World
Delos
Delos is a developed world where politics are performative and the machinery of governance looks intact from a distance. In practice, the planetary government is a puppet that effectively answers to El Atajo kingpin Nikolai Drahn, who runs his empire from Evergreen Station, an orbital fortress that serves as headquarters, court, and deterrent all at once. Most of Delos’s “stability” is really the stability of Drahn’s interests: shipping moves when he wants it to, and enforcement appears where it’s useful. The result is a system where legality is negotiable, but consequences are not.
- Population
- 1,600,000,000
- Terrain / Climate
- Mixed terrain; mountainous regions and cloud bands
- Gravity
- 1.1 gees
- Length of Day
- 26 hours, 20 minutes
Delos is a developed world where politics are performative and the machinery of governance looks intact from a distance. In practice, the planetary government is a puppet that effectively answers to El Atajo kingpin Nikolai Drahn, who runs his empire from Evergreen Station, an orbital fortress that serves as headquarters, court, and deterrent all at once. Most of Delos’s “stability” is really the stability of Drahn’s interests: shipping moves when he wants it to, and enforcement appears where it’s useful. The result is a system where legality is negotiable, but consequences are not. Delos retains courts, ministries, and elections because Drahn finds legitimate institutions useful. They process ordinary disputes and give commerce a familiar surface while avoiding decisions that threaten El Atajo’s interests. Residents learn to distinguish written law from the boundaries that actually matter. Evergreen Station stands above the planet as the clearest expression of that unwritten constitution.
See also: Nikolai Drahn
