TFL/Lenin's Star

# Lenin's Star (Rodnaya)

* Population: 2 million humans and a few aliens live in the system's 3 mostly habitable planets.
* Major industries: Imports industrial equipment, hypermatter fuel, starships, and armaments and exports food and trace amounts of precious metals, rare earth metals, and artisan luxury goods.
* Star Nation: Sole system in the Collective of Rodina
* Notable quirks: Lenin's Star is a stop for desperate tramp freighters, hoping to arrange a profitable trade of just about anything for a few tons of precious metals. This generally fails.

Rodnaya, otherwise known as Lenin’s Star, is an unremarkable system not near any major trade routes. It was first surveyed centuries ago by Solar League explorers who deemed it not worth the investment to inhabit, preferring the more valuable systems that eventually become Korsigar and the various worlds of the Celestial Dragon Empire and Confederated Stars of Ursa. Shortly thereafter, political upheaval on Earth caused a diaspora of 250,000 pioneers in five slow transport ships to settle it under a collective government. A few generations after settlement things seem to be operating more or less as one would expect. There has been slight immigration in the intervening time; total population is now just over 2 million.

## Astrography

There are three nominally habitable planets in the system:

**Ah** is relatively poor in mineral wealth but is atmospherically and hydrologically suited to both land and sea farming. Shallow seas and swamps dominate the surface topography but there are plains of moderate elevation allowing for more conventional crops. The population is estimated at 400,000

**Be** is the largest and most populous planet in Rodnaya. It is also the only planet with a ‘full service’ starport, is home to the capitol city, Moskva, and has the only university. Whatever outside commerce is conducted with The Collective takes place here, though they do not produce particularly attractive trade goods. The population is estimated at 1,700,000.

**Ve** is moderately rich in common minerals, but not in anything exotic or particularly valuable. The thin toxic atmosphere makes pressurized atmospheric shelters a necessity. The distance from the star and frequent dust storms provide poor light conditions for both solar collection and terraforming vegetation. Semiautomated mining robots and smelters are operated and maintained locally, but built on Be. The population is estimated at 100,000.

Lenin's Star is notably poor in asteroid, satellite, and orbital settlements. A few Cole habitat asteroids orbit Be or its Lagrange points, but the O'Neil cylinders that are common in other systems are too expensive for the Collective.

## Population & Demographics

The inhabitants of this system are overwhelmingly Human (>90%), but residents of any species are welcome. There are members of every know oxygen breathing, sentient race residing in Rodnaya, though it is not clear how ideologically aligned some are to the explicit mandates of the government. Special heterogeneity does occasionally cause contention in the rules, e.g. some short lived races insist that their mandatory service time is prorated against the human standard.