ANALISIS DE MUROS SOLICITADOS POR CARGAS VERTICALES

Transstar is the only Solomani corporation to achieve actual megacorporation status, benefiting greatly from its early support of the Solomani Movement. The largest transportation line in the entire Solomani Sphere, Transstar is a merchant line running freight and passage service throughout the entire Confederation. Now mainly owned by the Solomani Party, it is a primary source of Party income. Jobs at Transstar also serve as a prime source of Party patronage. This also goes both ways: a post as regional manager of Transstar is often a step on the path to appointment to the Solomani High Council’s Ministry of Economics. Transstar offers a discounted travel rate (75% of fare) to Party members. Transstar is believed to be heavily infiltrated by Solomani Security.

Transstar’s passenger line has a reputation for efficient but somewhat unfriendly no-frills middle passage service. Some of the older passenger liners are rather grim second-hand colony ships or demobilised troop transports purchased during an austerity period after the Solomani Rim War. Recent effort has gone into changing this perception, particularly through improving high passage service on major sector routes connecting to Home. Transstar’s pride is its Taj Mahal Jump-4 fast luxury liners, whose internal fittings and standard of service rivals any similar design in the Imperium, with prices to match. Transstar also operates orbital highport facilities throughout the Confederation.

law

Solomani Confederation Law or just ‘Solomani Law’ is a body of law whose basis is set forth in the Solomani Confederation’s founding Charter. Its framers derived it from Imperial High Law along with elements of the legal codes of the Old Earth Union, Terran Confederation and Easter Concord. It sets rules for the interactions between world governments and the Confederation government and the basis by which regulations can be made for matters like interstellar trade.

Confederation law applies everywhere, including protectorates and on Confederation territory such as naval bases or warships. It covers the same general category of crimes as those illegal in the Imperium: murder, theft, fraud, resisting arrest, treason and so on.

Confederation law makes it illegal to spread ‘anti-Solomani propaganda’ and broad laws against ‘conspiracy to subvert the Solomani Charter’ can be taken as disallowing criticism of the Solomani Cause and thus allow SolSec to legally function. Confederation law contains a broad guarantee of individual rights to a fair trial and the Broad extension of law to governments – that is, a government may not murder its own or foreign citizens, unlawfully seize their property or discriminate against specific groups. However, all individual rights are subordinate to what the Charter calls the Fundamental Principle, the right of governments to perform those actions that are necessary to ‘uphold and defend the Solomani Cause’. One fundamental right that is guaranteed is the freedom of any adult citizen of pure Solomani birth to join the Party.

SolSec can be less concerned with the question of what a person is reading and more with whether an oppressive Solomani Party regime’s violation of citizen rights really is necessary in keeping the Solomani Movement in power. A government facing an anti- Solomani revolution or with a large non-Solomani minority can trample on basic human rights almost at will as long if justified as protecting the Cause. SolSec will often perform a lengthy investigation to see whether, for example, a religious cult was persecuted for ‘legitimate’ reasons, such as it preaching

sermons or spreading dogma that questioned the legitimacy of the Solomani Cause or attempting to stir up revolt against the Party or illegal ones, such as the cult merely having a divergent faith to that of the ruling elite.

Every so often, a world government does such a poor job that the High Council or majority opinion in the Secretariat determine it is dragging the Solomani Cause down through the mud with it and it has to go. The quietest way to do this is a SolSec-sponsored covert operation, often using sleeper agents. If this fails and a world produces a political system so incompetent or brutal that it is starving or murdering its Solomani population or which threatens to use its military against its neighbours, actual public action may be required. The General Congress of the Solomani Party can intervene by suspending its Party status or the Secretariat may vote to sanction it. The bar is set high but the Secretary General can ask the Secretariat to vote on a resolution declaring a state of emergency that permits peacekeeping intervention by the Confederation Army and Navy.

Phoenix Rising News (Willeson/Sephi Hydra, 1105):

Following last February’s resolution in the Secretariat, at the direction of the Secretary General, Solomani Confederation Army forces landed today at Willeson as part of Operation Critical Mass. Their objective is to bring an end to dictator Yasmin ‘Granny’ York whose genocidal actions against her own people were exposed after investigation by SolSec and diligent Party media. York, whose criminally incompetent regime caused widespread starvation and economic dislocation, brought grinding misery to the citizens of Willeson and weakened the very Solomani Cause she falsely claimed to champion. Confederation Army forces are supporting loyal Solomani Party cadres who had organised elements of the planet’s Home Guard to stand against York’s mad regime.

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The homeworld of the Solomani is Terra, once called Earth, located in hex 1827 within Sol subsector, within subsector K of the Solomani Rim. The former capital of the Solomani Confederation, Terra is now under military occupation by the Imperium.

Terra is the third planet of the star Sol, a solitary yellow G2 V star. Sol is used in the Imperial and Solomani scientific systems as the basis for defining stellar mass, radius and luminosity; Sol has a value of 1 in each of these figures. Effective stellar temperature is 5,800° K. The system has four rocky planets, four gas giants and many smaller bodies.

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Terra orbits sol at an average distance of 149,598,000 kilometres, with a period of one 365.25 standard days. It rotates on its axis once every 24 hours. Terra has an orbital eccentricity of 0.01673.