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Asura III

A tropical, habitable, Yamatai-like planet in the Asura system, β€œAsura” was the only remaining United Outer Colonies colony aside from Miyamae System, and is the largest population center in the Yugumo region of space. It is part of the Yamatai Star Empire.

Asura is patrolled by the Tenth Fleet, and it supplies a Senator to the Senate. Asura is locally governed by a council of countries, special interest groups, and megacorporations that co-exist only reluctantly with each other. The result is a planet almost as diverse as it is sprawling; with 3,735,423,975 humanoid beings on the surface, and sitting as it is on the very verge of civilized space, it could hardly help that.

Government

The framework for the Asura Prime government was only loosely dictated by the United Outer Colonies, now defunct, as a democracy with the highest of ideals - the liberty of the common person, and the freedom of the soldiers of the Fifth Expeditionary Fleet who defected from the Yamatai Star Empire. A people's house of commons, with seventeen representatives from the four major planetary districts, was set up around a Prime Minister presiding over the House. They have a standing constitution which grants considerable power to the district and local governments to maintain contracts, property rights, and provide for an interdistrict justice and penal system.

In current practice it is a corporatocracy that does little to maintain any of these rights except for the ones that can pay for them.

When the United Outer Colonies fell to the NMX, the government remained - but finding itself without support from the colonial fleet, which had either surrendered to Yamatai or joined the Lorath Matriarchy, it turned to the corporations entrenched on its surface for funding and borrowed large amounts of money to provide for a standing militia and to maintain the economy and welfare of its populace. When the Lorath began to patrol the astral territory of the Asura system, the colonial government found a temporary reprieve for two full years, until YE 34, when Task Force Lantern officially took over patrol of its astral territories. Expressing no real interest in changing the way things operated on the surface, Morioka Naoko, soon to become the Admiral of Tenth Standard Fleet, simply shrugged and left them to their own devices.

The debts came due - the government, effectively bought out, is generally agreed by the populace to be a simple puppet of the most powerful corporations on the planet's surface.

Yamataian Special Control Zone

Created during the end of ye_37 and given to the required Yamataian government representatives appointed by the Tenth Fleet's leadership, it represents the only land area directly controlled by Yamataian rule and law and order. Yamatai began construction of Fort Asura in ye_37. It was completed in YE 38.

Commerce

Civilian cargo shipping is primarily provided by trinary_star_shipping, which has storefronts in all of the planet's major cities.

History


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