(RP Animation) Trainspotting: Helian Equatorial-Polar High Speed Freight Line

(New series showcasing various trains and rail-based transport infrastructure throughout the Eridonia Archives universe).

Helia-1 in its namesake system in the Angel Reach, has long since been a major supplier of rare and heavy metals to the Aquarian superpower. During the Old Federal Era, ISAR mining corporations and subsidaries of giants such as Hyruuki Heavy Industries supplied nearly 40% of the UTN's heavy metals for use in industrial applications and manufacturing of advanced components.

After the annexation of the Angel Reach in 4404 by the Aquarian Imperial States, the Imperial Council saw fit to leave the ISAR corporations and mining branches of former OF mega corps largely intact. Instead, they are monitored and ordered to deliver 100% of their output to the Imperial States; yet are paid a lucrative sum of ISAR Credits and other benefits more than they could ever have dreamed under the Independent States or selling to private customers.

As such, the gears of the Helian Heavy Metal Industry remaining turning without pause to this day; and the minerals keep flowing on the backs of hundreds-of-years-old OF Industrial Rail infrastructure spanning 1000s of kilometres from the mineral-rich harsh equatorial regions of the desert world to the milder polar regions where spacecraft can deliver them to orbital sorting facilities.

Trains operating on the Helian Equatorial-Polar High Speed Freight Line (HEPHSF) operate at up to 450 KM/h to make the several-thousand-kilometer journey to the polar spaceports laden with valuable metals such as Irridium, before the sun sets over the Helian Dunes and the conditions become unsuitable for surface transit.

Each passing day, a specialised "sand plow" locomotive makes the same run to clear the thousands of mass-tons of silicate dust and sand that accumulates overnight on the rails, opening the way for the next train to make the journey. A constant cycle that keeps the Aquarian Shipyards fed with rare metals.