Mercury: Mundanes (Corporate), or independant assignees thereof.
Why: Because I figure that there are going to be metals that you just don't find in asteroids, things like tungsten, thorium... the heavy stuff. They're going to be most common on the really dense worlds - Earth, Io, and Mercury. Also, for someone without a wavetech drive - I figure that the 'Danelaw in general is handling most of what it needs in space with some implausibly powerful reaction drive that was produced by studying wavetech - Mercury makes a perfect mid-point for most journeys, as its short orbit makes Hohmann transfer windows relatively common. (If it needs to go fast, you hire fen) Likewise, unlike Luna, which is right near at hand, there's not much there to interest fen.
Mars: Trekkies, Pulpers
Why: The Trekkies are there because, well, they're just about the most numerous faction and that gives them the 'muscle' to move in on the second nicest bit of real estate in the solar system. The Pulpers are there because, well, John Carter of Mars, man! Probably the latter also have a presence on Venus that's mostly overshadowed by the Senshi.
Jupiter: Warsies, the occaisional Whedonite
Why: Because the 'asteroid field' in ESB has much more in common with a planetary ring system, and because both canons involve a lot of time with gas giants and multiple other moons in the sky. Also, while strenuous to live around, the Jovian subsystem has a lot of resources to play with, making it nearly as attractive - if in very different ways - as Mars.
Kupier Belt: retcon to n/a
Why: Because there's nothing there but dirty snowballs, and the gas giant moons are, well, really really big dirty snowballs. It's a long way to go for nothing.
Ja, -n
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"
Why: Because I figure that there are going to be metals that you just don't find in asteroids, things like tungsten, thorium... the heavy stuff. They're going to be most common on the really dense worlds - Earth, Io, and Mercury. Also, for someone without a wavetech drive - I figure that the 'Danelaw in general is handling most of what it needs in space with some implausibly powerful reaction drive that was produced by studying wavetech - Mercury makes a perfect mid-point for most journeys, as its short orbit makes Hohmann transfer windows relatively common. (If it needs to go fast, you hire fen) Likewise, unlike Luna, which is right near at hand, there's not much there to interest fen.
Mars: Trekkies, Pulpers
Why: The Trekkies are there because, well, they're just about the most numerous faction and that gives them the 'muscle' to move in on the second nicest bit of real estate in the solar system. The Pulpers are there because, well, John Carter of Mars, man! Probably the latter also have a presence on Venus that's mostly overshadowed by the Senshi.
Jupiter: Warsies, the occaisional Whedonite
Why: Because the 'asteroid field' in ESB has much more in common with a planetary ring system, and because both canons involve a lot of time with gas giants and multiple other moons in the sky. Also, while strenuous to live around, the Jovian subsystem has a lot of resources to play with, making it nearly as attractive - if in very different ways - as Mars.
Kupier Belt: retcon to n/a
Why: Because there's nothing there but dirty snowballs, and the gas giant moons are, well, really really big dirty snowballs. It's a long way to go for nothing.
Ja, -n
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"