Kwande (Station 0601)

Kwande (TL 4)
This massive halo-shaped station orbits the planet of Kwande prime, and is home to the Republic of Neo Nigeria. This station is the most populous in the system with 9,400,000 people, with a large percentage of multinationals. Upon the planet’s initial discovery, in 2450, Kwande was the cultural gem of the sector, an earth-like atmosphere perfect for colonization of a large nation. Kwande thrived in a culture of intellectual and political liberty that lead to the a strong push for education and arts programs, and ended up becoming a regional attraction for students of all disciplines, including psionics. The Scream left Kwande particularly devastated. Unlike the other systems, the Scream changed the atmosphere of the planet, turning it uninhabitable and corrosive. Kanpeki Mashin, a robotics corp from Mitsukaido, offered access to their schematic for Mashin biocubes, which could be constructed immediately and would allow a family of 5 to live in relative comfort. The government organized the process as best they could, but many lives were lost after the Scream. Mashin and el Banco Real came forth with a solution, borrow money from el Banco to pay Mashin to build a halo colony in orbit around Kwande prime. Mashin would build a crane to pick up the biocubes and assemble them into the station, and robots would terraform and maintain the atmosphere. The national council had no choice, and Kwandians are now blessed to live in a beautifully terraformed and modular halo station and are cursed with a sector high 65% income tax.