Foot Fall         
Star Type: M9III
Position in System: 5 (of 6)
Number of Moons: 1 (Ankara)
Days to Jump Point: 2
Surface Water: 58%
Atm. Pressure: Standard (Breathable)
Surface Gravity: 1.1
Equatorial Temp: 28� C
Highest Native Life: Reptiles
Population: 1,136,216,000
Governor: Noel Grau
Planetary Legate: Anthony Hovey
A cool world, Footfall has abrupt seasons that initially caught the first settlers off guard. Snowstorms of biblical proportions would drop 60�70 centimeters of snow in mere days. The weather reminded these Mongolian descendants of their parents� home in northern Asia on Terra. Both of Footfall�s two large continents are covered by mountains that leave little in arable landmass for farming, though what land is there is highly fertile and produces more than enough to support the current population. What the planet does have an abundance of is precious metals and iron ore. The northern continent, Ulaanbaatar, is the smaller of the two landmasses, and is the more mountainous. Ulaanbaatar produces the bulk of the iron ore, while Hohhot, the southern continent, has large veins of precious metals. The capital city, Ganz, is the manufacturing center of the planet and is located in the Fen Fang Fu delta region on the northern coast of Hohhot.

Footfall had been spared the ravages of war until the Fourth Succession War, when two elite Davion RCTs landed on the planet and massacred the local planetary militia. The Confederation regained Footfall during the offensive of 3057, where it remained until Devlin Stone demanded it as part of his forming Republic. Chancellor Sun-Tzu Liao formally refused to give up any world to The Republic, though in practice he could do nothing to prevent it, as his forces had been devastated during the Blakist Jihad.

During the Capellan-Republic war, Footfall became a center of some of the fiercest fighting between Stone�s elite units and two Warrior Houses as the Confederation attempted to wrest back its worlds. Though the two Warrior Houses managed to take and hold the world for three years, with the surprising help of Free Capella units, it was a Pyrrhic victory: One Warrior House was destroyed and the world was given back to The Republic following the signing of the treaty that ended hostilities between the two nations.
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