Lutaro

Lutaro used to be a mild world with a colorful ecology. Now, it is an industrialized scum hole, as bad as many in the Corporate Sector. This is the home to the Hoget Sector's heaviest industries and worst abuses. Many galactically known names have shops here, including BlasTech, Chiewab Amalgamated Pharmaceuticals, Drever Corp, Merr-Sonn Mil/Sci, Santhe/Seinar Technologies, TaggeCo, Cybot Galactica and Ubrikkian Transports, among others.

It is because of these industries, the Empire has invested a great deal of manpower in securing this world. Outside of each of the two largest cites, Santhe/Seinar Lutaro (owned entirely by the Santhe/Seinar conglomerate) and Credville, lies an Imperial Garrison. There is an additional regiment of Imperial Army troops spread among the various other cities, along with nearly 300 Hoget Marshals and thousands of corporate troops.

What mineral wealth that there was here was mined out years ago by the Corporates. The forests were cleared for industrial sites and for lumber. With the loss of most of the plant life, the CO2 levels built up, increasing the temperature. Gradually, much of the planet's water supply dried up. The oceans that remain have been used as industrial waste dumping grounds for decades. Everything from the damaged and leaking cores of fusion reactors to heavy metals contaminate these waters. Any life that survives in them is twisted beyond belief.

The planet is run by a Corporate Council, which is nominally headed by the head of one of the corporate offices on the planet. In reality, he has little power, as the corporations continue to bicker amongst themselves. The cities are owned by the corporations, with the company being the landlord to the citizens. Of course, that company's facilities are exempt from rent payments. Other companies are allowed in, but they are given disfavorable rents. Small businesses, not controlled by any corporation, fall into the mid level rent bracket, so long as tehy do not directly present opposition to the controlling corporate(s).

The cities have sprung up from the few areas left were potable water could be found. However, for the common citizen, this means greywater, not real water. These urban areas are dirty and crowded, covering nearly a quarter of the land masses. Like all of the megacities, many people falling through the cracks. Even with the large Imperial presence, there is still a large crime problem on Lutaro. Here, they take the forms of gangs, both street gangs on foot, and swoop gangs. After dark, it is not wise to travel in the cities, except by corporate shuttles, which are guarded by heavily armed security troops. The only other way to travel is in large, openly armed groups, ready to make a show of force. Even with regular sweeps by Stormtroopers, the majority of these criminals go uncaught.

It with these few that Rebellion has come to Lutaro. Many of the original gangs started as protection from abusive corporate police, who were known to kill incompetent workers, or just beat them for fun. Others formed as protection from the gangs who continue to terrorize independent merchants. Several teams of Urban Guerrillas went into Lutaro, and started forming cells and organizing the gangs into trained fighting units.

The Empire countered this by actually paying some gangs to work as bounty hunters. Some of the worst of these people became Hoget Marshals. Others have been paid by the corporates to raid the competition, burn thier building and murder thier employees.

The worst of these gangs live outside the cities, in the desert wastes. They lie in wait for people moving between cities, and occasionally prey on the isolated outposts between them. It is said that due to the toxic dumping in the deserts, that the gangers have started to mutate, that they have acquired a taste for human flesh, and even that they are living a surviving off of as yet undiscovered Hogetian supply caches.

Lutaro
Type: terrestrial
Temperature: warm
Atmosphere: type II (breath mask suggested)
Hydrosphere: dry
Gravity: normal
Terrain: desert, contaminated ocean, city
Length of Day: 20 standard hours
Length of Year: 400 local days
Sapient Species: Humans, others
Starport: 1 Stellar, 4 standard
Population: 1.5 billion
Planet Function: heavy industry
Government: Imperially-backed Corporate city-states
Tech Level: Space
Major Exports: Mid Tech, High Tech, Weapons
Major Imports: water, food, raw materials



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