// SECTORS

The Forge

Sector ID: 9102 | OL: 52-65 | PvP: No

The manufacturing heart of Varath deep space. The Forge is where Bastion Arms builds the ships and weapons that keep Varath corporate interests defended. It is also, quietly, where the Varath military houses have been constructing something larger than they're publicly acknowledging - the scale of the orbital construction rigs is inconsistent with the declared contracts.

The Forge has the best trade market in the Varath path - prices here reflect real supply and demand from a working industrial economy, not the managed rates at the hub stations. Pilots with high trade levels can move significant cargo here.

Key features: Orbital construction yards (Bastion Arms), advanced trade market, military research presence, restricted zones (high Varath standing required).

Primary XP: Trade (best market in Varath path), Combat (security contracts, defending shipments).

Mobs: Corporate security (neutral to hostile based on standing), industrial pirates (OL 52-63), hired Keth mercenaries (OL 55-65 - the Varath are paying Keth to guard things, which tells you something about how nervous they are).

Lore note: The restricted orbital zones contain something Bastion Arms acquired from the Wreck Field three years ago. Nobody on the public record knows what it is.

Keth Racial Path

Frontier, military, honor-bound. These sectors were taken and held by force during the Independence and have been Keth territory ever since. The infrastructure is functional. The welcome is conditional.