Mamtirol


Type: Shadowport.
Region: Border Regions.
Trade Route: Breakneck Run.
Sector: Yaeger Sector.
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
CommarScalding Rock0
UmkiroiSwamp World4
MamtirolTerrestrial2
OthigraiGas Giant9
BalnGas Giant15

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.
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