ON THE PLANET DELOS
Delos is one of the older examples of successful terraforming in Imperial history. Formally settled in the fourth millennium ISD, the project took several centuries to complete. It originally had no biosphere, oxygen cycle, or oceans, but the gravity and magnetospheres were just right. Comets were brought in to introduce water, and many of the animals introduced were of terranic stock, leading to a world as much like Old Earth as could be readily produced. Due to its clement environment and strategic placement on the Imperial trade routes with the Sagittarine provinces, the world has always been prosperous. It flourished first under House Ormund, then again under House Kephalos when the Ormund Dukes fell into disfavor during the Chablon Rebellion in the thirteenth millennium and were removed from power. This prosperity was compounded by the discovery of the system’s amazing uranium deposits, which have long been the subject of internecine struggles between the palatine houses of the system.
A cultural and commercial hub, Delos has attracted interstellar trade among Nipponese and Mandari corporations as well as the Eudorans, Durantines, and Free Traders.
Here follows a list of those persons appearing in the Delos episode of Lord Marlowe’s account:
ADAEZE FENG, Director of the Wong-Hopper Consortium for the Auriga Province.
—Her retainers:
—XUN GONG SUN, a junior minister dealing with the trade of raw materials.
—TOR TERENCE, a scholiast advisor to the director’s personal office.
LENA BALEM, factionarius of the Delian Miners Guild, Meidua chapter; tasked with the oversight of all uranium mining in-system.
JEM and ZEB, two criminals.
DEMETRI ARELLO, a Jaddian Free Trader, captain of the starship Eurynasir.