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Akkad
Akkad is a mid-wave colony built on scarcity economics: water rights, maintenance contracts, and lien law are local folklore. It’s a practical stop for repairs and resupply—cheap work, blunt courts, and plenty of “secondhand” parts with unclear provenance. The long day drives odd labor rhythms, with extended shifts and a night-side economy dominated by security work and enforcement.
- Population
- 150,000,000
- Terrain / Climate
- Sandy or rocky terrain, warm desert climate with limited water
- Gravity
- 0.95 gees
- Length of Day
- 215 days
Akkad is a mid-wave colony built on scarcity economics: water rights, maintenance contracts, and lien law are local folklore. It’s a practical stop for repairs and resupply—cheap work, blunt courts, and plenty of “secondhand” parts with unclear provenance. The long day drives odd labor rhythms, with extended shifts and a night-side economy dominated by security work and enforcement. Akkad’s ports are surrounded by condenser farms, buried reservoirs, and contract markets where water allocations are traded almost like currency. Most settlements cluster around dependable extraction infrastructure rather than natural geography. Visitors quickly learn that wasting water is not merely rude but economically provocative, and that maintenance crews possess more local influence than ceremonial officials.