Tinea-Fabre
Tinea-Fabre (D567225–5) is an Imperial Reserve World
in everything but title. It is the playground of Duke Ernst
Vohdk Okhotnikov and serves the same purpose for
his son, the ducal heir Arvinen Elios Okhotnikov. Tinea-Fabre is a beautiful world with its own highly developed biosphere that has been put to many uses. There are vast oceans, pristine seas and lakes, extensive mountain ranges, varied climates and habitats with thousands of native life forms that live in them.
The dukes of Alekvadin have used Tinea-Fabre as
their own private resort for hundreds of years. Over the
last half century, the current duke has created dozens
of lush resorts and getaways for his guests to enjoy.
Upon their grounds, he has hosted hundreds of parties,
housed visiting dignitaries and fellow nobles from far
and wide and built a staff of hundreds to manage the
events and properties. The duke – and each of his
predecessors for that matter – tends to get bored of
these facilities after a while and eventually abandons
them, creating new ones elsewhere in their stead.
Tinea-Fabre is littered with these abandoned resorts,
most of which are allowed to naturally crumble and
be consumed by nature over time. No one is quite
certain why but the duke has also seeded the world
with caches of supplies, secret lairs and allegedly even
a subterranean hangar for his yacht, the locations of
which only he and select members of his staff know.
Even his son, Arvinen, is not privy to all of them.
The ducal estate and residential community are
housed within Ozerska, a walled town adjacent to the
starport, which is elegant for a Class D facility. Its four
docking bays are low-tech but meticulously attended
to by the staff. Its terminal was designed by Fatih
Tarmin, one of Alekvadin’s most reputable architects
and the concourse walls are decorated with a mural
that depicts the glorious history of Alekvadin, painted
by the famous cyborg artist, Skryaga, whose works
are renowned throughout the Sanches subsector.
Staff accommodations are small but refined and the commissary and stores are always well stocked. Tinea-Fabreans live a provincial life but are well cared for by their benefactor.
While the duke has used Tinea-Fabre for many things,
its primary purpose for the ducal heir is to host exotic
game. Okhotnikov the younger is an avid outdoorsman
and hunter, having travelled far and wide, mostly
in the Core, with a fascination for worlds that have
animal native life. Over the millennia, colonisation
and exploitation has altered these worlds, with very few resembling their pristine states.
Okhotnikov has an appreciation for nature but is also a
realist and a bit of a cynic. There is no way to completely
restore worlds to the way they once were after
thousands of years of human habitation, for they have
been irrevocably changed and trying to turn back the
clock is a hopeless endeavour. To that end, he casually
uses the world of Tinea-Fabre as his own experimental
breeding ground, a place where he brings exotic and
fascinating animal species in order to see how they fare
when mixed with dozens, possibly even hundreds of
other imported species. Some do reasonably well; others
die off, unable to adjust to the foreign environment
they have been dropped into.
UWP: D567125-4
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