Asim
Allegiance: Non-Aligned, Human-dominated (NaHu)
System:
F2 V Dwarf
5 Gas Giants — 0 Planetoid Belts — 4 Other Worlds
UWP: B 8 6 7 5 6 4 – 6
- Starport B Good
- Size 8 12,800km
- Atmosphere 6 Standard
- Hydrosphere 7 70%
- Population 5 Hundreds of thousands
- Government Type 6 Captive Government / Colony
- Law Level 4 Light assault weapons prohibited
- Technology Level 6 Nuclear Power
- Resources 7 Few
- Labor 4 Tens of thousands
- Infrastructure 4 Very limited
- Efficiency −2 Fair
- Heterogeneity 3 Monolithic
- Acceptance 5 Very aloof
- Strangeness 3 Somewhat typical
- Symbols 4 Concrete
- Population: 2 × 105 = 200,000
- Remarks: Ag Agricultural Ni Non-Industrial Ga Garden World Pr Pre-Rich O:2324 Controlled
- Travel Zone: No Restrictions
- Travellers' Aid Society Rating: Green
Ecosystem
Asim is a non-industrial TL-6 world with a population of around five million. the planet is physically similar to Earth, with an almost identical mass, a close match in terms of atmospheric composition, and a comparable land/water ratio, yet there is something missing. Asim lacks the vitality of a true garden world. The planet is overwhelmingly brown; the local equivalent of chlorophyll is a brownish chemical, so Asim has brown fields and brown forests growing from the brown soil. The former government of Asim was callled the foundation and was an assembly of elders and wise men from the cities. The Foundation claimed to have a thousand-year plan that would bring Asim-an obscure world in the middle of nowhere wiht no technological base ofr mineral reerves worth a anything-to dominate the imperium for two hundred years, The Asim toiled to support the Foundation's grand design, never realising that it was a scam to keep te sages and bureaucrats in charge.
History
Twenty years ago, King Oleb led an invasion of the neighboring world of Asim, after his hydroponics bays suffered a catastrophic failure and the harvest was lost. To avoid starvation, Drinax sent a dozen small ships to obtain food from the peasants of Asim. When the foundation of Asim refused to co-operate, the king angrily ordered his ships to take the planet by force. Although the4 Asimi outnumbered the4 forces of Drinax several thousand time's over, they were technologically completely outclassed. Rifles and rockets are no match for plasma rifles and00 FGMPs.
Today, Asim is the only vassal world belonging to Drinax, King Oleb privately regrets the conquest, and life has changed little for most of the peasants of that grim agricultural world. Instead of paying tithes to the Foundation, they now give their tithe to the grain-ships that visit from Drinax once every year. Some Drinaxi whisper that the King should move the whole court to Asim, that the floating palace should be abandoned in favor of a living world, but it is a brave man indeed who would openly make such a suggestion to the King. Oleb will sit on his ancestor's throne until he dies ( or until it collapses beneath his growing weight).
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