Westerley

Westerley
Westerley, the largest of the two moons, is an industrial site where the lowest economic class of lives.

Owned by "The Company", the moon is used as a large geo-resource, building an expanding population of workers along the way. The Company's policy of uncontrolled exploitation of the moon's natural resources has made it a dark, sooty, industrial hellhole, and a cesspool replete with sex workers, killers, gamblers and religious fanatics.

Migrant workers travel from Westerley to spend most of the year on Leith, but must return before their work visas expire. Workers that overstay their visa are arrested and the penalty is ten years of hard labor in the Company’s mines extracting yttrium, a rare-earth element, the inhalation of which causes lung disease.

Westerley has the largest diameter of the two moons and the orbit with the greatest eccentricity. This moon was the second target of the Company's colonization efforts, and is the most populous of Qresh's moons---indeed, the most populous world in the Quad. Wholly owned by the Company, Westerley has a long history of continuous exploitation for natural resources and cheap labour, resulting in significant damage to the moon's environment, ecosystem, living conditions and population.

Today, Westerley is crowded, crime-ridden, and dirty; a place where industries take full advantage of lax environmental protections. It is inhabited by the lowest economic class of Quad citizens---those people who lack the means or the motivation to escape for greener pastures.

Westerley is the entry point into the Quad for emigrants from the broader Kallis system, many lured by Company promises of more-desirable citizenship on Leith or even Qresh itself---promises the locals dismiss as unlikely, at best.

Weather on Westerley
Black Rain: A lethal electro-acid rain storm that forms in the Badlands as a result of an intense heat wave.

The Seventh Generation Accord
A long time ago the Nine Families of Qresh enacted the Seventh Generation Accord, which declared that if people worked hard and without problems, after seven generations they would be granted land on Leith. That promise is now coming due as families on have worked to gain this land grant under the accord.

Locations on Westerley
Prisoner Intake Facility - The Prisoner Intake Facility acts as the initial processing center for criminals to be transferred to Westhole Prison.

Westhole Prison - Westhole Prison is run by the Company and used to incarcerate those individuals that violate company law and pose a threat to the Company and the Nine.

Olde Town - Olde Town is an urban industrial area where many employees of the Company live and work. One of the local bars in Old Town is The Royale.

Badlands - The Badlands is an ecological disaster area after the Company stripped it of its resources.

Sugar Point - Sugar Point is a restricted, bombed-out city overrun with dangerous gangs and scavengers.