System: Axton

Most of Axton is a polar wasteland, though many people praise the skiing to be found there. Volcanic activity warms the oceans, making the coastal areas habitable. The oceans are deep blue and the beaches are blacker than night on a moonless world.

Barros is the capital of Axton.

[3028] During the Forth Succession War documents captured from a "secret" NAIS research facility on Axton led the Capellan Confederation to believing in the existence of recent advances in myomer technology at a hidden NAIS outpost on the world of Bethel. In reality, the documents were part of an elaborate plan to let the Confederation gain access to the flawed triple-strength myomer technology.

[3067] When the Star League came tumbling down, Wangker Aerospace was building more than a dozen different kinds of aerospace fighters in its factories on five different worlds in the Terran Hegemony and Federated Suns. Those factories all became targets during the First Succession War, however, reducing Wangker Aerospace to almost nothing. In desperation, the company sent technicians and specialized reclamation teams to the ruins of its factories to strip what surviving equipment they could salvage before they were completely picked over. Hauling everything to back to Topell on Axton, the company rebuilt as best as it could and was once again assembling aerospace fighters by the middle of the Second Succession War, albeit at a much reduced capacity. The Capellan Confederation continued to hammer away at Axton throughout the Second and Third Succession Wars, but never again managed to completely knock Wangker Aerospace out of the fight.

That is not to say that the company didn’t suffer massive and lasting damage. The formation of the NAIS was a godsend to the Federated Suns’ military industry. Wangker, like many of its competitors, was on the verge of collapse when the secrets of LosTech began to be rediscovered. Serious overhauls during the 3020s and 3030s brought Wangker’s Axton plants fully back online and gave the company the ability to produce fighters with select bits of rediscovered technology. Still, while orders for essentially the same fighters it has produced for the past several centuries have not slowed, the company is expanding its factories, hoping to diversify, even while its engineering teams are working on doing more than tweaking its current production models.