[Space] example system stats

[Agemegos]

Population is not calculated by the spreadsheet.

This planet is from Flat Black, where TL2 agriculture and grazing are carried on with a legacy of TL10 Bio-Tech genetically-engineered crop plants, pasture plants, pharm, and grazing animals. Also, the quasi-nomadic 'stockmen' are using satellite downlink equipment to find pasture. The TL2 listed is a development level based on the scale of integration of the economy, and it determines the sophistication of local manufacturing, the productivity of the economy, per-capita incomes, and the exchange rate. Carrying capacity is calculated by the spreadsheet, but not directly relevant.

Similarly, the government was patched together by the Imperial governor about a century ago, handing out satellite communicators to choregi, evangeli, and archevangeli and bribing them to enter into a formal federation. All the Patriarch and his court of cardinals actually do is to appoint the senator and the Imperial district judge. In practice choregi are practically independent, responding slightly to nearby evangeli and archevangeli, but the rest of the feudal/ecclesiastical hierarchy is purely a legal fiction.

Even so, the wheels are coming off. The PCs don't have access to the best information, and the rumours are pretty thick, but its possible that the numbers of stockmen have risen beyond the point that their flocks will support even despite Imperial help with grazing management. In this year's southward migration they appear to be systematically capturing and burning cities. (Other possible explanations mentioned by assorted NPCs with theories include a backlash against persecution of stockmen and their choregi for heresy, some sort of anti-clerical movement among legal scholars with the stockmen, and (naturally) a plot by the Political Department to bring the colony under the sway of Imperial tyranny.

Not that the PCs care. Their only interest seems to be in stealing the Patriarch's carpet.