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Sectors
[incl. Planets/Organisations/Factions/Authorities/Places of interest]

Human territory, or 'Conglomerate Space' consists of three sectors. Each sector is one solar system (with the exception of Sector Three), containing it's own culture and unique brand of technology (often patented by the 'home' organisation.

Sector One
S-1 consists of the star known as 'Sol'. it is surrounded by nine planets, the third and fourth planets from the sun being occupied. Earth is what is deemed a 'perfect' planet, this meaning it is one optimised for human inhabitants. The fourth planet, Mars, was terraformed around one and a half thousand years ago, and is now also a perfect planet.
Microla Inc. is the predominant company here, stationed on Earth, and specialises in manufacturing nanomachine assemblers and neurological chipsets (nanomachines that merge with a user's brain, enhancing brain processes). They also carry patents on the Spherical Tokamak engine (a fusion engine utilised in large space vehicles). Microla's rival organisation, Linsi, is responsible for Microla's falling sales in neurological chipsets. Linsi owns an immense facility on Mars that manufactures Neurachem. This is a biological agent that can be infused with an individual's blood at any age, and provides the same ehancements to the brain that Microla's neurological chipsets. The main advantage Linsi has, however, is that Neurachem can also enhance the user's body, providing a wide range of abilities (increased strength, endurance, immunity to poisons, to name but a few).
Extraordinarily, the Mafia is the dominant criminal organisation here. Their activities have remained largely unchanged over the thousands of years they have now been around, and they deal in drugs, prostitution, protection rackets, and the occasional theft and ransom holding of freighters.
The Combined Earth Police (CEP) struggle to keep up with the insanely high levels of crime in the Sol system, and it is not often visited, even by those who once lived here.
Of Interest: The two 'hubs' of Earth are seen to be New York and london. These have eveolved into sprawling cities that assimilated anything bearby. London now claims the whole of England, while New York absorbed most cities and three states around it.
Mars features the enormous 'Paradise' biodome, an enormous glass dome two hundred miles in diameter, home to many rare, endagered, and common animals, in seperated habitats.

Sector Two
S-2 is home to the system 'Epsilon Eidrani'. This system boasts fifteen planets, four of which are inhabited.
Two perfect planets (terraform reached completion only several hundred years ago) house the bulk of the population. The twin planets 'Earth-2' and 'Mars-2' were the first inhabited by humans outside of the Sol system. For hundreds of years the population lay undisturbeed after the intital settlement ( the human race was busy colonising and searching for new systems), and the language of Roke evolved between the two planets. Earth-2 is famed for it's vast land mass, which covers five sixths of the planet. A large desert spanning across the whole continent, just beneath the equatorial belt, is famed for it's thousand-kilometre land races.
Mars-2 is one giant ocean, save for a few pockets of actual land. Interestingly enough, the entire planet has become one massive city, immense support structures extending to the seabed to hold up the city half a mile above the sea's surface. Hybrid deep-sea/space ships are common here, able to withstand both the null pressure of vacuum, and the enormous pressures of deep-sea trenches.
The two other inhabited planets house the two local companies. The planet Kinrah contains the Ferris Corporation, renowned for it's ion propulsion systems, while the planet Taifam is owned by the Soar Organisation, responsible for military weapons systems. Both companies have been hit by the terrorist group calling themselves the 'Black Sharks'. As such, the Black Sharks pose the biggest threat in this system, though rarely show themselves. This is largely due to the authority here, the Pennyville Convention. The Pennyville Convention has always been equipped (legitimately) with the latest Soar weapon systems.
Of Interest:
Mars-2 is, as mentioned, a city covering an entire planet. There are literally thousands of bars, clubs, pubs, restaurants and tourist spots here, and there really is something for everyone. Deep-sea exploration trips are also a recommendation, a chance to see the alien life that evolved in the deep-sea of another planet.
Earth-2 is well known for it's desert racing, vast dried up seabeds, now flat deserts, allowing for a driver to really open up the throttle and belt it at top speed.

Sector Three
S-3 has two solar systems to it's name, each being relatively small. The Orion system contains just one small planet, 'Rain', with two moons. These moons affect the oceans severely, one week the seabed is viible for miles, and the following the sea entrenches upon the coast for miles inland. 'Rain' is so named because of the weather. It is constantly raining, albeit in varying forms. Rain has even been known to travel upwards during particularly odd wind-storms.
Situated on Rain is the MegaCorp Omnitech complex, MegaCorp Omnitech is a leading arms developer in direct competition with Soar Weapons Systems on Taifam, in the Epsilon Eidrani system.
The second system, 'Pegasus', contains three planets, all of which are inhabited. 'Haven' is not seen as a perfect planet, though some would call it so. Due to it's position in relation to it's sun, Haven is a popular destination for holiday-makers. The entire planet is as one giant paradise island, with rich sandy beaches along the whole coast, warm climates everywhere, and even Earth-like palm trees, with plentiful supplies of coconut-esque pods.
The Yakuza Organisation (formerly criminal, now a legitimate business) owns the planet 'Mironasia', and their massive industrial complexes manufacture faster-than-light (FTL) drives for most ships. They also own patents on the design and manufacture of antimatter engines, but sales are low because of the reputation such machines have.
The third planet, Triassic, is so called because of the dinosaur-like creatures that are native to it. The climate here is a few degrees above 'perfect' temperature, and as such, habitats are large domed structures that contain devices the creatures cannot resist coming to investigate. This allows inhabitants to look out and be completely unharmed by the massive beasts.
Some relatively smaller 'dinosaurs' have even been tamed, bred as transport or pets, even as food.
S-3 is policed by the Dragon Mercenaries. No real authority has ever been established for this sector, but the Dragon Mercenaries still uphold the same basic laws most do. However, due to the mercenary (the Dragon mercs are notoriously unyielding with criminal activity) presence, no criminals or terrorists have ever set up here.
Of Interest:
Sector Three is the most newly discovered inhabitable system, and offers little in the way of interest. It is seldom visited, even for the planet Triassic, and Haven takes by far the most visitors.
It remains though, that Sector-3 is the furthest destination point from both other Sectors, and many do not trust the mercenary force that patrols it.