Maerdwyn
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[Sblock=Liann Xin, fourth moon of Greenleaf]
Population, ~30,000 permanent, with another ~25,000 at any given time. 60% of populaiton lives in the largest city Concord.
Liann Xin is, pendin’ on who’s doin’ the talkin’, either a testament to the Alliance’s breakthroughs in terraforming technology, or to its gorram pigheadedness. Some even might see it for what it is: a tiny hunk of rock wobbling ‘round Greenleaf that never had no business being home to any folk in their right mind, either before or after the Alliance got there.
Until about twenty years ago, more or less, the Ar He Tong had been using its caves to store plants and fungi from the Greenleaf jungles – cold near-vacuum made it perfect for preserving and processing the stuff for the drug trade – but that ain’t the same thing as being a nice place t’live. Still, when the Alliance starts its war on drugs on Greenleaf, someone gets the bright idea that the Liann Xin side of things needs shuttin’ down too, and that the best way to do that is occupy the place. Never mind that this moon don’t have enough mass to hold an atmo nat’rally, or that the ice caps taken together couldn’t make a decent glass of lemonade – Lian Meng xing shu Lian Meng xing. ("The Alliance will do that which the Alliance will do.")
The Ar He got driven off pretty quick; the whole point of using the place was nobody cared about it. Why fight the purple bellies when there were a hundred places like that across the 'Verse that would work just as good? They took off so fast that some their caves is probly still packed with narcotic goodness they couldn't manage to get off world. Might be a good score if someone knew where to look (and don't mind taking the chance the Tong would find out later).
Anyway, after the Tong scarpered, the moved terraforming equipment in wholesale, and set a pack of scientists and engineers on the problem of making the dirtball "habitable." They planted oxygen-producing trees near the cities, and spread nitrogen-producing bacteria across the rest of planet, and got a weak atmo - then used convection fields to keep the oxygen concentrated round the cites (Remember your suits if you go out to the badlands). Water was a bigger problem than the air, even. They took ten years to ferry it from Greenleaf to fill some small lakes on the light side of the moon. 'Course, there weren't water enough for the whole rock, so they needs a way to constrain the weather system they built so it only watered crops and not bare ground. They're still workin' on that.
Oh, they got the weather goin' and everythin, but those convection fields that keep the oh-two in place make the wind pretty onary. Them that live up there basically got a choice 'tween blazing red sun and a hurricane (which seem to blow up with vary strength every few weeks). Still ain't found the middle ground, and the colonists got pretty gorram ao nao.
Officially, of course, Liann Xin was successfully terraformed, and the Alliance has set to keeping up appearances. Weather is still a problem for people, but 'stead of counting on the eggeads to fix the weather, Alliance bought up tons and tons of titanium to reinforce contruction on Liann Xin against the winds. (Someone must be making a fortune on that boondoggle. This is still 'bout the best place around Red Sun to sell a junker for scrap). Most got off the gorram rock; those that stayed were either too poor to pull up stakes, true believers, or scientists paid enough they was willing to work on the problem.
The Alliance stuck to it, though. 'Stead of giving up on the place, they kept trying to make it more appealing. Most outward successful step they took was to move the old Concord Bazaar moonside - folk go where the coin is, even if they gotta brave a hurricance to do it. So, Concord's where most of the action on Liann Xin is these days (and where you find yerself now).
There are are some local farmers and laborers in the city, and your regular traffic of merchants and customers, crew and guards, whores and politicians (mostly low-level rabble rousers, lookin to make a name). The locals are a generally low key lot, and the offworlders are like offworlders anywhere else, except may be a little more weather beaten.
About the only thing hardy enough to survive Liann Xin's climate is millet. No livestock to speak of, except for a few horses and dogs, and so unless yer happy being a bored vegetarian, you 'll burn through coin on imported food real fast in Concord. Other stuff is reasonably priced, and there 's a decent enough selsection of good available. Getting a ship through official channels here is tough, because of the government's voracious appetite for metals and equipment to be put towards the terraforming effort. There are a great number of beaten down ships at the scrap yard, though, and you could always sign on with one of the merchant crews if you aren't already signed up.
Alliance law is in play in Concord (and in the other tiny settlements on Liann Xin), but the prefects (mosta them, that is) got a kind of resigned, "Aw, ba shiu"("F it") air about them so long as the trouble isn't too big. Away from the richer markets, you can wear iron, so long as you don't go waving it about too much, and don't send someone up the hill for what shoulda' just been a good bar fight. Nearer the stores, well, that depends on who's set up shop and who's mindin' it for 'em.
Notable places in Concord include:
Tai Po Market, the higher end section of the bazaar
Wan Chai, the lower end section of the bazaar
Second Life, the moon's largest scrap yard
The Foundry, a metal works and mining company
Companion Guild Hall, located in Tai Po.
ITT, the Alliance Institute for Terraforming Technologies; lots of (mostly dead end) jobs available for science-types here
Ihilani Gardens, an upscale hotel and bar/lounge, popular with moneyed off-worlders.
McGlynn's, an Alliance watering hole
Qin Tan Hua, a mahjohng den
The Prefecture, the seat of local government and law enforcement
Millet farms, located around the outskirts of the city.
Arvid Sea, the largest body of water on Liann Xin - Concord is on it's western shore. [/sblock]
This post will also keep track of places the party has visited and NPCs the party has interacted with on those planets (and left alive).
[Sblock=Liann Xin, fourth moon of Greenleaf]
Population, ~30,000 permanent, with another ~25,000 at any given time. 60% of populaiton lives in the largest city Concord.
Liann Xin is, pendin’ on who’s doin’ the talkin’, either a testament to the Alliance’s breakthroughs in terraforming technology, or to its gorram pigheadedness. Some even might see it for what it is: a tiny hunk of rock wobbling ‘round Greenleaf that never had no business being home to any folk in their right mind, either before or after the Alliance got there.
Until about twenty years ago, more or less, the Ar He Tong had been using its caves to store plants and fungi from the Greenleaf jungles – cold near-vacuum made it perfect for preserving and processing the stuff for the drug trade – but that ain’t the same thing as being a nice place t’live. Still, when the Alliance starts its war on drugs on Greenleaf, someone gets the bright idea that the Liann Xin side of things needs shuttin’ down too, and that the best way to do that is occupy the place. Never mind that this moon don’t have enough mass to hold an atmo nat’rally, or that the ice caps taken together couldn’t make a decent glass of lemonade – Lian Meng xing shu Lian Meng xing. ("The Alliance will do that which the Alliance will do.")
The Ar He got driven off pretty quick; the whole point of using the place was nobody cared about it. Why fight the purple bellies when there were a hundred places like that across the 'Verse that would work just as good? They took off so fast that some their caves is probly still packed with narcotic goodness they couldn't manage to get off world. Might be a good score if someone knew where to look (and don't mind taking the chance the Tong would find out later).
Anyway, after the Tong scarpered, the moved terraforming equipment in wholesale, and set a pack of scientists and engineers on the problem of making the dirtball "habitable." They planted oxygen-producing trees near the cities, and spread nitrogen-producing bacteria across the rest of planet, and got a weak atmo - then used convection fields to keep the oxygen concentrated round the cites (Remember your suits if you go out to the badlands). Water was a bigger problem than the air, even. They took ten years to ferry it from Greenleaf to fill some small lakes on the light side of the moon. 'Course, there weren't water enough for the whole rock, so they needs a way to constrain the weather system they built so it only watered crops and not bare ground. They're still workin' on that.
Oh, they got the weather goin' and everythin, but those convection fields that keep the oh-two in place make the wind pretty onary. Them that live up there basically got a choice 'tween blazing red sun and a hurricane (which seem to blow up with vary strength every few weeks). Still ain't found the middle ground, and the colonists got pretty gorram ao nao.
Officially, of course, Liann Xin was successfully terraformed, and the Alliance has set to keeping up appearances. Weather is still a problem for people, but 'stead of counting on the eggeads to fix the weather, Alliance bought up tons and tons of titanium to reinforce contruction on Liann Xin against the winds. (Someone must be making a fortune on that boondoggle. This is still 'bout the best place around Red Sun to sell a junker for scrap). Most got off the gorram rock; those that stayed were either too poor to pull up stakes, true believers, or scientists paid enough they was willing to work on the problem.
The Alliance stuck to it, though. 'Stead of giving up on the place, they kept trying to make it more appealing. Most outward successful step they took was to move the old Concord Bazaar moonside - folk go where the coin is, even if they gotta brave a hurricance to do it. So, Concord's where most of the action on Liann Xin is these days (and where you find yerself now).
There are are some local farmers and laborers in the city, and your regular traffic of merchants and customers, crew and guards, whores and politicians (mostly low-level rabble rousers, lookin to make a name). The locals are a generally low key lot, and the offworlders are like offworlders anywhere else, except may be a little more weather beaten.
About the only thing hardy enough to survive Liann Xin's climate is millet. No livestock to speak of, except for a few horses and dogs, and so unless yer happy being a bored vegetarian, you 'll burn through coin on imported food real fast in Concord. Other stuff is reasonably priced, and there 's a decent enough selsection of good available. Getting a ship through official channels here is tough, because of the government's voracious appetite for metals and equipment to be put towards the terraforming effort. There are a great number of beaten down ships at the scrap yard, though, and you could always sign on with one of the merchant crews if you aren't already signed up.
Alliance law is in play in Concord (and in the other tiny settlements on Liann Xin), but the prefects (mosta them, that is) got a kind of resigned, "Aw, ba shiu"("F it") air about them so long as the trouble isn't too big. Away from the richer markets, you can wear iron, so long as you don't go waving it about too much, and don't send someone up the hill for what shoulda' just been a good bar fight. Nearer the stores, well, that depends on who's set up shop and who's mindin' it for 'em.
Notable places in Concord include:
Tai Po Market, the higher end section of the bazaar
Wan Chai, the lower end section of the bazaar
Second Life, the moon's largest scrap yard
The Foundry, a metal works and mining company
Companion Guild Hall, located in Tai Po.
ITT, the Alliance Institute for Terraforming Technologies; lots of (mostly dead end) jobs available for science-types here
Ihilani Gardens, an upscale hotel and bar/lounge, popular with moneyed off-worlders.
McGlynn's, an Alliance watering hole
Qin Tan Hua, a mahjohng den
The Prefecture, the seat of local government and law enforcement
Millet farms, located around the outskirts of the city.
Arvid Sea, the largest body of water on Liann Xin - Concord is on it's western shore. [/sblock]
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