Sirsa III

Facts

Primary: Sirsa
Population: 360,000 (2255) (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
Capital: New Astana
Previously inhabited c.9,000,000 BCE (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
- Civilization encircled equatorial region of planet (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
- Civilization went extinct approximately that same time period (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
Federation colony
- c.2250 - 2255 - (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
- Colonial application filed c.2249 by Kayo Mining Consortium (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
  - Filed for expedited approval to outpace competitor (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
  - Evidence of prior habitation redacted from surveys (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
- Applied for relatively independent colonial charter, implying world on outskirts of Federation space
- Led by corporate-appointed governor (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
  - Colonial government also includes a chief of staff, science adviser (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)

New Astana (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
- Capital city (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
- Devastated during 2255 attack (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
- Executive Complex (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
  - Main government building
- New Astana Medical Center (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
  - Chief hospital for New Astana
- Tech Quarter (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
Five other major population centers, approximately a dozen smaller farming communities (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
Arcadia Explorer mining platform (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
- Gravity-based con-deep drilling rig (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
- Mounted on seabed by massive duranium-reinforced thermoconcrete pylons (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
- Crew of approximately 900 people (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
- Destroyed 2255 following attack by "Juggernaut" (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)
Half a dozen mobile drilling rigs at sea (DIS Novel: Desperate Hours)