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| Daedalus - Data Panel
comments: House Marhenke managed to have this frigid desert world terraformed by the mid Empires era. It has become a neo-feudalistic society, with close affiliations with the Solar Dominion, who have provided them with aid, finance, and technology. Planetology System: Zeta 1 Reticuli Planet: Zeta 1 Reticuli III Planet Type: terraformed Paludial Gaian, originally AreanTundric AI AI overseers: xxxx AI's ethos: Polity Name: Tartarus Commonwealth Symbol: Affiliation: Solar Dominion Founded/Colonized: 1674 Psyche, Art, Culture Metapsychology: xxxx Metaethics: xxxx Aesthetics: Religion/Ideology: xxxx Culture: neo-feudalistic society, revolves around Language: Daedalese, Tartaran (Anglish Language family), Atlantese, New Anglish and are also also widely spoken Territory and Population Population: surface: . orbital: . Population breakdown: xxxx Territories: xxxx Immigration: Government and Administration Government Type Administrative divisions: xxxx National holidays: xxxx Constitution: xxxx Legal system: xxxx Foreign Policy: Trade, Cultural and Ideological links with the Solar Dominion. Despite the apparently opposite political allegiance, relations are cordial with Atlantis and the rest of the Zeta Reticulli system. Economics, Local Infrastructure Economy: xxxx Currency: xxxx Major Industries: xxxx Angelnetting : in some orbitals. Major Orbitals: Travel Major Spaceports: xxxx Hazard Rating : Visa Restrictions : Freedom of Movement : Environmental Requirements : Sites of Interest: |
The Tartarus Commonwealth began as an early Atlantean colony on Daedalus. In 3674 when Detroit Marhenke (generally regarded as having expensive impulse control problems) murdered a competitor. To escape the PPLs and financial ruin he and his family escaped from Atlantis to Daedalus where they owned some land. This posed a problem for the PPLs and insurance companies; getting him back would likely entail a very expensive attack mission, where some of the other family members could file countersuits for endangering them. In the end it was solved by paying off the victim's family and deliberately ignoring the Marhenke family. They were blacklisted instead: almost nobody on Atlantis would deal with them, and they were without insurance.
Despite what most thought was possible, the Marhenkes survived on their icy worldlet. They lived in a base inside the extensive cavern systems of the Mises mountains, eking out a poor and troubled existence but surviving against all odds, and tweaking their metabolism for optimal survival. The name originated as a joke during the first years. Over time a new generation grew up, not formally blacklisted and able to deal with the Atlanteans. Over time a fragile trade has emerged, where the Marhenkes sell ice and software in exchange for goods they cannot produce themselves. A number of other disaffected Atlanteans have also joined the Commonwealth, which after a century numbered around a hundred. For a long time it was organised as a company, with members as shareholders; most is of course owned by the older Marhenkes. During the 39th century it tried to scrape together enough money to build a catapult to make ice trade more feasible, but had trouble finding investors.
But by the early Expansion Age things had picked up, and Tartarus Commonwealth had had become a powerful hereditary clone House, rivalling Atlantis in influence.
