TFL/Korsigar

# Korsigar (Nu Ceti)

* Population: 500 million humans and 250 million aliens (mostly Vraz) live on Korsigar II (Korsigar), along with 1 million Rosettan Kun invaders. The lone Orbital Beanstalk is controlled by the Kun, and the various Korsigar independence movements are being starved of outside supplies.
* Major industries: Factory system that buys electronics and sells industrial equipment.
* Star Nation: Vrazskla-z Authority
* Notable quirks: There is active but low level guerilla war going on in the Korsigar hinterlands. Rosetta interdicts advanced technology, especially weapons, to the insurgents. The orbitals under Kun control continue to business normally.

The Rosettan invasion of Korsigar would go smoother except it is completely illegal under Authority law, and Rosettan military craft cannot readily intercept smugglers without risking Authority intervention.

Korsigar (Nu Ceti II)
Gravity: 0.9 g
Escape velocity: 6.4 mps, 4.5 mps to orbit.
Density: 4.3 g/cm^3
Mean equatorial temperature at noon: 140 F, dropping to 50 F at night.
Atmosphere: Standard (1.1 atm), 74% nitrogen, 10% oxygen, 10% carbon dioxide, 5% trace gasses.
Ocean Coverage: 80%, with 2 continents in the northern hemisphere, 1 in at south pole, and numerous equatorial islands.
Population: 750 million.
Korsigar has an extremely polluted orbital space, aside from a narrow column around the orbital beanstalk. The pollution tends to be high albedo and radar reflective, and significantly complicates Kun attempts to control access to Korsigar.
Korsigar is a hot garden world with an extremely high ratio of carbon dioxide to oxygen in its atmosphere. Most organic species need genetic adaption or technological filters to safely breathe, but many species adapt easily and grow invasively like weeds. Most of the human and Vraz population are not genetically adapted, but their livestock usually is. The Kun invaders preferentially select adapted gene lines for the garrison.

Most of the population lives near the poles, where the temperature is temperate to cold. Since agriculture on Korsigar is trivially easy, the population focused on manufacturing early on, starting with farming tools but moving on to build just about anything.

The Kun invasion is surprisingly low key: most of the limited fighting involved surgical strikes to take control of the orbital beanstalk and communication facilities, and ownership of those assets was sold to Kun front companies. The Kun have since shifted to economically dominating the population and encouraging or forcing them to shift more and more of their local government to Kun control. As the Kun control the beanstalk and communication, defiant communities get their supplies choked off and have difficulty sending messages to the VZA bureaucracy.

Korsigar has an active military resistance, centered around the Rosenberg mountain chain in the southern continent. Their most notable success was deliberately seeding radar reflective pollution into Korsigar orbit, but they also engage in limited direct action strikes against Kun interests. Legally, the resistance are terrorists within the VZA, but Kun counterstrikes are vigilante actions.

Despite the Kun's best efforts, the VZA bureaucracy has some awareness that things are not quite right around Korsigar. A squadron of missile cruisers with accompanying patrol escorts is on station in orbit with Korsigar's outer moon. The Kun have a rotating series of task groups, usually built around an older fleet carrier, engaged in "training exercises" with the remnants of the Korsigar Star Guard. The Kun ships are attempting to blockade the Korsigan resistance without attracting too much attention from the VZA armada detachment.