The Bulwark
The Bulwark is a region of human space known for its focus on militarisation, home to some of Sol's most formidable defences, as well as its military-industrial heartland. The Bulwark is protected by Sol's Anvil Fleet, with its headquarters located on Fleet Station Four, commonly known as the Hyperion Garrison. Despite its sheer importance, the Bulwark contains four occupied systems; Hyperion, with the occupied world of Artos; and Murcia, with the occupied world of Ironbrand; Hensath, where its unoccupied worlds are used for military target practice; and Ferrumia, with its occupied worlds, most of which are inhospitable, but have become home to a sizable foundry and metalworking industry.
The Bulwark was born following the end of the Serajji Conflict, after the Battle of Hyperion left much of the systems space infrastructure in ruins, and a serious Kessler effect around the planetary body of Artos. Significant efforts have been made to turn the Bulwark into an impenetrable gateway into the Solar Core Worlds.
The Bulwark lies close to the borders of both LANAS, and the Gilgamesh Confederation, and serves as one of the only entry ways into the Sol Central District.
Hyperion
Hyperion is a K-Type Main Sequence Star located around 10 light-years from Sol. It is the capital of the Bulwark, and contains a significant amount of the region's orbital infrastructure. The system contains several unimportant gas giants, and one occupied planet, Artos.Artos
Artos is a hot and choking world, quietly smoldering at the inner edge of Hyperion's habitable zone. The planet is volcanic, but not violent. Considered to be a smokestack world, the planet's internal activity leaks to the surface as plumes of thick black smoke. It has one major settlement, Viskan, which has close ties to both installations in the system. Viskan is settled at the planet's northern pole, where temperatures are cool enough to support liquid water.Fleet Station Four
The Hyperion Garrison is the headquarters of Sol's Anvil Fleet, and is the largest naval base of its kind, capable of defending much of Inner Sol. Practically a city in space unto itself, the Fleet Station Four is home to a hodgepodge of soldiers, civilians, government services, and a wide array of private enterprises all catering to either the naval base, or the Hyperion Gateway, which connects the Bulwark to Sol. This fact alone is what has allowed the Hyperion System as a whole to weather multiple economic recessions and has allowed it to establish itself as a premier commercial and military centre of the wider UNSAS.Murcia
Murcia is an occupied star system in the Bulwark. It has one occupied planet, Ironbrand. Ironbrand is a body in the late stages of slow terraforming. Previously a dry, rocky world with an inhospitable geography of high plains and deep ravines, it was chosen as a colonization candidate due to its molten iron-rich core and human-tolerable temperature variations, well on the way to becoming a temperate, if dusty world.Hensath
Hensath is Sol's firing range, an M-Type star with at least eight planets, all of which are used by the military to test various weapons and destructive theories.Ferrumia
Ferrumia is the foundry of the Bulwark, chosen for its metal-rich planets, and proximity to Hyperion. It has a few occupied worlds, with Ferrumia III being home to the largest foundries in the system, as well as the system's administration, from the local capital of Basheim.
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