DOUGAL

DOUGAL

2937 Delphi/Breda

X100000-0 (was D100433-D)

Primary: M1 red dwarf

Before the war, Dougal was a small community of miners and vacuum-world homesteaders of about 5000.  The worldlet is an airless rock orbiting the system's only gas giant, the super jovian Double Mountain.  Most inhabitants were concentrated around the colony's one major domed settlement.  Besides some minor production in rare earth ores such as lanthanum, tantalum, and similar, the world was useful as the wayport in the star system, and saw a lot of interstellar through-traffic, especially to Breda, the subsector's former capital.

Today, the Dougal is a graveyard world. Every known inhabitant was wiped out by a Solomani Black War orbital bombardment attack in 3585.  Repeated scans by ships passing through and refueling at the gas giant has confirmed that no living thing remains on or under the surface of Dougal.  Its ruins have been picked clean of all but a few bits of scrap metal and plastic by scavengers over the years.

Yet, over the years, visitors have occasionally reported a memorial being raised on the moon on the site of the former settlement.  It started as a simple pillar with a plaque, but other monuments, such as blocks with the name of dead colonists and small statues have also been reported as being added over the years.  No one knows who is building the memorial, and no one has been spotted on the surface by any passing ship.

Though most agree that Dougal will eventually be resettled, there are no known plans by any known group to do so, even long-term.  Today the system is used mostly for interstellar through-traffic.