| CAUTION - Amber Zone (TAS) - Noricum system - irradiation and biowarfare residual hazards in unmarked death zones. Extreme technological regression. Indigenous inhabitants can be unwelcoming due to historic looting expeditions. Looting of ruined high-tech sites and artefacts has resulted in bio-weapon contamination and spread to other worlds. Residual radiological and bio-warfare hazards highly likely. Caution and decontamination/isolation protocols should be observed. |
Noricum was once the capital of the mighty
Sindalian Empire. That empire was destroyed by orbital bombardment with nuclear and biological weapons, the visible and invisible scars of which are still readily apparent. Ruined cities dot the landscape, all of them in death zones and shunned by the few remaining inhabitants. They lead a low tech, agrarian lifecycle on land that was not contaminated, or has been painstakingly recovered over the centuries. Rumours abound of treasures waiting to be plundered in Sindalian treasure vaults hidden beneath the surface devastation, but anything of value was really looted long ago and all the awaits plunderers is a lingering death from radiation poisoning, or a quick one from the various engineered viruses that lie dormant in the ruins. Several plague outbreaks on neighbouring worlds have been traced to looters who were exposed on
Noricum but didn't show symptoms until they had reached nearby worlds. Ships with
Noricum on their recent flight plans will normally be targeted for extra decontamination or quarantine periods unless they can demonstrate that they didn't land on
Noricum.
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