Montague

Tech: -2

Environment: 0

Resources: +1

Slipknots: 4- Exodus, Newtonia, Thule, Charon

Montague is a hub world of the slipstreams - all roads ultimately lead there.

Unfortunately, this system is not in the best position to take advantage of this fact. After long centuries outside of the Imperial Sphere Montague has fallen to Tech-2 levels, early-industrial in technology and outlook.

Montague Prime is a lush, swampy world of freshwater seas and waterways teeming with strange and often dangerous life unknown elsewhere in the cosmos. The flora and fauna is so unique that it is assumed that the world evolved into an S-0 type planet independent of all but the most rudimentary terraforming. The Montaguans themselves believe that world was given to them by their god, St. Damus, as gift and as a test of their faith.

Montague is famous/infamous for the production of an addictive psychotropic stimulant known as ‘Deep Purple’, harvested from a local mollusk. In its pure form the drug is slightly poisonous, although long term use builds up a natural resistance in the body. Regular users are marked by the lavender hue taken by the skin and hair. The substance is also used as a rich, rare and expensive dye favored by the Tyrian Nobles.

The world of Montague is dominated by the above mentioned Tyrian Lords, who control the trade of Deep Purple both on and off world. Not dissimilar to the great Merchant Princes of Renaissance Italy, the scions of the great houses carry dagger and swords ready at all times, and are expected to be - and usually are - skilled in the use of these weapons. Tyrian lords and ladies are without exception heavy users of the Deep Purple themselves (valuing it for its stimulating properties), and are proud of their royal purple flesh and hair.

Visitors to Montague are reminded always that they should be prepared to travel by boat, have a bribe at the ready, and to always, and at all times be armed and ready to fight.

Aspects

Dominated the intrigues of the Tyrian Lords

Supplier of Deep Purple to the cosmos

Freshwater seas and waterways teem with exotic and dangerous life