Editing Diaspora The Glory Cluster (section)

== DELL’S WORLD ==

'''Environment''': 0
:Star: -1
:Night Sky: +2
:Gravity: 0
:Atmosphere: 0
:Temperature: -1
:Biome: +1
'''Tech Level''': -3

'''Resources''': 3

'''Culture''': 
:Cycles: -1
:Oppression: +2
:Economy: +3
:Warfare: +1
:Reason: -1
'''Aspects''':
:''We Are Blessed By Riches''
:''King Dell The First is Our Lord And Rule''
:''A Wretched Hive Of Scum And Villainy''

While contact with Dell’s World happened only 20 years ago, access to the Ilandria system has been open for nearly a century. Because there was absolutely no indication of an advanced civilization in the system, (no EM spectrum or space vehicles), the common belief was that this was a dead system, destroyed by one of the Ascended during the collapse of the Terran Sphere. So for 80 years, ships would come out of the slipknot, cool down, turn around and fly back through the slipknot on to the next world.

It wasn’t till a merchant from Graceland decided to pique his curiosity and actually look around the system while waiting for his ship’s radiators to cool post slip. He took the spectra of the star, Ilandria and found that it had three times the metalicity of other known stars. That got him thinking. Ilandria is a type K star, smaller and cooler than the normal type G stars, so its habitable zone would be closer in. After determining the plane of the system, the merchant scanned the probable habitable zone and then studied it after he slipped to Crimson Fold. In the zone, he found what he was looking for: An Earth-like planet. 

On Crimson Fold, he put together an expedition and returned to Dell’s World with trade goods, an autodoc, catalytic hydrogen cracking generators, and several “security personnel”. Once in orbit, they located the largest city and landed their shuttles outside Tristan, the largest city on Dell’s World and the domain of Dell the First. 

Just walking through Tristan proved that this world was lousy with metals of all type. Walls and buildings were made out of iron, not stone, gold was pretty worthless, and used as ornamentation. Luckily, the heavy metals were locked away in various ores, or this world would have been just deadly to breath the atmosphere.

Dell proved to be a shrewd trader, and after being treated in the autodoc, setup a new “Sky Merchants” guild and negotiated not only exclusive deals with off world traders, but had himself recognized as the ruler of this world. After a trip to Crimson Fold and some life extension treatments, Dell plans to rule this world for a long, long time.

Politically, the world is divided into separate kingdoms, all located around ancient mining operations. This world may have been a mining concern and each city represents the location of a previous mining company and the associated company town. Each minor “King” now owes allegiance and trading rights to King Dell and every one of them are plotting his downfall. There are minor skirmishes happening all the time over choice bits of farmland, and now there are skirmishes over old mining sites. 

As a side note, Dell's World is famous for one other thing: The De Laurentis Nebula. Only 20 light years away and 40 light years at its widest, it dominates the night sky during half of the planet's orbit. Many claim to see faces in swirling gases and dust clouds, while more than a few of the higher tech observers know that there are four "eggs" in the De Laurentis Nebula: Four proto-star systems are growing within the swirling reds and blues of the nebula. The first should begin fusion in another hundred thousand years, give or take a millennium.