HPG Relay 1138

## System Info

Alectrona is a K9 IV Orange subgiant surrounded by a vast asteroid field with a small desert-like world occupying it's outer orbit. The asteroid fields appears to be the debris of several planets that were in Aleactrona's orbit previous, but either had collided or were stuck my some outside object.

The remaining planet has a stable orbit slight above the stellar plane of the asteroid belt, making it visible to the naked eye at night due to the light reflected off the objects in the belt. It also has 3 moons that follow each other closely in orbit around the planet. It is possible that the moons position to each other, and their orbit around the planet, may account for the fast rotation that Alectrona displays.

## Planetary Info

### 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 it's 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.

With the resources in the belt, 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 nor the moons being all that valuable in resources either. 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 seceed 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 it's 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 stand-by mode. It wasn't until a small force of Word of Blake militia fleeing the Inner Sphere misjumped 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.

### 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.