System: Oliver

One of the most quickly developed of the early colonies in mankind’s first exodus into space, Oliver’s population grew rapidly as droves of colonists came to exploit its rich, easily tapped resources. Before long, this world became an industrial and military mainstay of the Terran Alliance and its successor, the Terran Hegemony. During the height of the original Star League, in fact, Oliver was home to several major defense contractors, including AeroFighter Unlimited, a major aerospace fighter manufacturer, and BattleMech producer, Brigadier Corporation.

The fall of the Star League and the Succession Wars that followed, however, were not so kind to Oliver. Both AeroFighter Unlimited and Brigadier’s Warez plant were both destroyed by repeated raids and invasions from the militaries of Houses Steiner, Liao, and even Kurita. The cycle of destruction and reconstruction stagnated the planetary economy. Its pressing need for heightened defense — a result of being a favored target throughout the Wars — led to the inevitable decline of the government into a military dictatorship, and its membership in the Ring Coalition, a loose alliance of other nearby Free Worlds League planets on the Steiner-Liao border.

Oliver’s capital city, Fort Jagger, is located on the southern continent of Clausia, along with the planet’s primary spaceport. Brigadier Corporation’s main factory, in the city of Gordon, is located on the northeast continent of Gaineshi. Oliver’s third large landmass, Marania, is a less densely populated region, in part because much of it is a frozen tundra, where rampant strip mining from the early days of planetary development have rendered much of the land scarred and unusable. Only a hearty few settlers remain in the scattered cities and towns on Marania today.