Akher (world)

Akher/Subsector ( Sector Hex)}
See also	UWP

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Akher/Iiradu (Dagudashaag 2708)
Classic Era (1116)	C420797-7 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 4 Small (6,400 km, 0.32g - 0.46g) Atmosphere 2 Vacuum (very thin - tainted) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 7 Moderate (60 million) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 7 Moderate Law (no firearms) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
See also	UWP
System Details
Primary	G3 IV
Planetoid Belts	2
Gas Giants	0

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A poor, lightly industrial desert world located in the Iiradu Subsector of Dagudashaag. Akher is a member of the Imperium.

Human presence on Akher is due to this system's location. As an integral part of the main trade link between the industrial worlds of Iiradu and Larmige, Akher was settled as a fueling and staging post early in the First Imperium's expansion through Iiradu.

Since the system lacks a gas giant and the small planet of Akher contains no standing water, fuel for vessels is brought to the starport at some considerable expense by diverting icy components of the system's distant asteroid belt into low planetary orbit. Once here, these bodies are broken up into 50m chunks, sprayed with ablative heat shields and then de-orbited through the thin atmosphere to the planetary surface. These chunks are targeted at a concrete lined 1 km crater some 10km from the starport, and arrive hourly. Between hits as the local population calls them, the fragments are collected, melted, and pumped to the C-class starport where further processing takes place.

The planetary atmosphere cannot support life, but does provide enough protection from cosmic and solar radiation for humans to work outside in normal cold weather clothing, using only oxygen tanks connected to simple face masks. Within Akher's cities a full pressure atmosphere is maintained under several thin but tough transparent tents. All locals carry short duration oxygen masks in the event of a tent blowout, but are confident the risks are slim. The tent fabric is held in place by a lightweight vacuum-sponge aluminum extrusions; a technology which the locals have developed to a high degree and for which a ready market exists in other low-tech, low pressure environments.

The continual hit process evaporates a steady quantity of water in and around the target crater, creating a sizable foggy haze for a km or more around the site. Some algae and lichens, imported by accident have begun to thrive in this environment.

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• Jae Campbell - Signal-GK Issue #12 - HIWG