[@Arawak]The area we discussed:

[center][h1]The Myrlian Belt[/h1][/center]

Insanity, chaos, opportunity, all these words have been used to describe the Myrlian belt.  A region of space defined by its four inhabitable systems and numerous terraformed words, the belt was once the site of an extensive, and expensive, colonization campaign.  The Directorate of Myr, a government within the greater Harmonious Network, put enough capital into the project that many considered the belt to be a prospective hub of commerce and development.  The only problem was that the project became so expensive the Directorate ran out of funds.  Taxes higher than any in the network were leveled within the Directorate to address the crises, but ultimately political pressure demanded the entire effort be abandoned.

Isolated on the distant outer rim of the Harmonious Network, with only the most developed planet having a way station, the Myrlian Belt fell apart.  Paychecks stopped arriving and then laws stopped being enforced.  Billions of credits worth of weaponry went missing as soldiers abandoned their posts and took 'severance packages' with them, aiming to turn into a hefty profit.  Those weapons found their way into the hands of individuals who aspired to be the new lords of the belt, and soon war became a constant in the life of those foolish enough to have moved to a once shining beacon of civilization.

Without easy transport millions were trapped to live in a new kind of hell.  Those on the less developed planets were the luckiest; for the most part they were free to live out bucolic, yet unimportant, lives away from the ravages of war.  However, even on those dusty, half terraformed, and easily forgotten worlds, law had become a thing of the past.  Pirates, raiders, mercenaries, the Myrlian belt had forever become a haven and utopia to them all.

[center][h2]The Systems of the Myrlian Belt:[/h2][/center]

[hider=Agrel]
Agrel was once the capital of the fringe, the golden system of the Myrlian Belt.  Now the skyscrapers that pierced the clouds of Agrel One are bombed out sniper perches.  With the only way station in the whole of the belt the system is both the most civilized, and the most dangerous.  Civil war between dozens of factions has made the space of the system a near constant warzone, and the planets below fare little better with their people staving more often than not.  Even so, if one wants advanced medicine, technology, or information from the outside galaxy, they go to Agrel.[/hider]

[hider=Hebyr]
Hebyr was an agricultural system when times were good, and it remains one today.  The only difference is in who owns what.  Before the Myr Directorate pulled out of the belt the worlds of Hebyr were terraformed to be gardens, and given the importance of feeding the belts growing population the system was placed under government control.  It was the people of Hebyr who suffered most from the collapse of Directorate control.  Slavers descended upon the system and took its people as expendable chattel, useful only for working the fields and feeding the armies of Agrel's warlords until they could work no longer.  Once a promising system, it is now said Hebyr is where the damned go to die.[/hider]

[hider=Regen]
When the directorate left the belt they left their project incomplete, and nowhere is this more evident than the Regen system.  There exist no fully terraformed worlds in the system, but rather a number of half finished planets full of desert, dust, ice, what lord knows what else.  With such unappealing locales, Regen is where the wanted hide.  As to the systems people, there are few.  Farmers eek out a peaceful existence where they can, but the land is harsh and for every year of peace there is another where whole towns will be levelled by rampaging bounty hunters.[/hider]

[hider=Yente]
Where Agrel fell to warlords, Yente fell to criminals.  Perhaps a nicer place to live than Agrel, Yente's development has been stifled but not stopped.  The syndicates that rule the systems planets do as they please, but when it benefits them they do contribute to the society they run.  Still, on Yente there are only those in the syndicates and those who are not.  Living in perpetual poverty with few rights, the people of Yente's worlds have been left with no hope but to help their rulers build their palaces and manufacture their drugs.[/hider]