Setting Details

Nations of Thuban

Submitter: Demi
Description: Fifty years ago, a new regime came to power on the capitol world of Omokane - conservative politicians pulled support for the last regime's extensive colonialization efforts. Without the steady managed growth, most new colonies have undergone catastrophic economic and technological collapse. The frontier world of Thuban has fared better than some - autonomous economic regions grew into national states, and Thuban's planetary conditions permit relatively cheap production of some important psionic-inducing and amplifying drugs. Psi-drug production assures Thuban of at least a little continued trade with the rich core worlds. In the last generation, the political climate of Thuban has worsened as many nations vie to become the major supplier of psi-drugs to the stellar corporations. Along with political back-stabbing, espionage, and sabotage of psi-drug farms and factories, some nations have turned to open warfare to conquer their enemies and take the all-important farmland. Thuban's population consists of a hodge-podge of plain humans and several modified sub-species - all nations are of mixed species, although which mix and what percentages can vary.