Anarchy · Mainly Industrial · Tech level 7

Quator

Quator is a mainly industrial anarchy, home to 2.8 billion Human Colonials. Its station is Brahe Orbital, named for Tycho Brahe, astronomer.

Quator is 7.2 LY from Lave, where every commander starts. 8 systems lie within a 7 light-year jump, the nearest Ra at 0.8 LY. There’s no law here: no police, and nobody to answer a distress call but other ships.

Government: Anarchy
Economy: Mainly Industrial
Tech level: 7
Population: 2.8 billion
Productivity: 6,272 M Cr
Planet radius: 5,390 km

Fly there free The game opens its chart on Quator: plot a course from where you are.

Quator and its neighbours. The circle is a 7 light-year jump, a Cobra’s full tank.

Quator right now

Civil war on Quator: arms and medicine in demand

Civil war · wanted: Firearms, Medicine, Food · eases in about 2 h

The nearest Wexley-Yorozu yard: Zaalela, 20.8 LY away (spinning up).

Dear today

Firearms 220.3 Cr +222% on the usual
Medicine 97.9 Cr +110% on the usual
Food 8 Cr +43% on the usual
Machinery 70.2 Cr +43% on the usual

Cheap today

Nothing unusually cheap.

Usually buys in nothing in particular; usually sells nothing in particular.

Due in the next half hour

4 minWarm Welcome Vorg Industries Cobra Mk IIIin from Orrere with machinery
5 minWarm Welcome II Vorg Industries Cobra Mk IIIin from Orrere with machinery
5 minFortune’s Wake Vorg Industries Cobra Mk IIIout to Orrere with minerals, alloys and luxuries
5 minLast Orders Independent Cobra Mk IIIin from Ra with platinum, textiles, liquor/wines and more
5 minFortune’s Wake II Vorg Industries Cobra Mk IIIout to Orrere with textiles, alloys, furs and more
6 minLast Orders II Independent Cobra Mk IIIin from Ra with gold, hydrogen fuel cells, food and more
6 minFortune’s Wake III Vorg Industries Cobra Mk IIIout to Orrere with platinum, machinery, liquor/wines and more
6 minLast Orders III Independent Cobra Mk IIIin from Ra with computers, water and medicine
6 minFortune’s Wake IV Vorg Industries Cobra Mk IIIout to Orrere with radioactives, furs, hydrogen fuel cells and more
6 minLast Orders IV Independent Cobra Mk IIIin from Ra with gem-stones, platinum, medicine and more

News heard here

Famine grips Erlaza: food stores run dry 19.2 LY away · heard 4 h ago · may be over by now
Miners down tools on Eninre: ore shipments halted 14.4 LY away · heard 5 h ago · may be over by now
Plague outbreak on Ra: medicine urgently needed 0.8 LY away · heard 6 h ago
Civil war on Uszaa: arms and medicine in demand 5.2 LY away · heard 6 h ago · may be over by now

Worked out from the galaxy’s clock at 1 November at 08:48 UTC, as the game works it out: the same for every commander. Its ships are the galaxy’s traffic, not other players.

Within a jump

Ra 0.8 LY · poor agricultural corporate state
Reorte 3.2 LY · poor agricultural dictatorship
Relaes 3.2 LY · average industrial communist state
Orrere 3.2 LY · poor agricultural corporate state
Zasoer 4.4 LY · average agricultural confederacy
Uszaa 5.2 LY · mainly industrial anarchy
Begeabi 5.2 LY · poor agricultural feudal world
Azaqu 6.0 LY · average agricultural democracy