Kansu          
Star Type: M4II
Position in System: 4 (of 9)
Number of Moons: 1 (Sheng Li)
Days to Jump Point: 3
Surface Water: 46%
Atm. Pressure: High (Toxic)
Surface Gravity: 1.0
Equatorial Temp: 135� C (greenhouse)
Highest Native Life: None
Population: 350,325,000
Governor: Tonia Al-Mahmoud
Planetary Legate: Alex Fenner
During the latter half of the 24th century, the frozen wasteland of Kansu was finally colonized. The planet�s continents were covered with vast fields of blue-gray foliage. These plants were volatile when exposed to high heat, a side effect of storing energy as methane rather than fat. Colonists learned this by accident when they tried using the plants in their hearths after drying them out, a process that made them more volatile. Many early colonists lost limbs clearing the land. The colonists learned to�carefully, remotely�harvest the ice plants as a renewable energy source. Similar metabolisms in the plant and microbial organisms of Kansu�s ice-shrouded oceans left its sea floor covered in methane-hydrate ices.
Kansu is a rather small world with three continents. Kantuene is the largest continent, located at the equator and extending into the northern and southern hemispheres. The majority of the population lived in the capital, Raijianstad, the largest of Kansu�s domed cities, built in and around a large crevasse. It was underground that the settlers discovered rich fields of radioactive and precious metals. The continents of Matawan and Fetid remained largely unpopulated. Matawan is where the radioactive ores were refined. Fetid was turned over to the Federated Suns military, which built a base there after the Fourth Succession War.

When a Blakist-led force invaded, the defenders lured them to Fetid. Unlike in the last war, the defenders stood up to the invaders. As the Blakists advanced, their ranks were decimated by exploding ice plants and artillery, allowing the militia to defeat the invaders. The Blakists detonated a nuclear device, believing that would win the day. Instead, the weapon ignited the native flora for kilometers, and shocked the unstable seafloor�s methane-hydrate ice into a catastrophic release of methane. The release of the methane and the subsequent melting of Kansu�s large ice caps wrecked human civilization and rendered the planet uninhabitable aboveground within a decade. By 3091, the average surface temperature at the equator exceeded the boiling point of water in an extreme example of a runaway greenhouse effect. The Kansu �Seas of Fire,� where the freshly released methane burns at the oceans� surface, remains a poignant reminder of the horrors of the Jihad. Today, the remaining population lives underground, while a small portion attempts to colonize Sheng Li to begin life anew.
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