Far Portal
(0130 Gateway, 0110 Ownsbee; A238346-A)
Also known as Gateway Portal, this prosperous system
is important because it offers the only jump-1 and -2 route into the
Gateway sector from
neighboring Ley sector.
Most visitors to the Gateway sector pass through Far Portal.
Though the
system does not belong to the Galian Federation,
strong ties between this world and the Federation have existed since
the
days of the great interstellar corporations.
The Galian worlds have greatly benefited through trade
and taxation by occupying the only regular trade
routes between the Gateway and Ley sectors. Far Portal,
like Gateway
Prime, is an artificial construct, a space colony in orbit
around a
small, cold, ice-locked rocky body which is the only satellite of
Toman,
a swollen, Type III red giant. Several hundred people occupy
research stations
on the surface of the planet; the rest of the population -- some 8000
--
live and work in the orbital colony and in the attendant spaceport and
space industrial facilities.
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