Prospect is the barely habitable moon which orbits the dune world
Hakaria. It is a small, noxious, with a thin atmosphere and frequent storms that scour its surface - not to mention the hostile biolife. Its climate nonetheless ranges wildly, from sandy badlands to snowy wastes. However, most people often associate the moon with its dense jungles of black fungi and large water-filled caves that pool just beneath the surface. An animal native to this world is the
raptodon. To defend against it, other animals here avail themselves of poisonous darts used both for defense and hunting. When threatened, they use psionic powers to stun their potential attackers.
Small-scale development has occurred on this planet throughout recent history. A colony was founded at Tritium's Folly, but it was soon abandonned. Only around the
110th cycle did the
New Eldelyn Mining Company win a bid to develop sectors of this moon and place its colony ship, the oddly named
KCV Zero Gravitas, in geostationary orbit above their new holdings.
The first true colony here is thus
Clearbrooke, a domed town that is archetypical of
Boshaari settlements. Domed mining towns such as
Tritium's Folly have reopened since, as well as corporate "crop cities" that double up as drug producing centres (notably
Lorelei's Lull) or research facilities of explorers and scientists alike (such as the notorious
Peak 21 far in the planet's southern, frozen wastes)
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