Mimas

Mimas is a moon of the gas giant, Saturn, and one of its smallest terrestrial satellites. Mimas is the homeworld the Mimanteans, and is the center of their political entity, the Mimantean Directorate. The moon is extremely radioactive, and the inability of baseline humans to settle on the satellite naturally, has long left the moon to the Mimantean population, which dominates Mimas' population base entirely as they alone can survive on the moon for any length of time. Hydrocarbons, helium-3, and an antimatter facility, all give the moon considerable economic power, though the radical sociopolitical system of Mimas has long alienated the population from the rest of human civilization. This is further backed up by the moon's massive raiding fleet, one of the largest and most powerful in the solar system.

Colonized in 2317, Mimas was selected as a potential candidate for hydrocarbon mining operations, as well as a foothold in the Saturnian system of moons, primarily to support the growing human population on Callisto. In a joint project with Earth to colonize the moon, Callisto imported extensive amounts of cheap labor from Earth, as well as prisoners serving out their life sentences, to assist with the colonization program. However, during the pacification of Titan following the First Extraplanetary War, Gaian forces were withdrawn from Mimas to reinforce the war efforts on Titan, leaving Mimas to its own designs for the first ninety years of its early history.

The economic and political concerns back on Earth resulted in the failure of the colonial attempt, and Callisto abandoned the project entirely, content to leave the Mimantean population to its fate. With no one to rule them, and nowhere to go, the Mimantean population developed its own set of laws and a unique cultural identity blended from the deeply cynical workers barely surviving on the moon, and the violent ideals of the prisoner population exported from Titan during the terraforming efforts. Abandoned by their caretakers, the Mimanteans developed an extremely xenophobic identity, embittered by decades of wars and deliberate abandoning by the Callisteans. As of the modern-day, the Mimas is a harsh world dominated by a strict, totalitarian government, which ruthlessly dominates the lives of its citizens and tolerates no dissent.