The Hondar Rekeji
An area of space that was once the Hondar system, it was the site of one of the biggest galactic conflicts in history between Artos Venture Investments and Imali Incorporated. Now it is a stellar region that’s packed with the wreckage of the starships that were lost in the battle.
History
The conflict that created the debris field was long in the making. The galactic corporations of Artos Venture Investments and Imali Incorporated had been at each other’s throats for many years. Undercutting each other, indulging in espionage, and generally hindering each other from doing business. The final straw for both of them was when neither could agree on who owned the travel rights through the Hondar system. They both had ‘proof’ that showed they should be the ones to collect the customs for trade through the sector. Neither would back down and this ended up with them both mobilising their immense fleets of starships to posture for a fight. Each side says that they had no intention of actually fighting and it was the other side that shot the first blast. It’s largely immaterial now. The shot was fired, and the battle started. It went on for weeks as the fleets engaged and disengaged, poked and prodded at the other side until they were both sure they had the other on the ropes. The Imali mobilised their secret fusion bomb, and the AVI brought out their freshly developed energy weapon. These weapons caused immeasurable damage on either side of the engagement, but they caught the planets of the Hondar system in the crossfire. It destabilised three of the planets to the point of destruction. Pieces of Hondar IV are still to be found floating about the wreckage. Hondar II was a gas giant and had its atmosphere inadvertently destabilised by the energy weapon.
When the two sides realised that they had very little chance of a decisive victory, they withdrew to lick their wounds and tally up the costs of the engagement. Both corps intended to return to salvage what they could from the starships that had been lost. This started up their next conflict. They both claimed salvage rights and demanded the other stay out of the region since they had started the conflict. This issue is still being litigated in galactic courts. The case has raged on for over two hundred years at this point. For some lawyers, it is the only case they’ve worked on for their entire lives.
This conflict left the once prosperous Hondar region in ruins. Many of the people from the inhabited planets managed to escape off world but then found themselves with nowhere to go back to. A people known for their tenaciousness, they explored the debris field and tried to salvage what they could. In time, they managed to find and fix up some of their old space stations that were still mostly whole. They also created defences and traps to protect the area they now called home.
In the current time period, the Hondar Rekeji is considered a very dangerous place to go. Many people over the years have tried to go and make their fortune salvaging from the impressive array of ships that float there. However, between the exposed flight cores of the ships, unexploded ordinance and the traps hidden by the Hondar themselves, it is a futile prospect.
by Alex Griffiths
by Alex Griffiths
Geography
The system has a diameter of 125 AU with a red dwarf star at the centre of many hundreds of thousands of miles of starship wreckage and debris from two destroyed planets and a destabilised gas giant. The wreckage is from a multitude of different model ships in a range of different materials. Navigating the labyrinth of debris is almost impossible for anyoneDangers
Many of the wrecks have intact drive cores that are in a largely unstable state. Any sort of tampering has the potential to set them off. Not to mention numerous wrecks are still moving or spinning in space and can crash into ships trying to get close to salvage, or just cut off routes of egress. The wrecked ships also have a large variety of different ordinance that are still live and dangerous. Missiles, bombs, offence robots, just to name a few. Their targeting systems frequently malfunction, which causes them to attack anyone nearby. On a more up-to-date note, the debris field is patrolled and defended by the Hondar people who have claimed it as their own. There are many traps and mines set around the edges of the field and some more intricate and harder to find traps towards the interior. Hondar II, the unstable gas giant, has a fluctuating gravity field which has been dragging debris into the giant and growing in mass. Over time, this will become a much larger problem than it is. Any ships that fly too close also risk being dragged in and destroyed.Resources
If someone can get past all the traps and the Hondar people themselves, the debris field is a gold mine of parts, ships and technology. While all the ships are old and out of date, many people on the far edges of the galactic arms have to make do with ships of their age, and parts for them are always highly prized.Inhabitants
After the destruction of their homeworlds, the Hondar people worked hard to carve out a place for themselves in the debris field, stubbornly refusing to give up their system. Over time, they created a connected system of space stations that span the field of wreckage. They spend a lot of their time salvaging choice parts from the surrounding debris, which they take to the orbital platform set up on the edge of the field for merchants to come and buy from them.Remove these ads. Join the Worldbuilders Guild
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