Post by Kenneth New on Jun 12, 2011 16:10:37 GMT -5
Viridian [D656712-C]
The statistics above don't tell the entire story. 804 human and neo-chimp employees of Helix Biotechnica control the planet, but 3.6 million native aliens live a tribal TL 0 existence.
The planet is a treasure trove of biological wealth: including, a fungus growing on tree bark that helps retard fungal infections, a tree nut with a soft meat that tastes like beef, a soft, pulpy fruit high in essential oils and anti-oxidants that tastes like orange cream cheese and a type of pea-bearing tree whose seeds contain all the amino acids needed by humans.
Physically, the planet is the second planet in the Viridian System. It has a diameter of 9866 km, a surface gravity of 0.74g, a standard atmosphere with 0.67 bar of pressure and a cool temperate climate and 60% surface water.
Viridian Compound
Hakim Al-Fihr [84 male, arab] is the director of the Viridian project. He's sitting on a gold mine on Viridian and he knows it. He's already collected hundreds of millions of credits in bonuses and plans to get more before he leaves this position. His policies all serve to maximize the profits of Helix Biotechnica (and therefore his own), with little regard for the natives. He considers them to be expendable and a nuisance.
The area surrounding the Viridian Compound has been deforested and turned into groves of profitable trees, turning what was once a complex ecosystem into a monoculture that produces fruit and nuts for offworld shipping. The valuable tree fungus cannot be cultivated (at least not yet). In order to process it, the corporation is stripping the bark from massive (120 m tall) trees in a 50 km radius of the compound.
Dr. Elsa Felix [63 female human, Scandinavian] is a xeno-anthropologist employed by Helix Biotechnica to study the native aliens. She's finishing a 10 year study of the Jadeery culture and has come to respect them very much. She knows that Helix Biotechnica will never agree to leave them and their world alone, so she's trying to establish a policy that takes a combined approach. She established schools and training for those Jadeery who want to adopt offworld ways. These facilities located within the Viridian Compound, but the natives who live there are rapidly losing their culture and becoming addicted to the worst elements of human civilization.
For those natives who prefer to maintain their native culture, she wants territories to be set aside for them that wouldn't be touched by outsiders. So far, neither side is willing to accept such a deal.
The Viridian Security guards wear TL 12 combat armor and carry gauss rifles.