New Hellas
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Official UFPDOCA Colony Entry: New Hellas
- Colony Name: New Hellas, Mu Kappa System
- Creator: Renee Bennett
GEOGRAPHY
- System/Location: Mu Kappa System, spinward of Earth
- Distance to Nearest Starbase: Two weeks to SB DELTA
- Planet Classification: M class
- Satellites/Space Stations: Two moons--Moros and Hypnos; One space station
- Land/water Ratio: 31% land, 69% water
- Climate Controlled: No
- Native Sentient Life: No
Notes
New Hellas is 20% larger than Earth and has a much larger percentage of ferrous metals in its makeup. Its gravity is 1.9 Earth normal. Because of the gravity, New Hellas is relatively 'flatter' than Earth--it has shorter, less jagged mountain ranges, and shallower seas. Its land masses are sprinkled in broad archipelagos. Although continental plates may be much larger, there are only two continents as large as Australia.
COLONY INFORMATION
- Colony Age (approximate): 250 years
- Population (approximate): 280 million
- Species Present: 90% human, 10% other
- Colony Status: Federation dependant
- Government: Parliament
- Major Cities/Settlements:
- Helicon, capital (pop. 250,000)
- Pierus, regional capital (pop. 54,000)
History
New Hellas was discovered at the beginning of the twenty-second century and opened for colonization ten years later. Her new inhabitants were mostly poor Greeks and Greek Cypriots from Earth's Meditteranean area, moved off Earth under the aegis of various resettlement programs, ostensibly designed to improve the lot of the poor, but actually arranged to relieve the rich of the poor's presence on marginal lands.
Once that objective was achieved, immigration restrictions to the new colony relaxed, and a hodge-podge of other Meditteranean cultures moved in--Turks, Turkish Cypriots, Levantines, Sicilians, Maltese, Arabs of various sorts, and Crimean Jews, to name the more common ones. Religious squabbling has become a regular pastime, with factions from the various representative priesthoods forming the Parliament. Contrary to expectations, this arrangement has proven relatively calm and free of the bloodshed that has marked these cultures' interactions on Earth. The prevailing theory at this time puts the reason for this on the shoulders of the Land Office--which has taken some pains to make certain that truly hostile cultures are as far apart geographically as possible. The wide availability of good arable land (over fifty per cent of which still remains in the hands of the Land Office) is also cited as a reason for the planet's peace. The high gravity of the planet has had an effect on the growth of the population and its attitudes toward health care. Since things fall faster on New Hellas, and do more damage when they hit the ground, there is a much higher incidence of trauma related injuries. Most of the population has first aid training, up to and including the methods of setting compound fractures. Medicine is a highly respected profession and the New Hellian Medical College regularly turns away ten applicants to every student it accepts.
Economy
New Hellas is a resource rich world and depends on the sale of these resources to the rest of the Federation to pay for the high-tech equipment she cannot provide for heself. Refined ores, industrial and gem quality jewels, hardwoods, unrefined foodstuffs, and exotic fish for the pet market comprise the bulk of her earnings.
Tech Level
Modern, though not up-to-the-minute
Culture
A mixed grab bag of mostly Meditteranean basin peoples, New Hellas has seventeen different legally incorporated churches, which also serve her as political parties.
Notes
Although they are a signatory colony to the Federation's Treaty On New Worlds, New Hellas maintains a discriminatory policy regarding non-human immigration. Non-humans are disallowed from rights to settlement land; in fact, the twists and turns of New Hellian law bars them from land ownership of all forms in all but a very limited number of cases. The only exception to this is marriage with a land-owning colonist.
Nevertheless, there are a number of non-human business interests operating on the world in leased accommodations.
