Soldier

Soldier is a small rocky Producer planet in the Venezo System. It has a number of small colonies, as well as a number of the systems main prisoner colonies.

Soldier was inhabited by the Producers shortly after the colonisation of Venezo by companies keen on extracting minerals, such as Uranium, found in the planet's crust. By 4233AP the population had reached around 1 million across all colonies.

The main settlement on Soldier is Arran Spaceport which serves the colonies scattered across the planet as a hub. Arran is home to the first experimental Space Lift, which has become something of a tourist attraction. This elevator is able to take tourists up into space to experience weightlessness and bring them back down within a number of hours.

Soldier's name comes from the 8 defence platforms stationed on the planet. These stations consist of several large surface-to-space laser cannons. The planet was designed as an early experiment in system-wide defence, leaving Venezo the most highly defended planet in the Producer Technocracy.