Massive deserts dominate all five continents of Babylon, one of the original five Pentagon Worlds.
The Largest, called the Spiked Heart, dominates two-thirds of the largest continent and broken by rugged mountains.
The Snaefell range, rising to almost six kilometers above sea level, trigger major seasonal precipitation, resulting in deeply incised valleys on the windward side of the range, allowing verdant forestsand grasslands to grow on an otherwise dustball.
Even outside of the deserts, the world is equally arid and inhospitable.
A large reptialian cattle analogue known as the talasi evolved in the Snaefell valleys and became a staple of the early settler's diet.
Other species, like the goliath scorpion, developed in unique ways that allowed them to thrive in the arid wastes.
Like Arcadia and Eden, many of Babylon's native bacteria are hostile to humanity and took a horrendous toll on the first colonists.
Working from a hurriedly constructed base on the world's only moon, scientists raced to combat the worst of these, dubbed the "Babylon Plague."
Their efforts produced a vaccine within four months, but by then thousands had died.
The colonists could have eked out a living in the Snaefell valleys, but the discovery of substantial mineral deposits in the deserts prompted many to move from these safe havens.
With such resources, the colonists could rebuild much of the civiliation they had left behind in the Inner Sphere.
However, the move to the deserts brought the colonists into the hunting range of the goliath scoprion.
These predators killed hundreds before the colonists learned to avoid scoprion nests.
Today, Babylon is a major industrial center, second only to Strana Mechty in the production of raw goods.
Clan Ice Hellion controls production in two aerospace plants on Babylon, one each in the cities of Marron and Yoma, which together produce the bulk of our Clan's fighter complement.
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