Strategic Location: At the very edge of the Imperial
sphere of influence.
Temperature: 105% standard.
Atmosphere: Thin, though having somewhat larger than
average oxygen percentages, allowing for normal breathability.
Hydrosphere: 27% of the surface of Mamtirol is covered
in water, of which 92% has a salinity between 18% and 23%.
Gravity: 96% standard.
Terrain: Flatlands, broken by massive mountain ranges,
and the occasional river of small ocean.
Mineral Resources: Some small reserves of cadmium and
boron, as well as various ornamental stones of the Lavar group.
Length of Day: 18 standard hours.
Length of Year: 380 local days.
Sapient Species: No native sentients.
Capital City: The largest city on the planet is Port
Kthan, a sprawling shantytown that encompasses several planetary
class illegal ports.
Other Cities: There are landing strips and larger ports
scattered across the planet, all of which have small communities
built around them, for the business and pleasure needs of those
making stops there.
Starport: See cities.
Population (within +/- 1%): 3,410,000 (prone to wild
fluctuations).
Government: Anarchy. Officially Mamtirol is under
Imperial control, but local conditions make it impolitic for Rulduk to send any force there of a size
necessary to maintain control.
Tech Level: Space.
Major Exports: Illegal goods and services, refugees,
pirates.
Major Imports: Illegal goods and services, refugees,
pirates.
System: Atakian
Star: Atak (single red giant)
Name
Planet Type
Moons
Commar
Scalding Rock
0
Umkiroi
Swamp World
4
Mamtirol
Terrestrial
2
Othigrai
Gas Giant
9
Baln
Gas Giant
15
System Capsule:
Commar: Close to the massive Atak, Commar is far to hot to be
of any use to anyone.
Umkiroi: This fetid swamp is used as a base by those afraid
of the unsavory and deadly reputation that Mamtirol. One of the
moons of Umkiroi (Thimidar 2) has been converted into the palace
fortress of a local crimelord, Ilburas Thim.
Mamtirol: See above.
Othigrai: This massive world is one of the brightest stellar
objects in Mamtirol's night sky, and can often be seen during full
daylight.
Baln: Far from the center of the system, one of Baln's moons
was apparently the home of an advanced civilization.
Planetary Capsule:
Flora and fauna: Mamtirol is not a very fertile world.
With little water and few nutrients, only the incredibly hardy salt
scrub can find purchase on most of it's surface, and only a few
species of small mammalian herbivores can survive on the tasteless
and dehydrating salt scrub. Because of the proportional lack of
oxygen breathers, the planet's atmosphere is highly oxygenated,
which serves to make up for it's relative lack of density, allowing
for unprotected inhalation, though nose bleeds are quite common.
Sentient Species: Mamtirol is home to no native
sentients, though representatives of the less than savory elements
of all the Sectors, and many of the galaxies races can be found
here.
History: Mamtirol is protected from Imperium attack for
two reasons. For one, the Atakian system is actually a binary
system, with Atak separated from it's sister star, Khalmarom, by a
distance of 47 light hours. The orbitals of the two star's planets
do not intersect, so they are classed as separate systems, but the
two stars do rotate around each other, switching places every two
hundred years. Khalmarom is a Chakh Empire system, and Moff Rulduk
does not want to encourage hostilities between his Imperium and the
Chakh Empire by placing a fleet that close to their border.
Secondly, there is a massive asteroid belt between Mamtirol
and Othigrai. A system of repulsors and tractor beams placed on
several of the asteroids keeps a route clear to the outside, but
the constantly shifting map of this route is known only to the
employees of Ilburas Thim, the Shakkur
crimelord who is in near total control of the system. The route is
broadcasted to ships as they approach Othigrai, but as the route
given is only correct for forty minutes (the amount of time it
takes a ship with a space rating of 3 to navigate the belt), and as
the route protected is only large enough to accommodate Nebulon-B
frigates at most, an Imperial assault through this path is unlikely
to be effective, and any attempt to push a fleet through the
asteroids would be suicidal.
Moff Doran attempted a blockade of the system, but Thim had
sufficient supplies to sit that out, and the pirates and smugglers
that docked there often found ways to avoid the blockading fleet.
Doran had a integrated starfighter and light support craft bombing
run planned, but was not able to marshal sufficient resources to
complete the project, as he needed all available craft for his
upcoming push at the Yaeger Core.
When Moff Rulduk gained control of most of the Imperial
fragments in the Sector, he decided against a direct assault on
Mamtirol, as a failure would make him look ineffective and weak,
and would probably cause the disintegration of his fledgling
Imperium. Instead, the Imperium Investigation
Authority set up a full scale operation on the planet,
monitoring the nature and quantities of the contraband that passed
through Mamtirol, and making sure that particularly dangerous
cargoes never reach the Imperium. The IIA office is not the
omnipresent force that it is on worlds under full Imperium
government, and the more cagey and suspicious captains can often
keep their craft from being inspected, but they are there and do a
reasonable job of keeping tabs on what's passing through.
After Rulduk consolidated his hold on the Imperium, he could
have moved against Mamtirol, but decided not to, as it was a
perfect avenue for passing arms and agents into the Chakh Empire
without letting them know where the goods were coming from.
Several Security Division units have been inserted onto Mamtirol,
and if Rulduk ever decides to cut the planet off, these agents will
move against Thim and against the repulsor protected asteroids,
cutting off the planets leadership and connection to the outside if
both attacks succeed, or one or the other under less than ideal
situations.
Until that time, Mamtirol remains what it always was, a haven
for smugglers, pirates, and other unsavory individuals, a backdoor
into the Imperium, where they can unload their cargoes and dispose
of bodies without having to worry about Imperium interference.
There has never been any law on Mamtirol, and no being with a grain
of sense in his cognitive apparatus would consider traveling Port
Kthan's streets after the giant sun slips below the horizon.
Thim's regulation of the local economy is limited to a
thousand credit charge for use of his path through the asteroids,
and protection money from the various permanent businesses on the
planet. Not even the most powerful crime syndicates would consider
missing a payment to Thim, as he could cut off their access to the
incredibly lucrative Mamtirol market on a whim. Payment for the
use of the asteroid path must be made before the map is
transmitted, and many spacers who lost their cash in the
unregulated gambling arenas of the planet have found themselves
stranded, unable to pay the fee required to get them out of the
system. These unluckies are faced with several highly unattractive
options; Taking out a loan from one of the local sharks, signing
on with a pirate fleet that can afford to pay their passage,
abandoning their craft and going out passenger, attempting to
follow a ship through the maze (armed monitoring stations scattered
throughout the course discourage this option), or if they feel
particularly brave, try to run the belt without the aid of the
protected passage.