LOCATION -1,5 POPULATION 787,500 POLICING Minimal. Piracy common. EQUIPMENT Most equipment types available. JOINED Alliance founding member. Joined 3230

ASTRONOMICAL INFORMATION

  Soholia is a type M, main sequence, red star. No planets in the system are suitable for terraformation, the inner planets all being far too small or cold.

HISTORY AND NOTABLE FEATURES

  Soholia is best known for the devastating outbreak of a fever, known everywhere as Soholian Fever since that episode. The system never quite recovered from the outbreak which first occurred in January 3250. The best efforts of ships from surrounding systems to bring medicines to the stricken population significantly reduced the devastation that would have otherwise been caused. By the end of the series of outbreaks, the population had dropped to a third of its original size - mainly because people fled the system. Soholia has never been a popular place to go since then.

  If it wasn't for Soholian fever, the system would be hardly known. Home to many manufacturing plants and mines, it is otherwise a fairly normal industrialized system. Originally populated in 3180, business flourished in the mineral-rich system until the first outbreak of Soholian fever.

CUSTOMS INFORMATION

  Law enforcement agencies are almost non-existent in this system. However, certain products are classed illegal:

• Narcotics
• Live Animals
• Nerve Gas
• Slaves
• Battle weapons