortium of investors interested in a remote location for their less than legitimate projects. Visitors are strongly discouraged outside Point Polaris, with even the dome-city being quite unwelcoming to those not employed by the ECH, its members, and their leaseholders. Expect a comfy suite and a tight leash, at best.
- Point Polaris: The only true settlement on the moon is Point Polaris, a dome-city located on the southern pole; well-tended parks surround its glittering highrises, providing a hint of life on an otherwise barren world. Given the nature of the colony, the vast majority of the residents are employed by various research corporations; living standards are high and amenities plentiful because of the specialised nature of the average employee and the necessary discretion required. Artificial gravity is calibrated to roughly 0.9 Standard, requiring slight readjustment for most new arrivals - the majority of which are funnelled through the local spaceport, famed for its overly rigorous screening protocols.
- Clankerton: The first settlement established on Erex Minora, this all-droid colony was parked atop a not insignificant diatium deposit as a test project for the Globex Corporation; it has remained under its original management even as the rest of the world was sold to the Erex Holdings Corporation, producing a steady stream of power cells under the strict supervision of its eccentric "mayor", Mr. Terminus. Given the absence of organic personnel, it has neither life support, nor artificial gravity, nor food of any kind and is primarily constructed from windowless prefabs.
- Site Eleven: Locally notorious and thoroughly avoided by anyone with even a scrap of sense, Site Eleven was the location of a Primyn Group facility dedicated to studying the Nether; something went wrong, and now demons allegedly walk its airless halls. After scrubbing the data storage the researchers promptly relocated to another location, Site Fourteen, and quickly resumed experimentation.
- Research Posts: Scattered across Erex Minora's pockmarked surface are a variety of outposts, stations, and compounds dedicated to all manner of risky or legally dubious research; all are owned by the ECH itself or the members of its Board, though a significant portion have been leased to external actors, with or without oversight. In most cases, Rapid Reaction Teams stand ready to respond to "incidents".
- The Great Crater: The striking reminder of an immensely destructive collision in ages past, the Great Crater is home to various research posts and a significant Corex presence attributable to extensive lommite deposits left behind by that primordial impact.
- The Corex Exogrid: Operated and maintained by the Corex Trading Company in exchange for exclusive rights to the system's uncountable asteroids, the Exogrid is a network of small-to-mid-sized unmanned space stations using tractor pressors to repel incoming space rocks. Theoretically usable against spaceborne invaders, but unlikely to accomplish much as the stations are otherwise unarmed.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Given the tumultuous nature of Deep Core exploration and the significant loss of records resulting from the Gulag Plague and the subsequent societal collapse, it is uncertain if Erex Minora had ever been surveyed before the Globex Survey Corps made landfall; if it had, whichever explorer first gazed upon it likely saw nothing of worth or value in the barren rock, for no remains of abandoned outposts or colonies have been found.
In recent years civilisation has finally found its way to this otherwise insignificant corner of the Deep Core, first in the form of Clankerton and its oddball droid administrator and then, with the chartering of the Erex Holdings Corporation, in what would become Point Polaris.
With no political aspirations or megalomaniacal dreams to speak of, the EHC seems content to pay lip service to whatever government's space it finds itself in, so long as it is allowed to maintain its precious privacy; there are advantages to such an arrangement, to be sure, for its lobbyists have deep purses and its scientific advances, however dubious in origin, are advances nonetheless - valuable ones, more often than not.
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