Location
The Niops Association consists of three worlds Iying between the Circinus
Federation and the Marian Hegemony.
Economy
In
mid-2700, Star League scientific research teams settled these planets to observe
stellar evolution, but they became cut off from the Inner Sphere at the start of
the Civil War. Contact was later renewed when refugees from the Capellan
Confederation arrived at the close of the First Succession War. The tales of
mass destruction and loss of life convinced the locals that they would be better
off forgotten by the galaxy. While the scientific community on the planet
continued their elaborate research, the Capellan newcomers were gradually
absorbed into the social order as skilled laborers and agricultural specialists.
As the descendants of the science teams became increasingly
influential over the semi-skilled laborers and farm hands, a scientific
technocracy developed in the Niops planets. Gradually, the majority of the
planets' populace bartered away their freedoms in exchange for guarantees of
economic survival and education for their children. This last element became a
powerful weapon, as the ruling elite saw education as a way to keep the masses
in check.
Like
its companion planets, Niops V and Vl, Niops Vll was settled so that scientists
could establish the first generations-long examination of a failing star.
Isolated by the events of the Civil War and later the Succession Wars, the Niops
community polarized into a elite scientific minority and a dependent unskilled
labor force made up of refugees from the Inner Sphere. With plenty of geothermal
energy and fusion technologies at their disposal, the ruling elite provide
comfortable standards of living for their multitudes of "retainers,"
but at the price of complete submission to their wills and their desires.
Geography
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Climate
The capital of the Niops Association is a cold, temperate planet with abundant
aquatic life and fresh water sources.
Martial Information
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