Mirage: Hidden Fortress
Spacers tell tales of a high-tech paradise hidden on a deserted world. The tales say that the world seems worthless and completely uninhabited. However, the planet has hidden cities, they say, protected from detection by cloaking tech far surpassing that of the Yssaril, and rich beyond imagination. Legend has it that the light from the planet’s star reveals a shimmering imperfection in the cities’ cloaking fields at sundown.
Although several clues narrow Mirage’s location to a seemingly barren stretch of space, the myth of a near-perfect cloak means an explorer can never be sure if a particular barren planet is actually Mirage. In truth, Mirage is a young terrestrial world with simple photosynthetic plants and a thin atmosphere. The apparent surface is devoid of complex animal life. Mirage appears to be the type of world that colonists and miners pass over while scientists call for its protection as an evolutionary petri dish.
The cloaked cities of Mirage live up to the legend. Each is a utopian paradise of shining towers and lush gardens. The Mirrans’ advanced technology also extends beyond cloaking into the fields of medicine and nanofabrication. Disease is nearly unheard of, while poverty is a thing of the past. The Mirrans have maintained their secluded isolation since the time of the Mahact and have prospered for it. Given this success, and the intense strife they have witnessed elsewhere, the Mirrans will do anything to preserve their way of life. Thus, any explorers who do manage to discover their cities are met with waves of advanced starfighters.
Mirage Flight Academy
The Mirrans devote an entire cloaked city to the Mirage Flight Academy, the training center for their elite starfighter corps. Though all cities on Mirage have numerous docking bays in tall towers around the perimeter, the docking towers at the Flight Academy form a nearly unbroken wall. Within the city center are simulation centers, lecture halls, physical training gyms, and aerial obstacle courses where cadets compete in lightning-speed races.
Star Name and Type
unkown, yellow dwarf
Population Status
homeworld, 756 million (100% Mirran)
Government
isolationist junta
Major Imports
none
Major Exports
none
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