Editing Setting:Tri-Sector/Drumnos (section)

==Common Factors==

Many Drumnos worlds are self-contained stories of transformation.  Of the dozens of inhabited systems and hundreds of inhabited worlds of Drumnos, the majority are either Paradise Worlds or industrialized Agri-worlds, which balance vast agriculture and ranching with a few compact, dense, and hugely populated Hives.  These industrial Agri-worlds are able to support themselves and perhaps one other small planet solely with the output of their mines and factories and fields, and can often fuel the economies of their entire home systems.  The other worlds in their systems tend to be more classical Mining, Agri-, or Hive Worlds as could be found anywhere in the Galactic North, and have as broad a variety of ecosystems, economies, and governments as the entire Naxos and Cloudburst Sectors.  Some are Guild-run worlds of trade and learning, others are smog-choked slums, while others are gleaming shrines to the Emperor.  One thing they have in common, at least in the main, is alliance with these industrial Agri-worlds, which are often their secondary or even primary food supply.  Some of these old Agri-worlds have had soil failures or seen mines running dry, and thus have lived out their days as breadbaskets for the Sector, but the worlds are not abandoned when their have no more means of providing metals and food beyond their own sustenance.  These worn-out worlds often find second lives as resort planets for the Drumnos merchant classes, and the extended families of hundreds of thousands of layabout heirs and heiresses who grow fat off the incomprehensible wealth of their relatives.  These spoiled pseudo-nobles often camp out on these run-dry Agri-worlds, which have inevitable population drops after their resources run out, but are still perfectly habitable.  The semi-depopulated worlds become playgrounds for the Drumnos rich, and their vast mining tunnels, abandoned farms and vineyards, and hardscrabble Hive cities serve as the new foundation for the local kingdoms of Imperial well-to-do.

Of course, these planets may struggle with earning any actual income once their primary residential bloc are idle rich playboys, but not all.  Some retain ties to the very same Chartists and Guildsmen who were responsible for making the controlling families rich in the first place.  Some of these worlds fall to indolence and hard stratification between the remaining original residents of the world who look out from crumbling hives at distant merchant manors with desperate hate and the frolicking socialites who live in them.  Others become local hot spots for advanced Guild training, regional exploration efforts, fine manufacturing, or even wildlife preserves, where Chartist Captains collect rare beasts from other worlds and let laughing nobles hunt them from helicopters for sport.

Other planets in the Sector have more mundane origins, and several were former hub worlds for the tiny local fiefdoms of the ancient Terran Federation.  As one would expect with small colonies so far from Terra and Mars, these worlds did not weather the coming of Old Night well.  On these worlds, tech levels vary wildly, sometimes from planet to planet within one system.

This is another distinct point of note in the Drumnos Sector, and separates it from the other Sectors of the region: its preponderance of multi-world systems.  It is actually more likely in this Sector for a system to have multiple inhabited planets than for it not to, which is especially remarkable given that fewer than half a dozen worlds in Cloudburst can say the same despite it being literally adjacent.  Few of these systems are what the Adeptus Administratum calls true Pasture Gate systems, wherein there are more than two shirtsleeves-habitable worlds naturally present in a system.  The majority have only two worlds, or one naturally habitable one and many terraformed ones.  This includes the capital system, Sardineos, which has an astonishing eighteen planets, every single one of which is either terraformed to human standards, or orbited by a moon or two on which humans can live.  These in turn enjoy vast orbital rings of space stations, the system is dotted by Void Platforms, and the Lagrange points of its moons hang heavy with defense firepoints and hydroponic shells.  Despite not being a Hive system, the Sardineos system has a mind-boggling one hundred nineteen billion residents.  Those Drumnos Sector systems that do contain Hive Worlds may have as many as a fifth of a trillion residents just on their Hive Worlds, and as many as three hundred billion residents total.  The most heavily populated planet in the Sector is the sprawling Hive World Trebizon, with a third of a trillion residents on the planet proper, and another fifty billion on other worlds in the system, its moons, its orbitals, and a chain of connected asteroids in orbit around its distant gas supergiant.

Both the Drumnos and Naxos Sector Adeptus Sororitas have common traits that lend themselves to specialization.  The Convents of the region were all founded by the same group of expatriated Ophelian Sisters, who traveled to the two Sectors after the rise to power of Sebastian Thor.  Their specialty was of the Orders Hospitaller and Famulous, which goes to explain why those two Orders are disproportionately large in the overall roster of the Adeptus.  The various Hive Convents of the Drumnos Sector and the more isolated Cathedral-Academies of the Naxos Sector both enjoy exceptionally high-quality gene-labs, psy-screeners, and therapeutic centers, all of which serve to screen prospective candidate girls for any latent biological or mental contaminations.  However, those women who do make it through the screening process are of the finest stock, from the street urchins swept in during routine purges of the poor, to the volunteer Highborn who had no other prospects in their lives, to the offspring of martyred heroes.  The Drumnos branches of the Adeptus Sororitas specifically practice careful but invasive relationships with the Officio Munitorum and Adeptus Administratum offices that oversee the military and peerage of the larger Drumnos worlds, including all of its Hive Worlds.