Acrid is a hellhole world - its atmosphere a horrible insidious soup of sulphuric acid and other even more corrosive chemicals. The entire planet-side population consists of miners in the employ of the PRQ corporation, who live in a series of sealed domes and underground environments.
Most visitors never travel beyond the well-equipped and modern high-port, which is also owned and operated by PRQ. This provides high grade refined fuel, good accomodation, and excellent if expensive repair facilities - PRQ are aiming to make this a desirable and profitable way-point on the Imperium - Hierate trade route.
The down-port is much more basic, and is mainly intended for haulers picking up ore and minerals from the planet-side mines. Even spaceships will gradually succumb to the effects of the atmosphere, so the better landing pads are in pits with iris values to allow them to be evacuated, but this also makes landing expensive. Indeed, the whole exercise of living on Acrid is expensive, as all supplies need to be brought in from off-world, and equipment needs constant repair and replacement as it is destroyed by the atmosphere. Many people wonder how PRQ manages to make any money from the planet-side operations on Acrid.
Due to the local atmosphere, Acrid holds little interest for Aslan ihatei, as territory here would be essentially worthless.
There are local rumours that there is an indigenous lifeform on the planet, possibly even an intelligent one, but no contact has ever been made, nor even any credible records of it captured. Most experts are sceptical that anything can live on Acrid.
