Teegarden

Star Name	Teegarden
Class	K Cool Red Dwarf
Age	8.3 billion years
Temperature	2637K
Size	0.13 R

The closest habitable system, some 12 light years away from Sol, Teegarden's Star was a long time candidate for habitable exoplanets and was prioritised during initial exploration by the UNE. The search was surprisingly fruitful as some microlensing and spectrographic analyses had given the planets orbiting Teegarden less than a 5% chance to be Earth-like. While Teegarden II is indeed a frozen planet, Teegarden I was discovered to be life sustaining and, indeed, life bearing. The discovery of an active biosphere on Teegarden I was the first direct proof humanity had of extra-solar life and plans were drawn almost immediately for the establishment of a research station. The biosphere, although primitive kickstarted the field of xenology on Earth and marked the planet as an important research site forever. Despite demands to keep Teegarden I as a permanent science facility site, with the discovery of several other life-bearing worlds it gradually lost importance. Within three decades of its discovery the planet was slated for colonization.


Darwin

Once humanity's first xenobiology research site, today the planet formerly known as Teegarden I is Darwin, a world maintaining a precarious balance between the need to preserve its unique and fragile biosphere and the growing food needs of the UNE. The world is still relatively sparsely populated, even after two thirds of a century of development and is deeply divided between the large university city of Port Darwin and its surrounding areas, the planet's only major metropolis and the farming homesteads and agro-corp towns that cover most of the land outside the city. The planet has a hot, humid temperature closer to that of the Cretaceous h than the 21st century, when Earth was at its hottest in written history. This hothouse is regulated by large sweltering oceans teeming with life. The oceans however have become the subject of a pitched battle between farmers and corporations who want to seed them with genetically modified shrimp and krill and scientists looking to preserve the oceans. Îthe battle has more or less been lost on land with but a few large swathes of land reserved (at least on paper) for the local flora and fauna and the rest dedicated to agriculture. While the colonial administrator's office is full of scientists looking to preserve Darwin's wildlife, the pressure from the agricultural companies has steadily increased and the corps are starting to draw the people on their side. This is increasingly an issue, as there have been more and more cases of Darwin's Malady, a wasting disease among children caused by some of the planet's fungi spores, from species in the wild. The increase in the disease is threatening to destroy the remaining preserves.
Darwin - Comparative statistics

/	Planet	Baseline
Planet Size	1.10	1.00
Planet Type	Warm ST	Temperate ST
Distance From Star	0.025 AU	1 AU
Orbital period	4.9 SD	365 SD
Day	24 SH Convened	24 SH
Gravity	1.06 G	1.00 G
Biosphere Tier	2.7	4.0
Temperature Range	-112 - +28 - +79	-89 - +14 - +60
Atmosphere Compatibility	89%	100%
Revised Earth Similarity Index	0.82	1.00
Hazards	Poisonous Spores	None

Darwin - Demographics:

Planet Class	Research/Agro World
Population	115.000.000
Breakdown by species	98% Human 2% Prime Human
Breakdown by rights	88% Citizens 12% Residents
Breakdown by class	3% Ruling Class (1% Administrators, 2% Corp Management ) 20% Middle Class ( 9% Researchers, 4% Tech Specialists , 3% Law Enforcement, 4% Bureaucrats) 77% Working Class (19% Technicians, 41% farmers, 7% Clerks, 10% Military)
Breakdown by wealth	1% very wealthy 6% wealthy 40% middle income 30% poor 23% Very poor

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