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R 'n R: World Generation
1/ Settlement Type

No. Card Settlement (Expat Planetary Population) StarPort Modifier I The Magician Star Outpost 1 - 10 StarPort -III II The High Priestess Star Hamlet 10 - 100 SP -II III The Empress Star Village 100 - 1000 SP -I IV The Emperor Star Town 1,000 - 10,000 SP 0 V The Heirophant Star City 10 - 100 Vk SP +I VI The Lovers Star Metropolis 100k - 1M SP +II VII The Chariot Star Megopolis 1 - 10 M SP+III etc. Colonial World Settlement  Type (Multiple Settlements) VIII Justice Farmers' Market IX The Hermit Pariah Community X Wheel of Fortune Mining Town XI Strength Commerce Centre XII The Hanged Man Storage Depot XIII Death Transportation Nexus XIV Temperance (PleasantVille) XV The Devil Recreational Resort XVI The Tower Archeological Dig Precursor or Extinct Planetary Culture XVII The Star Planetary Campus XVIII The Moon XIX The Sun Power Facility XX Judgement Manufacturing Centre XXI The World Restricted Facility (Military, Research, Commercial,...?) O The FOOL

The Major Arcana value provides the number and size of the extra-planetary population. This specifically excludes the numbers and levels of native settlement (if any).

Each Star Settlement has a StarPort Facility associated with it. The StarPort can provide: landing pads, runway, hanger space, fuel, maintenance, repair, *Crew Rn'R, ... all the way up to a StarCraft Construction Dock!

Each Star Settlement has other Local Facilities either provided by the Colonists or Native Sophonts.
(Note: most larger StarCraft are manufactured by one of the big four in orbit and never land on a planetary surface.)

• the first seven are the basic first steps to planetary colonisation (annexation): a single generic Settlement that combines waystation, exploration base, trading post, research facility,... growing, with time, into a large urban sprawl. Initial inhabitants are generally hardy individualists or pioneering family groups.
  The sequence of growth, permanence of settlement and the nature of the buildings themselves is left to the imagination of the D/M.
  

• the middle seven describe the additional settlements on a planet after the development of the Megopolis (VII) and the result of fully founded colonials starting to take over the planet. Rather than a single Settlement catering for all operations; these (specialised) Settlements are founded close to a strategic resource. Whilst all the basic functions are supported these Settlements are primarily designed around one specific function, appropriate to the resource being exploited. Further MaA can be used to as an indicator of the number of settlements 'pips' and/ or the total size of the expat planetary population. In theory the largest 'settlement': a world spanning Global Gigopolis teerering on the cusp of containing some 10²² sophonts or none!

• the last seven are the unique Settlements that have the greatest potential for Adventure! They also tend to define the World in its place in the Spatiopolitical Arena.
  

Farmers' Market Town
Centre of primary agricultural region. Also Food Processing and Distribution. Settlement is geared to simple agrarian and/ or bucolic pleasures. Rustic restaurants, simple ale houses and wholesome whorehouses.

Pariah Community 
Zealots or Fanatics exiled for their own protection or deliberately trying to isolate themselves. Entertainment will be sparce on the ground and the AAs may be viewed with suspicion. Alternatively the settlement may be desperate for news from the outside. And, provided that the locals are not provoked, the AAs may be welcomed.

Mining Town
This settlement has two distinct phases. Initially it takes the form of a teeming Mining Camp with independant prospectors and mining companies competing for control of the richest deposits. The settlement will be packed with those busy fleecing the early mining operations and operators. At the other extreme, towards the end of the extraction process, the settlement will have minimal facilities, usually just enough to support the robotic extraction infrastructure. In exceptional circumstances i.e. a semi - feudal world the settlement will be much larger and the mining  undertaken by manual labour: prisoners, serfs or even native slaves!

Commerce Centre
The settlement has, over the years, become the centre of most planetary commerce. Sometimes through its location; sometimes through its associated industry and sometimes by pure chance!
Buying and selling is the lifeblood of all the locals and the AAs will be bombarded with offers; probably ending up with several unwanted purchases.

Storage Depot
Location is ideal for faceless warehouses and sheds. The associated settlement supports the endless task of transporting Stuff from one location to another. Or ensuring that no-one (like the AAs) succeeds in stealing any of the Stuff.

Transportation Nexus "all change!"

• Water Crossing "BridgeTown"
• Harbour "HavenPort"
• River confluence "TwoRivers"
• Valley juncture "Roadstop"
• Pass juncture WhistleStop
• Landing Flat "SkyPort"
• Barrens "SpacePort"
• Mag lev (or other railed mass transit system) "Junction City"
  

In general the local geography will determine the placement of these nexi, generally linking areas of agrarian production with industrial production and raw material extraction. Just because the culture has antigrav doesn't mean that they won't use river barges - just load them more!

(PleasantVille)
Just that, a real nice place to raise your kids. Quiet, respectable with a quiet well behaved citizenry. Outside its precincts: the Kosmic Chaos of a Galaxy gone mad.
Naturally this conceals some deep dark secret that the AAs will stumble onto...
Recreational Resort
Either located in a place of great natural beauty and capable of attracting off-planet tourism.
Or a R n' R hub central to multiple colonial operations.
Either way the AA and their credits are soon parted...

Manufacturing Centre
Usually close to a site of raw materials or planetary population or just slapped down anywhere close to a source of cheap power. The nature of the location depends on the type of product. For AAs these are locations where there is a lot of waste to salvage, cheap labour to hire and finished goods to steal acquire.at rock bottom prices.

Archeological Dig
Either an extinct autochthonous culture or the ruins of one of the enigmatic Precursors (or possibly both!).As with Mining Towns the initial phases will be haphazard and piecemeal; as various budding archeologists vie for the best sites. In the latter stages these digs tend to be on a planetary scale with massive teams and massive excavations. Industrial scale archeology being used to extract the last drop of academia: papers on the minutiae of everyday life and the most humdrum artifact (small "a")..

Planetary Campus
A huge educational facility

Restricted Facility
In extermis almost anything can become a "Restricted Facility". A catch-all for the whim of the D/M or as an unforeseen plot development.

Power Facility Normally most power requirements are handled by domestic house fusor or other compact and unobtrusive local power supply. However for some reason the planetary authorities have concentrated power generation in the form of a massive facility: Geothermal, Hydro, Solar-Electric or a giant Microwave Rectenna receiving power beamed down from space. Eather way it makes a great target for Tourists and Terrorists (and sometimes both!) or just a planetary catastrophe. On primitive worlds power stations will use Wood, Coal, Gas and  Nuclear fuels.

(If an indigenous intelligent culture has developed, it will be necessary to generate their biological/cultural parameters.)