Utopia Gregaria

Utopia Gregaria is Gudersnipe's cheif shipyard and site of the large-scale fabrication facilities used to build most of their larger machines.

Utopia itself is a main-sequence star orbited by seven planets and the shipyard itself. Plasma from the star is piped through a 1.8 AU-long series of magnetic coils to heat the massive foundries.

Utopia Minoria

The first planet in the Utopia System, Utopia Minoria is a small, rockey planet with almost no atmosphere to speak of and an extremly hot surface. The planet is known to have a very high iron content. It has been scheduled for demolition when needed.

Utopia Proper

I larger, rocky world in the star's habitable zone on the only inhabited planet in the utopia System. Utopia Proper was terraformed in the [[|Ages|Second Age]] when Gudersnipe began the process of transforming the solar system into it's cheif production favility.

Utopia Gregaria

Gregaria was a very large rocky planet from which the shipeyard draws it's name. It was the third planet in the system. During the Second Age and before the terraforming process was begun on Utopia Proper, Utopia Gregaria was delibrately torn apart using a serries of controlled explosions, the goal being to provide raw materials for the construction of shipebuilding materials and the yard itself.

Dozens of moon-sized chunks survived the demolition and fragments of the planet were blown all over the solar system, some eventually forming a ring system around Utopia Senioria.

Utopia Senioria

The fourth planet in the system, Senioria is a large gas giant. It has a system of rings formed initially by debris from the destruction of Utopia Gregaria. The ring system later became used as a dumping ground for mining waste and other refuse left over from the shipebuilding process.

Sometime around the early Third Age when production officially began at Utopia Gregaria, the planet itself also became a dumping ground for radioactive materials. Contaminated refuse was loaded into cargo containers or deralict ships and delibrately crashed into the planet where it would be contained. The region eventually became a dumping zone for ammunition and finally was officially classified as a proving ground in the mid Fourth Age(though it had been routine for some time for ships undergoing space trials to use the ring system and moons of Utopia Scenoria for target practice).

The area is off-limits to all unauthorized personnel, with authorization only grated by the Utopia Gregaria Port Authority.

In the Fourth Age, following the closure of the utopia Scenioria region, a group of environmental activists staged a protest, calling the use of the planet as a dumping ground and the moons as targets for weapons test "irresponsible" and "bad for the environment". As part of the protest, activists visited the restricted zone. There were no survivors.

The region around Utopia Scenioria is considered highly dangerous.

Utopia Guardia

The fifth planet in the utopia system is an Ice Giant with four moons. Though none are habitable, the second moon is home to a Gudersnipe base.

The two-part facility consists of a series of bunkers bellow the moon's icy surface, connected to a space station and star docks by an orbital teather. Constructed early in the Second Age, this is regarded as one of the first orbital teathers built by the Foundation.

The sub-surface base is primarily barracks and living facilities for the contingent of soldiers stationed there; though it also contains a large ammunition storage facility as well as hangers to support at least thirty wings of Harpies. The base is built on the rocky moon surface, protected by a thick layer of ice. The orbital teather is anchored deep beneeth the rockey surface and protruded through the ice up to the station above.

The space station contains births for four capitol ships and is the primary home port for the the solar system's defensive contingent. Utopia Gregaria being on of Gudersnipe's cheif strategic assetts, it's home guard consists of seven complete battle groups, of which three use the Utopia Guardia base as their home port.