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The Doclopedia #59
Strongholds: Hard Luck Station
Located on the jungle planet Ks’rrk, Hard Luck Station is where they send the toughest and most expendable Space Marines. It’s cramped, poorly supplied and the next nearest Terran Alliance outpost is 68 light years away. It’s also the most vital listening post in the entire Alliance because it’s not in the Alliance, but 48 light years inside the Reskid Empire.
The Planet: As stated above, Ks’rrk is a jungle planet. Only very near the small polar caps will you find a thin band of temperate woodland…and the Reskids have mining camps there. The rest of the planet is either ocean or land covered in lush and incredibly deadly jungle. The Reskids hate the place, having evolved on a planet of mostly deserts and plains. The atmosphere is quite Earthlike, but very humid. The average daytime temperature in summer is 100 degrees with 95% humidity. In the rainy season, it can rain nonstop for 3 months at a time. In winter, the temperature drops to around 90 with humidity around 80%.
The Base: Hard Luck Station is a highly modified experimental Phase Ship. It is located inside a cave in the equatorial mountain range of the western continent. The Phase Generator was disassembled immediately after landing to provide more living space and allow for reconfiguration (once combined with the also dismantled Jump Drive) as a highly unstable Wormhole Generator. A wormhole with a lifespan of around 2 hours is generated about once every 7 months. Wormholes are the only way anything gets in or out. Passage through the wormhole is done using preprogrammed cargo pods.
The station has a crew of 32, all of whom are Space Marines. Half of them are tech class and the rest are armored infantry. Since the listening that the post does is via microstations that resemble asteroids and wander all through Reskid space, the grunts have to go out every once in awhile and adjust the receiving discs. Since the word Ks’rrk is Reskid for “certain death”, it is unsurprising that a Marine is lost every couple of ventures out. Sometimes, many more are lost, especially if the Hell Apes are migrating. Since only unmarried orphans are accepted for duty on Hard Luck Station, nobody back home asks any questions.
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