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| Thorin
Star Type: G7V Position in System: 5 (of 8) Number of Moons: 1 (Thorin�s Twin) Days to Jump Point: 7 Surface Water: 74% Atm. Pressure: Standard (Breathable) Surface Gravity: 1.02 Equatorial Temp: 36� C Highest Native Life: Birds Population: 160,000,000 Governor: Alfredo Sakuma Planetary Legate: Theodore Igota |
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| An early colony world when humanity first reached for the stars, almost a thousand years ago, Thorin was a beautiful, terrestrial planet, blessed by an abundance of resources including rich mineral deposits, immense woodlands, and diverse animal life. To preserve their world�s natural beauty against possible contamination by corporate industrialization, the early settlers established planetary zoning laws that restricted heavy industries to the northern continent of Olympus. By contrast, the southern continent, Freda, was reserved for those seeking a more agrarian way of life. As a result of this charter, high-tech cities came to dot the Olympian shoreline and riverways by the time of the Star League, while large agricultural communes and logging industries formed the backbone of the Fredan economy. The Terran Hegemony established Thorin as a jewel of education and learning when they built the massive University of Thorin, a liberal arts school, in the Remington Valley. Located a short distance away from Ecol City, the planetary capital and site of the legendary Public Library of Thorin, the University of Thorin held to the highest academic standards of the day, but was destroyed along with the Library during the planet�s occupation by Amaris troops. Today, only the ruins of the university in the heart of what is now Remington Forest, the Library Monument outside Ecol City, and the remains of the massive Fortress Laiacona, a partially destroyed Star League Castle Brian, testify to the lost treasures of the Star League. Ironically, though the University and the Library were destroyed during the Amaris occupation before the collapse of the Star League, the fortress did not meet its fate until the Word of Blake Jihad, when Blakist agents unleashed a tactical thermonuclear weapon against the command post of the planetary militia. The similar devastation wrought on many of Thorin�s Olympus cities forced much of the surviving population to relocate off-world or to Freda, which survived unscathed through two of the worst military campaigns to darken human history. Today, even though the majority of Thorin�s population now lives on the more habitable continent of Freda or in small mining habitats in the system�s asteroid field, and though most business is now conducted in the Fredan city of Port Sumpter, Ecol City on Olympus remains the planetary capital. | |||||||||
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