Jovan Colony

### Inhabitants

23% Human17% Trill13% Tellarite11% Benzite9% Caitian8% Betazoid7% Vulcan6% Ktarian4% Klingon2% Andorian

The Jovan Colony is located on the sixth planet of the Beta Jovan System. It is located one sector north of the Silk Road Trade route. It is a tropical planet with many small islands in the southern hemisphere. The Capitol, Refuge, is located on an pair of Equatorial islands 10 kilometers off the eastern continent.

## Stellar and Planetary Features

Beta Jovan is a Hot G class star that is about 20% larger than Sol. As such, the Goldilock Zone is farther away, leading to a longer year on Jovan Prime. The first two planets are small radiation blasted D-class worlds. Jovan III is a J-class gas giant with over 70 moons. Jovan IV might have been habitable save for the thick chlorine atmosphere. Jovan V has a deadly thin sandy world. Behind Jovan Prime are two P-Class gas giants, the closer one a brilliant jade green that can be seen from the colony's surface.

Jovan Prime, the Sixth planet from the star is an M-class planet with an active hydrosphere, and warm temperate planet with two large moons. These moons churn up the geological activity and lead to extreme tides, some upwards of twelve meters. These leads to a geologically rich world with load of interesting minerals that have been churned up from the core and deposited on the surface. Native life here is thin and hardy, as the duranium in the soil is toxic. Plant life have developed a special filtration and deposit system to get rid of the unwanted metal. Some trees integrate it into inorganic pillars within their structure in order to withstand the sometimes extreme storms the moons can turn up. Local fauna has developed arboreal life to make use of these trees.

## Locations of Interest

### Refuge City

Refuge was chosen because of the relatively nearby resources of the Eastern Continent., as well as the large body of water needed for disposal and recovery of fusion powered orbital launch vehicles. The Eastern Island is where the main city is located, with residential and commercial zones to the north and industrial forges and launch sites on the southern pennisial. The Western Island, merely a kilometer away, was preserved as a natural park and recreation zone. The Island is supplied by large Freighter Sea vessels out of the Port city of Surplus on the mainland.

### Mainland

The mainland southern continent is slowly being colonized from the West coast inward. Fifty or so kilometers into the continent, large flinty mountains from a continental plate being slammed upwards over hundreds of thousands of years. It is here that the duranium deposits, along with other precious ores and metals. Behind the mountain range is a leeward desert, hosting some of the hottest surface temperatures on the planet. Stretching north of the Island chain and across the equator was a large rainforest, full of exotic animals.

The Northern Continent and the small Western Continent has not been explored by foot and only has had courtesy flyby surveys.

## Economics

The Jovan System has a high concentration of Duranium Ore native on the inhabited planet. This makes it easy to mine and smelt without the need for artificial habitats and EV Suits. However, the high concentration of ore tends to make for poor farming, and the planet has to take great lengths to fertilize and farm fresh food. With the addition of the Next Generation fusion generator the USS Svalinn dropped off, the colonist are able top supplement their food supply with replicator rations.