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1617 Maranantha-Alkahest

The Valyans consider this system to be one of the major defensive bulwarks against Zultani raids and station a heavy patrol squadron here. This 8,500 km diameter waterworld is the second planet in a system of six. The inner planet is an airless rock, stats X400000-. The third planet is a desert world, E330100 8, maintained as a com­munications station and emergency landing field. The fourth and fifth planets are minor rocks under 1,500 kilometers diameter. The last

planet is a gas giant with a minor refueling base on the fourth of its eleven moons.

While maintained as a Scout base for nearly ten centuries, this world had not previously been colonized. A century ago, a religious group applied for permission to settle this planet. Their numbers, as yet, are still small, but the population is spread out across the surface of the entire planet. The people are organized in small, nomadic, tribal units based upon ships or rafts. Each unit is a political entity unto itself, and no real conflict exists between them. The population has periodic "fairs" or gatherings at the Scout base. Additional colonists arrive from time to time, but little expansion of the program is planned. The system also serves as a refueling stop and has an orbital refueling station in geosynchronous orbit above the Scout base.

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