Suffocatus Station

An old palace-fortress of unknown class, Suffocatus Station looms over the world of Manipel Prime. Whether its name was given due to the ‘accidents’ during its early history or not is not known. Suffocatus Station was a pleasure satellite build over a mining world by the nobility of that world, seeking a way to escape the unliveable planet where their servants toiled.

Putting several families of Nobles on a station of a mere 10 kilometres in diameter proved to be catastrophic. Old grudges, dating from the times the Nobles still dwelled on the surface palaces of their world, flamed up anew. Duels and almost open warfare ensued. Most notorious was the death of the entire Darius family and their servants, when their maior domus, bribed by a rivalling family, shut down the air supply to their palace quarters.

These days however, the Palace Station is in the firm grip of the Fellstern family. This once minor dynasty, tracing its lineage back to the first settlers of the Manipel Prime, seized power three centuries ago when the other families bickered amongst each other after the power vacuum (literally) that emerged when the Darius family died. It is rumoured that it was the Fellsterns were the ones that bribed the Darius’s maior domus.