Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Jodhclan (section)

==Jodhclan's Repast Description==


While Jodhclan’s Paradise and Jodhclan’s Shield deal with matters of faith and war, Repast lives up to its name.  The world is not the agricultural breadbasket of Grendel, Combine, or Forender, but it does supply the rest of the system and all the many millions of pilgrims with megatons of food.  The planet is only barely habitable by humans, and only then because of persistent terraforming efforts.  Over two thirds of the planet is either polar ice cap or frozen tundra, with permafrost and heavy glacial migration that render permanent agriculture exceptionally difficult.

However, the planet does have one feature that makes it more appealing for agriculture: the equatorial soils.  The soil of the planet at the equator is highly diverse in chemical and bacterial load, which allows it to grow plants of great variability and evolutionary history, not just the ones from the Terran Diaspora.  It’s not as fertile as the soil of Combine, but it is fertile enough to allow for sufficient food growth to meet all of the planet’s needs, with enough left over to export to other worlds.

Life on Jodhclan’s Repast is stultifying, even compared to life on the other two worlds of the system.  The government is technically that of the Administratum, not Ecclesiarchy, but in practice still follows Ecclesiarchal law in all regards.  Therefore, the world’s government allows for a greater variety of entertainments than on Jodhclan’s Paradise, but there is still only so much to do on a world of farms and glaciers.  Some of the cities grow large enough for a moneyed middle class to develop, and Jodhclan’s Repast does host one of the best secular universities in the Subsector.  It also tithes up significant percentages of its PDF to the Guard as a matter of course.  Its orbitals include several dozen sensory satellites, to detect pirates or raiders that have come to steal its precious food.

The world has a history of active participation in the events of the sector out of proportion to their relative population number.  Five of its Guard regiments are fighting on Oglith right now, and three worlds feed from its farms.  The world has also played host to gatherings of visiting Ministorum officials from other sectors, since meeting on Jodhclan’s Paradise might provide bias in favor of their hosts in delicate negotiations.  However, the planet itself also produces a variety of relatively rare metal ores, including some of the ingredients for plasteel.  It sells these directly to Cognomen in exchange for agricultural machines and Forge World-quality chemical fertilizers.

The planet’s anomalously high number of moons make local navigation perilous at best, which also severely cuts down on the amount of nonessential traffic the world enjoys.  The planet has no orbital defenses at all, thanks to the fact that getting near it when the moons are too close to each other is so dangerous even for ships moving under power.  Instead, the planet defends itself with surface-to-space lasers and missile silos.