Sunflower, Planet

Sunflower Colony

Former Earth Colony - Was never United Earth member

Union Colony in the upward sector of the M-0 Galaxy -

(Former Freon Region )

This gardenworld (Type 1D ) is a dull world with continent sized marshes and a bio-sphere consisting of slugsm worms, mosses and grasses. The oceans harbor a variety of proto fish. The biosphere is LDLS and compatible with humans.

Alice Brown a radical student leader was "asked" to leave Earth. She and 40,000 followers arrived at planet Sunflower in 2111 OTT

The Colony almost died several times and  only the third generation begun working for survival and building the neccessary infrastructure to sustain life. Up until the Peace Hawk period, the colony had grown to almost a billion and there were several thriving cities. A descendant of Alice symphatized with the Peace Hawks and declared communistic - communal property and the new government supported by the Peace Hawks confiscated private property, declared all business for profit "criminal" and advocated only "sustainable eco friendly farming" When the new Communists shot 14 farmers for selling extra produce, a civil war errupted.

Union did not interfere at first as the war was confined to their own planet and no one called for help until Farmer Joe Markowitch called Union Police to have  Cybil Brown arrested (one of the 14 farmers was a Union Citizen )

Cybil Brown was hanged and the colony normalized,  but never really regained any traction.

To this day there is no govrnment as per say, the world has no representative and is over run by Non Cits ,Gal Drifts and the like.

There is a Union School  and it is actually defended by a permanent Union police detachment.

There are farms and isolated communities that produce and thrive, but are behind large fences with guard animals and robots.

The four cities are nothoing more than ruins, with a population of drifting gangs and drug users living on Union minimum alowance and theft. The small Space port is heavily guarded and on an island called Fed-Land. There is a Post Office on Fed Island as well,open 1 day a week.

The port opens only for the monthly space bus, post ship and occational freighter

There is a general travel warning issued and visiting Sunflower Colony is not recommended.

The only official business in the Alice City is Mogu Mogan's Trading Post. There is an XChange on the planet's moon (the Sunflowerian Farmers jointly own a D60 freight shuttle)

Around 4600 a group of Sunflowerians hired a Merchenary outfit to clean the Brwon Town (one of the fromer cities completley in ruins) and received a grant  from the Linda Schwartz foundation to rebuilt the city and an economy.

Brown Town is declared a City State and has its own Space port (Class C) It is the only city within Union space and on a Union Planet with a wall.

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