TML Landgrab Claim File

Diamond, formerly 871-438 (Jewel/Spinward Marches hex 1510)

Original UPP: E722000-8 801 Na M9V M8D
Current (as of 001-1122) UPP: B722414-F Na Po 101 Im
Stellar Data: M8V with D companion

Stellar Data:
Primary: M8V; Temp: 2,600K; Luminosity: 0.001sol; Mass: 0.063sol; Radius: 0.014AU
Inner Limit: 0.013AU; Life: 0.03-0.04AU; Snowline: 0.16AU; Outer Limit: 10AU
White Dwarf companion: Orbits primary at 3.5AU w/ 0.4ecc (2.1AU - 4.9AU)
Forbiden Zones: 0.7AU - 14.7AU from primary.

System Profile:

Orbit	Moon Orbit	Zone	Type	UPP
0.02AU		Inner	Empty
0.32AU		Outer	Gas Giant	Small GG (50,000mi)
	1d	Outer	Thin Ring	YR00000-0
	2-5d	Outer	3 small moons	YS00000-0
	20d	Outer	Icy Rockball	D722214-C
0.62AU (ecc 0.1 retrograde)		Outer	Hostile(A)	Y7A6000-0

Mainworld Data:

Diameter: 6961mi; Density: 1.6; Mass: 0.20; Grav: 0.25g
Size Parameter: 0.23(Vsmall); Type: Icy Rockball
Atmosphere: 0.24atm Oxy/Nitro w/ Sulfuric Taint (Industrial Polutant)
Albedo: 0.55; Greehouse: 0
Blackbody Temp: 87K; Avg Temp: 71K
Climate: Uninhabitable(Frigid).
Hydrographics: 20%, All frozen lakes and oceans
Orbital Ecc: 0.05; Period: 12.25 Days
Rotation: Tidal Locked to GG; Axial Tilt: 3deg.

Starport: Class B/IV with orbital facilities. Non-starship shipyard.
Population: 10,000 X-TEK employees
Government: Corporation, X-TEK
Law Level/Control Rating: 4/2.
TTL/GTL: 15/12

A very small and unimpressive star system. There are numerous random bodies in the system too small and too spaced about to constitute a true belt. However, this system does have two worlds of note, the first being the moon of the only gas giant in the system. This single large moon is an inhospitable frozen iceball tidally locked towards the Gas Giant. Preliminary scans reported a world totally devoid of life, with wide ice plains, some harboring water ice. The world has little in the way of easily obtainable natural resources. The world is bitterly cold, any colony would have to be in domed or underground facilities. Its location has no particular strategic or economic importance. Located on a coreward spur of the Spinward main and away from any trade routes it is considered a "Backwater's backwater". It is for these reasons that for the past millennium the system was mostly ignored.

In the year 1120, the Domain wide corporation X-TEK Industries, LIC registered a claim to the mainworld via the Imperial Corporate Planetary Acquisitions Act. X-TEK's claim to the world was for a testing facility for weapons and starships. Phase I, the creation of a class D/II starport on the surface, has been completed as of 150-1120. This was a 'landgrab' operation involving 10,000 workers taking nearly a month to complete. This facility was to be the staging point for the construction of the research facility at Area 51. Area 51 being the ice plain 50mi north of the starport originally mapped by the IISS and the area X-TEK has designated as its testing range and proving ground. This facility is now fully operational and not open to the public.

Phases II and IIIa, now completed, involved systematic upgrades to the starport facilities. The starport is now (as of 001-1122) fully upgraded to a Class B/IV with limited highport and non-starship shipyards. A small fleet of Viper-class SDB patrol the area. Phase IIIb will involve upgrading the shipyard to a full starship yard. The X-TEK facility will upgrade from an Upgrade and Repair shop to a full corporate owned and operated X-TEK shipyard. It is expected that it will take 11,000 workers nearly a year to complete.

Rumors are unsubstantiated at this time in that the Archduke is planning to place a Naval Base at Diamond (871-438). If so this would mean thousands of new jobs as X-TEK would be given a huge naval contract. Such a base would enact serious political reprocussions given Diamond's proximity to the Federation of Arden.

Currently, minor trade routes have been established with Extolay (SM hex 1117; BTN=8.5) mostly in the field of Naval equipment for the base at that world, and surprisingly Ruie (SM hex 1809; BTN=8) with 2 Imperial member states importing high technology and ore.

The other world of note seems to have been a sister to the mainworld which had been thrown off its orbit with the gas giant to form one of it's own. This ammonia world has an eccentric and retrograde orbit. It is believed that this world had a far orbit from the gas giant and may have been pulled away when the white dwarf companion came within its closest approach. The world has an exotic atmosphere and is unsuited for any surface installation however X-TEK has plans to harvest chemicals from the atmosphere.

World image courtesy of Worldbuilder's Inc
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