Neptune

Description

The furthest planet from the sun, unless you count Pluto still by habit, Neptune is the fourth gas giant and the second of the ‘ice giants’, twinned with Uranus but lacking many of the peculiarities of that planet. Neptune is a similar bluish colour and has faint rings, fainter than Uranus. Like Uranus the only real interest here is scientific but Neptune lacks a science station, instead of that Neptune has a commercial site, built upon Triton, Neptune’s moon, the coldest object in the solar system. Neptune is a place that gets passed by, overlooked, ignored and that is a situation that suits the Forever Corporation very nicely indeed. The Forever Corporation is an extension of Jinteki. Here they can look after their clients and take care of the necessary experimentation away from prying eyes and with easy access to extremely cold temperatures, without the need to artificially induce them.

Government

The Vault, the name of the station upon Triton, is a wholly owned station of the Forever Corporation, specialists in cryonics, cryogenics and radical medical technologies. It is also a registered embassy, it’s political status bought by the Forever Corporation from Nigeria in exchange for remuneration and certain privileged access to medical technology. The station is ostensibly governed by a Nigerian ambassador who is permanently stationed at The Vault but, in practice, since the ambassador is cryogenically frozen, the leadership falls to The Vault CEO, the second highest regarded position in the Forever Corporation.

Geography

Neptune itself is a frozen monster of a world with some of the fastest winds known to exist anywhere in the solar system, faster than the other gas giants and bitterly cold, only beaten for coldness by its twin, Uranus. Triton, its moon, is thought to be a captured kuiper belt object, similar to Pluto and is a desolate, frozen wasteland its only truly notable feature being the presence of The Vault upon it. The Vault descends two miles deep into Triton’s crust and is chiefly made up of storage chambers where the Forever Corporation stores its clients. The deeper levels, rather than the surface levels, house the workers, company offices and laboratories, well appointed, spacious and roomy with every comfort and necessity met by the company for those who work there.

Starport quality

D, Research

Size

A

Atmosphere Type

F

Hydrographic Percentage

8

Population

5

Government Type

1

Law Level

4

Tech Level

D

Price Multiplier

2.25

Type

Planet

Contested By

• Jinteki