Corrin


Type: Mining/Prison World.
Region: Border Regions.
Trade Route: Long Path.
Sector: Yaeger Sector.
Strategic Location: Toward the outer edge of the Yaeger Imperium's Sphere of Influence.
Temperature: 250% Standard in the mines, with no seasonal variation.
Atmosphere: Thin, mainly ammonia compounds and mining byproducts. Exposure suits absolutely necessary for surface travel.
Hydrosphere: No surface water.
Gravity: 145% standard.
Terrain: Large and nearly vertical mountain ranges, large meteoric craters, and deep mine shafts.
Mineral Resources: Substantial. Corrin has large reserves of Dimorite, Slebnium, Beryllium, Gold, Cathsarite, Duraniate Quartz, Opal, and other precious minerals.
Length of Day: 32 standard hours.
Length of Year: 398 local days.
Sapient Species: None native. Since the Imperium has converted Corrin to a prison planet, prisoners of various races, both local and extrasector have been incarnated here.
Capital City: The Kent mining center is the largest such facility on the planet, and is the control center for all the subsidiary mining operations. The Corrin Central Detention facility is the largest structure on the planet, and the most heavily defended.
Other Cities: There are numerous smaller mining centers across the planet, all of which are essentially the same, and are referred to by their Imperial code designation, such as the BR-7A- 18 site, a particularly rich Byrilite vein.
Starport: The Kent center has a pair of galaxy class ports, one on the surface, which serves as a mineral loading and shipping center, and a second one below the surface for passenger loading and unloading. Both of these ports have excessively high security, to prevent prisoners from having even the hope of stowing away, or being rescued.
Population (within +/- 1%): 151,900 Imperial administrators, guards, geologists, and other personnel, 3,812,500 Prisoners, on average.
Government: The planet as a whole is run as a military prison, with the standard army hierarchy in place. The individual in charge of the planet is General Anton Trandor, an individual who has succeeded through brutal obedience to orders, if not any particular intelligence.
Tech Level: Space. The mining facilities use modern devices, though almost without exception the user safety protection devices removed.
Major Exports: Minerals, precious stones.
Major Imports: Food, water, technical goods, prisoners.
System: Traborite
Star: Trabor (White Dwarf)
Name Planet Type Moons
MiquirScalding Rock0
CorrinAirless Rock0
EldabarFrozen World1

System Capsule:

Miquir: A burning hot world with many of the same mineral resources as Corrin, Miquir is too inhospitable to mine, even by convicts.
Corrin: See above
Eldabar: This world, far from the center of the system, apparently supported intelligent life at one point in it's past.

Planetary Capsule:

Flora and fauna: Corrin is completely lifeless, having been completely scoured of life and atmosphere when Trabor had expanded to Red Giant size.

Sentient Species: Corrin may once have supported intelligent life, but if it had, all evidence of that society was wiped out when Trabor expanded.

History: Trabor is nearing the end of its stellar lifetime. During its earlier stages Corrin was around midway from the system's center and probably a very cold world. Then, the star expanded, and Corrin's crust was liquified. Despite the fact that Trabor now gives off relatively little heat, Corrin has not yet cooled completely from its last stage, and still remains quite hot. Corran was always naturally rich in rare elements, and the various pressures exerted on the world have purified these elements and made them readily accessible to mining ventures. In addition, these same pressures have produced unusual element combinations, and some truly fantastic crystal growth, including a natural diamond crystal nearly seven feet tall and weighing several tons, now in the central plaza of the Kent Mining Plaza, as a testament to the wealth and security of the planet.

Corrin was discovered and recorded by Skathelon scouts, but as their economy relied on the enslavement of native races, and as Corrin was quite obviously uninhabited, they never settled it. When the Pangritai were incorporated into the empire, their scouting records were absorbed by the Imperial Scouting Branch, who immediately confirmed the reports of Corrin's wealth. Originally settled as an ordinary mining colony, the Corrin diggings were plagued by problems. Security was a constant problem due to the great wealth of Corrin's diggings, and the hostile conditions required excessive forms of protection for miners, and constant destruction of mining droids was an additional large expense.

Moff Doran turned the world into a prison planet. Prisoners were in less of a position to complain about loss of privacy and hazardous working conditions. Also, there are more of them than mining droids, and they are far cheaper. Corrin's mines expanded at a remarkable rate, and currently provide a large percentage of the Yaeger Imperium's mineral wealth. The high security and prisoner pacification facilities available at the mines convinced Moff Rulduk to build an additional prison on the planet, the Corrin Central Detainment Facility, which handles those prisoners too dangerous to be allowed in the mines, or too politically valuable to be sent off to die in the mines.

Moff Doran had made parole contingent on performance in the mines, and Moff Rulduk has done nothing to change that system. The very factors that make the mines so hellish now encourage competent performance, as any chance of getting off the planet is eagerly seized upon. Unlike operations run by less savvy administrators, the parole that the prisoners work for is real, and numerous paroles are granted daily. For this reason, attempts at escape or sabotage are reacted to as violently by the prisoners as they are by the guards, because involvement in such affairs delays parole eligibility for four years.

Because long time workers are more valuable than newcomers, Imperial actuaries have decided the following factors involving parole. After the early peak caused by incompetence, prisoner deaths fall roughly on the curve of normal distribution, peaking at two years, with six month standard deviations. For this reason, four years work is required before parole is granted, enough to appear possible, but not enough to substantially lower the number of working experienced prisoners.
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