MayFlower - Tau CetiAugust 8th 2335The Orion Colony ship entered the system after following in the wake of the tragic pioneers that set out to here 35 years previously and never made it. The Mayflower, launched in 2300 dissapeared without a trace 8 years into her journey. The world that would later be known as Capitol was named in its honor. Mayflower shows a conspicuous absence of many high-level fauna species; also plant life is nowhere near as diverse as it should’ve been for a planet of its warmth and age. This initial mystery was solved when a 40Km wide impact crater was discovered in the south ocean. Its age was estimated at between 100 and 150 thousand years old. The impact had devastated the ecosystem. Fossil finds show the evolutionary past to be quite diverse. The star is in the late stages of its main sequence however and the heating effects are having a catastrophic effect on the atmosphere and hydrosphere. Compounded with the impact event, there is not expected to be much increase in the number and complexity of species in the foreseeable future. The world is thought to have been visited by an alien species in the recent past, the evidence for this being a huge floating facility of unknown purpose in the deep clouds of the nearby Gas Giant planet Zeus. No evidence of settlement however exists on the surface of Mayflower.
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The empire mercilessly pillaged this system during the early stages of colonisation, especially after the outbreak of war in the 25th century, so much so that 200 years later the planet was declared devoid of indigenous life. efforts to preserve native life were Spartan at best. It is arguably one of the biggest failings of mankind to date and was a major driving factor in the formation of the Garden political movement in the 29th century, despite initially falling on deaf ears (at the time post war restoration was priority for most of human kind) it became a major dominant force of Federation Politics in the 33rd century and it lead to the final abandonment of Earth in 3341
Planet New London started out as a Wet Mars like world that was brought to habitability by the Empire in the 2660's by a combination of pelting the world with many of the systems abundant comets and setting up the heavy industry that killed Mayflower onto New London. soon the world was ready for Species transplant. What remains of the Indigenous life of Capitol exists in specially constructed biodomes, isolated from the earthlike environment outside. these reservations increased somewhat after the failed attempts to revive Mayflower rescued DNA of extinct species
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It's not available yet, still need to do more testing to make sure the integrator is actually working, and various other adjustments... still not entirely sure how this add-on is going to end up.
