Damara is one of the Good Moons, major inhabited moons of Carlisle (New Europa VII). It is part of the Arthurian League, a constituent state of the Free Confederation of Allied Worlds.

Physical Planetography

Damara is rocky moon of 2940 km diameter with only a trace atmosphere mainly of water vapor, and dissociated hydrogen and oxygen with traces of ammonia and nitrogen. Its relatively thin surface is composed mainly of ices, varying in thickness but about 500m on average. It is has a subsurface liquid water ocean, which is saline and heated by tidal forces. The moon has a solid core of rock and metals.

History

The moon was colonized only after the fall of the Empire, by Singularitarian religious-political separatists from Heidelberg and Rosmerta. To this day, it has many monasteries and communes inhabited by singularitarian groups. In recent years, the moon collected many immigrants from Rosmerta and Sirona seeking less-crowded conditions. (Transportation within the Carlisle moon system is considerably cheaper than transportation to Heidelberg.)

Economy

Damara is self-sufficient, but imports luxury foods from Heidelberg and some high-tech manufactured goods from Sirona and Rosmerta. Damara refines and exports propellant to orbit, it being more economical to deliver water ice on slow but efficient transfer orbits from Damara to Sirona orbit than to manufacture propellants on Sirona and bring them into space. (Especially given that Sirona is comparatively volatiles-poor.) Mass drivers are used to launch chunks of ice from Damara.