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| Lipton
Star Type: G5V Position in System: 3 (of 5) Number of Moons: 1 (Kito) Days to Jump Point: 7 Surface Water: 82% Atm. Pressure: Standard (Breathable) Surface Gravity: 1.01 Equatorial Temp: 37� C Highest Native Life: Birds Population: 4,100,000,000 Governor: Vanessa Redstorm Planetary Legate: Ngai Dinh |
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| A quiet, terrestrial world of varied landscapes, lush temperate zones, and adequate resources to support a low-level industrial society, Lipton is a curious planet. Prosperous, yet not overly so, Lipton achieved self-sufficiency in short order, and its early settlers, a mix of western European and North American peoples, came to enjoy their frontier life and trade with neighboring worlds. When the Outer Reaches Rebellion broke out, Lipton�s populace rebelled through passive resistance, refusing to offer up its people to serve as troops for the decaying Terran Alliance. Self-sufficiency lent the Liptoners a sense of independence that remained with them throughout the Star League era, and during the centuries afterward as part of the Lyran Commonwealth�s rebellious Skye region. During the FedCom Civil War, in fact, many of the locals sided with the cause of Free Skye. The defeat of that secessionist movement, however, took the wind out of their own spirit of rebellion. The Jihad that soon followed the end of the Civil War gave the people of Lipton greater matters to worry about, when Blakist mercenaries raided the planet. The mercenaries smashed several industrial and strategic targets, including the military base at Estoria City, former headquarters of the Fourth Alliance Guards, on the Western World continent, and the planetary capital of Lipton City on the Eastern World continent. The raids temporarily disrupted trade to and from Lipton, further damaging the planetary economy. With precious little off-world aid available due to fighting elsewhere, a depression took hold that lasted until Lipton, along with several nearby systems, was ceded to Devlin Stone�s Republic of the Sphere. Today, Lipton is once more the quiet, industrious world it once was, though still regarded as something of a backwater. The greatest planetary export, in fact, is textiles, with Redstorm Fashions, Incorporated (a local clothier owned by the planetary governor) among the largest single corporations invested here. Unlike most worlds, the capital of Lipton City is not home to the primary spaceport on planet. Instead, most visitors arrive and depart through the interplanetary/suborbital traffic hub of Brannigan Field, located on Suresta, Lipton�s equatorial island-continent, which offers connecting flights to points on the Noresta, Western and Eastern World continents. | |||||||||||