Roseate

### Factions

Corporation (significant), charismatic leader (minor), captive government (significant), feudal technocracy (significant)

## Astrogational Info

### **Coded:** Roseate|I24|E9B0577-7|De NI

Population: ~666,200 (while this may be considered very ironic from the outside, it is entirely possible that the Mahmood minor sector has no actual contact with Christianity, and thus it is considered simply as 'three of the same number'.)

Roseate is a fairly horrible world for human habitation, where the temperature tends towards 95 degrees Celsius in daytime, and a more comfortable 80 degrees Celsius at night. Kabiti, of course, have relatively little problem with this - though it is, naturally, uncomfortable - but the world's almost complete lack of water prevents Roseate from being a Kabiti paradise, and while the Artivene or Tzientai are perfectly happy on almost no water, the killing heat is not their favourite thing in the world. One could say that the Agaricus have won through in this case, being happy both in extreme heat and low water conditions, but that's when Roseate plays its trump card: an atmosphere containing large amounts of chlorine and hydrogen chloride. In short, Roseate is a planet well-suited for nobody, and the fact that it manages more than half a million residents (more than 250,000 of which are Agaricus) is proof positive that sentience will dig in anywhere it can.

## Factional Government

The government of Roseate is divided between four major factions, which certainly do not get along, but are not actually at war. None of the four major factions have sufficient control to claim that they are the government of Roseate, at least not in a way that is recognised by any interplanetary authority.

### Gundvaldssen Family Extraction Concern

**Type:** Corporation

Formed almost two centuries ago as Gundvaldssen and Daughters by an Artivene family. There remain a few Gundvaldssens on the board of directors. The Concern owns many mining towns that extract large amounts of base metals and salts to ship out. This is a very slow process; there aren't really enough people to support a proper extractive industry, and the low tech generally available on Roseate not only can't dig up too much copper at a time, but it also can’t easily maintain the old domes and structures that are designed to keep out the murderous atmosphere. The Concern's profit is on a knife edge and if their yield lowers or shipping prices rise, their future is far from guaranteed.

### Bloody Knuckles Extreme Sports Fraternity, Roseate Branch

**Type:** Captive government

This is, indeed, a sporting organisation and entertainment conglomerate that has governmental power on multiple worlds. Most of them have very little power - a few small towns - because, as an extreme sports league, the group is not designed to be a government. However, there isn't a vast amount of interest in Roseate, and thanks to some popular compilations of people getting hurt doing dangerous things (and more clandestinely-traded compilations of people getting their skin melted off doing dangerous things), the local BKESF has managed to bring in more money than the Gundvaldssen Family Extraction Concern, and as a result, more power. This is not at all something the group intended and it is not something they know what to do with, and the central group has thrown in a fair amount of money to try to make this accidental investment pay off. Tourism, filmmaking, and spectacle is the usual Bloody Knuckles style, all of which fail because no one who lives anywhere other than Roseate wants to live on Roseate. The group continues to stage sporting events, as well as light extractive industry, general habitation, and occasional legal scuffles with the Gundvaldssen Family Extraction Concern to acquire mostly-depleted mining areas to become poorly-maintained stadiums and skate parks.

The Fraternity in general, hence the name, is permeated with low-grade sexism, and largely human. Species that can't be easily reduced to a two-gender binary (particularly the Soch-Metion, Mestozh, Tzientai, and Yoffnel) tend not to do well in Fraternity towns - the discrimination is rarely violent, but can be quite vicious due to the hegemons' anger at their own confusion.

### The Holder Domes

**Type:** Feudal technocracy

The Holder Domes of Roseate are a very simple governmental prospect. The Holders have the technology, wealth, and connections to maintain habitats that keep out the heat and corrosion at a much more reliable level than either other major faction. These Domes are available to citizens only. Pay tax and submit to the laws of the Holder Domes charter and you too can live somewhere that isn’t likely to buckle and melt you. It’s an attractive proposition that means that the Holders often don’t push too far to gain more power, as opposed to the Fraternity chapter, who are always eager to get an edge that will make their investments in Roseate pay off; as a result, the Fraternity investors and showrunners are just slightly more powerful.

### The Trapper Antlion

**Type:** Charismatic leader

There are families, tribes, and clans that live in the deserts and do their best to keep serviceable habitats with their low technology, and while most are essentially acid fodder either way and thus have little sway in the factional governments of Roseate, one particular firebrand has gathered a large group of them together. Known as the 'Trapper Antlion', her belief that hard places make hard people leads to her belief that those who live outside the traditional domes and habitats of Roseate can be a source of incredibly tough, incredibly disciplined recruits; essentially supersoldiers. By turns, the Antlion's people raid and trade with the other factions, but her eventual goal isn't one of coexistence - she intends to sweep the planet and turn it into her own recruiting facility.

She has no answer to 'what then?' but, frankly, feels that that idea will resolve itself at the time.

## Unusual Custom: Offworlders

While there are many places to land on Roseate - since there is no 'spaceport' more impressive than a set of minor domes near large, flat sand plains with a couple of beacons lit up, multiple such 'spaceports' exist - it is customary to pay very little attention to offworlders who are within ten kilometres or so of their ship. There is an unstated ethos of "if we have to suffer this, so should you", and while offworlders who haven't undertaken travel over the harsh surface aren't forbidden minor transactions like food and vehicle rental, the population of Roseate will generally not take them seriously, and will refuse or simply ignore major interactions.

This, of course, assumes that the Roseate citizens know that the offworlders are fresh. The custom has quite a few false negatives and a great many false positives.