=Oberon= 
**Allegiance:** Autonomist Alliance ([[Anarchists|Anarchist]])
**Primary Languages:** English, French, Mandarin
**Population:** 10,000
It’s likely you’ve already heard of Chat Noir, Love and Rage, and the [[Fissure Gate]]. There’s more to the tenth largest moon in the solar system, however. One thing that makes Oberon unique is its distant orbit. Swinging around Uranus at a radius of well over a half-million kilometers, it’s the big planet’s most distant moon. Oberon’s placement in the Uranian system leads to a couple of implications.
First, Oberon is the only moon that isn’t fully cloaked by the Uranian magnetosphere. Due to the odd shape of the planet’s magnetic ﬁeld, Oberon actually dips in and out of the magnetosphere during its orbit. As a consequence, it is the single best place to study variations in ﬁeld strength and observe how the wildly changing magnetic ﬂux affects the moon. A small argonaut base of a few hundred souls built in the equatorial crater Lear does just this, garnering raw scientiﬁc data that can be gathered nowhere else in the solar system.
The second implication of Oberon’s position is that it is the easiest moon to reach by ship—large, well away from the rings, at least partially free of the twisting madness of the planet’s magnetic ﬁeld. This reality has made Chat Noir the primary stopover for ships inserting into the Uranian system.
Unfortunately, the presence of the gate makes every arriving vessel a potential threat. Chat Noir has prepared itself for a surprise attack by arming itself to the teeth, restricting airspace over the gate, and thoroughly scanning incoming ships. A lot of trafﬁc comes this way to take advantage of the gate, most of it from autonomist habs and other friendly groups, but Love and Rage isn’t afraid to warn off any craft they have suspicions about. After the second warning, they shoot. If necessary, they’ll apologize later.
==Future Stations== 
Not everyone out here subscribes to the anarchist credo, however. A group of [[Extropians]] looking to exploit the gate’s market potential complained for years that the overzealous security and Chat Noir’s lack of complete spaceport amenities were not good for attracting future shipping business. They’re currently raising capital to build a twin pair of stations that will travel in a long, elliptical orbit around the moon. The orbit is carefully mapped out so neither station passes over the gate and one station will always be available to an incoming ship without having to burn inside Oberon’s orbit. Called Graupner Alpha and Beta, the twin stations are intended to encourage the gate’s free market trade while reducing the risk. The anarchists of Love and Rage are, to put it mildly, less than thrilled about this plan. The fundraising and initial attempts to secure raw materials for the stations has been beset with a string of suspicious failures. When asked to comment about this, the anarchists typically shrug and happily tell you “accidents happen.”
==Cobweb== 
Perhaps the strangest mechanism on the small moon is the spider-walking farcaster. Because it is least effected by the Uranian magnetosphere, Oberon is best positioned to send and receive egocasts without interference. The Oberonian farcaster station, named Cobweb, is mobile, moving about the surface of the satellite to enhance signal reception. Anyone egocasting in to visit Chat Noir that lacks @-rep and hasn’t been vetted in advance is directed here for security screening. Though small, the station can accommodate about ﬁfty. It sits on a massive, building-sized, arachnid-like walker frame. Currently it is located in the crater Othello, near the moon’s south pole, but as Uranus continue on its journey around the sun, the farcaster will skitter out of the crater and move northward, following the voice of the inner system.
Use of the farcaster is limited due to tight security around Oberon. No amount of money can buy you a farcast, only being in good standing with the autonomists and calling in a big favor will do, or being personally invited by a member of the Love and Rage collective, the argonauts from Lear, or a member of the Gelderloos collective that oversees the farcaster.

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