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Manchester is a border system in Bretonia controlled space. Providing access to Liberty space through two lucrative trade routes (Cortez or Magellan) this border system also is home to a major bounty hunter base, Sheffield Station; Bretonia Police Authority also maintain several border stations and a large prison in this system, BPA Newgate. This system provides the major legitimate trade routes between Bretonia and Bretonia space.
System Overview
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Astronomical Bodies
Stellar Objects
- Planet Wight
- Planet Jersey
- Newgate Minefield
- Sheffield North Ice Field
- Sheffield South Ice Field
- Birmingham Ice Field
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Industrial Development
- Hydrocarbons
- Water (multiple)
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Faction Presence
Lawful Factions
Corporations & Guilds
Unlawful Factions
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Jump Gates and Holes
Planetary Bodies
Planet Wight
- A frozen planet locked in a deep crust of ice. Scientists theorize that Wight might once have supported life until its atmosphere was ripped away during an ancient catastrophe. Today, Birmingham Station orbits Wight, but its mining operations focus on the more profitable free-floating ice fields nearby.
- Location: D/4
- Diameter: 12,220 km
- Mass: 5.66 x 10e24 kg
- Terrain: Ice
- Temperature: -92°C to -64°C
- Escape Velocity: 11.27 km/sec
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Planet Jersey
- A small, icy, airless moon. Initial surveys found no mineral or gas deposits of any size worth exploiting, while the environment was inhospitable to colonization.
- Location: F/4
- Diameter: 9,348 km
- Mass: 3.83 x 10e24 kg
- Terrain: Ice
- Temperature: -88°C to -60°C
- Escape Velocity: 8.42 km/sec
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Nebula and Asteroids
Newgate Minefield
- >>>CAUTION<<<
There is only one safe route through the Newgate minefield, protected by automated defense platforms. Ships are advised to follow the navigational buoys and not to stray from the indicated course. Any ships that deviate from these directives will be considered hostile and fired upon immediately.
- Location: E/5
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Sheffield North Ice Field
- A large field of ice asteroids. The North Sheffield Field has been a favorite haunt of Lane Hackers who find it a convenient location to lurk prior to attacking any of the several nearby Trade Lanes.
- Location: F/3
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Sheffield South Ice Field
- A large field of ice asteroids. As the crackdown on Molly terrorists has continued and the population of nearby Newgate Prison swells with their numbers, the South Sheffield Field has been used by the Mollys as cover from which to stage prison breaks.
- Location: F/5
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Birmingham Ice Field
- The Birmingham Ice Field contains large quantities of frozen Terraforming Gases and Hydrocarbons. The Hydrocarbons are processed into Polymers by the facilities aboard the Birmingham Station, owned and operated by Bretonia Mining and Manufacturing (BMM).
- Location: D/3
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Space Stations
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- Location: E/5
- Class: Whitechapel
- Gravity: Complete
- Docking: Restricted
- Amenities: None
- Population: 7K
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- Location: D/4
- Class: Wellington
- Gravity: Partial
- Docking: Yes
- Amenities: Limited
- Population: 600
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- Location: F/4
- Class: Zeus
- Gravity: Complete
- Docking: Yes
- Amenities: Yes
- Population: 2K
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- Location: G/4
- Class: Eden
- Gravity: Complete
- Docking: Yes
- Amenities: Yes
- Population: 150
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- Location: F/2
- Class: Eden
- Gravity: Complete
- Docking: Yes
- Amenities: Yes
- Population: 100
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- Constructed in 807 A.S. after Planetform announced their intention to begin the terraforming of planet Wight, Holmfirth base is quite a large ice asteroid that has been hollowed out by the Gaians to serve as their main base of operations for the Manchester system, and contains a sizeable population of pilots, mechanics, engineers and even the occasional Corsair.
- Location: D/3
- Class: Thirsk
- Gravity: Partial
- Docking: Yes
- Amenities: Yes
- Population: 80
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Mineable Commodities
- Hydrocarbons are a class of organic compounds composed only of hydrogen and carbon molecules, resulting in a wide variety of substances that have important industrial applications. While hydrocarbons naturally occur in a gaseous state almost everywhere in the known universe, frozen deposits present the most easily exploited form of the substance. Hydrocarbon mining is key to the industrialization of the Sirius Sector as it provides the raw materials for the creation of the Ship Hull Panels and Optronics, upon which modern society depends.
- Location: D/3
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- Dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) is odorless, tasteless, transparent, and absolutely essential to human life. Roughly 75% of the human body is composed of Water. Deprived of Water, most humans can only live three days. The process of dehydration is a painful one, as tissues shrivel and vessels shrink in a desperate bid by the dying body to preserve its remaining vital functions.
- Location: F/3, F/5
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Kingdom of Bretonia
