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Known
Worlds > Diphda V
Diphda
V
Location:
Orion
Arm, Milky Way Galaxy |
Diameter:
13,320
km |
Water
coverage: 17% |
Climate:
Tropical
(greenhouse effect-induced) |
Population:
3.5
billion (96% human,
4% miscellaneous) |
Other
Details:
This heavily urbanized world has been a center of trade
and commerce since the early days of the Commonwealth,
owing to its excellent location at the nexus of several
heavily-travelled Slipstream routes. This may account
for why the Free Trade Alliance uses Diphda V as a major
base of operations, plowing huge amounts of capital
into the planet's reconstruction after the Nietzschean
Uprising and subsequent chaos. Unfortunately, the rewards
from these investments have been far from evenly spread,
and Diphda V has become plagued in recent decades by
extreme social stratification marked by extravagant
wealth coexisting side by side with abject poverty.
Industrial pollution is also unchecked on Diphda V,
which suffers from undrinkable water (purified water
is sold at a premium by FTA concessionaires), toxic
air, and a runaway greenhouse effect which if unchecked
will result in the planet becoming uninhabitable within
the next century.
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