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|Name=Iskander | |||
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|Description=Iskander is both the capital of the Federation but also home to many farms that have fed humanity's space frontier for centuries, earning it the title "the Breadbasket of the Federation". Over 80% of its adult population are citizens, having served in the Federal Armed Forces. | |||
|Long=The culture of the Hesperus colony is extremely work oriented. Citizens and civilians tend to work longer hours | |||
than almost anywhere else in the UCF, with the possible | |||
exception of the agricultural worlds. Whether they labour | |||
for SICON, or for one of the private corporations building | |||
spacecraft for commercial use, the people of Hesperus put a | |||
great deal of stock in a hard day’s work. So it has been for | |||
decades and so it is likely to remain for decades more. | |||
Hesperus is unusual in that its population is almost evenly split | |||
between citizens and civilians at any given time. Certainly, | |||
more civilians than citizens call this mineral-rich world their | |||
home but given the immensity of SICON’s investment in | |||
the colony, there are large numbers of military men and women here at any given time, acting as supervisors, guards | |||
and even additional labour for the shipyards that operate | |||
around the clock. | |||
While not quite as utilitarian as the initial structures on | |||
the planet’s surface, the domed habitations of the Hesperus | |||
colony are anything but luxurious. Despite the advances | |||
over the years in construction of domed habitations, space | |||
within them is still limited. Consequently, most people | |||
on Hesperus colony must make do with accommodations | |||
significantly smaller even than the government-supplied | |||
housing on Earth. | |||
As mentioned above, the culture of Hesperus is the culture | |||
of work. Entertainment venues are few and far between, | |||
generally limited to small exercise facilities, a few fieldball | |||
courts and one small theatre for musical, theatrical or video | |||
entertainment. The citizens and civilians of Hesperus do, | |||
of course, enjoy access to FedNet and, considering the near constant traffic between Hesperus and Earth, they never | |||
experience the significant lag some of the more distant and | |||
less vital colonies do. | |||
Perhaps because of the work-centred nature of their daily | |||
lives, or perhaps because most of the original colonists | |||
of Hesperus hailed from the southern regions of Europe, | |||
religion has always been an important factor in the lives | |||
of the people of Hesperus colony. As a result, this small | |||
colony boasts a higher ratio of places of worship (churches, | |||
synagogues, mosques – though churches are by far the most | |||
numerous) than any other colony in the UCF. Education | |||
for children on Hesperus is fairly limited – only the | |||
Federation-sponsored schools are available to teach children | |||
up through high school age. Any student seeking to further | |||
his education by going on to college must leave Hesperus; | |||
there are no higher education facilities in the colony. | |||
The people of Hesperus take great pride in their work and | |||
rightly so, for the ships that roll off the assembly lines in | |||
the colony’s mammoth shipyard facilities are some of the | |||
best in the Federation. This constant exposure to ships and | |||
all aspects of naval life is considered the primary reason so | |||
many young people of Hesperus colony choose to enter | |||
Federal Service, with the vast majority of them expressing a | |||
preference for service with the Fleet. Hesperus has produced | |||
a large number of capable and sometimes famous captains | |||
over the years. The most recent example and one of the | |||
most famous, is Captain Nandine Capritta, captain of the | |||
J.E.B. Stuart. | |||
==Laws and Government== | |||
Considering the level of investment and involvement | |||
SICON has in Hesperus Colony, the laws here are identical | |||
to those elsewhere in the United Citizens’ Federation. The | |||
most common infraction faced by law enforcement on | |||
Hesperus is trespassing, usually an innocent case of someone | |||
wandering into an area of the shipyards they should not | |||
be in. Nonetheless, because of the immense military | |||
importance of those shipyards, all such cases are thoroughly | |||
investigated and the trespasser is held in police custody until | |||
his background has been researched and cleared. | |||
Col. Silas Burke, the governor of the Alpha Centauri system, | |||
lives on Hesperus, where he acts as head of the planetary | |||
council, a group of six citizens elected to oversee local issues. | |||
Generally, Governor Burke does not involve himself in the | |||
deliberations of the council unless there is a deadlock among | |||
its six members, in which case he casts the tie-breaking | |||
vote. | |||
==Economy== | |||
The economy of Hesperus is based entirely on mining and | |||
shipbuilding, two things the colony does extremely well. | |||
More than a third of all ships that have every served in | |||
SICON’s Fleet have been launched from one of the literally | |||
hundreds of berths in the orbital shipyards of this world. | |||
Though not as rich as the mines of its nearby neighbour | |||
Hod, Hesperus has a wealth of mineral assets, used primarily | |||
in the construction of the endless ranks of ships rolling from | |||
her shipyards. | |||
There is a tremendous amount of wealth tied up in Hesperus | |||
but that does not mean the colonists themselves are wealthy. | |||
Few if any have a standard of living that could be described | |||
as anything but blue collar – honest, hardworking people | |||
who make do with what they have. | |||
Points of Interest | |||
Aside from the mining encampments scattered about over | |||
the surface of the planet, there are only two places on | |||
Hesperus of any interest. The fi rst is Hesperus City, the | |||
primary settlement of the colonists and the place more than | |||
three-quarters of them call home. Though it is still contained | |||
within atmospheric domes, the surface of the world being | |||
unsuitable for environmental confi guration, the colonists | |||
have had nearly a century in which to expand it. Today, | |||
the domes of Hesperus City cover nearly 20 square miles, | |||
sprouting like mushrooms from the forbidding surface of | |||
the world. | |||
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Iskander
Iskander is both the capital of the Federation but also home to many farms that have fed humanity's space frontier for centuries, earning it the title "the Breadbasket of the Federation". Over 80% of its adult population are citizens, having served in the Federal Armed Forces.
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