DESERTIFIED COLONY WORLD | OUTER RIM
Features
Hyperlane. The Faruvian Way passes close by the Aaru system’s gravity well signature, making commercial and refuelling stops at the system more viable.
Nasteen. Various flora on Aaru IV produce the common chemical nasteen, which is usually used within synthetic materials as a part of android construction. While abundant, it is difficult and dangerous to produce.
Underworld Controlled. Aaru IV is officially administered by Industrial Automaton, whose primary interest on the planet is the filtration, processing, and export of nasteen. In reality, the planet is ruled by several competing criminal organisations, whose grip on the planet makes a mockery of the corporate presence.
Locations
Mos Klarius Starport. Thanks to Aaru IV’s significant nasteen exports, but its inability to produce much else locally, Mos Klarius is a bustling hive of activity. There are other starports on the planet, but Mos Klarius is an enormous city which has recently developed its own local android manufacturing.
Nasteen Field Theta. In order to more effectively harvest the resource, corporate engineers on Aaru IV have created vast fields of the rigid, poisonous plant called desert-kelp, whose delicate seeds manifest the nasteen itself. Many of these fields have failed to take, and only Nasteen Field Theta has endured, thanks to particular inclement conditions.
Thareen. The major corporate presence on the planet is maintained at the independent factory-city of Thareen, which produces a number of manufactured goods, as well as synthesising the native nasteen from its floral form into a product useful to the construction of android parts.
The Pillar. A notoriously difficult to find trading post in the deep desert offers an array of exotic and unusual goods for those prepared to buy their way into its good graces. Protected by an equally mysterious group of mercenaries, The Pillar remains independent of both corporate and criminal interests on the planet.
Industrial Automaton Storage Facilities. The various storage facilities which Industrial Automaton utilise on Aaru IV are large, virtually impregnable, and classically unoriginal in their architectural design.
Factions
Industrial Automaton. Largely focused on the production of the valuable nasteen deposits on the planet, IA maintain a number of factories and small settlements on the planet. They are the corporation with the heaviest industrial investment planet-wide.
Zarbomba. The insidious mercenary corporation known as Zarbomba are based on Aaru IV and maintain a strong paramilitary presence in many areas on the planet.