Landlubber. I was the one who came up with the concept for the scenario but Dale Kunz was the one who wrote it.
"Babylon Falls - Detente' Has Failed"
BACKGROUND:
The planet Babylon-Six has been a two-decade experiment in diplomacy and trade between the Zenian League and the Alliance of Kurak. While hostilities raged in the nearby Storm Zone, many political and economic factions have demonstrated the need for a neutral ground, and for strictly regulated exchanges of humanitarian goods that one side can only get from the other.
Rather than risk the pitfalls of shared security, paired Battle-stations were established above a gas giant (6th from it's sun) in the unclaimed Babylon System. To keep them in easy trade range, but low hostilities range, they were built in orbits around the planet's largest moons, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, each with facing surface colonies on their respective lunar surfaces. Gilgamesh and Enkidu are gravitationally linked, and remain fairly adjacent to one another throughout their orbits. Both also share fair atmospheres and mineral wealth.
This has been a profitable arrangement for many races and companies over the years, and the primary location for the factions to exchange communiques and prisoners. This arrangement has grown to seem eternal and self-sustaining over the past decade, such that real colonies have grown on the surface of Gilgamesh. The personnel manning each station often have friends and family on the surface, and on the other side. Distance and the relative calm of the assignment mean that the military rotation in and out of the system is very low. While their loyalties remain clearly hewn to their governments, they would resent fiercely any change to their established way of life, as would happen with any other colonists.
As is natural for that class, a Directorate VP observed the relative prosperity of the Babylon system, and saw only an opportunity for profit and conquest. While she placed her investment and political dominos, she reached out in secret to an asset within the RSN clergy who she had personally compromised years before. Over the past year of planning, fleet resources have been maneuvered into place, while RSN agents, both open and clandestine, have escalated tensions.
The Directorate machinations did not go unnoticed in some quarters, notably the STL, whose leadership takes a long view. And while officially opposed, the STL boss in question relayed his theories to contacts within the Aquan Sebrutan. In the deeper chambers of the Sebrutan, for their own inscrutable reasons, the Directorate-Zenian invasion was not headed off, but rather allowed to proceed. But a firm response has been planned
