About half
Alvarians and Galirans, and the rest is about evenly mixed.
An orbital station and accompanying defense fleet are nearby to protect the warplane gate. The city has a shield generator with an embedded power supply that can last one day under moderate enemy fire. Just beyond the edge of the shields is a wall constructed of star steel rods driven into the center of logs and then held together with zenium bands. on top of the wall, there are automatic turrets that can fire at attackers.
every one hundred feet there is a fifty-foot section of the wall that can lower to the ground to let people and animals into the city.
Most of the income of the colony comes from being in the same system as the gate, being the first system that you enter when you come to the milky way from the Andromeda, which makes it where ships having just come from the Andromeda they need to restock and they restock at Valia. A
A large state of the art colony ship that has been converted into a full-size governmental complex and the first housing for the colonists.
A large state of the art colony ship that has been converted into a full-size governmental complex and the first housing for the colonists. One year of food that is left from the colony ships stores. Weapons for twenty-five thousand soldiers, and one thousand fighter craft, as well as two thousand armored transports and one thousand tanks. Seventy tons of zenium, and two hundred tons of star steel.
There is the naturalists guild that heavily promotes the use of natural materials in the local cities and more importantly a naturalistic lifestyle and the restriction of development. And then there is the development committee which supports massive development, rapid expansion and urbanization.
These two guilds are constantly at each other's throats, there are a few other groups but they mostly don't have any power and just watch as the naturalists and the development committee fight over policy.
First established twenty-five years ago from now, it was a massive step forward for the Andromeda Alliance opening up a whole new galaxy for exploration. The colony was granted huge funding but still limited by travel and cargo transport costs.
Ten years later there was a big decision to make and it divided the city, Should they expand and become an economic power as the gate city, or just stay a way station to the bigger cities beyond Valia that are soon to develop. This led to the formation of the naturalists and the development committee.
The normal design of buildings in Valia is very similar to the construction on the core worlds in the Alliance but with a few major differences, this includes mostly star steel construction with zenium reinforcements. Another large difference is the heavy use of raw stone and heavy planks, in stark contrast to the highly refined wood planks and polished stones of the core worlds.
The city has a rushed appearance as though it was built to fast for its own good. The city has patches of open space that no one has claimed, they still have the original wild in them, untamed nature.
The roads in the city are still dirt and gravel, the few that are paved are rushed and sloppy, the product of rapid unchecked expansion.
The city is built upon looming mountains that loom over the surrounding forests, the mountains are topped with a thick layer of snow and ice, clouds wreath them near constantly. Midway down the mountain is a mining town built like a frontier town in colonial America, the view from which is unrivaled by any city on the planet. At the base of the mountains is the main city, Valia. Valia is built at the base of the mountains surrounded and interwoven with the surrounding forest. The local wildlife merges with the city making the transition from the untamed wild to full on glistening city of the future slow and imperceptible.
The main source of water is a large mountain stream that tumbles down the grand mountains falling off the edge of a cliff past the city pooling at the bottom then rushing down to a large lake about twenty-five miles from the base of the mountains. Surrounding the lake is a beautiful glowing forest abundant with wildlife and fish aplenty.
The local mixed evergreen and deciduous forests provide high-quality hardwood that grows extremely fast, the best trees in the galaxy. The grand mountains that the city is built into provide large amounts of valuable decorative stones, in addition to this are large deposits of valuable metals including zenium. deeper down there are good amounts of gems and energy crystals.
In the forests surrounding the city, there is abundant wildlife. Just downstream from the city there is lake month which has abundant fish and even seaweed.
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