Choleosti (world)
Choleosti/Vilis (Spinward Marches 1018) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic Era (1116) | C200100-9
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See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
System Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary | M9 V M4 D | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planetoid Belts | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gas Giants | 1 |
An Imperial-aligned world located in the Vilis Subsector of the Spinward Marches. Choleosti is the largest moon of the gas giant Monoda. Choleosti is a small, low-population, non-industrial vacuum world; its population lives underground and operates the largely automated port. Scientific researchers frequent the port to study Monoda's gigantic storm systems.
The moon of the gas giant Monoda, it is an airless ball of rock, about as large as Earth's Moon, with a native population of less than twenty people. Nothing to see, nothing to do, nothing to buy, and nothing to kill.
In fact, there is more to Choleosti. While the permanent population, an extended family who have claimed part of Choleosti as their property, is small, the actual number of people in the system at any particular time usually numbers in the hundreds.
Non-Canon
The sole established entity is the Cholesti Station. The Station survives by providing fuel and minor repairs to any and all who stop by. It is often thought of as a pirates haven, but receives enough business from the subsector navy to keep the pirates polite. The station is on the major moon of the large gas giant. The heavily contaminated nature of the gas giants make the prepared fuel attractive. Roll +10 (2d6) for contamination failure of ship-borne purification plants. The Cholesti Station specially-built purifiers do not feature this problem. The station posses 1 million tons of local storage of fuel and capacity for additional 100,000 tons per week means even large Imperial fleets don't have to stay long. In exchange for free refueling of Imperial Naval and scout vessels, the Imperium maintains a platoon of Tl-14 marines with FGPP-14's and battledress to 'assist' with keeping the peace. They patrol infrequently, usually staying in their small base adjoining the Station unless trouble breaks out.
- ↑ "Jump Map API" and map location from Travellermap.com
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