GONDARS

### Starport

C (Routine, 500Cr Berth, Unrefined Fuel, Repairs, Small Craft Shipyard) Research Base, TAS Hostel

## BACKGROUND

Gondars used to be an administrative and manufacturing centre for local systems as the Bwap population provided paperwork for businesses and high end clientele from THITURN to XEDRIANOPE. Gondars' heights, however, rapidly declined as the systems around them descended into war and ecological disaster, reducing their need for administration.

In response, the population of Gondars panicked and, some might say, dramatically overreacted. As it started with a tiny population of technical workers, it put it's technical know-how towards batch cloning it's population with the knowledge and desire to perform different tasks as needed, from farming to construction. Over the last few decades, cloning has become the standard method of reproduction in the system, and the concept of sex for reproduction is now considered bizarre and inefficient.

## GOVERNMENT AND FACTIONS

Gondars is run by a small democracy of cloned members who discuss and make rulings on how life is run on the planets' surface. Unlike most democracies, every ten years every member of society votes on the personality traits they want in their new member of parliament, and the representative is then expected to vote based on how they have been programmed to feel.

Travellers will mostly deal with the OFFWORLDER AGENCY, a group of bureaucrats, merchants and security officers that have been custom-built to be xenophiles, but with a subconscious desire to get the best deal for Gondars. While efficient, many visitors to Gondars find the Offworlder Agency to be almost creepily willing to help.

While clones are grown with specific personalities and skillsets, they still grow and develop like any other people. A faction that has a constant influx of new members is known as BIRTHERS, and their main stance is on dismantling the cloning vats entirely and going back to natural reproduction. Essentially a tiny niche faction with a loud voice, if you spend any time on Gondars, you will need an opinion on them.

Recently set up, OPERATION PROACT has begun assembling specialists both from Gondars and offworld who may be able to aid in the field of terraforming. They are planning to rebuild the atmosphere of CHARVIS in the hopes that the scientific breakthroughs will aid their own planet's recovery too.

## LEGAL NOTES

Life is a significant investment of resources on Gondars, and therefore all lethal weapons are banned on the planet's surface. Even Gondar's small but efficient military uses stun weapons to incapacitate rather than kill. Any and all armour is legally allowed on Gondars, but there is a societal pressure to not walk around in full battle dress - expecting a fight is seen as inviting a fight.

Gondars has a fairly large drug problem, as societal pressure to perform at your assigned role can lead to taking stimulants to improve performance, or depressants to aid relaxation. It is such a problem that smuggling drugs into the system is treated on the same level as murder and can get you exiled permanently from the system.

## PEOPLE

HESTIA LANTOS - TAS hostel manager.

KRAEKO - A diplomat and fixer that works on Operation Proact.