Kossuth
Kossuth is a perfect example of efficient bureaucracy. Soon after the formation of the NLC, many city-states entered an economic boom. The rapid expansion during this period over-taxed the league’s available electrical sources. As a solution, the governments of the NLC and the Tershaw Cooperative Alliance (a league that then existed between the NLC and UMF) helped establish a massive combined wind and solar power station at Kossuth, a bankrupt farming community cursed with poor soil.
When the TCA came under pressure from the UMF, Kossuth was the first to join the NLC and remains one of the league’s biggest energy producers — along with Petropolis.
Kossuth has over ten thousand square kilometers of nearly continuous wind and solar farms. Sturdy hollow-frame windmills tower over countless photoelectric plates. In the center of this technological wasteland lies the city of Kossuth, a giant service station surrounded by private homes and a few energy-hungry industries. The entire region is the property of Norlight Power, a state-owned power corporation.
While Kossuth is highly efficient in providing the NLC with ample electrical power, it is also the most likely site for bombardment during any conflict. It required four cycles of constant repairs to bring the facility back on-line after the War of the Alliance. The facility only escaped total destruction through the use of its extensive laser defense network. The Norlight Confederation, not one to leave its assets unprotected, installed a network of ferroconcrete towers at the same time the facility was build. Each tower contains a chemical laser within its axis, which can fire through a turret on top. The tower’s fire arc is restricted by the turret’s design, leaving a dead angle near the base of the structure. More turrets were destroyed by overload during the war than by enemy fire.
Kossuth is also notable as the site of the largest Norlight commune of the Order of the Blue Crescent. This pacifist philosophy has attracted a lot of attention in youth culture, but is generally frowned upon by Revisionists. Wearing the shaved head and crescent tattoo have become an easy way for Norlight youths to rebel.