System: Milton

After the Outer Reaches Rebellion and the collapse of Terran authority among the far-flung colony worlds, dozens of planets suddenly found themselves forced to eke out a living on their own, bereft of support for their fledgling industries and booming populations. Milton, by all accounts a paradise at the time, was one such world. Its resources, barely tapped despite a growing number of settlers and a scattering of cities on all four of its interior landmasses - Etienne, Olquia, and Phronx in the north, and Selajia in the south - supported few major industries and only a limited trade other than with Terra itself.

As a result, the Milton economy was a shambles when the ascendant Terran Hegemony appeared on the scene several years later, and the planet's meager defense force easily broke before the might of Admiral McKenna's forces. Under the Hegemony banner, Milton once more became a prosperous world, exporting industrial metals and radioactive ores along with a host of military and commercial components for use in spacecraft construction and fusion plant design.

Most of these industries, though minor, were savaged by the troops of Amaris the Usurper, and the few that survived when Milton later became a Lyran holding were eventually lost in the Succession Wars that followed. Even today, large swaths of the interior reaches of Phronx and Selajia are plague zones, a result of the excessive chemical and biological warfare dealt out by both Marik and Steiner troops in the early Succession Wars. Ironically, the lingering effects of this damage and the constant threat of attack from hostile neighbors spared Milton the horrors of the FedCom Civil War.

The capital city, Paradise Foundation, is located on the Etienne continent, along with the planet's primary spaceport and the headquarters of Milton StarWorks, Limited, Milton's largest spacecraft component manufacturer.

There are no functional factories located on this planet.