Star Type: A2V (primary),
A5V (secondary)
Position in System: 9 (of 12)
Number of Moons: None
Days to Jump Point: 43
Surface Water: 31%
Atm. Pressure: Standard
(Breathable)
Surface Gravity: 0.98
Equatorial Temp: 44� C
Highest Native Life: Plants
Population: 97,050
Governor: Peter Yu
Planetary Legate: Timothy Jarra
By the time of the Star League, only a handful of rugged frontier settlers had claimed this barren world as their home, where they eked out an existence by braving hazardous terrain and blazing heat to mine the planet�s few veins of industrial metals. The Star League, however, saw value in Sabik as a potential base for military training and technological development, and established their Harsh Terrain Test Center and a Special Arms Services Training Center to test new BattleMechs, vehicles, and troops in its brutal environment.
After the League�s collapse, the Draconis Combine assumed control of this world and established a small military presence for potential operations against the Lyran Commonwealth. Despite a minimum of population, ComStar established an HPG on this world, as they, too, took an interest in a planet abandoned by General Kerensky�s departing fleet. What ComStar discovered, completely without the Dragon�s knowledge, in fact, was the presence of an SLDF staging base, hidden well beneath the HTTC command center. In addition to two companies of mixed BattleMechs and vehicles, the base also had detailed computer files on every Combine and Commonwealth planet within five jumps of Sabik.
Though stripped bare in the time of the Jihad, the Blakists used their knowledge of this facility to slip elite commandos into the capital city of Mofestos and compromise the planet�s security. Ironically, this world, once known for testing �Mechs in harsh conditions, saw no �Mech action during the fight to liberate it from the Word of Blake forces. Instead, the Combine and Alliance sent special forces of their own to reclaim Sabik�s single major city, and the ruins of the hidden SLDF facility.
Today, this world is little more than an outpost, with no agricultural or mineral wealth worth exploiting, though some corporations have expressed an interest�as many before�in mining the hazardous asteroid belts, and using Sabik itself as a home for their local headquarters. Sabik has no continents per se, but boasts a single ocean in its northern hemisphere, Black Oasis, from which a number of minor rivers radiate across the otherwise barren surface. Mofestos is located on the northern shores of this ocean, a mere 500 kilometers from the planet�s north pole.