Styx
Styx | ||
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Photograph of Styx | ||
Interstellar Zone | ||
Government: | Stateless; de-facto INTPOL | |
Director: | Unknown | |
Demonym: | Stygian | |
Geography | ||
Located: | Kuiper Belt | |
Planet: | Pluto | |
System: | Solar System | |
Avg. distance from Earth: | 4.28-7.5 billion km | |
Demographics | ||
Population: | Unknown; Estimated at 20,000 | |
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Styx is the smallest and second closest moon of Pluto. An asteroid caught in Pluto's gravitational pull, Styx was mined of all valuable resources and hollowed out by the mid 25th Century. The moon supported a small population within the tunnels of the rock until the 30th Century when it was all but abandoned as the Plutonian economy collapsed. In the subsequent centuries it was renovated to serve as a maximum security prison and in the late 38th Century was sold off to INTPOL by the Gorgon family. Since its acquisition by INTPOL, entry to Styx has been heavily vetted and a no-fly zone exists within one hundred kilometers of the moon. While the nature of the facility as a prison remains public knowledge, details of the number of prisoners remains unknown, leading to speculation that it is an INTPOL blacksite. All that is known is that those who are sent to Styx never return.