Perestia is a prison-planet in GCPS space
"No-one goes there by choice."
About
This world hosts many criminals from around the galaxy, including many later hired by Blaine himself. Julius Kareem, author of 'The Beginning of Progress', is imprisoned here.
It's vicinity to the planet Eiras has made Perestia an asset during Mazon Labs' testing of Vector-P in the Delta Complex, where many Plague Victims were created from convicts delivered to Eiras. This was found out and stopped by the mercenary band known as the Eiras Contract.
The Internal Security Office (ISO)
The GCPS is run almost entirely around a single principle : stay in line, buy into the Corporate angle, and you’ll do fine. Corporation Central does everything in its power to encourage this, offering citizens easy access to countless distractions as long as they obey the rules. While the vast majority are happy to sit in their comfortable homes, watching the latest DreadBall game and eating ProMeals while scrolling the ad-streams to plan their next purchase, there are those who don’t fit in so easily.
The Rebellion wouldn’t have been born without such free-thinkers, but not all of them are so high-minded. Most simply meander through a troubled life, getting into minor scrapes with each other or the various organised crime syndicates that plague the Outer Core, never fitting in but never seeing the appeal in breaking away and standing up for change. It’s only a matter of time before these troublemakers end up falling foul of the ISO.
The Internal Security Office is the overarching body that deals with law enforcement in the GCPS. Its main office is in the Core and it has branches, prisons and patrol fleets in all five Spheres, although on the Frontier such matters tend to fall to private security contractors. The ISO’s jurisdiction covers all affairs relating to breaches in GCPS law, from petty theft and vandalism all the way up to fraud and corporate espionage, and it has the power to detain even the highest-ranking executives. (It is a barely-concealed fact that, of course, this never actually happens).
Although most civilised worlds have at least one prison, the worst of the ISO’s detainees are sent to prison planets like Perestia or Radnon. It’s said that once you get a sentence on a correctional world, you’ll never leave, but that’s a rumour spread to keep the prisoners in check. There are actually dozens of ways off-world, most of which don’t take much more than a well-placed bribe.
'Ways out'
DreadBall Xtreme
Sometimes, though, prisoners will be made an offer before they’ve even entertained the notion of escape. They’d be crazy to turn it down. After all, everyone wants to be a DreadBall player.
Most convicts go willingly. Some assume they are being invited to play in the big leagues, little realising that their future will most likely feature a messy death in one of any number of unlicensed arenas. Others understand this risk, but go anyway; the chances of survival may be slim, but no more so than staying in a dank cell, and this way they get to be as brutal as they want without anyone stopping them. In any case, convict teams will routinely be fitted with “Assurance Devices”, more commonly known as neckweights or blast-collars.
These heavy metal bands, secured around each convict’s neck before they are released to play, act as a fitting deterrent against trying to escape. They also have a secondary use; unscrupulous Sponsors will eagerly detonate players’ ADs if they think they might catch a few opposing players in the blast…
“I’d rather die on my feet fighting than on my knees in chains. ‘Course, if I can kill all the others instead, that’s even better…”
Experimentation
Another way isn't so willingly accepted - you don't even get asked. Delivered in stasis chambers from Perestia, convicts are brought to Eiras to be experimented on. Wardens known for taking bribes getting rich in the process. Papers found in the cabinets in Mazon Labs' Delta Complex include shipping receipts from Perestia.
Considering the mutated bodies of whatever it was that came out of the specimen tanks, the Eiras Contract Mercenaries had a pretty good idea what it was the prison planet was exporting here. Something sinister has been going on beneath the surface of Eiras and the prison-world of Perestia was a part of it, knowingly or not.
Gallery
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Perestia Map
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Perestia Planet
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