Prosperity

Prosperity is a corporate mining colony located on Aite. Owned and operated by Eldfell-Ashland Energy, Prosperity, like most EAE mining colonies, is a self-contained settlement that has little contact with the rest of the planet. Goods from EAE subsidiaries arrive in regular supply shipments to restock EAE stores where employees can spend their salaries on EAE goods. The colony itself consists of carefully planned blocks of pre-fab structures that offer comfort and civilization amid the violent wilds of Aite. It may not be built to last, but then again, it doesn't need to be.

EAE's mission is the extraction of Aite's mineral wealth, and unlike most planets, there is no future for Aite. No reason to hold back. Nothing to preserve. It would be wasteful not to mine as much as possible, as quickly as possible. That is why vast stretches of land around the central settlement are nothing but barren, strip-mined land. Dust and rock, made flat by machine precision and pocked with huge mining pits where deeper ore deposits have been found. Gargantuan, lumbering excavators constantly roam the area, slowly but surely removing more and more top soil, expanding the angular wasteland. Every day the mining fields and pits are full of workers in sturdy clothes and respirators that shield them from the dust. A network of dirt roads run throughout the wastes, with the largest being at the original ground level, elevated above the mines and connecting all the way from the colony to the outskirts in some cases.

Prosperity is protected by EAEs own security personnel, like all EAE facilities. A sizable contingent of mechs assist a small corp of veteran human security officers, although the former has been found prone to breakdown due to dust buildup. Although the region is sparsely populated, EAE has had little regard for local settlers as their mining fields have expanded, since there are no claims to the land that are recognized by Council authorities. Some have been displaced, and others have had to deal with living next to massive machinery, a regular influx of dust from the mines and contaminated water supplies.