Volta

Volta is a planet in the Outer Colonies which possessed some mineral wealth, attracting the interest of a unnamed galactic conglomerate for exploitation. Analogous to the Solo Nobre Concern, the Volta Mining Concern was formed to operate a mining colony that straddled the terminator of the tidally-locked planet.SomethingAwful
Given the modest mineral availability on Volta, the VMC had no intention of building a permanent colony. Instead an "efficiency society" model was followed, using entirely disposable commodities whenever possible to save the tremendous cost of ever returning anything to orbit: paper plates, plastic utensils, prefab tent-like structures reinforced with concrete, etc. The only permanent installations built were pipelines, mining facilities, and a kind of space elevator to lift extracted resources off-planet.
This limited supply meant that everything on-planet was owned by the VMC. To protect what little assets there were, the skeleton crew of mining colonists were kept under continuous surveillance. As resources began to run dry and the VMC inflicted harsher treatment on the workers to meet increased quotas, the workers revolted, using the ubiquitous paper plates as masks to hide their faces from the cameras.
Following the breakdown of civil order and given the limited mineral wealth to begin with, the VMC cut its losses and abandoned the planet, leaving the colonists behind to survive in the ruins of what was never meant to be a permanent human habitation. Left to fend for themselves, the colonists degenerated into a sort of tribal society, rooted in feral violence over limited supplies and a ritualized reverence of anonymity.
The Man from Volta is one of the few Brigador pilots kept on payroll by the SNC, sent to Solo Nobre to assist in their action against the NEP.
Apparently, Volta produces auroch (an Earth type of cattle, extinct in the XVII century) meat. There's some unidentified negative quality to it, since there are accusations of Ed's having imported meat from there.
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