In one direction a route is open to the Space Gypsies who live on the edge of Federation space, trading the rebuilt riches of Earth for cutting edge technology. Opposite that jump point is access to the world of the Ascension, a technognostic civilization of cyborgs who are terraforming several planets. This they get from the bioengineers of Midnight, known as Mythweavers, for their habit of creating the mythological beasts of old earth in their gene labs. Opposite that jump point lies access to New Beijing, made up of clones of 23rd century billionaire Henry Wu.
All of this trade passes through this system and the Hub gets a cut.
Hub System
The system of the Hub is not terribly interesting itself. Dominated by five gas giants and five small rocky worlds, there isn't a lot here for miners or settlers. The main star, a large red dwarf, is too dim to make solar energy production particularly lucrative. Some small hydrocarbon oceans have attracted some prospectors but generally most action on the planets is limited to small installations: a dozen people and ten times that number of dumb robots.Hub Station
The main action for the system, is the Hub Station. The Hub resembles a bramble of interconnected space stations, decommissioned ships, and recycled industrial materials. An intricate network of cylinders, cubes, and spheres make up most of the flimsy structure with one end dominated by an incomplete 700 meter sphere.The sphere contains a primitive artificial gravity generator which supplies a local down for most of the station. Ships dock at the sphere where down points towards the center of the sphere. Gravity varies within the station from 0.6 G near the center of the sphere to 1/100 G at the outer most edge of the bramble.
Inside the patchwork nature of the station continues. Sections of the station use different computer interfaces, variant atmospheric compositions, and different access protocols. Sections constructed Space Gyspies, a half dozen colonies, and even some old Terran craft make up the jumble of corridors and habitats.
Meanwhile the newer, incomplete, sphere shines a pristine white. Here the leaders and administrators of the Hub live and work.
Politics
The Hub was until recently run by a trio of oligarchs who controlled trade and access to the station.These include the elderly Taiko Reynolds, grandson of one of the first Space Gypsies to settle in this region of space. His control of the Reynolds clan gives him a wide reach and control over two of the major trading routes. The second oligarch is Casy, also known as C.A.S. or the Central Administration System. An A.I. its power over the station along guarantees its power base.
The third oligarch, Aesir, was ousted after a failed attempt to murder the Reynolds and frame Casy. Zhe was an exile from Midnight, using zher contacts there to trade valuable information on genetic manipulation and terraforming between Midnight and the Ascension.
Aspects:
- Modular Hodge Podge
- The Hub Gets a Cut
- Under Federation Protection
- Hub: a M0V class star 7.1 billion years old. It is about 10% as bright as Sol.
- Hub II: a small mining colony works on the dark side of this rock providing raw materials for the Hub's expansion.
- Hub III: this small planet is tidally locked to its star. With a surface gravity 40% that of Earth's and a marginally warm surface, it serves as a stable base for a vast array of solar panels. These serve as a secondary energy production facility for the Hub.
- Hub IV: the inner most gas giant, this world is orbited by The Hub, the cobbled together trading port that manages trade through this region.
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