Rshukas


Type: Frigid Terrestrial.
Function: Mining World.
Region: Border Regions.
Trade Route: Feeder to the Breakneck Run.
Sector: Yaeger Sector.
Strategic Location: On the outside of the rear Yaeger border.
Temperature: 54% Standard.
Atmosphere: Thin, with slightly lower than the average percentage of oxygen, resulting in shortness of breath and respiratory problems, breath mask recommended for those otherwise predisposed to problems of that type.
Hydrosphere: 83% of the surface of Rshukas is covered in a permanent layer of frozen water. 94% of the water of Rshukas has a salinity between 0% and 3%.
Gravity: 121% Standard.
Terrain: Rshukas is dominated by a number of exceedingly steep and sharp mountain ranges, caused by the motion of it's highly active tectonic plates. The world is also routinely affected by massive earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as an effect of that tectonic activity.
Mineral Resources: Massive reserves of duridium, gold, raw durasteel, silver, platinum, palladium, and ytterbitrium. Some gemstone crystals can be found in the regions of granitic pegmatite, some of which can reach great sizes, particularly topaz, almandine garnet, and quartzes.
Length of Day: 30 standard hours.
Length of Year: 450 local days.
Sapient Species: None native.
Capital City: Rshukas City.
Other Cities: Datrukberg, Boreolis Strike, and the mostly subterranean Obart complex are the other major cities of Rshukas.
Starport: Rshukas City is home to a planetary class port, and there are several standard class ports scattered across the planet.
Population (within +/- 1%): 32,947,500 Shakkur, 43,800 aliens of various types, including humans.
Government: Representative democracy, with a twenty member legislative council, a single executive, and an elected military commander in chief and chief judicial authority.
Tech Level: High Space. Rshukas is one of the richest Shakkur worlds, and is the primary customer of the shipyards of Karshur, as well as the source for much of the raw material for those yards.
Major Exports: Minerals and processed ores, fish.
Major Imports: Technology, manufactured goods.
System: Beruvite
Star: Beruv
Name Planet Type Moons
KhurScalding Rock2
MackhuSwamp World1
DerumTerrestrial Warm0
OlbachTerrestrial Cold3
RshukasFrigid Terrestrial1
MurshaIce World2
SuraAirless Rock0
MashalAirless Rock1

System Capsule:

Khur: Close to the very hot Beruv, Khur is uninhabitably hot.
Mackhu: This world is very hot, and very rich in life of various types, with a pair of pre-stone age native sentient species.
Derum: A large and pleasant world, dominated by plains and temperate forests, Derum is home to many Shakkur who made their fortunes on Rshukas, and want to live in a more pleasant climate.
Olbach: Similar to Rshukas, with somewhat milder temperatures, Olbach has none of the mineral wealth that attracted the Shakkur to Rshukas.
Rshukas: See below.
Mursha: Home to a few small mines, Mursha is devoid of native life.
Sura: An outlying system, Sura has some diamond reserves of limited interest.
Mashal: Very far from Beruv, Mashal is small and uninteresting.

Planetary Capsule:

Flora and fauna: The landmasses of Rshukas are not widely inhabited. Some stands of pines and other conifers thrive where the terrain shelters them from the worst of the Rshukas' violent weather. Massive, heavily furred varieties of wooly bantha roam the wastes, sniffing out patches of lichen, and the pantherlike white Ghel track the bantha. Glau Hawks chase the small burrowing marsupial Umchai, but the vast majority of the ice sheets are devoid of life.

The seas of Rshukas are an entirely different story. These cold, nutrient rich waters are inhabited by vast shoals of fish, invertebrates, and saurian megafauna. These shoals stretch for miles, and are composed of literally millions of fish. The Shakkur settlers have not ignored this resource, and massive, icebreaking fishing trawlers provide over 90% of the foodstuffs consumed on Rshukas, and fish are an important secondary export.

Sentient Species: There are no native sentient species.

History: One of the first worlds settled by the Shakkur, Rshukas attracted a wide variety of fortune seekers and prospectors after it's mineral wealth was discovered, and Rshukas quickly gained a reputation as a rough and tumble frontier world, with even more than the usual Shakkur resistance to authority of any type. However, as time passed, Rshukas soon became the second most stable Shakkur world, after Karshur.

The increasing wealth of the planet was responsible. Those prospectors that struck it rich had no desire to lose their wealth to roving bandits, and could afford to pay for private security forces. Several of these newly wealth miners found that their interests coincided, and soon joined their security forces, protecting themselves and all other miners within their territory. As prosperity spread, stability was desired by the population at large, and from those mutual protection societies, a stable planetary government emerged.

Since that time, the government has purchased and crewed a large fleet, established an effective and efficient constabulary, and maintained steady economic growth without providing sufficient provocation to cause it's overthrow, an unusual accomplishment for a Shakkur government. Rshukas has signed trade agreements with the Yaeger, but closely monitors and restricts Yaeger shipping in it's solar system, a usual position for Shakkur worlds near Yaeger space and far from any of the other major powers.
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