Asalars V
A previously warm, barren planet located in the Asalars System, which is owned by the Grand Artanat Empire.
Asalars V is a fairly large planet, giving it a relatively strong gravitational pull. However, as it is located in a highly valuable star system, the Grand Artanat Empire terraformed it to be habitable to many species. The gravitation has caused them to neutralize a lot of it through refraction. A small part of the planets gravitation is refracted through a newtork of large lens-like objects and into several large towers. These would experience much higher gravity because of this.
This also makes orbital calculations involving the world more complex. In orbit around the planet, some locations can have a different gravitational field from other locations. Some areas can even point in a direction that is not down. However, the planet has a population that is very high in comparison to other worlds in the system. This is partially due to the sheer surface area of the planet, but primarily because it is considered more habitable than other planets in the system; Asalars V doesnt require a Shellworld around it to be habitable, and its atmosphere is almost perfectly breathable. The temperatures are considered excellent year-round. Due to the population, however, much of the planet has become city. It is not a eucenopolis world, but as it has a population of over 100 billion it may become one within the next 1000 years.
The GAE had to defend a planet of this caliber. For use against rebels, there are a number of large stations that can fire large rods at the surface, as well as stations that garrison significant forces. Against external threats, there are a huge number of defence platforms in higher orbit. The planet also has a space elevator, with a shipyard station attached to the top station of the elevator. Ships dock on at the point on the space elevator where velocity = orbital velocity. The ships are dragged up to the station via a large machine. To undock, it is simply released into space.
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