Editing The Broken Shard Cluster (section)

= Free Eidolon - System E =
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'''T +2''' (Slipstream use)<br>
'''E +2''' (One garden and several survivable worlds)<br>
'''R +2''' (One significant export)

'''''Aspects:'''''
* Laws? What laws?
* If ya cant find it here, its not for sale anywhere.
* (Eidolon Prime has) Tendrils in every system of the cluster. 
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''Source: https://www.deviantart.com/davidlinik/art/Double-Planets-811898450''
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The sky is purple with black swirling clouds, and the people are short, squat, and hunched by the heavy gravity. Free eidolon is a place of refuge to pirates and smugglers of all stripes, and was originally a penal colony for the same, until a massive planet-wide revolt happened. The planet’s main exports are duranium and inter-system piracy


While Free Eidolon gets all the notoriety, visitors, and business, it's not the only inhabited planet in the system. Free Eidolon with its unpleasantly high gravity and grim weather is one of the "survivable" worlds. The garden world of the system is Eidolon Prime, but not many get to visit there. Eidolon Prime is the private reserve of the Rerzhun Corporation, run by the family of the same name. There are only 100,000 or so people on the world, and few visitors are invited. The Rerzhun Corporation has their hand in various businesses throughout the system. They are big shareholders in the firms that run the Yebon Domes. They administer several "protectorates" and "free trade zones" on Qing. They operate many concessions at Crossroads/Namahak. And they are quietly, but aggressively pushing to open Demarunk to more "scholarly archeological research" (i.e. plundering for lost super-tech). 


The Rerzhun Corp. will sell or lease ships up to Tech+2 to anyone willing to pay. To maintain a fig leaf of propriety, they won't install weaponry on their ships, but the ships do have empty weapons bays ready to be fitted with weapons in-system at the more unsavory world of Free Eidolon--by companies that are believed to be run by Rerzhun shell corporations. When outsiders start complaining that the Rerzhun Corp. should clean up Free Eidolon, they claim that "Free Eidolon is a sovereign government. We can't interfere in their native laws--just as we expect outsiders not to interfere in Eidolon Prime's society."