DimidiumPrime

System: DimidiumHex Location: TBD

Star Type: Single star, K0 V

Number of Worlds: 6

Gas Giants: 3

Planetoid Belt: Asteroid and Kuiper belt present

Dimidium Prime

Starport Type: E Frontier star port

World Size: Large

Atmosphere Type: Thin, with slight pollution

Surface Water: 20%.

Population: Small settlements (c. 600,000, at least ⅔ of which are robots

Political Affiliation: Bern Monarchy

Notes: Largely an industrial dumping ground, Dimidium Prime is cold, with a thin, wet atmosphere. The surface is largely made of bare silicate rock, fungus and other primitive plants, and shallow seas—but it is so incredibly covered with junk—trashed space-ships, robots, space stations, and more from across much of known space, that much of the surface isn't actually accessible. While this immense, planet-sized landfill makes Dimidium Prime rather uninviting (in fact, the atmosphere is rather thin, and tainted by pollutants from the trash—visitors will rather quickly get sick without face masks that filter the air, and even so the thin-ness of the air makes it often difficult to operate for long.

The vast reservoir of material makes it a rich mining ground for salvage and raw materials, though, and the Monarchy has official settlements here and there to reclaim much of the junk and make it useful again. Smelting and reclamation facilities add further to the pollution on the surface. In addition, all kinds of unofficial scavengers, smugglers, pirates and others who live on the fringe (or beyond) of acceptable society hide among the junk, counting on it to defeat the best scanners attempting to pinpoint their locations. Much of the population of Dimidium Prime is robotic, since the environment is unwelcoming if not actively hostile to life forms. Many of them are even robots built by robots, and their programming and purpose may have wandered far afield from what the original authorities who sent them had in mind.

Dimidium SecundusStarport Type: A High class port

World Size: Earth-sized

Atmosphere Type: Earth-like

Surface Water: 70%.

Population: Large (1.5 billion)

Political Affiliation: Bern Monarchy

Notes: As a political capital that's relatively recently reclaimed by the Monarchy (the planet was largely abandoned entirely following the Slave Wars), Dimidium Secundus has a few large, impressive and beautifully built and maintained cities that serve as government facilities, and lodgings of those who work there. Much of the rest of the planet is given over to the estates , plantations, preserves and ranches of the nobility and otherwise wealthy and influential members of Monarchy society. As well, of course, as the lower class support staff necessary to keep all of that running.

There is also a middle class of bureaucrats and professional technocrats, most of whom live in the cities or suburbs near the cities, rather than out in the countryside.

The largest settlement on Dimidium Secundus is Jewel, which is the home of the Royal Palace as well as the Convocation of the Council of Lords. Other settlements are the headquarters of the Praetorian Guard, as well as their primary training grounds, and the Academy of Royal Warlocks, the finest Warlock Academy in the Monarchy—an institution that is oft imitated but never surpassed.