=Cannon= 
**Allegiance:** Independent (Hypercorp/Jaehon Offworld)
**Primary Languages:** Korean
Mercury’s largest surface settlement is a city-sized mass driver that travels across the planet’s night-side, flinging building-sized ingots of metal into space. Cannon is powered by fields of solar arrays and is principally owned by the hypercorp Jaehon Offworld, with a minority stake held by several Lunar banks looking to diversify. Most of the 10,000 inhabitants are Jaehon employees, and security is tight. Cannon makes a long loop around the Caloris basin (giving Caloris 18 a wide berth), before pursuing a meandering path that takes it across the northern hemisphere. The immense crawler stops at a variety of mining facilities where it gathers their gigantic ingots for launch into orbit.
The engineers of Cannon are adept at placing their huge projectiles into carefully designed orbits where wranglers steer them into ingot harbors for distribution. Still, it is wise for the sentinel to realize that the only thing that separates a mass driver from a weapon of mass destruction is the hand on the launch controls.

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