Pan
Pan is a modestly populated mining planet in the Illyria Unaffiliated Zone. Although hosting rich deposits of minerals including Illyrian Bluegem, siccatite, cobalt, nickel, and rare earths, the size and intensity of extraction operations is limited by the extreme and perpetual storms that plague the planet’s atmosphere, making flight from the surface extraordinarily dangerous in all but a few sheltered regions. Pan is governed by a federation of municipalities which coordinates planetary policy, although most major institutions have been totally or partially subsumed by the Ixo Syndicate, a regional shipping cartel.
Key Metrics
Population: 101,352,496
Surface Area: 539.2 Square Kilometers
GDP: 3.4 Billion gigawatts
Day Length: 23.7 Standard Hours
Average Surface Gravity: 9.39 m/s^2
Government and Major Institutions
Topography and Infrastructure
Notable Population Centers
Most settlements on Pan are mining towns or storm nomad shelter outposts. The few major population centers are largely spaceports, built in the handful of places where terrain and climate combine to allow somewhat reliable flight to orbit through the storms.
Ixo City
Ixo City is located in an inland valley in the planet’s northern highlands, at coordinates 52N,13E. Due to its high elevation and quirks of the local climate, the atmosphere over Ixo City is among the most peaceful on Pan. Ixo city is the headquarters for the Ixo Syndicate, and is said to have been its first major base of operations. It is also the seat of planetary government. Its population is approximately 2.4 million, concentrated in the steeper valley walls to maximize the area available for spaceport and logistics facilities on the flatter valley floor.
Steepshore
Steepshore is a southern coastal spaceport nestled between sheer mountains and the rough coastline of the southern ocean, at 15S,34W. With a population of 1.2 million, it is much smaller than Ixo City, but is favored by independent shippers and smugglers for its distance from the Syndicate’s central bases and correspondingly lesser interference in local trade.
Xinto Peak
New Analleon
Economy
Pan’s economy is largely based on the export of minerals in minimally refined form and Illyrian Bluegem. Major mineral exports include cobalt, copper, rare earths, lithium, nickel, gold, and tungsten. Despite the unstable climate, farmers in the Steepshore lowlands are able to produce most of the food consumed by the spaceports and mining colonies, while the storm nomads are of course self-sufficient.
