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Stuttgart is a star system in Rheinland space, between the Omega-7 system and the New Berlin system. It contains Planet Stuttgart, the main food production planet for the Rheinland population, and a further settled planet, Planet Baden Baden, an Orbital Spa and Cruise resort planet famous for its mudbaths. The system is also the home of the Landwirtrechtbewegung, former farmers from Planet Stuttgart who resent the encroachment of Synth Foods plants and techniques over their traditional farming methods, and have resorted to criminal actions.
System Overview
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Astronomical Bodies
Stellar Objects
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Industrial Development
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Faction Presence
Lawful Factions
Corporations & Guilds
Unlawful Factions
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Planetary Bodies
- Colonised in late 94 A.S., shortly after the exploration of the Stuttgart system by the famous Rheinland explorer, Von Rohe, Stuttgart was hailed as the Jewel of Rheinland. A green, almost inconceivably fertile world, owing to the high concentration of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the atmosphere, planet Stuttgart was colonised heavily by tens of thousands of would-be farmers, attracted by the prospect of making a living on a planet that did not spend most of its time bathed in sub-zero temperatures.
- It quickly became the primary food producer for the whole of Rheinland, with many plants from Earth and elsewhere in Sirius being grown with ease in the oxygen rich atmosphere. It was during the formative years that many of the huge farming clans and dynasties started, the largest of which were the Bachmeier, Erlichmann, Sterl and Weiss families, who controlled enormous plantations and farms across the planet. The farmers organised themselves into a collective known as the WVS, a powerful Farmers Rights union that lobbied New Berlin for farming subsidies successfully for centuries. The government money boosted Stuttgart's food output and generated a huge amount of wealth for the farmers, but the happy situation was not to last.
- As the Eighty Years War against the Gas Miners Guild wound down towards its ignoble conclusion, the Rheinland government, realising that it was almost bankrupt, decided to cut all subsidies to planet Stuttgart almost overnight. The WVS protested massively, but was completely ignored. It later came to light that the Rheinland government had borrowed massively from Liberty during the many years of fighting against the GMG and, with the end of the war in 669 A.S., Liberty was calling in its debts. Having no money to pay them with and in an attempt to renegotiable more favourable loan conditions, the Rheinland government gave Liberty corporations, Synth Foods in particular, unrestricted access to the planet Stuttgart.
- With the Rheinland currency completely devalued and unemployment skyrocketing by the day, the vast majority of the farmers on Stuttgart were virtually bankrupt along with the rest of their nation. Synth Foods moved in immediately, buying out many of the farming dynasties over the following decades, including the huge Erlichmann family, which had had a series of mysterious disasters occurring on a number of plantations in the year preceding their collapse. Most of the remaining farmers were forced to buy all of their seeds and poor quality fertilisers from Synth Foods, and sell much of their produce to the Liberty corporation at the same time. Despite this, the population continued to rise as immigrants poured in to serve as the labour force on Synth Food plantations, with the current population estimated at around 540 million as of 817 A.S.
- In 770 A.S., Synth Foods began increasing the carbon dioxide level in Stuttgart's atmosphere in order to make it even easier to manufacture Synth Paste. Again, the WVS protested heavily to the government, but was duly ignored. This sparked a number of sabotage incidents at Synth Food owned factories and it lead to Synth Foods forcing the Rheinland government to replace virtually all of the original WVS board members with their lackeys in 775 A.S., destroying the farming union's voice in New Berlin. It was this final act that lead radicals from the WVS, including the former head of the Erlichmann family, to found the LWB later the same year, in the hopes of one day driving Synth Foods from Stuttgart and returning the planet to its rightful place as the Jewel of Rheinland.
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Owner Faction: Rheinland Police
Location: E/3
Diameter: 15,209 km.
Mass: 6.12 x 1024 kg.
Terrain: Terrestrial
Temperature: -1°C to 34°C
Escape Velocity: 12.23 km/sec
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- Baden Baden is an idyllic world of large oceans, black sand beaches, and the odd hot spring bubbling from volcanic outcroppings of rock. Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines maintains a popular resort here, though it has seen a decline in business as the economic situation in Rheinland grows worse while radicals sympathetic to the LWB farmer's movement attack government officials who vacation here. Orbital has reportedly been trying to remedy the situation by attracting bargain-hunting Liberty tourists.
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Owner Faction: Orbital Spa and Cruise
Location: E/6
Diameter: 11,293 km.
Mass: 5.96 x 10e24 kg.
Terrain: Terrestrial
Temperature: 6°C to 42°C
Escape Velocity: 10.99 km/sec
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Planet Breisgau
- A dense planet covered in sheets of ice several kilometers deep. Surveys have detected no signs of life or mineral deposits worth excavating. Freiburg Station was constructed in orbit to provide a cargo switching facility for ships carrying goods to and from Stuttgart along the nearby Trade Lanes.
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Location: C/3
Diameter: 12,548 km
Mass: 5.21 x 10e24 kg
Terrain: Ice
Temperature: -81°C to -63°C
Escape Velocity: 7.25 km/sec
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Aalen
- A harsh, rocky moon of narrow peaks and deep valleys once formed in volcanic upheavals that have long since stilled and grown cold. Whatever atmosphere may have once been present has evaporated into space over the millennia.
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Location: E/3
Diameter: 6,472 km
Mass: 3.19 x 10e24 kg
Terrain: Barren
Temperature: -51°C to -38°C
Escape Velocity: 4.11 km/sec
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Nebulae and Asteroids
Westnebel
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- A drift of the Walker Nebula. The cloud hides a substantial amount of criminal activity, chiefly Red Hessians, who prey on both food shipments outbound from Stuttgart and rich tourists heading to sample the pleasures of Baden-Baden.
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Ostnebel
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- A stray wisp of the Walker Nebula. Red Hessians often use the cloud to organize attacks against traffic along the nearby Trade Lanes. Rheinland Federal Police also believe that LWB-backed terrorist activities originate from here, though they have so far been unable to locate their base of operations.
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Space Stations
- Freiburg Station was originally constructed in 312 AS as a clearinghouse for produce harvested on Stuttgart, but now it also handles traffic from foreign shipping companies who increasingly use the Stuttgart system as an alternative to shipping through the Hamburg system.
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Owner Faction: Republican Shipping
Location: C/3
Class: Abbey
Gravity: Complete
Docking: Yes
Amenities: Yes
Population: 250
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- Ulm Border Station is one of two command centers for the Rheinland Federal Police in the Stuttgart system. The Federal Police is tasked with handling the interdiction of all illegal activity in the area, including drug trafficking, smuggling, and pirate activity.
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Owner Faction: Rheinland Police
Location: B/4
Class: Chapel
Gravity: Complete
Docking: Yes
Amenities: Yes
Population: 125
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- Konstanz Border Station is one of two command centers for the Rheinland Federal Police in the Stuttgart System. The Federal Police is tasked with handling the interdiction of all illegal activity in the area, including drug trafficking, smuggling, and pirate activity.
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Owner Faction: Rheinland Police
Location: D/7
Class: Chapel
Gravity: Complete
Docking: Yes
Amenities: Yes
Population: 130
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- The planet Stuttgart has been the breadbasket of Rheinland since its settlement in 94 A.S. Over time, its farmers formed a powerful union, named the WVS. The organization managed to successfully lobby the Rheinland government to subsidize Stuttgart agriculture for hundreds of years, generating a huge amount of wealth amongst the farming dynasties and increasing the planet's food output considerably, especially in the growing of Blue Jillies. But with the end of the Eighty Years War in 669 A.S. and the government completely bankrupted, the subsidies were no longer tenable and were cut almost overnight.
- In a secret deal during the war, the Rheinland government desperately borrowed huge sums from Liberty. Facing default on their loans at the end of the war, they were forced to offer something to House Liberty. Synth Foods wanted complete access to planet Stuttgart, which the Rheinland government granted in exchange for renegotiated debt repayment terms. The Liberty food giant moved in immediately, buying out huge numbers of nearly bankrupt Stuttgart farmers and proceeded to crush entire farming dynasties over the following decades. Some collapsed in suspicious circumstances, such as the Erlichmann family whose farms and plantations suffered a number of sabotages shortly before their buyout by Synth Foods. Much of Stuttgart was subsequently converted into vast expanses of the bio-engineered mono-crops of Synth Foods.
- The government backed the foreign company wholeheartedly and looked the other way as Synth Foods used unscrupulous business practices to further consolidate its control over Stuttgart. The remaining independent farmers were ultimately forced to buy all of their fertilizers and seeds from Synth Foods and sell all of their production to them at low fixed rates -- prices that were designed to squeeze the maximum out of the farmer and shift all risk away from Synth Foods.
- The once proud Stuttgart farmers were reduced to indentured servants. Inexorably, Synth Foods assimilated the bulk of the planet's arable land, dutifully paying its Rheinland federal taxes and feeding the bribe machine in New Berlin. The WVS tried to fight back legally in the courts but soon discovered that their influence had been sold to a higher bidder. This sparked a number of sabotage incidents at Synth Food owned factories and it lead to Synth Foods forcing the Rheinland government to replace virtually all of the original WVS board members with their lackeys in 775 A.S., destroying the farming union's voice in New Berlin. It was this final act that lead radicals from the WVS, including the former head of the Erlichmann family, to found the Landwirtrechtbewegung -- farmers rights movement -- simply referred to as the LWB, later the same year.
- The LWB built a small depot called Darmstadt within the Ostnebel. This serves as a base for operations targeted at Synth Foods convoys within Rheinland space. The Red Hessians also use it as way station along one of their routes to Omega-11. The "war" has been going on for over forty years now, and both sides claim to be winning -- although Synth Foods now controls 90 percent of the planet's agriculture vs. 55 percent just four decades ago.
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Owner Faction: LWB
Location: F/4
Class: Unknown
Gravity: Partial
Docking: Yes
Amenities: Limited
Population: Unknown
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- Commissioned in 805 A.S., several months prior to the launch of the Battleship Altenburg, the Karlsruhe was assigned to protect Rheinland interests in the Stuttgart system, focusing particularly on the near continual raids on Planet Stuttgart by the LWB. Since the Battleship's arrival, attacks by the LWB in Stuttgart have stopped almost completely. However, ambushes along the trade lane from the Stuttgart Jump Gate in New Berlin have increased substantially, leading most military analysts to believe that the shrewd farmers have simply shifted their operational focus to more vulnerable spots.
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Owner Faction: Rheinland Military
Location: E/3
Class: Bismarck
Crew: CLASSIFIED
Armament: CLASSIFIED
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Jump Gates and Holes
Federal Republic of Rheinland
