Planaron is an unusually large asteroid in the White Light system. Secretly mined by a crazy wild cat miner for years it was ripe to become the base of operations for the Planaron Pirates who were secretly funded by Streel. During the Battle of Planaron the pirate fleet was wiped out and the base's defenses reduced to scrap. It still took the Royal Marines putting boots on the asteroid to fully clear it and that's when evidence of Streel's involvement was discovered.

Later Space Mines Inc purchased the rights to the gutted asteroid with a 100 year charter to operate an ore processing station there. In time Planaron grew to be a thriving, though small community of miners, spacers and a few small business operators.
Being outside the legal jurisdiction of Clarion's legal code and through the mismanagement of Space Mines (lovingly referred to by many as "Spaced Minds"), Planaron tended to attract a criminal element.

For a time the Royal Marines maintained a detachment on the station but Kota Mikoshi, the Liberal Party politician on the Prime Minister’s cabinet lead the fight to have them removed. The reasoning being, “the Crown should not pay for security of a private corporate installation.” The irony of a Liberal, who espouses the ending of the monarchy, being concerned over an expense to the Crown was not lost on many. None the less she succeeded and the Royal Marines were forced to remove their detachment. Planaron became a criminal’s haven.

Royal Marine personnel are forbidden to go there off duty. When it’s necessary for the marines to go there they stay in parties of three or larger and are armed for bear.
As long as Space Mines ore processing operation isn’t interrupted then they make no attempt to police the community on the station.

The Station

Main Operations- Nerve center of the station with control rooms, main computer, sensors, offices, and station defenses: LB x1 & RB x1.

Administration & VIP Quarters- Administration center of the station with corporate headquarters and VIP corporate quarters.

Flight Ops & Station Defenses- Includes back up radar, orbital body tracking, flight control stations, and station defenses: LB x1.

Main Hanger- Can land up to HS 4 ships but usually handles ore shuttles.

Engineering Support- has three dedicated levels but doesn’t need this much. Engineering support includes life support, environmental controls and processing but the second level under the main hanger is just back up and has been given over to ware housing.

Stores and Fuel Depot- is directly concerned with supporting the hangers; rocket fuel, atomic fuel, and ion fuel. Supply depots and workshops here only deal with fixing shuttles and small craft. Some independent maintenance companies have space here serving the mining and prospecting ships. The whole level is referred to as, “the Depot.”

Robotics and Workshops- is concerned with maintaining everything else in the station that is not related to small craft or the reactor; has store rooms, workshops, fabrication shops and etc.

Power Capacitors and Reactor Support- has high energy storage capacitors to maintain power for the ore processing lab if the reactor goes down (the rest of the station can subsist on emergency power but ore processing continues at full pace). Supply rooms and workshops that support the reactor operations.

Station Habitation- Quarters, gymnasiums, and etc for the station’s work force.

The Core- the large cylindrical hollow core of Planaron. It is the heart of the station and the center of commercial activity. It holds a myriad of restaurants, stores, the infirmary, Star Law offices, and etc.

Storage and Ware Housing- vast percentage of this level is given over to storing refined ore.

Station Defenses- also include aux. hangers and docking. LB x 2, RB x 1.


Below: Model Reconstruction of Planaron taken from scans obatianed by the frigate Leo just before the Battle of Planaron.