Altair        

Star Type: F7III
Position in System: 5 (of 5)
Number of Moons: 1 (Olgar)
Days to Jump Point: 13
Surface Water: 6%
Atm. Pressure: Standard (Tainted)
Surface Gravity: 1.0
Equatorial Temp: 57� C
Highest Native Life: Reptile
Population: 396,475,000
Governor: Tyrona Cooke
Planetary Legate: Oscar Martinez
Large, dry, and devastated, Altair is only now beginning to recover from the horrors of one of the worst atrocities committed during the Blakist Jihad. Already plagued by frequent communications blackouts, caused by the planet�s inexplicably unstable sun, and with few free water sources to speak of, the planet became a living hell when Blakist forces targeted it as part of their effort to establish a buffer zone around Terra. Using nuclear and biochemical weapons, directed at the defending Combine forces and civilian populace respectively, the assault claimed the lives of nearly a billion inhabitants and poisoned the air and water table. Once a fairly prosperous, if desolate, mining world, and home to the famous Long Life medical company, Altair was brought perilously close to becoming an uninhabitable rock.

Today, saved only by the grace of Devlin Stone�s ambitious resettlement programs, Altair maintains a subsistence-level economy, and its inhabitants cluster around the planet�s two largest surviving settlements, Hehiro City and Bonanza, both of which lie along the veins of Altair�s two remaining unspoiled underground rivers. Bonanza, the home of the Long Life Company, is located along the northern Sargasso River Vein, while Hehiro City, the planetary capital since the deadly biochemical attacks on Smart Alice Springs and Basin Flat, is situated on the southern Jumanni Delta Vein. Travel between these cities is treacherous, as the few usable routes pass close to radioactive �hot zones.� The New South Trading Company, Altair�s single most successful mining, refining, and distribution company, is also based in Hehiro City, in the converted facilities of the Kurita Combine Munitions Corporation, a military aerospace firm that vacated Altair during the transition from Combine ownership to Stone�s new Republic.
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