Sune

Sune (Sune 0410 C5008D9-9 S Na Va A) is a celestial object and recognised member of the Confederated Systems in Lodestar Convoy.
== Physical Characteristics ==
Sune is a fairly small planet (roughly 8,000km in diameter) and as such has a gravity of around half of Old Earth's. The world is also devoid of an atmosphere. To offset this, though, Sune's single city of Zara has been augmented with an artificial atmosphere and gravity to produce the effect of a gravitic field more normal to humans. Sune itself is also very dry, being almost desert with only a few pockets of naturally-occurring water. The city of Zara is built on one such oasis, though it is nowhere near enough to keep the city's seven hundred million citizens sustained and so they rely on imported water from the rest of the Empire.
== Government & Politics ==
Since the tech extremists fled Ezeoba, Sune has been in control of Khyrsos Akhmetov. Khyrsos and his tech extremists believe in hoarding and monopolising the most advanced technologies in the galaxy and using it to augment the latent psionic abilities that humans are known to possess. The government is very restrictive to its citizens who are not members of the tech extremist faction and allows them only the most basic amenities to survive (reflective in the planet's tech level of nine, the tech extremist leadership is known to possess technologies at up to and possibly beyond tech level fourteen). Those members of the population who do become tech extremists and make it through the initiation are changed by the processes and swear unending fealty to the cause. Khyrsos Akhmetov has been alive for at least two hundred years, whether it be through technology, psionics, or anagathics is all speculation.
== Culture & Life ==
Life on Sune ultimately depends on your commitment to the tech extremist cause. If you're not one of them, you're likely hoping to get off the world as soon as possible which is easier said than done when the tech extremists need cheap unskilled labor to stay within the local economy. Those fortunate enough to leave Sune while they're able often leave with an intense dislike of their home planet and of its leadership. Being a tech extremist on Sune is a spiritual life of reverence for technology, psionics, and Khyrsos Akhmetov himself. All tech extremists are tested for their psionic ability and Sune is one of the very few planets in the Empire where psionics are not illegal or openly shunned. Those who succeed in testing for psionics often stay on the planet to hone their abilities in service to the tech extremist cause. Those who fail are often sent as missionaries to other planets to spread the word of tech extremism and to draw potential recruits to the homeworld of Sune. Many also whisper that the tech extremist missionaries present on nearly all worlds of the Empire are involved in a grand scheme to usurp the Emperor or some other such conspiracy. The Empire issues an amber warning for visitors to the planet due to the punishments for offending tech extremists or for actions perceived to be taken against the regime.
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