Star Type: G4V
Position in System: 4 (of 10)
Number of Moons: 1 (Muse)
Days to Jump Point: 8
Surface Water: 63%
Atm. Pressure: Standard (Breathable)
Surface Gravity: 0.92
Equatorial Temp: 44� C
Highest Native Life: Mammals
Population: 3,145,000,000
Governor: Hirihito Jalabama
Planetary Legate: Andrei Sergeinov
Eventually Gabriel Tal, a resident part-time chemical engineer, stumbled upon a means to purify over ninety-five percent of the toxic agents from small quantities of Corridani water in a safe and economical fashion using an innovative fusion filtration system. Tal�s invention ultimately became the basis for Water Pure Industries, which would become the largest of the Lyran Commonwealth�s five water purifier manufacturers. Though publicly traded, Water Pure remained mostly in Tal family hands throughout its history, expanding to add manufacturing sites on Freedom and Ryde, and distribution sites on over a dozen worlds in the Federation of Skye. In spite of the destruction of its main Corridan plant six times in its history�the last during an incidental Word of Blake raid during the Jihad�Water Pure has managed to come back bigger and better every time. The value of clean, drinkable water obviously made Corridan IV a prime target during the Succession Wars, and for centuries its cities and the landscape on all three of its primary continents�Alorran and Cederban in the northern hemisphere, Fayrun in the southern�bore the scars of repeated raids and planetary assaults. When this planet was ceded to The Republic of the Sphere, a planetwide beautification project ultimately erased the last of these scars, resulting in the idyllic, pastoral world visitors see today.
Today, Corridan�s greatest exports, after water purifiers, are agricultural and ranching produce, which range from native fruits and vegetables to the beeflike meat of the Corridani grazer, a dim-witted beast roughly half again the size of a Terran buffalo. For this reason, many travelers expect a world of mainly rural plains. In fact, close to half the planetary population lives in big cities, mostly concentrated on Feyrun and Cederban. The largest of these, Rio Grande, is home to Water Pure Industries, much of the Tal family fortune, and the largest planetary spaceport. The planetary capital, New Austin, is over seventy kilometers north of Rio Grande, and boasts the planet�s largest shipping concern, Corridani Forward, which uses its own starport.