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| Gacrux
Star Type: M4III Position in System: 3 (of 5) Number of Moons: 2 (Macera and Worsca) Days to Jump Point: 3 Surface Water: 24% Atm. Pressure: Standard (Breathable) Surface Gravity: 0.87 Equatorial Temp: 33� C Highest Native Life: Plants Population: 1,067,000,000 Governor: Georgio Quentin Planetary Legate: Yitzahk Faquir |
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| As its star, a red giant over a hundred times the size of Sol, is well into its final years, Gacrux, too, is a world in a state of decline, cooling as the warmth of its primary fades more and more with each passing century. Despite its lack of water and nutrient-poor soil, colonists were drawn to Gacrux by its abundance of precious metals, industrial ores, and radioactive materials, establishing several mining and manufacturing operations here. Most of these settlements naturally arose on the shores of the planet�s two large, landlocked, freshwater oceans, Praddis and Umberholdt. Though lacking in sufficient resources to feed a booming population itself, Gacrux prospered as an industrial world, becoming a member of the Federation of Skye soon after the fall of the Terran Alliance. The nearness of the expanding Free Worlds League, however, exposed Gacrux to many raids over the years, enough so that the people of this world eagerly embraced the union of the Federation into the Lyran Commonwealth. Since that day, the people of Gacrux became known for their remarkable loyalty to the Commonwealth, and were among the few Skye worlds not opposed to Steiner rule during the region�s rebellious years. As time went on, and Gacrux survived repeated assaults from neighboring realms, however, the Gacruxians� sense of nationalism evolved into a kind of xenophobia. The locals protested the Commonwealth�s alliance with the Federated Suns and the militia forces constantly lobbied for military action against the Free Worlds League. This attitude made Gacrux one of the strongholds of a Lyran supremacist movement�formerly a veterans association�called the Brotherhood of Cincinnatus, a group that achieved infamy during the mid-thirty-first century for a string of domestic terrorist attacks. Ironically, the xenophobic peoples of Gacrux saw their worst fears realized during the Jihad, when Marik forces, duped by the Word of Blake, attacked their world and destroyed the local militia along with the industrial cities of Rawlins and Morgan Junction. The devastating fighting savaged the heart of Gacrux�s industrial and administrative infrastructure, throwing the planet into chaos until Lyran troops, as part of Devlin Stone�s coalition, finally restored order.At the dawn the thirty-second century, further catastrophe struck the Brotherhood of Cincinnatus as a surgical strike from the Lyran Commonwealth apparently destroyed their secret base on planet. Today, though many of the locals still cling to the outdated xenophobia of their ancestors, an influx of new settlers, thanks to Stone�s relocation programs, and efforts to rebuild the cities and complexes destroyed during the Jihad, have made Gacrux a thriving member of The Republic. The capital city, Fort Habersburg, is located on the southern coast of Praddis. | |||||||||||