Planets of the Hardis System: Kunus

Kunus - breathable mix - warm - No native Biosphere - hundreds of thousands of inhabitants - tech level 4 - freak geology - flying cities.

Kunus is the second most important planet in the Hegemon. It is an arid and desert planet swirling with dust and sand. It has an extremely unstable geology which causes constant earthquakes, the very ground shatters and breaks upon itself like a rocky sea. This makes the ground much too unstable for typical land based settlements, so Kunus is entirely colonized by cities flying / floating above the violent earthquakes. These cities mostly house a vast mining industry, which funds the entire planet. The mining is all run by The Kunus National Mining Corporation, a state-run company which uses mostly un-manned drones to mine the unstable surface, which so easily offers up its riches. Most of the minerals are then shipped off world, some raw, some refined. The flying cities all must be flawlessly maintained, and as such Kunus houses some of the best engineers in the sector. Life on Kunus is not nearly as luxurious as on other planets, as space is at a premium. Branko Tosa is currently serving as Governor of Kunus and, as of now, supports Consul Thracius and the Council, although as long as Kunus can find buyers for their ore, they could easily break away from Hegemon control. Branko Tosa very rarely makes appearances or public statements, preferring to talk through KNM Corp statements.