Petra, planet

Petra, planet

Union core world - Former industrial center of the  Saran Empire. Major Union industrial center.

Petra is a tired planet, everything useful has been mined. Billions of tons of minerals and metals have been extracted from the core.

No one remembers if Petra had a bio sphere of its own (Fossil records exist and suggest that Petra was a vibrant world)

The world his heavily populated and has surface and sub surface cities.

60 Billion Union citizens live and work on Petra, with an additional 6 billion commuting from planets within the same system ( Nefret System)

In 4129 it was decided to build the Petra Torus, expected to be completed in 5040. The Assembly agreed, that if any planet needed a Torus,it was Petra.

Petra had been one of the main industrial centers of the Saran empire and continued to be an important industrial center of the Union.

Both civilian and mil tech has and is produced here. Focus shifted from raw material production to Ultra Tech. Almost every Giga Corp has production and

and development centers employing billions.

Petra is still on of the core centers of Union tech development. Many of the proposed technologies for Uni design 2.0 are developed and produced here.

Among the more famous products made here are the SII TKU weapons and Cerberus robots. Enroe has its largest Loki torpedo assembly plant on Petra.

Every hour 10,000 Loki torpedoes are completed.

There are 4 Class A space ports and one Fleet Exclusive Class A.

The 31st Fleet has it head quarter on Petra. The Fleet Munition Logistics Command is also headquatered here.

Local Authority: Appointed Minister (by the Queen)

Main Import: Ore, Minerals, Groceries, Components

Main Export: Union High Tech, Mil Tech, Loki Torpedoes, Robots

Tied into the Long Range Transmatter Tunnel Network, Space Train hub in system.

Petra is heavily defended and was the first world to receive an Umbrella shield.