HPG Relay 1138

## System Info

66 Pegasi (Alectrona Prime) is a Red Dwarf that has two planets orbiting it, with only one of those being habitable. The outermost body is a icy planet, Alectrona II. This planet is a rocky world covered in ice and although it has a breathable atmosphere, that atmosphere is corrosive due to the high oxygen concentration. Creating hardships with creating any permanent colony due to the replacement costs of equipment. However, because of the high amounts of water found, ice is often mined from the planet for use on Alectrona I and the other habitats in the system.

Alectrona I is the only planet found in 66 Pegasi's habitable zone. Unlike many planets that are found surrounding Red Dwarves, is not tidally locked. It is suspected that this may be due to the 3 moons that are found in orbit around the planet. It is theorized that because of the close proximity these moons have to each other and to the planet, that they exert a pull that keeps the planet rotating. However this has yet to be proven by the Republic Science Academy.

### Locations

AKA Station: AKA Station is the sole recharging station in the system. It is in a static orbit around Alectrona II. What makes this station unique is that it has the capacity to charge multiple vessels at once without having any of them dock with the station. The use of Charging Automata drastically streamlines the process, allowing for ships to recharge while continuing to move about the system.

The Hive: Aside from the colony on Alectrona I, the system has several orbital habitats around both planets. Independent of both, is a massive station that is a series of O'Neil Cylinders linked together. This station is found between the two planets and is home to Alectrona's government and Outatoid Chemicals main offices.

The Docks: Currently this facility is undergoing a massive upgrade as the system prepares for trade with the Inner Sphere. This facility is capable of repairing and servicing up to 10 jumpships at the same time while acting as a port for 20 others. It has the facilities to act as a shipyard making limited design modifications, but is mostly focused on repairs only.

## History

Initially claimed by Outatoid Chemicals in 2275 during the New Suns Consortium's exploration of the area past the Aquila Rift. Outatoid's claim was unchallenged by the other members of the NSC when they announced the wanted to set up mining, refining, and refueling facilities on the system. Since the system looked worthless at the time, the proposition passed.

Outatoid Chemicals would turn the system into a major refueling and recharging station. Because of its location, it was the last system along the Trail to the NSC, without it's navigational beacons or recharge/refueling facilities, getting to the markets of those worlds would be near impossible.

Alectrona's was able to small outpost to grow into a series of larger, self sustaining, facilities. These included defense forces and naval assets to help with the protection of the system. What industry there was centered around mining for H3 and refining it into fuel for ships. Techs worked on those ships and maintained that HPG Relay Station that was there.

Alectrona was able to remain out of a majority of the fighting and avoided many of the worker unrest that plagued the other systems in the NSC. This was largely to how the system and Outatoid Chemicals were managed. When the Uprising occurred, Alectrona found itself having to declare itself neutral. This was due to fears that if the corporations of the Consortium believed they might be cut off from supplies and arms coming in from the Inner Sphere, they would turn and crush the system.

Once Kuritan naval ships began arriving the system would begin cutting off corporate ships and allowing DCMS sponsored aid to move freely into the region. Once the NSR was established, Alectrona joined and resumed it's day to day activities once again.

Alectrona would never grow beyond the facilities it had, the planet not being worth terraforming. However the facilities would continue to be ungraded and maintained to peak condition.

When Star League came, a garrison was placed to make sure the system and the Republic as a whole didn't join the other periphery nations during the Reunification Wars. However, the SLDF ships would find resistance in other forms. Slow downs or delays were commonplace. Many captains would find that their repairs would take longer or be waiting on parts. This continued until management and control was handed back to Outatoid/NSR leadership. Once that happened, the SLDF found things work much more efficiently.

When the decision to secede from the Star League was made in 2765 after the New Vandenburg Uprising, preparations were made to receive as many refugees from the other Trail worlds as possible before the navigational beacons and HPGs were shut down. There was a massive influx of ships moved through the system guarded by NSR/former SLDF warships. Rim World Republic forces had been sent with the First Lord's blessing to bring the small Republic to heel, and had begun working their way up the Trail. Once fighting had reached B'Xama, Aleactrona shut off its own beacons and began to abandon the facilities.

The system had been abandoned for over 400 years, with most of the facilities being maintained by robots or in standby mode. It wasn't until a small force of Word of Blake militia fleeing the Inner Sphere mis-jumped into the system that it was noticed again. Having accidentally activated the early warning system, the WoB forces unwittingly attracted the attention of a small group of Clan Wolves in Exile. Arriving to investigate the signal, a fight broke out in which the Word of Blake forces were destroyed. Shortly after, a team from the NSR arrived and control of the system has currently been reestablished.

## Planetary Info

### Geography

The landscape on Alectrona is rocky and mostly barren. There are slight changes in elevation with varying rock formations scattered across its surface. The surface is covered in a light grasslands and scrub. The few sources of water are shallow lakes that form in the at night when it is coolest and evaporate during the day in depressions found near the poles and in the deeper part of the canyons around the southern hemisphere. There is a vast cavern network that connects the canyons, suggesting that the planet was once volcanically active in its distant past.

### Locations

Alectrona has only a few settlements and those are located in the canyons. There are many small surface outposts related to mining and tracking but most of these are only for a few dozen to hundred people at the most. The only exception to this is HPG Relay 1138. This massive communications hub is the size of a city and serves not only as a manifold for several Hyperpulse Generators, but as a major space port facility. Currently, SunStar Communication is updating these systems and bringing them online with the Super-Luminal Communications Network. It is unknown if a K2 Tube will be built here or not.