Sword Worlds Subsector/secret

Kolsvart

At Spinward Marches Hexgrid 1128, halfway between Orcrist and Enos, there is a small, sunless Rogue Gas Giant in interstellar space that the Sword-Worlders have named "Kolsvart" in Sagamaal.

The world Narsil discovered Kolsvart in 883 and kept its existence secret, intending to use it as a potential secret jumping-off point for attacks at Caladbolg which would cut the Imperium’s lines of communication during times of war.

After the Third Frontier War a secret, heavily defended, deep-space refueling station was built in orbit about Kolsvart that the Sword Worlders named the "Bryn Avgrunn Base". The station was eventually found and destroyed during the Fifth Frontier War. By the year 1119, the Confederation government began rebuilding the station, completing it by late 1122, though with commercial hegemony in mind as a stopover base and refueling stop for commercial traffic. Small refueling ships staged from the base harvest gas and bring it back home to be refined for those ships that can’t use unrefined hydrogen. Given Enos’ marginal nature, there is little profit, but a new station and a stop at Enos will make it easier to get from the shrunken Confederation to District 268.

References

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• Paul Drye, Hans Rancke-Madsen, Robert Prior. Sword Worlds (Steve Jackson Games, 2004), 43, 78-79.