Post by Captain Benjamin Maxwell on Jun 30, 2005 13:26:20 GMT -5
Planet Details: Terra
Star Type: G2V
Position in System: 3 (of 9)
Number of Moons: 1 (Luna)
Days to Jump Point: 9
Surface Water: 75%
Atm. Pressure: Standard (Breathable)
Surface Gravity: 1.00
Equatorial Temp: 30° C
Highest Native Life: Mammals
Population: 4,678,000,000
Governor: Richard Guliani
Planetary Legate: Helen Richter
OVERVIEW:
The homeworld of humanity, Terra was the crown jewel of the galaxy when the Star League was in full bloom. Plagued by overcrowding and pollution in the years before mankind went to the stars, the land, air, and seas were clean once again by the twenty-sixth century, while the greatest of the planet’s many cities were restored and improved. At the time of the Star League, Terra had two capital cities: Geneva, on the European continent, for the planet, and Unity City, capital of the Star League, on the North American continent. During the Amaris crisis, however, much of Terra’s splendor was marred by the Usurper’s troops, who obliterated several Castles Brian, the Star League Court, and many of the planet’s most important cities during the coup, occupation, and liberation of Terra. Even today, all seven of Terra’s main landmasses—North America, Europe, and Asia in the north hemisphere; South America, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica in the southern—still bear the scars and memorials of the Star League’s final days. However, the rise and fall of Amaris’ short-lived empire was not the only event to lay waste to the Cradle of Humanity. As allied forces converged on Terra to end the Word of Blake’s control of the world in the waning days of the Jihad, the surviving Blakist forces in the Terran system resorted to fanatical scorched-earth tactics and suicide assaults that caused even more widespread destruction. The ancient cities of Berlin, Paris, and Rome on the European continent, Moscow, Tokyo, and New Delhi in Asia, Cairo in Africa, and much of the Eastern Megalopolis in North America, all suffered extensive damage from tactical nuclear weapons and heavy urban warfare. Hilton Head, the former command center for ComStar and the Word of Blake when they held sway over Terra, was destroyed in the fighting, along with five of the planet’s surviving Castles Brian. When Devlin Stone established The Republic of the Sphere, he commissioned the reconstruction of the historic and critically damaged planetary capital, Geneva, to serve again—not just as the capital of Terra, but of the entire Republic.
In addition to Terra herself, colonies exist on the Terran lunar surface, and the fourth planet in the system, Mars. At the peak of the Star League, settlements also existed on Venus, the second world, and a major shipyard was placed orbiting Titan, a moon of the gas giant Saturn, but both of these worlds are once more void of human habitation. Venus gradually reverted to its hellish environment after the fall of the League, becoming totally uninhabitable once again by the close of the thirty-first century, and the Titan shipyards were destroyed during the Jihad. The capital cities of Luna and Mars are Luna City and Koryo, respectively, though Koryo was heavily damaged in the final days of the Word of Blake’s reign.
Star Type: G2V
Position in System: 3 (of 9)
Number of Moons: 1 (Luna)
Days to Jump Point: 9
Surface Water: 75%
Atm. Pressure: Standard (Breathable)
Surface Gravity: 1.00
Equatorial Temp: 30° C
Highest Native Life: Mammals
Population: 4,678,000,000
Governor: Richard Guliani
Planetary Legate: Helen Richter
OVERVIEW:
The homeworld of humanity, Terra was the crown jewel of the galaxy when the Star League was in full bloom. Plagued by overcrowding and pollution in the years before mankind went to the stars, the land, air, and seas were clean once again by the twenty-sixth century, while the greatest of the planet’s many cities were restored and improved. At the time of the Star League, Terra had two capital cities: Geneva, on the European continent, for the planet, and Unity City, capital of the Star League, on the North American continent. During the Amaris crisis, however, much of Terra’s splendor was marred by the Usurper’s troops, who obliterated several Castles Brian, the Star League Court, and many of the planet’s most important cities during the coup, occupation, and liberation of Terra. Even today, all seven of Terra’s main landmasses—North America, Europe, and Asia in the north hemisphere; South America, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica in the southern—still bear the scars and memorials of the Star League’s final days. However, the rise and fall of Amaris’ short-lived empire was not the only event to lay waste to the Cradle of Humanity. As allied forces converged on Terra to end the Word of Blake’s control of the world in the waning days of the Jihad, the surviving Blakist forces in the Terran system resorted to fanatical scorched-earth tactics and suicide assaults that caused even more widespread destruction. The ancient cities of Berlin, Paris, and Rome on the European continent, Moscow, Tokyo, and New Delhi in Asia, Cairo in Africa, and much of the Eastern Megalopolis in North America, all suffered extensive damage from tactical nuclear weapons and heavy urban warfare. Hilton Head, the former command center for ComStar and the Word of Blake when they held sway over Terra, was destroyed in the fighting, along with five of the planet’s surviving Castles Brian. When Devlin Stone established The Republic of the Sphere, he commissioned the reconstruction of the historic and critically damaged planetary capital, Geneva, to serve again—not just as the capital of Terra, but of the entire Republic.
In addition to Terra herself, colonies exist on the Terran lunar surface, and the fourth planet in the system, Mars. At the peak of the Star League, settlements also existed on Venus, the second world, and a major shipyard was placed orbiting Titan, a moon of the gas giant Saturn, but both of these worlds are once more void of human habitation. Venus gradually reverted to its hellish environment after the fall of the League, becoming totally uninhabitable once again by the close of the thirty-first century, and the Titan shipyards were destroyed during the Jihad. The capital cities of Luna and Mars are Luna City and Koryo, respectively, though Koryo was heavily damaged in the final days of the Word of Blake’s reign.