Your basic miner's den. A couple of rings around a small star. As the Infodata says:
Zaibon 1825| K205 - B000544-B As 512Im G5 III
This asteroid belt was once the largest deposit of copper on record. but the lode has dwindled to virtually nothing. The facilities are deteriorating. [Supplement 3] This asteroid belt was once a major source of copper for industry in the subsector. The lodes are now played out, and the system facilities are deteriorating. [Spinward Marches Campaign, p. 19-20.]
That means a couple of mining platforms and a moon-base near the gas giant. The asteroid base feature the usual - a huge free-floating space dock above and a small settlement in the rocks below. The port covers most things the spacer needs. A fast-food-diner, a bar and a general store.
Or so they say. In reality this pertains only to the actual belts. Zaibon has become home of three different cultures.
First there is the corporate culture, namely Yutani, LIC, a sub-sectorwide mining corporation. They have their regional headquarters here in a sub-surface arcology. Their employees all wear company uniforms and watch company television. But the pay is good so a number of old miners have signe dup with the Yutani.
Secondly, there is the Democratic Union of Zaibon, effectively the local union turned state. Since there are only a couple of thousand miners present at any moment, there's not much administration to be done anyhow.
They have a long-standing distrust of Yutani. Past mis-deeds such as claim-jumps and sabotage have never been forgotten. In addition stealthed surveillance sats operated by the company have long been a thorn in the eye of traffic security. Nonetheless, as the company is the main buyer in the system, the miners need to cooperate with it.
The DUZ is a pretty rough place betimes, but normally peace is enforced through the union's enforcers. The collection of domes and starship derelicts has seen better times, but on the inside it is quite comfy. Some of the station's sectors of course are off limits to the safety-aware inspector.
The third culture is that of Spirelle. Torkai & Sons, a Spirelle-based space research firm has a small research station here. One objective of theirs is the study of the gas giant and the local sun, while the other is the dismantling and re-engineering of derelict vessels from foreign cultures. These have turned up aplenty when the belts still shone bright red. Miners from all over the Marches once came here. Their trash is researched by the local scientists.
The pop-code changed to 4 in the last 50 years due to the depletion of ore.
Orbits:
Orbit 1 B000544-B Asteroidengürtel; Mainworld; 0,4AE = 59,8Mkm
Orbit 2 G403217-A Company-Station; Hauptumschlagplatz für Erze
10 XS00000-0
60 X200000-0
Orbit 3 leer
Orbit 4 F000344-A Asteroidengürtel; 1,6AE = 239,3Mkm
Orbit 5 Großer Gasriese; 2,8AE = 418,9
1 Ring
8 X100000-0
10 G600323-A Democratic Union of Miners - Station
20 X300000-0
25 G801217-B Company Station, Research Station
35 X300000-0
40 X100000-0
45 X300000-0
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