Post by Captain Benjamin Maxwell on Jun 20, 2005 8:54:26 GMT -5
Planet Details: Rochelle
Star Type: K7V
Position in System: 2 (of 6)
Number of Moons: 3 (Derika, Nohea, and Ululani, plus dust ring)
Days to Jump Point: 4
Surface Water: 86%
Atm. Pressure: Standard (Tainted)
Surface Gravity: 0.74
Equatorial Temp: 40° C
Highest Native Life: Reptiles
Population: 1,710,000,000
Governor: Preston Petrokovich
Planetary Legate: Piotr Illiarveski
OVERVIEW:
With vast mineral resources capable of sustaining a broad industrial base, and further blessed by an abundant water supply and soil rich enough for planting, Rochelle was an easy colony world to establish and settle in the early days of mankind’s race to the stars. After the fall of the Terran Alliance, this world became a part of the Federation of Skye, thanks to a trading alliance with the McQuiston family on Skye, which further boosted its economic and industrial growth, until its subsequent conquest by the nearby Free Worlds League. In the wars that followed the collapse of the original Star League, Rochelle and its material wealth were hotly contested, and it was particularly ravaged during the savagery of the First and Second Succession Wars. In fact, as the Second War finally ground to a halt, House Marik’s economic experts concluded that the mining, refining, and manufacturing centers on Rochelle had become hopelessly damaged by the widespread use of weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, so much nuclear and chemical waste had been released in the past eight decades of warfare that the League officially classified Rochelle as “unsalvageable”; reconstruction efforts were soon abandoned, and the planet virtually evacuated. Despite this, the proud people who remained on Rochelle, suffered through two centuries of war and death, but continued to mine valuable ore for export to industries deeper within the League. For a time, the world even became the headquarters of MediQuick, an interstellar mobile medical services corporation that offered its services to close to two dozen worlds on the Steiner-Marik border, until questionable business practices led to that company’s demise. Despite the best efforts of the locals, the economy and infrastructure of this tortured and poisoned world continued to erode, leaving it a mere border post for League military forces to guard against their Lyran counterparts. During the Jihad, Lyran strike teams assaulted Rochelle in retaliation for renegade Free Worlds attacks, laying waste to the crumbling capital city of Arzenburg, on the northern continent of Caredon. Not until the world was ceded to Devlin Stone’s nascent Republic would Rochelle’s fortunes finally begin to turn for the better. Buoyed by an influx of new residents and the funds from the “peace dividend” made possible by dismantling armies, this world has finally begun to show signs of recovery from centuries of relentless warfare. The capital city, New Arzenburg, has just completed an expansion to its spaceport, opening up the planet to ore traffic as the mines on Caredon, now under the control of Rochelle Interstellar Incorporated, have begun to produce again. Rochelle’s other continent, the southern landmass of Martinasia, however, remains largely abandoned, thanks to the high radiation and acid rains, lasting effects of the first two Succession Wars.
Star Type: K7V
Position in System: 2 (of 6)
Number of Moons: 3 (Derika, Nohea, and Ululani, plus dust ring)
Days to Jump Point: 4
Surface Water: 86%
Atm. Pressure: Standard (Tainted)
Surface Gravity: 0.74
Equatorial Temp: 40° C
Highest Native Life: Reptiles
Population: 1,710,000,000
Governor: Preston Petrokovich
Planetary Legate: Piotr Illiarveski
OVERVIEW:
With vast mineral resources capable of sustaining a broad industrial base, and further blessed by an abundant water supply and soil rich enough for planting, Rochelle was an easy colony world to establish and settle in the early days of mankind’s race to the stars. After the fall of the Terran Alliance, this world became a part of the Federation of Skye, thanks to a trading alliance with the McQuiston family on Skye, which further boosted its economic and industrial growth, until its subsequent conquest by the nearby Free Worlds League. In the wars that followed the collapse of the original Star League, Rochelle and its material wealth were hotly contested, and it was particularly ravaged during the savagery of the First and Second Succession Wars. In fact, as the Second War finally ground to a halt, House Marik’s economic experts concluded that the mining, refining, and manufacturing centers on Rochelle had become hopelessly damaged by the widespread use of weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, so much nuclear and chemical waste had been released in the past eight decades of warfare that the League officially classified Rochelle as “unsalvageable”; reconstruction efforts were soon abandoned, and the planet virtually evacuated. Despite this, the proud people who remained on Rochelle, suffered through two centuries of war and death, but continued to mine valuable ore for export to industries deeper within the League. For a time, the world even became the headquarters of MediQuick, an interstellar mobile medical services corporation that offered its services to close to two dozen worlds on the Steiner-Marik border, until questionable business practices led to that company’s demise. Despite the best efforts of the locals, the economy and infrastructure of this tortured and poisoned world continued to erode, leaving it a mere border post for League military forces to guard against their Lyran counterparts. During the Jihad, Lyran strike teams assaulted Rochelle in retaliation for renegade Free Worlds attacks, laying waste to the crumbling capital city of Arzenburg, on the northern continent of Caredon. Not until the world was ceded to Devlin Stone’s nascent Republic would Rochelle’s fortunes finally begin to turn for the better. Buoyed by an influx of new residents and the funds from the “peace dividend” made possible by dismantling armies, this world has finally begun to show signs of recovery from centuries of relentless warfare. The capital city, New Arzenburg, has just completed an expansion to its spaceport, opening up the planet to ore traffic as the mines on Caredon, now under the control of Rochelle Interstellar Incorporated, have begun to produce again. Rochelle’s other continent, the southern landmass of Martinasia, however, remains largely abandoned, thanks to the high radiation and acid rains, lasting effects of the first two Succession Wars.