House Beruna: Difference between revisions

'''Description:''' House Beruna has always been a lesser house and seems destined to remain one for quite some time. Its mining economy has provided it with a steady and stable source of income, but it has never had much to splurge on extensive spinets and huge military fleets ���?? investments necessary to rise to greater house status. It is also isolated from the rest of the sector by powerhouse [[House Larokon]], which makes expansion into other areas of the sector out of the question.

Panos and Herm Industries ���?? the largest mining megacorporation operating in the [[Expanse Sector|Expanse]] ���?? is based in Beruna Province. It controls most of the mining in the province, and because of the income it brings into the province, its officials have a lot of pull with house members.

Geological analyses predict that some of the most ore-rich worlds in the province will begin to tap out within two centuries (they have been mined for thousands of years already), and house leaders have begun looking for ways to diversify. Manufacturing firms have been lured to Beruna from other sectors with very attractive offers, and the investment has begun to pay off as Beruna���?�s tax base rises.

Perhaps Beruna's most successful experiment was the opening of Beruna University two hundred years ago. By offering subsidized salaries far above and beyond anything else being offered in the [[Par'tha Expanse|Expanse]], the university was able to attract some of the best and brightest professors and researchers from the sector ���?? including from rival Tinall. The university is known throughout the sector for its excellence, and has enrolled the sons and daughters of many house nobles who cannot bear to send their children to a [[Freeworlds Region|Freeworld]] for their educations.