Hel (SLDF Munitions and Waste Disposal Site 09)



During the early days of the Star League, new weapons were test, new technologies developed, and new materials made to advance the quality of life for it’s citizens. Not everything that was developed was successful. Some things were dangerous enough that they needed to be removed and disposed off away from the Inner Sphere.

Except that some didn't want it completely disposed. SLDF Intel thought it would be better to use the Deep Periphery to house these materials. To that end, they sent scout ships to locate systems remote enough to avoid the prying eyes of the Houses.

SLDF Munitions and Waste Disposal Site 09 would be used to catalog and store every failed, destroyed, or abandoned project. Underground holding chambers would be built and sealed off. Soon the crews there started referring to them as the tombs. At one point, even medical waste and viral agents would be "buried" on Hel, kilometers below the surface.

This would continue with facilities receiving new personnel every 6 months. Recruits were always volunteers and always people with no family. Once a "tour" of 4 years was finished, the SLDF was moved to another deep periphery site known only as Vanaheim.

The Site was equipped with satellites to constantly monitor the surface for any breach in containment. Drones were commonly used to perform recon, and on the rare occasion that something on the planet was determined to be a threat, one of the experimental VTOLs would be sent to deal with it.

Protecting the planet was a Space Defense System automated to only allow ships with the right authorizations to approach. The SDS could be partially overridden from the Site, but that required a 3 key verification before access could be gained to the SDS command functions.

The Fall of Star League When the Reunification Wars nothing really changed at the Site. Towards the end, they started receiving more biological waste containers. It wasn't until the Curator noticed that these containers looked suspiciously coffin sized that it was revealed that the SLDF was experimenting with darker things. Biological warfare, super soldier programs, designer combat drugs, anything that killed a subject sent the corpse to the Site.

When the Amaris Civil War started, all communication with the Site stopped. The SLS XXXX was the last ship to bring supplies and personnel, and instead of returning stayed and became part of the facility. During the course of the war, ships would approach the site without the right authorization and be torn apart by the SDSs guarding it.

It wasn't until the 2nd Succession war that a Comstar Explorer Corps ship, CV XXX, would come to Hel. The SDS system was in standby mode and the Comstar techs made short work of it's systems, allowing them to pass. Once at the planet, contact was reestablished with the now cult-like descendants. They had developed a semi-religious mythos around the tombs and why they were there.

Rather than correct them, the leader of that Comstar Expedition choose to study and document their "culture". Leaving a small team behind to help with repairs and bringing systems back, the CV XXXXX left.

Upon returning, XXXX discovered that a rift had formed and that some of the team had gathered others to open one of the tombs. It would later be revealed that the Comstar personnel involved were members of the Word of Blake. With that, the CV XXXX stayed in orbit to make sure the Site stayed secure until more of a presence could be established.

Currently Comstar Remnants are using the Site as a way point to Vanaheim and other points in the deep periphery. Teams are still working to find and inspect all of the disposal sites to make sure they are still in tact and catalog them.

PLANET INFO

A supercontinent and some small, shallow seas. Spires of sharp stone interrupt the otherwise flat terrain. Some local plants hover in mid-air, held aloft by gas bags.

The ocean shallows are home to giant mottled worms. The air is filled with organic compounds that induce hallucinations.