Domain: Ygn System, Principality of Espínos.
Fief: Baron of Neso, Hal Yohnsen (unclaimed).
Government: Autocratic Monastic Rule.
Enterprise: Pirate Mining Colony.
Indentures: 32 (1 administrator, 6 disciplinarians, 9 habitat factotums, 16 miners).

Asteroid N350: Wheal Neso.

An abandoned mine from the time of the Second Gatehead. 

A miracle of the void that produces its own unnatural atmosphere and gravity.

The unclaimed fief of a dynast laser-ritter.

A dumping ground for debtors, mutineers, and the dross of the Lykoi Pirate Republics.

The Partisan Alliance wants it for a hideout and staging ground. But the castaways of the asteroid have turned their squalid exile into monastic discipline and may not willingly give succor to the impious.

A pamphlet-size depth- and factioncrawl for Mud + Laser.

Appendix Neso

Works of fiction that directly or indirectly inspired The Nymphs of Neso:

• The Boy in the Dark by Ken McKechnie.
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir.
• Alien 3 Assembly Cut directed by David Fincher.
• Tales from Earthsea (especially "The Finder") by Ursula K. Le Guin.