Anchorage (planet)
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| Anchorage | |
| Class: | M |
| Type: | Planet |
| Species of Note: | Varied |
| Faction Affiliation: | Independent |
The planet Anchorage is loacted somewhere in the Gamma Quadrent, it was once a rich mining settlement operated by a self sufficient conglomerate of miners and tradesmen.
Anchorage is effectively a lawless planet with no real government or allegiance to any interplanetary state.
The planet is home to a large indigenous population and the location of many strongholds of criminal organisations the planet is barely tolerated by the other major powers due to the abundance of natural resources still produced by the large mining and refining complexes scattered across the surface.
Anchorage is an also a haven for those looking to escape law and order or to find an opportunity to make a profit among other things, including slavery, arms dealing, prostitution, racketeering and illegal scientific research.
Violence and murder are a daily occurrence across the planet with gangs and bandits running free and as such most of the inhabitants are largely lawless, clustered together for mutual protection, or simply to take advantage of anyone else they meet.
What little government has formed is corrupt to the core with bribery and blackmail as much a part of official procedure as more legitimate means.
Territory is controlled by Crime Lords, the strongest of these factions vying for power in a particular area.
However these territories frequently change hands, often after brutal violence.
While a few of the strongest gangs have existed for many years other gangs are constantly on the rise, threatening the Old School's dominance as the young pups try to scratch out something for themselves so that can get their own piece of the action.
Some of the smaller gangs are sponsored by the larger ones in order to be used as part of the byzantine political environment of pacts, treaties and promises which prevent the planet from imploding under its own inherent violence.
Central government exists only in order to keep the infrastructure alive and to ensure that basic supplies are made available from offworld trade, since the air and earth of the planet has become so polluted over the years of industrial malpractice that not even the groundwater is fit for consumption. The composition of the government is less stable however with individual politicians being replaced, usurped or simply disappearing into the night whenever the Crime Lords decide they've served their purpose.
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Cities and Locations on the Planet
Anchorage (Capital City)
Hooper Bay
Several miles from the city, linked to Anchorage by an overhead causeway spanning the Wastelands, lies the town of Hooper Bay. Originally the planet's main space port and trading hub, the town has lost their former prestige since the new port opened within the city.
Now only used as a dumping ground for those civic employees who prove incompetent to be allowed to work in the main city, but at the same time too highly trained to be relieved of their positions Hooper Bay has gradually been overrun by the local gang, the Iron Fists.
They almost exclusively controlling the activities of the town through brute force and fear tactics the gang have managed to continue operating the old space port to a limited extent, using the facility to acquire advanced technology which they use to augment their bodies, usually through the use of cybernetics.
Nestled in the heart of the town lies the only glimmer of 'civilised' life, the seedy bar and gambling hall known as Hopes Landing. Owned and operated by a Dopterian named Harxen the bar had managed to remain free of the Iron Fists domination, partly due to the neutral nature of the bar being a useful place for the gang to meet up with business contacts, but mostly due to the Nausicaan bouncer at the door, whose name was only known to Harxen and the barmaid Zara who served drinks to any and all who have the credits to pay.
Recently though the bar has changed hands, as a gang of offworlder Klingons arrived at the rundown space port and entered the bar to quench their thirst for alcohol and trouble. After a brief fracas Harxen and the Nausicaan were both dead and Zara dragged to the back room for the Klingons to slate their other hunger. Soon the Klingons lay claim to the bar, and with none standing against them ownership of the bar went 'under new management'.
In order to celebrate their acquisition, as well as to warn others not to try and take it from them, the Klingons mounted the former owner's head, along with that of his bodyguard above the main bar in jars. Overall the clientele don't care one way or the other about this change, although Zara has had to become accustomed to her new role as the Klingons' main form of offduty entertainment when not collecting glasses.
Charybdis Falls
Set in the southern wetlands of Anchorage Charybdis Falls was originally built as a pleasure resort to accommodate the needs of the large mining workforce from the other cities and outposts, but with the gradual decline of the rest of the planet into a sewer of organised crime and the rise of the Crime Lords the town lost a large number of its visitors. Without any real value of its own, beyond the tourist industry whose needs were now being sated closer to home Charybdis Falls was slowly left to crumble and decay, no businessman in his right mind looking to open up shop in the lousy backwater.
Now Charybdis is merely somewhere to be from, a town whose younger inhabitants leave as soon as they're old enough in order to move to one of the more 'exciting' cities further north. Most of them last a matter of weeks before turning up dead, and the term 'Charybdis Fish' has come to mean anyone foolish enough to get caught by the corrupt and self-serving police while holding someone else's incriminating evidence.
