CaptialPublius

System: Capital PubliusHex Location: TBD

Star Type: Single star, G3V

Number of Worlds: 8

Gas Giants: 3

Planetoid Belt: Asteroid and Kuiper belt present

Starport Type: A High class port

World Size: Earth-sized

Atmosphere Type: Earth-like, but localized long-term sickness in low elevations due to pollution

Surface Water: 60%. Much of it in towering clouds of water vapor rather than liquid water.

Population: Super-populated (50+ billion)

Political Affiliation: Revanchist Republic

Notes: Political capital. Few exports. Most agriculture and other goods imported. Rich world with lots of well-connected and often corrupt politicians, who have managed to leverage their influence for considerable financial gain. Almost the entire surface is urbanized, and even much of the surface water has floating cities, or deep anchored towers filled to the brim with people. Skyscraper districts cover 70% of the surface. Most of the rich and influential are located very high up in the skyscrapers. The lower levels are maintained for structural integrity only by a cadre of robotic engineers and construction workers, not for aesthetics, so they have devolved into rather ugly slums that anyone who can afford to leaves. In the lower levels, organized crime proliferates, and the ability of law enforcement to control the environment is significantly reduced.

Capital Publius currently is the capital of the Revanchist Republic. Like a modern day Jerusalem, its significance to various political groups is huge. To the Bern Monarchy, it rankles that Capital Publius doesn't belong to them, since they see themselves as the unbroken continuation from the Old Kingdoms through the Marian Empire and into the Monarchy. To them, it is naturally their home planet as well. About 300 years ago, Tiranos Bern, a distant ancestor of today's king, Maddav Bern, declared a Crusade to liberate Capital Publius from the hands of the Republic, which was at that time weak, riddled with corruption and political infighting. The Monarchy held it for a hundred and twenty years even, although the insult of losing their capital finally united the Republic into a semi-cohesive whole. With the recapture of their capital, they officially became the Revanchist Republic, and their revanchist agenda took off, putting them at open war with the Monarchy and the Empire both. It's to their credit that they were even able to survive that time at all, much less thrive and grow, until tense and wary peace settled again uneasily over known space.

Capital Publius—or, the Cap as it's known colloquially—remains a world rife with political division, class and social division, and more. Dissidents, terrorists, activists, and other malcontents lurk under the surface, and the grim and overcrowded underworld of the Cap is still an easy place in which to get lost, either on accident or on purpose. The bright and classy world of the surface is a different world altogether from the dingy and anarchic underworld, which is patrolled insufficiently by law enforcement to be little better than a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Criminals, political malcontents, and spies make up a shocking percentage of the population.

The Senate still remains in power, and their rebuilt Senate building strongly resembles the former one. The old Order of the Zen Cross temple is now a public park, though. The Simonians operate frequently on the Cap, but have smaller, more modest temples scattered throughout the planet. Sacristans also live here, and some even tend the old temple, although they have been unsuccessful in their attempt to sue for its return to their order.