Rhohan

Role: Military contracting
Circumference: 24,600 miles
Population: 90,000
Orbital Path: First (Only one planetary oribital ring in system)
Rotational Period (days): 1.36
Orbital Period (days): 382
Primary Function: Weapons manufacturing
Retention Index: 4

The people of almost any colony in the Federation are individualistic and self-confident – such traits are extremely valuable to anyone seeking to make a new home on a distant planet. The people of Rhohan, however, embody those traits. They are self-reliant and proud and groups of colonists have even found ways to raise crops and livestock in the harsh conditions of the planet, simply so that they need not rely more than necessary on imports from the Federation’s other colonies.

The right of civilians to bear arms on Rhohan is a source of tremendous pride to the colonists, who prize marksmanship (indeed, any martial ability) more highly than civilians elsewhere in the Federation. Shooting competitions are one of the more popular sports on the planet and the best civilian marksmen of Rhohan have embarrassed more than one cap trooper who challenged them.

There is practically no friction between the citizen and civilian populations of Rhohan. Many children of the colony grow up dreaming of enlisting Federal Service, where the cultural traits of Rhohan serve them quite well.

History

The colony on Rhohan began as an adjunct to a SICON military base on the planet, placed there as part of the ongoing monitoring After all, a well-informed enemy would not need to be a gifted strategist to realise that taking out this single colony would have a devastating impact on SICON’s ability to wage war. Three-way negotiations began between SICON, the governor of Aho Eridani system and the Citizens’ Tribunal of New Austin, the capital of Rhohan. The New Austin delegation had the upper hand from the beginning, knowing full well that SICON had no intention of taking its military contracts away from the colony’s weapons manufacturers – the product was simply too good for them to do so. In the end, the negotiations came to an unusual and wholly unexpected conclusion. In addition to increased SICON patrols throughout the region of space near Aho Eridani, SICON granted the civilian colonists of Rhohan the unprecedented right to bear arms, with the agreement such arms would only be used in defence of the colony.



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