Star Type: K5V
Position in System: 3 (of 8)
Number of Moons: 1 (Zed)
Days to Jump Point: 4
Surface Water: 86%
Atm. Pressure: Standard (Tainted)
Surface Gravity: 0.87
Equatorial Temp: 35� C
Highest Native Life: Fish
Population: 2,001,000,000
Governor: Bella Andersekki
Planetary Legate: Darci Yarde
Because of abundant germanium, titanium, and uranium deposits, this world was a prize to both the Draconis Combine and the Terran Hegemony alike during humanity�s Golden Age, and it was to secure these valuable resources that both realms agreed to share the planet between them. This shared-world status spared Moore the horrors of the Amaris crisis when the Usurper, secure in his hold over House Kurita, allowed Combine troops to hold the planet unmolested during his reign of terror. When Amaris and his troops fell to the SLDF, and the League itself collapsed soon after, Moore became a de facto holding of the Combine. The Combine jealously defended Moore after claiming it, losing it to house Steiner�s Lyran Commonwealth for only a few decades in the twenty-fourth century.
However, despite the countless raids to claim this world�s riches, industry and commerce managed to thrive, until the Word of Blake Jihad. Targeted for the same reasons that made it a prize to the Combine, Moore was struck by mercenaries in the employ of the Blakist fanatics. Ordered to seize the yield of several key uranium mines that the Blakists planned to use for the production of atomic weapons, the mercenary troops were drawn into a running slugfest in the methane swamps near Shizuoka. In the fighting, an exploding BattleMech set off enough methane pockets to immediately set the swamps ablaze, creating a conflagration that swept, uncontrolled, across much of the central Serpentasia area before it was done. Few survivors from either of the forces engaged in the Shizuoka Swamps emerged from the so-called Day of Fire, and it took the efforts of engineers and laborers from across The Republic of the Sphere to rebuild the capital city after that fateful blaze. When Coordinator Hohiro Kurita ceded Moore to The Republic, he asked that the brave troops of the Draconis Combine who�d fought and died for the world throughout the ages be remembered by The Republic forces he now passed the torch along to.It comes as little surprise that local vehicle manufacturer Duncan Enterprises chose to name its first military vehicle commissioned for The Republic Militia after Sho-sa Charles Giggins, the DCMS company commander who died fighting the Blakists in the Day of Fire. The Giggins APC rolled off Duncan�s manufacturing lines on the third anniversary of Moore�s transfer to The Republic banner.