LOCATION -3, 5 POPULATION 656,000 POLICING Average. Piracy relatively common. EQUIPMENT Basic equipment only JOINED 3247

ASTRONOMICAL INFORMATION

  Holiacan is a Type M, main sequence, red star. The star itself is relatively cool, as are the orbiting planets. None of the planets are suitable for terraforming. The inner planets are mineral rich.

HISTORY AND NOTABLE FEATURES

  This system is a relatively productive industrial system. The inner planets have extensive mining and manufacturing industrial complexes. The Foam Metals Corporation and the Alclad Metal Manufacturing Company are the most notable industrial entities in the system, producing a significant proportion of the Alliance's export trade in the alloys used in spacecraft construction. There are several large buckminsterfullerine production facilities in the system, a vital component of ship-grade alloy production.

  The most notable feature of Holiacan's history is the participation in the terraformation of New Gotham in Olgrea. The industries here supplied most of the materials used in building the shield that allowed life to get a grip on New Gotham without disruption from Olgrea E's flare activity.

  The levels of policing are not particularly high, and the system makes a good place to bounty hunt. The authorities here encourage bounty hunting since with a relatively low population, they do not have enough resources to patrol much outside of the immediate vicinity of the system's starports.

CUSTOMS INFORMATION

  The Holiacan Customs and Excise department take their jobs quite seriously. There are several types of products that are illegal to trade in the system:

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