=New Sarpalius= 
**Station Type:** [[Beehives|Beehive]]
**Allegiance:** [[Planetary Consortium]] (Disputed)
**Primary Languages:** Arabic, French
**Population:** 4,000
This colony was the primary initiative of a new hypercorp seeking to establish a base for corporate research and mining operation just prior to the Fall. Built on a 65-kilometer-diameter centaur asteroid, it was largely populated by Algerian vacworkers. When the company management were lost during the Fall, the habitat’s local managers decided to take control and run it as their own. The workers had other ideas, however, and a bloody but short strike and revolt saw the station declared as an autonomist outpost, named simply Sanctuary. Over the years, the colony took in refugees and established itself as an [[anarchists|anarchist]]-oriented stopover for outer system trafﬁc.
The situation took another turn just a few months ago, when a well-armed insurgency seized control of the habitat, renamed it, and declared its allegiance to the Planetary Consortium. A Consortium-backed mercenary unit took up a defensive posture around the station just a few weeks later, well before the nearest autonomists could rally support. A raging debate on how to deal with the matter is ongoing in autonomist circles; some are reluctant to act given that the coup seems to have had the support of a majority of the residents, many of whom had grown disillusioned with local anarchists. Others point to evidence that the takeover has the hallmarks of a long-planned operation, possibly involving the transfer of hundreds of supporters to the colony over a period of years. Though this reeks of conspiracy, it does seem that an element within the Consortium has taken a keen interest in the affair, pouring substantial funds into supporting the coup. The question is: why?

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