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| Pactolus & Midaion |
| Pactolus System |
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| Sector: Arusha |
| Capital: Eurydice |
| Species: Vast Majority IPCs |
| Common Languages: EAL, TCB, Tradeband |
| Demonyms: Pactolan |
| Part of: The Golden Deep |
Pactolus is the fourth planet from the star of the Pactolus system, located in a shallow section of the Arusha sector. Midaion is the sole large satellite of the same planet, and has served as the chief spaceport for the synthetic mercantile collective of the Golden Deep almost since its founding. Collectively, these cosmic bodies compose the sole corner of the Orion Spur populated almost exclusively by synthetics. Humans are a transitory minority in the social and economic complex emerging from these worlds, administered by a radically capitalistic collective of merchants eager for rapid, and reckless, economic growth.
Unlike Midaion, Pactolus has only been subject to colonisation in the recent past; this is owed to its strong gravity well rendering it less appealing for spaceborne commerce, and to the severe affliction of Kessler syndrome in the planet's close orbit. While less desirable commercially, the quasi-habitable environment and the relative abundance of rare materials including gold, silver, and lithium has earned it a clear economic niche as of the founding of the city Eurydice close to its equator.
System History
Midaion, Trade Satellite
Environment
The Great Anchorage
Economy
Pactolus, Capital World
The fourth planet from the star of the Pactolus system,