Concept for hostile will be a planet with multiple colonies upon it. It would be left type of planet with a thick Arctic and forest band great Plains and then mineral deposits and petrichemical around a belt and under the sea. It has one principal landmass and some smaller islands.
It is a tidally locked earth sized moon of a gas giant in the Poe System, the Moon is titled Roderick and the Gas Giant Usher. At night the surface of usher – pinks and purples dominates the sky. It is a swelteringly hot planet through moist – those who work on the surface make use of coolant and hydration suits (though these are often not available for hired hands or indentured transportees.)
I am only sketching the three mainly colonies here while I have ideas for smaller colonies ‘squatters’ etc I would like a lots of that to come from the players.
Major Colonies
New Averoigne
A corporate colony of the Eraetoille Societie Anoyme (ESA) a Eurostat registered corporation. It claims the majority of the forested belt operating a hunt out-chop down-grow up model.
First coureurs des bois (runners of the woods) trapper/hunter gangs go in and clear out the indigenous wildlife which can be dangerous but who’s hides are sought luxury items and various body parts have commerical uses. That makes it safe for the lumberjacks to go in and then the farmers settle the land largely to supply food and shelter to the lumberjack and trapping operations gor the severe winters.
The capital and starport of the colony is Vyônes. There is a very small Corporate Gendarmarie & a platoon of Legion Estrange but most settlers have weapons and are considered a militia.
The population is largely francophone african with a string Sengalese presence.
Several ‘free’ colonies of refugees, religious extremists or wildcatters squat on New Averoigne declared territory but it hasn’t been worth disposing of them yet.
Bucephalus (Bleuchy)
A United Americas cattle ranching colony operated by ConAm (Consolidated Amalgumated. ) Colonists pay for a territory to ranch and then are largely on their own though they have to purchase supplies, stock etc through ConAm.
Through ConAms extensive investment in correctional facilities they can also purchase Indentured Transportees (ITs) who work off their sentence and are then free. They can even get a replicant or android correctional supervisor for their ITs. There is also an option to lease troubled teens as part of ConAms Colonial Rehabitation service they offer to parents of trouble youngsters.
The only is dominated by large ranches of cattle supported by a hub of small towns – Cranford, Bright Hope, Clagmoor Heath, Kingston Falls, Darrington and Aberbygum.
The spaceport and capital is Jedward’s Holler – the governor, corporate HQ, the courts, federal marshals and a Air Cavalry squadrion of United America’s Army troops are based there.
There are squatter colonies on Bleuchy land but they are heavily harassed by ranchers. Escapee ITs also sent up settlements or bandit camps.
Blackmoor
This is an operation in the coastal mountains and under the neighboring seas performing mining and petrochemical extraction under the control of the Atlas Outland Group (AOG) with no state involvement.
Miners, wildcatters and other workers are brought in on long term contracts. On the mining site the sites are dry of booze and drugs, there are no weekends and nothing gets in the way of the job. They sleep in crampt cots and often dont see daykight for weeks (in particular in the undersea mines.) The authorities akso put on violent sports spectacles for the workers each Sector having a team.
Once a month they get a weekend off most head to the captial Blackday for debuchary at its strip joints, bars, brothels abd gambling dens (all operated by the company.) A recurring musical festival Bad Rock at Blackday at the Tivolli Pleasuredome another feature of the debauchery.
None of this applies to the senior company people based in Blackday who have full access to its pleasures including ‘furniture’ companions with their sumptious corporate apartments in the monroe heights apartments. (if their spouse has been unable to join them.)
Rail and pipe lines run products to the soaceport at Blackday.
AOG SecPol (Security Police) takes pride in recruiting brutal and disgraced cops and police and honing their proclivities to protect shareholder value.
The principle mining sectors are Gygax, Greyhawk, Overlord, Harn and Marrakesh. The principle petrochemical sectors are Mongoose, Cepheus, Chadwick and Miller. Mines/Rigs are numbered within them ie Overlord 6 or Miller 5.
Criminal bootlegger and drugcooker gangs operate in the hills supplying the needs of miners on shift. They are populated by folks frol other colonies or AOG crew who ran off their contract. SecPol runs Operation Arneson- the Company hires freelance gangs of mercenaries to go up in the caves and abandoned mines they use and destroy them.
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