Hoboville

Construction
Hoboville was once the hollowed-out asteroid aboard which the Humans made their slow journey to Hamak. Roughly 20 kilometers in diameter it has space for thousands of colonists to live in comfort. Once the colony on Hamak IV was established, the asteroid-vessel was stripped of as much reusable technology as possible so that the colony could be put together as fast as possible. Though a small skeleton crew remained, it wasn't until the Humans started mining the Hamak system's Oort cloud that Hoboville became what it is now - part shantytown, part mining base, part criminal underworld.

Politics and Economy
Hoboville has an important place in Hamak’s economic map. As a town in and of itself with a heaving populace and an industry of providing minerals to the rest of the system if profits reasonably well. An astute observer might wonder where all the money goes, considering that there are very few who “make their fortunes” in Hoboville. It’s true to say that the shantytown in space is expensive to run, and there are obvious costs involved in ferrying food supplies from the planets of Hamak. Then there is the lawlessness.

Hoboville has no real peacekeeping force, and no real centralized government. It’s natural that there should be a certain criminal element to be dealt with. After a time, though, the illicit became the norm, until now it is the feuding gangs that keep the peace in Hamak’s asteroid belt, and everyone pays “taxes” to those gangs. From time to time a gang will fall, but there are always many more to take its place, and the equilibrium returns.

The Crew
In recent years a conglomeration of criminal organisations has flourished in Hoboville, swiftly gaining a monopoly position. While the Crew are not considered to be a legal organization by the people that live on Hamak IV, they are the only law that exists out in space. All of Hoboville’s thousands of residents listen to the Crew’s law before the Hamak system government’s law simply because the Crew are closer. Not paying tax to the system government is a crime that may eventually come back to haunt them, but not paying protection tax to the Crew will get your birth burned out and your spaceship scavenged for parts. While the Crew doesn’t completely control everything that happens in Hoboville, it tries. And when someone starts acting contrary to the Crew’s express desires, it’s not long before they learn the error of their ways.