Primary:
Carrill, spectral class A5III. ICN S4K0710A5III. Mass 9.0 standard. Stellar
diameter 4.6 standard. Luminosity 90.0 standard.
Planetary
System:
Seven major bodies. Three gas giants, one asteroid belt (inhabited), three empty
orbits (#0, #3, #7) in system.
The
Carillian Belt:
Belt Fringe (inner edge) mean orbital radius, 750.0 million kilometers (5.0AU).
Belt Verge (outer edge) mean orbital radius, 1,000.0 million kilometers (6.7
AU). Period of Capitol (planetoid holding main
administrative centers), 13.86 years ...
Asteroids
are generally less than 1500km In diameter, with negligible mass and gravity.
Settlement has been extremely heavy, with a large number of colonies being
established In hollowed-out bodies of varying sizes and orbits. The main
starport and administrative center Is at Capitol.
Remarks:
The asteroid belt at Carrill was never considered a particularly important
system, as the Belt offered little in the way of resources that were not in
greater abundance elsewhere. In the year 517, however, the system's importance
grew dramatically.
In that year, rivalries between various worlds in the Drexilthar
and Fahlnar subsectors threatened the
region with a major interstellar war. The Imperium,
with numerous trade interests in the region, stepped in to encourage a peaceful
settlement - backed with the threat of direct action if this settlement were not
reached. A series of conferences were held in the Carrillian Belt, at an
asteroid designated "Round Table", as that system qualified best as
neutral ground among the disputing parties.
The result of these conferences was the agreement, in 519, for the various
worlds involved in the conferences to federate into a single state for the
regulation of trade, economic coordination, and common defense. The Articles of
Assembly signed in that year established the Carrillian
Assembly, and designated the Belt as the capitol of the new federation.
In the years since that agreement, the Carrillian Belt has swollen in population, industry, and technology, and has become a powerful system in its own right. The Belt houses the main administrative machinery of the Assembly, 32% of the Assembly's major industrial might and the largest naval base of the Assembly Peacekeepers. A population of 6.8 billion is now spread among the asteroids of the Belt.
Recently, with the assumption of extraordinary powers by High
Justice Daldreem, the Carrillian Belt has undergone a transformation into a
repressive police state. The size of the local peacekeeper forces has more than
quadrupled, and harassment, permits, invasion of privacy and rigid control of
all individuals have become the norm. The system was recently posted as an Amber
Zone by the Travellers' Aid Society due to this large scale intrusion of
government into every facet of everyday Iife.