=Conch= 
**Ship Type:** ITN Cycler
**Allegiance:** Independent ([[Brinkers|Brinker]])
**Primary Languages:** Mongolian, Portuguese, Spanish
**Population:** 2,500
The //Conch//is a refugee ship, assembled during the Fall, that follows the Interplanetary Transport Network, a gravitationally determined, meandering path through the solar system that requires very little in the way of fuel, but is quite slow. Originally packed full of primarily Brazilian and Panamanian refugee families, the social order aboard the cycler quickly became dominated by rival gangs. Things took a step to the weird in 3 AF, when the hyperelite Lhagva family stepped in and purchased the ship, completely buying out and replacing the command crew. Three idle socialite sons of the Lhagva oligarch, who had become an embarrassing thorn in the family’s side and were wanted in the [[Planetary Consortium|Consortium]] for a number of criminal charges, were willingly exiled to the //Conch// for ten years. These brothers—Bold, Batkhuu, and Battulga—quickly bought off the gangs and proceeded to transform the //Conch//’s desperately poor residents into their private social experiment. While the core crew remains remotely aloof and in service to the Lhagva oligarch, the three brothers engage in a constantly shifting battle of power, making and breaking alliances, and using the population for their own purposes.
The //Conch// is currently drifting on the ITN on course to reach the [[Saturn|Saturnian]] system in three months. The social order aboard the ship has devolved to feudal levels, with residents currently competing to stay in the brothers’ graces to avoid being placed in a lottery that could see them “voted off the ship” via airlock.

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