A distant colony of the Colonial Trade Pact alliance, Helka-Alpha is the primary inhabited system of a three star trinary star system also known as 'Helka'. Its primary means of returning to the core worlds of the Colonial Alliance is a semi-naturally occurring stellar gate, kept navigatable by man made structures. With it the outer systems of their motherland can be reached within as little as fifteen days. Without and only using their shipboard FTL drives the journey can take nearly six months.

The motivation for such long reaching and expensive colonization is the materials and exotic elements that form near such space time weaknesses, essential to the economy of the Colonial Pact in a wide variety of applications. Thus Helka remains as one of the most distant but valuable colonies.

The Helka-Alpha star system is a component system in a mid-distance orbiting trinary family of stars that has ten planets, of these two are habitable to human type life. Like most star systems an extensive asteroid belt serves as the border between the inner system and the outer system.

Airless Terrestrial

An airless metallic rock and the first planet in the star system, it was first initially scouted for mining operations nearly thirty years ago and has played host to a moderate population since. Most of the surface habitats are concentrated in a canyon running along an axis just north of the planet's equator. Their efforts slowly deepening and widening it as extraction shafts and tunnels are converted into habitats, so far two orbital elevators rise from this area. Refinery stations and a small space port are part of this orbital constellation.

Temperate Hospitable Terrestrial

The first world to be settled on a large scale, Leningrad is a warm garden terrestrial world which plays host to the primary agricultural activities in the Helka Alpha Star System with roughly sixty percent of the food stuffs being grown in its soil. Other activities such as mining and manufacturing processes also take place both on the surface and in orbit however they are limited by regulations to maintain a long term functional biosphere for its primary industry. In civil matters the planet plays host to the entire star system's combined government and the Helka multiple star system's administration. All armed and civil security services have their headquarters located here as well.

• Natural Satellites - One moderate sized ring system.
  • Verga - A moderate sized terrestrial airless moon.
• Orbital Radius - 26,953,546 Km
• Planetary Radius - 7,124 Km
• Gravity - 1.31 G
• Atmosphere - 1 Standard Atmosphere
• Population - 7.2 Billion
• Orbital Period - 39.29 Standard Days
• Length of Day - 26.7 Hours

Being a planetary system one can expect a wild variation in the daily existence of those who make their home on Leningrad. From the farmers that tend to hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of fields to the city dwellers that do everything from work in manufacturing to carry on the day to day activities that make the star system's capital world tick. Due to its central location and high level of importance those that live here do have a higher standard of living, from more advanced infrastructure to access to more select brands and types of sustenance.

Those that live and work in space however do trade the bliss of actual natural air and open space for the more cramp confines of space habitats, surface complexes on the planet's moon, and overall a slightly lower standard of living however these individuals tend to be paid more due to their proximity to the more important infrastructure.

• Orbital Elevators - The planet employs eight equatorial orbital lifts each tipped with counterweight station that is primarily employed for offloading various bulk goods.
• Spaceports (Surface) - From small private pads capable of handling shuttle sized craft to complexes the size of airports intended to handle commercial traffic and large scale freight carriers.
• Spaceports (Orbital) - Aside from the eight offloading/loading terminals associated with the orbital elevator counter balance stations, the planet features two major terminals in equatorial orbits and two stationed in polar orbits. These are mixed purpose facilities with various sections be dedicated to private, commercial, and military interests.
• Shipyards - Leningrad hosts the largest ship making and infrastructure making complex in the solar system in the form of a collection of various stations and assembly arrays located at the Leningrad-Verga L1 Lagrangian point. Capable of constructing all manners of large scale infrastructure and military and civil starships it is one of the primary pieces of space infrastructure in the system.
• Industry - Due to its nature as a hospitable world most heavy industry and mining is either located off world in orbit or on the planet's sole natural satellite. As a result it tends to be focused on higher end manufacturing and specialty construction projects making it one of the more desirable places to find oneself living.
• Agriculture - This world is the second largest producer of food goods in the star system, with all of the large continents hosting some form of agriculture with the central one serving as the 'breadbasket'. Additionally there is some animal husbandry and this world is the largest source of animal protein in the star system.

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Helka City

• Location - Central Continent, Eastern Coast, Planet Leningrad
  • A rather important city of nearly ten million located on the coast of its respective continental body, Helka City is the site of the first colony ship landing and is the most built up and developed settlement on the planet. Serving as the planets and the star systems capital it is constructed in a ringed manner with surface, sub-surface, and elevated transportation beltways filled with all manner of districts according to the most efficient layout at the time. At its center hundreds of massive high rise mega-scrapers dominate the skyline with a gradual step down as one reaches the outskirts and then suburbs of the city. Like most Pact settlements various forms of transportation infrastructure reach out from the settlement in the form of highways and various forms of high speed rail transport.

Verbly

• Location - Central Continent, Western Coast, Planet Leningrad
  • Located opposite to Helka City on the edge of a large bay, Verbly is a city of a few million that serves as one of the primary surface port cities. Effectively a hub for most rail, oceanic, and air travel, goods typically of a agricultural nature are collected and then shipped over the central mountain range to Helka City for further transport up the city's orbital lift. A smaller city with stagnated growth it has.. in recent years become a dumping ground for refugees or those of a questionable nature looking for a place to lay low on the surface of the capital world.