Schliraum Sternreich

ReLOE

Background

Genre: Mecha Space Colonies

The Schliraum Sternreich achieved independence from some three decades ago in a vicious civil war that culminated in a colony drop and the loss of some eighty million lives. The event left the only survivors – the once minority spacenoid inhabitants of the orbital colonies – to form the Sternreich. Said "reich" has remained without a kaiser, with the function of head of state handled by a reichsregent from the Zornaus family. Zornaus, together with about a dozen major families and a hundred smaller ones form the political and military elite of the present state.

The devastating Freedom War left Schlireans with a vast force of starships and mobile suits and philosophical objections to using it without good reason. Hence, the Sternreich is somewhat isolationist and does not go out of its way to get involved in the affairs of others. Likewise, attempts by the Zornaus to instill unity under a single flag have been loud-mouthed rather than heavy-handed and the noble families of the Sternreich remain as disparate and prone to intrigue as ever. The state has not one but five more or less separate military commands and house loyalties map to their boundaries of responsibility (that is, contentious yet overlapping) rather well.

Characters

Reichsregent Sloven Zornaus

Ambassador Marstad

Traits

Space Dwellers

Barren World

Magic Intolerance

Pariah

Weak Government

Technology

Biology: 500
Chemistry: 500
Engineering: 500
Physics: 500
Psychology: 500

Infrastructure

Population: 54,288,828
Wealth: 165
Industry: 144+27
Ether: 120
Research: 25

Stockpiles

WU: ~600
Ether: ~3500
Geodes: ~50

Terrain

Orbital

L0 (Very Crowded)
Population: 6,000,000
Wealth: 15
Industry: 7
Ether: 25
Research: 0
The L0 sector (which is obviously not a real libration point) indicates the space immediately surrounding the world from which the colonies were once ruled. Presently, the surface is completely obscured by a nuclear winter so bad that ether is economically extracted from the upper atmosphere. While colonies are not badly affected by the severe debris storms, it does make it somewhat unfashionable to live here.

L1 (Very Crowded)
Population: 8,000,000
Wealth: 25
Industry: 24
Ether: 10
Research: 0

L2 (Very Crowded)
Population: 14,000,000
Wealth: 45
Industry: 30
Ether: 35
Research: 10
The capital of the Sternreich and the center of political and military power for the noble house of Zornaus and its allies. L2 sector is dominated by the artificially orbited asteroid Zellerfield.

Near Midsystem

Core areas of the Sternreich that are not core areas for the Zornaus family.

L3 (Very Crowded)
Population: 8,000,000
Wealth: 26
Industry: 29
Ether: 10
Research: 10
Where most of the people who like the ruling family least live.

L4 (Very Crowded)
Population: 7,000,000
Wealth: 23
Industry: 19
Ether: 10
Research: 0

L5 (Very Crowded)
Population: 7,000,000
Wealth: 21
Industry: 21
Ether: 10
Research: 0

Outer Midsystem

Where the starway termini are.

Narse Orbit (Scattered)
Population: 500,000
Wealth: 4
Industry: 1
Ether: 0
Research: 0
Despite its distance from the sun, moonless Narse is warm due to a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere. It also has about 4G of gravity. However, a small colony lies in the scattered disk around the planet, mostly as an interstellar truck stop and minor military base.

Der Alfren (Crowded)
Population: 2,000,000
Wealth: 3
Industry: 10
Ether: 0
Research: 0
Leading Narse trojans. Oddly enough has become the center of a large community of Belmarian expats after a recent population surge.

Der Dwergen (Crowded)
Population: 280,000
Wealth: 0
Industry: 0
Ether: 2
Research: 0
Trailing Narse trojans. Originally just part of a ring of military bases to watch the inbound starways, it has developed a small economy centered on a single ether rich asteroid

Zone N (Empty)
Population: <10,000
Wealth: 0
Industry: 0
Ether: 0
Research: 1
A military watchpost rounding out the midsystem surveillance.

Outsystem

Beyond Schlirea's five starway termini is the outer system dominated by the gas giant Bramd and its community of moons and trojans. The center of activity here is Edda, a tiny oblong moon floating in a debris cluster just inside the roche limit where newly prospected ether extraction facilities now supply some 15% of the Sternreich's ether. It is also HQ of the FMK and where the newest (or ugliest) mobile weapons are tested and morally suspect experiments may or may not be carried out.

Edda (Very Crowded)
Population: 1,500,000
Wealth: 3
Industry: 3
Ether: 18
Research: 4