Banan

The capital world of the Federal Society. Developed the citizenship system used by the society: all of those born are considered residents, but to earn citizenship and with it the right to own land, vote, and carry weapons; one must give back to society, the community, or serve the military.

A lush garden world of temperate, it was considered by many to be a second Earth. Much of the worlds buildings have advanced solar panel arrays atop them, a holdover of the days before the reinvention of the spike drive. Most of the planet is run by an array of spike drives now, outside the capital city of Council. The planet is defended by an array of gravitic breaker guns and a staggeringly large fleet of pretech fast patrol boats and system defense ships.

In orbit, there is a field of space stations ( particularly in geosynchronous orbit over Council ) from which the missions to the asteroid belts was launched. The spike drives are assembled here, using the rare materials from the belt and ground based materials brought up on heavy lifter flights ( or more recently, free merchant ship hulls and the notoriously clankly FSS Hercules Bulk Freighter.

Perhaps the most unique feature of this world is their treatment of psionics; they are given a choice on discovery of their powers. They either live with all their wants and dreams fulfilled in the form of a reality tv show life. Psionics have become a combination of Royal Family and The Truman Show, cameras documenting their every move and interaction. They issue decrees, provide moral and morale support for troops and the populace, are the heads of the Bananese religion (which involves worship of psionics), and can never leave the planet. The other choice is to receive dedicated psionic/military training (with the recent rediscovery of Psitech, Federal Society Military Command is scrambling to establish protocols and acquire some of these devices. )