Moll Primus
Moll Primus is a distant world, beyond the Mahact Plateau and nearly at the end of the infamous Exiles' Path. If it weren’t for the route’s proximity to the wormhole known as Plateau’s Rift in the Mahact asteroid fields, it would be nearly inaccessible by the wider galaxy.
Originally founded as a prison planet for the Lazax Empire, Moll Primus is a beautiful world, teeming with life and the geological variety of a relatively young planet. It lacks oceans, but deep lakes are scattered across its surface. High, sharp mountains are surrounded by steep overgrown valleys that give way to the flowing orange meet grasses on the plains, spreading out for hundreds of kilometers like a flaming sea.
Among Moll Primus’s most prominent features are its ancient impact craters, appearing from space as pinpricks or punctures—and serving as evidence of a much more chaotic past. The smaller craters have formed into lakes, while the largest have become a part of the landscape only notable from orbit. During Moll Primus’s time as a prison, the Lazax used some of the larger crater rims as the natural outermost walls for prison blocks built in the center. Smaller, deeper craters became starting points for deep mine shafts. Today, many communities still thrive in these ancient craters, such as the capital, Unity Isle.
Exiles' Path
This ancient star route connects the central galaxy to distant worlds that most beings wanted to avoid. It earned its name when Moll Primus was a prison for hardened criminals and political dissidents of the Lazax Empire, for every sentence on Moll Primus was for life. Exiles' Path continues past the Moll system, ending at the toxic, stormy former Lazax training world named Hope’s End. Piracy is high along the route, much of it with the tacit approval of the Table of Captains, who govern the Mentak Coalition.
Unity Isle
The Mentak Coalition capital, Unity Isle, is a U-shaped island in the middle of an irregular lake inside the enormous, provocatively named Mentak Rex crater. Once, the island was the prison that housed Erwan Mentak. Then it was where the newly freed prisoners began the Reconstruction that would eventually establish the Mentak Coalition. It is densely urbanized, with suburbs stretching out to the banks of the surrounding lake, connected by dramatic bridges and underwater tunnels. Starship and air vehicle landing pads, usually owned by wealthy citizens or companies, sit or float around the lake’s perimeter.
For a city on a world as isolated as Moll Primus, Unity Isle is remarkably cosmopolitan. No single species can claim a substantial majority of the population, and a number of commercial quarters re-create the cultures of distant worlds. Unity Isle’s marketplaces are said to be the best in the galaxy for locating rare goods, and each has a thriving trade in black-market items if one knows whom to ask.
The Watcher, the Snitch, and the Traitor’s Moon
Moll Primus’s three small moons are captured, airless planetoids in irregular elliptical orbits. Their original names are mostly forgotten. Instead, they retain the nicknames given to them by the prisoners. The Watcher once held a Lazax garrison and has been repurposed into a naval base (with quite a few “hidden” docks for sponsored pirate vessels). The Snitch bristled with sensors and cameras watching the prisoners below, and is now the hub of the system’s sentry network. The Traitor’s Moon held rebellious prisoners who sold out their companions. It rather ironically now serves as the Coalition’s own planetary prison.
Star Name and Type
Mollun, yellow dwarf star
Population Status
old colony, 2.55 billion (14% Hacan, 14% Xxcha, 14% Letnev, 12% Yssaril, 12% Human, 10% Hylar, 5% Naaz, 5% Rohka, 5% Saar, 5% Winnu, 2% Druaa, 2% Other)
Government
Table of Captains led by Erwan’s Hand
Major Imports
plunder, rare raw materials
Major Exports
metal ore, agricultural goods
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