Planet Peter

Planet Peter

Union Planet in the Willem Jacob System (named after Willem Jacob Luyten ) formerly known as DX Cancri System 11.8 light years from Earth. A faint red Star Spectral Type M6.5V and it is a Flare Star (Variable Star)

While the system has 4 planets, only its closest orbit planet is within the life zone to have liquid water. Planet Peter is only 0.04 AU from Willem Jacob Star (5 983 914.83 km) and the planet is tidally locked with the star so that one side is perpetual daylight while the other stays in eternal darkness. The Sun side is often subject to the violent flares and they have burned away any chance of life, and it is very cold on the night side. There are perpetual strong storms due to to a convection effect caused by these temperature extremes, The winds have smoothened the surface but there are long narrow “Ocean strips” (The Peters call Ocean Rivers) that have developed life similar to the tube worms found around black smokers on Earth.

These Peter Snail Worms digest disolved metals. During the early years of the colony, settlers collected the many billions of snail worm shells that littered the shores miles deep. These shells were very high in pure copper, a natural form of Aluminum and even Gold and other rare and precious metals. Later the shells were commercially harvested in day mine operations and gave rise to a raw metal processing industry.

United Earth's hunger for all sorts of metals, ore and ingots made Planet Peter a wealthy world and one of the first Colonies providing a steady stream of ore and metals to United Earth factories and ship yards.

Today there isn't any mining going on at Planet Peter, but the heavy metal smelter and processing plants remained. Planet Peter is a dirty industrial world, but since its landscape has been about as boring as the surface of a hand formed mud ball. The Peters never really cared about that. There are several very big and bus cities, most are underground or under radiation shielded domes on the light side. The largest is Detroit-Atlanta (named after the two lost Arks that never made it to Planet Peter.) is on the night side and boosts a Class A Space Port with heavy freighter traffic with a section big enough to unload a Tiny Tim Freighter (ore transport).

One of the early Colonies that established on a less than perfect world with harsh conditions that was very successful and never had any major problems or really noteworthy events in its history.
 * Civics : Industrial and Commerce Council – Elected. Represented by an appointed Representative (Hired and paid)
 * Laws: Union – No local laws
 * Union Installations : All the major ones
 * Population: 4.5 Billion
 * Main Export : Processed Metal,ingots, Steel, Ultronit and Steel products.
 * Main Import: Food, General Groceries, Heavy Industry Tech