Kappa Carcia IV
A large ice planet in the Kappa Carcia System, which is owned jointly between the Sulethis Republic and Tranal Nomads.
Kappa Carcia IV has a high gravity and very low temperature. It features 'oceans' of a liquid with a very low melting point. Most of the solid surface is comprised of solid ice. The planet also has a slightly stronger magnetosphere as the core is almost entirely iron and nickel. There is also an 'ocean floor' where there is a measure of highly valuable metals such as gold or iridium, making the planet quite valuable to mine on despite its inherent danger (structures built on the surface must be either pontoon or built literally on ice). The planet has a low population due to the conditions, dangers and relatively 'boring' views (the planet is very dark due to its distance form the sun). Those who do live here are mostly miners, or other workers allowing the planet to operate. It imports almost all of its food and energy.
With no small effort, the SR used this opportunity to show the TN how to mine on such dangerous planets, when the value is simply too high to ignore. The TN has lost a number of lives attempting to set up mines from various positions (e.g. undersea mining, placing the 'rig' on a pontoon, from icebergs), but eventually they have managed it. Once again, the TN was impressed with the materials it could obtain here, and although it was difficult to refine material here due to the temperature difference, they have spent a large amount of energy doing so.
The TN inhabited this world because it was mobile.
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