Quesson

**Quesson** is a planet located in the Carnoth System in the Underground Region of the Unclaimed Regions. At first glance, Quesson appears to be just another barren heated world, but instead, Quesson is one of the main hubs of underground activity in the galaxy. Most of Quesson's surface is made up of barren, sandy deserts. However, extensive urbanization runs throughout the planet's crust, being built in canyon-like formations with buildings being literally built on top of one another. Quesson is often regarded as a place to hide out on due to its lack of laws or government.

## Ecology

Quesson is a planet located in the Carnoth System in the Underground Region of the Unclaimed Regions. Quesson orbits around a sun and has one moon which is barren. Quesson has a breathable atmosphere and a cool climate. Because of its elongated days and the nature of its sun as a red giant, the planet, despite primarily having a desert environment, is cool, having a low average temperature.

Quesson is mainly a heated world, meaning most of its surface is covered with deserts. The deserts mainly consist of sandy flats with a lack of noticeable terrain or features. The deserts have occasional rocky areas with large, falt formations of brown sandstone. Small lakes can be rarely scattered throughout the planet's surface; these lakes are salty and shallow.

Quesson is almost completely devoid of any local flora or fauna, being a near lifeless planet. Small shrubs and plants grow in the rocky areas of the deserts. The planet's only notable local fauna, a species of small rodents, lives in these rocky areas. More creatures live in the planet's cities, many of which arrived from arriving ships. Sayrats can be commonly found in Quesson's alleyways.

The desert surface of Quesson has frequent sandstorms that are violent in nature, making any permanent structures near impossible to maintain. This means most of Quesson's surface lacks any urbanization. Despite this, the planet features extensive cities built in canyon-like formations in strips along its surface. These cities are built into chasms carved directly into the planet's crust with the buildings being literally built on top of one another. These "city strips" run along for hundreds of kilometers across the planet, interconnecting at spaceport "hubs". Quesson has a public transport system consisting of a ramshackle hover-train system originally built for the mining colonies.

## Inhabitants and culture

As Quesson lacks any local inhabitants, it instead is home to hundreds of species from across the galaxy. The population is constantly fluctuating between two to four billion due to the fact that very few of the inhabitants of Quesson are permanent.

The lowest parts of Quesson's chasms houses the planet's dwindling miner population, who continue to harvest the planet's valuable minerals. Up above near the surface, the cities house a rotating population of criminals, gangsters, runaways, and soldiers, all flocking to planet due to its reputation as a "safe space".

The planet's cities lack any kind of government or law enforcement, with the local population having an "anything goes" mentality. The cities' underbellies is home to many of the most powerful gangs in the galaxy and being the birthplace of many more. This makes the various sections and layers of every city be split between gangs and factions, leading to constant gang violence.

As it is home to many species, Quesson has no one, set language, with hundreds of languages being spoken in its cities.

## History

Quesson was first discovered by Pessian Mining around 130 YBO back when it was headquartered in the Mine Region. Upon the discovery of small amounts of valuable minerals in the planet's crust, Pessian Mining sent a small contingent of mining colonies to the planet to extract the resources. Though Pessian Mining abandoned the planet around 20 YAO, the miners have remained, digging deeper into the planet's crust.

Quessons began to become a hub for the underground after a few Pessian miners began to illegally trade chemicals created from the planet's minerals. This attracted the attention of nearby crime groups, making them set up temporary bases in the miner's excavated rifts. Overtime, the planet attracted more attention until it gained its current status as a crime hub.

New buildings for the planet's cities were built on top of the old ones as they were moved deeper into the planet. The old Pessian Mining transport system became Quesson's own public transports. Eventually a few of the largest gangs headquarted on the planet made a pact to centralize the planet as a hub world, creating its central power system and its spaceports. Quesson has remained a hub for the underground since, with frequent violent engagements happening in its cities.

## Government and economy

Quesson is often regarded as one of the main hubs of underground activity due to its purposeful lack of any laws. The planet's cities lack any kind of government or law enforcement, with the local population having an "anything goes" mentality. This has lead to many of the major crime groups of the Unclaimed Regions to staking their claims on the planet's cities. This has led to vicious gang wars being commonplace with sections of each city being split amongst the gangs.

The only section of Quesson with any actual "law enforcement" is its main spaceports, with hired mercenaries acting as officers and security. This loose delegation of crime control allows the major gangs to maintain their control on the planet, and allows the planet to be largely ignored by the larger governments.

Quesson has created its own reputation as a "safe space" which has made it into a trading hub for the underground. The cities have major chemical trade markets, with numerous drug farms being hidden in the planet's backlots. The local businesses of Quesson have also embraced this reputation, relegating the entire planet as a "red-light district" with countless amounts of bars, sex clubs, and black markets.