TFL/Blaog-delt

# Blaog-delt

* Population: 3 billion Varana, 500 million humans, and 500 million other aliens live on the moons of Blaog-delt III, a gas giant about 1.7 AU from the primary. Three massive Standford torii are populated by non-Varana and handle much of the orbital trade.
* Major industries: High traffic armory, mining, and refinery system that buys industrial equipment and sells armaments, precious metals, rare earth metals, and refined chemicals. Industrial metals are cheap here.
* Star Nation: Continuance Protective Concordance (CPC)
* Notable quirks: Three separate governments each control a major settlement on a different moon, one of the torii, and smaller settlements on other moons. Two of the governments make no effort to enforce CPC trade tariffs; the third enforces them aggressively, even on spacecraft heading to the other government's territories.
Hypermatter reaction fuel is 10% more expensive here.

Blaog-delt has 3 major Varansi governments.

## United Varansi Federation (UVF)

The UVF controls Blaog-Delt III Chi "Clites", the most habitable of Blaog-Delt III's moons. It isn't remotely habitable without significant technological assistance or genetic engineering: a low pressure atmosphere with minimal oxygen and an overabundance of carbon dioxide with daytime high temperatures insufficient to melt ice is hostile to all species in the Fringe. Nonetheless, the Varana have colonized it, and roughly 1.5 billion genetically modified Varana live there now.

The UVF is a charter government in the CPC, and has a great deal of influence. The UVF pushed for the CPC's tariffs, and takes enforcement of them seriously. The UVF maintains several Customs Patrol task forces built around 1-2 light carriers with fusion hyper rockets, various escorts, and a dozen or more starfighters. These task forces will attempt to intercept blockade runners trying to avoid paying the tariff, even if the runners aren't dealing with UVF companies. However, with the density of traffic around Blaog-Delt III's moons makes the task very difficult.

The UVF controls the majority of Blaog-Delt hypermatter refineries, and hypermatter reaction mass is 5% cheaper at Vitomotu, their Standford Torus space station.

Clites
Gravity: 0.38 g
Escape velocity: 3.1 mps, 2.2 mps to orbit.
Density: 3 g/cm^3
Mean equatorial temperature at noon: 20 F.
Atmosphere: Very thin (0.4 atm), 55% carbon dioxide, 20% nitrogen, 15% oxygen, 10% trace gasses.
Population: 1.5 billion.
## Democratic Citizen's Concordance of Isha-Brud (DCCIB)

The local DCCIB is colony branch of the main DCCIB government at Isha-Brud. Nearly 1 billion Varana live in tunnels on the airless moon of Blaog-Delt III Mu "Thales".

The DCCIB is a military dictatorship. The previous dictator supported the CPC's tariffs, but the current dictator is opposed to them, and the DCCIB is lax about reporting or investigating freight hauling spacecraft that land to deliver cargo directly to any of the DCCIB's many, many scattered mining camps and weapons factories. The DCCIB does maintain a small naval squadron.

Thales is notable producer of cheap, slightly outdated weapon systems, from hand held practice lasers to massive UV spinal particle accelerators for spacecraft. In theory, the DCCIB strictly controls who can purchase weapons. In practice, corruption is endemic and sufficient bribes allow for just about anyone to buy just about anything.

Thales
Gravity: 0.19 g
Escape velocity: 1.8 mps, 1.3 mps to orbit.
Density: 4.5 g/cm^3
Mean equatorial temperature at noon: 220 F, dropping to -260 F at night.
Atmosphere: Vacuum.
Population: 1 billion.
## Improving Future Alliance (IFA)

The IFA is another multi-system Varansi government with a presence in Blaog-Delt. The IFA is an extreme direct democracy where every citizen votes on just about everything; there are limited protections for minorities and tradition but radical policy shifts are common. Currently, the IFA is not supporting CPC tariffs, but individual Customs Patrol commanders have a great deal of leeway for intercepting smugglers and blockade runners.

The IFA controls Blaog-Delt III Phi "Racli", a hot world with a dense carbon nitrogen atmosphere. Some 500 million genetically modified Varana live at the poles, where the temperatures are just unbearably hot. The IFA also controls Blaog-Delt III Sigma "Guges", an inhospitable moon with a thick methane atmosphere.

Racli
Gravity: 0.37 g
Escape velocity: 2.7 mps, 1.9 mps to orbit.
Density: 5.4 g/cm^3
Mean equatorial temperature at noon: 180 F, dropping to 120 F at night.
Atmosphere: Dense (4 atm), 85% carbon dioxide, 10% oxygen, 5% trace gasses.
Population: 1 billion.
Guges
Gravity: 0.35 g
Escape velocity: 4.0 mps, 2.8 mps to orbit.
Density: 3.6 g/cm^3
Mean equatorial temperature at noon: -200 F with minimal variation.
Atmosphere: Dense (4.5 atm), 80% nitrogen, 10% methane, 5% oxygen, 5% trace gasses.
Population: Less than 1 million.
**Warning**: Methane stoichiometry is unpredictable and open flames or energy weapon discharges on the surface will sometimes ignite pockets of methane.