**Station Type:** [[Beehives|Beehive]] (S-Type Amor Asteroid)
**Allegiance:** [[Planetary Consortium]] (Red Zone)
**Primary Languages:** English, Russian, Spanish, Urdu
The asteroid 433 Eros is the second-largest Amor, approximately 34 x 11 x 11 kilometers in size. Prior to the Fall, several hypercorps cooperated in mining this asteroid’s abundant amounts of aluminum, zinc, silver, and gold. This mining operation was guarded by a private military contractor, Ze Services. During the Fall, the local Ze commanders used the excuse of a TITAN outbreak to seize control of the beehive.
About 1 AF, the Planetary Consortium stepped in, exerting one of its few open displays of force and power, hiring a homeless Russian space navy squadron to assault and liberate the habitat. As it turned out, the Ze commanders had been the ones infected, enslaving the habitat’s population and an influx of infugees beamed to Eros from Earth and forcing them into unspeakably horrible and depraved simulspace experiments. Thousands of egos were deleted due to suspected contamination.
Eros has since been repopulated and re-invigorated. Mining operations continue, and the beehive now houses one of the Consortium’s primary military bases, staffed by the privatized Russian forces, renamed Red Zone. A displaced population of former Canadian, Pakistani, Uzbeki, South African, and Chilean infugees has been resleeved to repopulate the station. Needless to say, the colony has an eclectic but lively feel to its local culture.
Eros is also notable as being home to a relic from Earth’s old space exploration programs, the NEAR Shoemaker probe landed here by NASA in 2001.

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