The Belt

History

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The 21st Century

When Earth Went Dark

The Belt Now

Aspects and Troubles

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Places of Note

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Psyche

Psyche is a mining and heavy-industry facility, the primary source for base metals like iron and nickel.

Ceres

Primary shipyard of the Belt (with just enough gravity at the surface — 0.029g, and an escape velocity of almost exactly ½km/sec — that things won't drift away), also a major technology hub for micro-gravity- and vacuum-reliant industries. Extensive tunneled complex below the surface.

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New Kansas

Bubble-formed agricultural facility, originally the asteroid Metis. Still being set up with soil and other agricultural needs, but has approximately 2.7% of its total surface-area arable and producing at this point which means there's about 7¼ Colorados worth of useful farm-land, if nothing goes awry. New Kansas is approximately 440 km long, and averages around 451 km in diameter, internally, with an outer shell that's over 7½ km thick.

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Vesta

Vesta, as one of the largest and most accessible achondrite asteroids, is a main source in the belt for some of the rarer materials needed in space — particularly osmium, which is a key material for CETIL drive systems. Its status as one of the larger asteroids, regardless of its composition, also made it an early desirable target for building large-population facilities in space, and it boasts the largest single human population in the Belt as a result.

Hephæstus’ main offices in the Belt are on Vesta.

Pallas

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Porthos

Formerly a research facility, abandoned because of radioactive contamination that apparently interferes with CETIL drives. Independent (non-company) salvage vessels have consistently failed to return if they get within the radius of EM disruption. Hephæstus does not approve any flight-plans to it for their own vessels.