Ebur Aurum

Ebur Aurum is a backwater world in the Threshold. Orbiting a binary star, the arid world is bathed in a perpetually glaring light. Most of the surface is covered in endless, windswept prairie interrupted by the occasional knob of rock poking out of the ground. Ebur Aurum has little in the way of natural resources, but persistent rumors of large gold deposits keeps attracting hopeful miners who strike out from Port Laurie, the major settlement and spaceport on the planet, to prospect and found small mining communities.

Apart from the miners, and the traders and bandits they attract, the world is also home to an Animech colony. The mechanical people have been steadily trickling though Port Laurie since shortly after the end of the war, drawn by rumors of a place where they can be free from prejudice and persecution. They keep to themselves, and apart from a few early clashes the locals see little reason to bother them.