(Planet) Reecee

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The streets of Reecee: a smuggler's heaven. For the last decade, the pirate lords that control the planet have made it a lucrative port for less-than-legal enterprise. Independents, Crimson Dawn, and Black Sun loiter and stalk the alleys and bars. The auction houses, smoking dens, and drinking parlors of the city are full of risk and riches, and dangerous people seeking their fortunes.

Reecee has managed to make itself so trustworthy among fences and smugglers due to its stringent security policies. Upon the unloading of a registered seller's wares, Reecee's security takes possession of any and all goods, processing them into a highly organized and extremely secure vault system until they are up for sale, often at sanctioned auctions. The price of thievery on Reecee is the loss of one's hand—a deterrent that means theft is extremely unpopular. Thanks to this system, a smuggler can land and offload their wares without any worry of theft. 

Creating this system required significant investment and cooperation from the ruling Pirate Barons, but it has paid off. They are all fabulously rich, new-money pioneers of industry, gaudy and crass and dangerous as can be.

The lucrative trade on Reecee is too valuable to let just anyone drift in. Rather than focus the spacefaring economy on the ground, where ships skimming the planet's spaceports to refuel might pose a security risk, Reecee's Pirate Barons established a thriving port of amenities situated safely in orbit. Ships with no interest in joining the buying and selling taking place in the cities below are instead able to restock, refuel, and be on their way. You get all kinds in the Orbital Port.