Synopsis
Callisto is a 50 y.o. terran colony built barely outside of the 100D line from Jupiter. Its mainstay economy is fast refueling of traffic going through Terra but not heading to the mainworld. An auxiliary economy based on the harvest of rare metal at the bottom of its subsurface ocean.
Data Block
Physical: Diameter: 2,400Km (0.4 Earth); Gravity: 0.127G; Type: Frozen(Ice); Temperature: 134K (Frozen); Atmosphere: Trace; Other: Tidal locked;
Commercial: WTN: 3.0; Gravity: 0.127G; Code: Ni, Na, Ex; Starport: Class II 1 downport, 1 refueling orbital station;
Shatah colony
Population: 44K; Environment: Terrain: underground (ice); Hygiene: +1; Culture: Language: Terra(Middle-East); Language: Anglic, Arabic; Literacy: Normal; TL: 9; Wealth: Average; Status: 0-3; Politics: Government: Corporate Administration; CR: 3; Military: --; DB: +4;
Shatah-1: Main colony (35K). Located 85Km under the surface. Home of civil administration. Homogeneously muslim. Local diet made of imported goods and locally grown autotrophic biomass from the depth of the subsurface ocean.
Shatah-2: Lowport (8K). Located 100m under the surface. Starport operations, scrapyards, and limited engineering capacity. Magrail elevator to Shatah-1 and Gaussian Orbital canon for freight.
Shatah-3: Corporate Mining Venture (1.5K). Run by Callisto Prospectorate LLC. Built on the ocean floor. Reachable only via submarines.
Shatah-5: Remote nuclear fusion plant powering the entire planet. Location undisclosed.
Notes
Shatah was founded by Saudi interest and populated with middle-eastern colonists. The moon is covered by 100km of ice (Water, carbon dioxide, volatile compounds). The moon is under regular bombardment by meteorites. As a result, the installations are all carved under at least 100m of the moon's crust. The bulk of the colony is, however, located near the ceiling of the subsurface ocean.
The main economic activity is the fast-refueling service allowing transient traffic to be intercepted out of the 100D line of Jupiter. The interceptors are refueling drones propelled from Callisto using gaussian accelerators.
I make an alarm on my tablet to remind me to try and get out and shake a few hands and see if anyone on the refueling outpost trains any kind of martial art at all.
ReplyDeleteI hope if I can find a gym and leverage my fighting career, the gym owner will know someone who trains there that either works at or knows somebody who works at a place that would at least have some raw data on compounds found there.
Aeryn figures it's no time like the present to start getting to know people. If we refuel there often it might pay off.