Franklin Territories
Gen. Information
World Name: Novo Franklin
Star Type: F6V
Position in System: 8
Time to Jump Point: 13.87
Recharge Station: None
Noble Ruler: Various petty kings
ComStar Facility Class: B
ComStar Representative: Precentor Hadror Ninn
Population: 100,000
Percentage and Level of Native Life: 10%, Reptile

Location

    Situated along the border of the Outworlds Alliance near the Fiefdom of Randis. Novo Franklin is an agricultural world wherefeudal warlords exploit their family serfs.

   Economy

    Novo Franklin is an agricultural world where feudal warlords exploit their family serfs. Novo Franklin was settled in 2598 by refugees from the Outworlds Alliance who were fleeing Kurita invaders. Unable to decide on a common form of government, the refugees broke up into diverse factions, each going their own way. During the following centuries, these various groups evolved into a starkly feudalized system. Now the majority of the planet's inhabitants are bound to serving the needs of a privileged minority capable of enforcing its will with BattleMechs.
   

Geography
 

N/A

Climate

    A hot, agricultural world known for its long summers and mild winters

Martial Information

      There are no less than 55 separate kingdoms, principalities, baronies, fiefdoms, and domains, each held together by a system of social rights and obligations (almost all of which are imposed on the peasant). Lords and ladies of the territories are given to ritualistic combats (BattleMech jousts are a common entertainment for the masses) and bashing in the heads of their subjects and sometimes each other to enforce family interests. As such, the planet is continually at war; only the occasional desperate peasant revolt interrupts the border wars between warlords. Social and scientific progress are all but absent. The majority of the planet's population of 100,000 persons remain illiterate and poor. Best estimates suggest a full battalion of various BattleMechs on the planet, but these are dispersed among dozens of political states over half the northern continent. It is unlikely that any state could muster more than two lances.