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Truce Zone: About as rare as the Neutral Zone, its counterpart trope, in the large, but mention should be given to both the Free Eilish Confederacy on the one hand, which occupies the majority of the Eilish Expanse constellation and whose policies of firm neutrality and not-terribly-restrictive legal system make
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Sliding Scale of Law Enforcement: Standards vary acutely, depending on where in the Worlds you are. The Empire’s Watch Constabulary and the PPLs signatory to the Warden-Bastion Compact occupy the idealistic end of the scale (well, one idealistic end of the scale, since they’re perfectly happy to shoot
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Outlaw Town: The most famous, of course, is Nepscia City, Nepscia, the Eldraeverse’s own favorite Wretched Hive. Litash also played host to a few, before it was incinerated. Currently, the hat is generally worn by a number of drifts scattered across the Expansion Regions – and particularly in the Shadow
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One Product Planet: Averted, in its strict form. The realities of interstellar economics, logistics, and costs of transportation mean that it’s almost always more practical to maintain a decent-sized agricultural and manufacturing base at home, rather than import all your food and goods, for anything but the smallest of
Nepscia (Galith Waste)
The alley behind “Hirsk’s Friendly” Nepscia (Galith Waste) The body lay propped up against one of the floatway walls, the hole that was its face steaming and smoking by turns. “Sishk, did’y at least get which twelve systems before’y stuck a thermal sword through his head?” “’E