0202 Miscatoon

0202 Miscatoon B 665322-7 Gas Giant Non-Industrial

Starport Type B - Miscatoon starport is a good quality installation, with refined fuel available and facilities for annual maintenance and overhaul of starships. Most construction is focused on creating non-jump system defense boats. The starport itself is more a clearing port to allow the merchant ships of the two worlds Aquaria (0103) and Kalamari (0203) to band together and form ad hoc convoys with the MISC company escort ships (available at a price!) to protect against pirates when heading to Muskatoon (0101). For those not wishing to pay the cost of refined fuel, there is a gas giant far out in the system for refueling.

Planetary Size 6 - A medium planet, 6400 miles in diameter, and 20 100 miles around at the equator, with an axial tilt of 16 degrees. Days are 19.5 standard hours long. Miscatoon revolves around its sun once every 200 Terran days.

Atmosphere Type 6 - Standard atmosphere, excellent for Earth-standard lifeforms, this planet is very humid due to its closer proximity to its sun than is usual for an inhabitable planet. Temperatures can get up to 70 degrees Celsius at the equator, and the poles average zero degrees at best.

Hydrographic Percentage 5 - Equal parts land and water, the planet has four mostly vertical land masses broken up by oceans. Both poles are land-covered. The planet is almost total jungle/tropical rain forest, with the far north being heavily carpeted evergreens.

Population Size 3 - There is a loose coalition of trappers and scientists in an area just beneath the starport that hovers over the south pole. These approximately 3000 people live in log or pre-fabricated cabins and trap exotic beasts and sell their furs, or sell pets to rich connoisseurs on Muskatoon (0101). Living among them are biologists searching for rare drugs, zoologists, botanists and other scientists.

Government Type 2 - There are so few inhabitants that the government is a participating democracy. Four times per year, at the trapping HQ, a session is held where difficulties are brought up and laws are made

Law Level 2 - Only terrorist weapons (explosives, gas, undiscoverable personal weapons) and energy weapons are barred on this planet, but law enforcement is almost nil, and outside the 100 mile radius from the starport above, law level might as well be zero.

Technological Index 7  - High tech does not work so well on the hot, humid planet, and thus the technology used is similar to the rough and ready devices developed during Terra's Second World War through to the 1970's

Notes - Miscatoon is a virgin planet, unexplored and hostile - imagine the Amazon basin and rain forest multiplied 10 or 20 times. There could be untold riches, resources, medicinals, and lifeforms on the planet.