Station Name: Planet Nauru Station Class: Planet Date of Colonisation: 818 A.S Location: Omicron Delta Status: Operational Atmosphere and Climate: Fully Breathable / Desert
Planet Nauru is a warm, mostly dry desert world. Initially, it had large concentrations of hydrogen sulphide prevalent in the air precisely at 0.0051 ppm. Whilst it made breathing the air slightly intolerable and would be akin to breathing in rotten eggs, it presented no health risk to humans. Eventually, through a hefty colonisation effort The Core in cooperation with the Canaan Zoner group were able to diffuse most of the hydrogen sulphide in the air. Nowadays patches of Planet resemble a more Mediterranean climate - however this is only in the areas The Core has graced, and most of the world remains a desert. The Core has focused their colonisation effort around Athena City: a huge, gleaming city erected to serve as it's capital.
Initial surveys detected huge amounts of Iridium ore in the planetary crust, as well as many ancient structures and ruins dotted across the surface. The Corsairs eventually constructed a number of mining bases in conjunction with the Zoners. However when The Core turned their attention to Planet Nauru, they slaughtered the Corsair settlers and stole their efforts, taking their mining bases and many of their other structures for themselves. These bases are heavily used in order to extract the Iridium, which is a critical component in antimatter based weaponry, armour and notably ALG's HazMat canisters. Iridium is exported off-world to many shipyards and other facilities across Sirius - including Freeport 11. Iridium is a key part of The Core's economy, and is essential for them creating an income in order to finance their Edge Worlds campaign.
The population of Nauru mostly consists of both The Core's civilian and military personnel. This includes, but is not limited to, Soldiers, Pilots, Researchers, Scientists and others who either simply live on the Planet or fulfil the other important roles of AP Manufacturing. Nauru also houses re-conditioned criminal, and secretly slave, populations that are made to work within the Iridium mines. The planetary population of Nauru is still rapidly growing from the allure of a prosperous ‘haven’ in the Edge Worlds, and The Core does not want to release actual population numbers at this time (in part due to the Slave and Criminal populations, which The Core wishes to keep under wraps). However external parties speculate it to be higher than that of Planet Akabat.
Before The Core arrived, Zoner and Order science teams on the surface were investigating the Planet's geography. Whilst life, which was mostly hostile, had been discovered, it was no where near the level of human intelligence and was closer to being feral and primal. However, these science teams did stumble upon incredibly rare alien ruins and structures located all over the planets surface. These ruins contained technology that is/was used by the Nomads and Daam K'vosh, however they were conclusively proven as having not been constructed by either in 815 A.S by the eminent Order Xenoarchaeologist Kendra Sinclair. Little in the way of any clues or evidence as to the identity of the real builders remain, although with The Core now dominating the Planet, they hope to uncover the secrets left behind by this mysterious lost alien civilization. And if possible, weaponise them.
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