Daramir Settlements

The Daramir Settlements is the chartered colonial government of the United Colonies of Earth on the planet Daramir and its moons, Gimlh, Beta, and Elodie. It is a settlement-level planetary division consisting of 27 unified prefectures - seventeen on Daramir, two on Gimlh, a space habitat orbiting Beta, and eight on Elodie. Daramir's spacial territory in the Mimosa system is bordered by the closely orbiting protectorate on Talitsa. Daramir's capital city is Centaurus, Sakha, located in the Kuromorimine region.
Daramir, then known by its original name, Becrux II, was identified in 2491 as a suitable world for habitation by Earth's colonization program. Prospective colonists were well underway when political refugees from fled to the unsettled world. Tensions arose when the migrants petitioned colonial officials to expel and extradite the refugees back to Victoria; protests quickly turned bloody with UNSC Marines deployed to quell the violence. An uneasy peace was reached as the governorate was officially established on April 16th, 2498. Daramir's population swelled to nearly a million by 2519 as new investments in industry fueled the fledgling colony's agriculture, mining, and tourism sectors. The rapid expansion of the colony and its moons led to the creation of a union on September 15th, 2522 as the Daramir Settlements. 
The escalation of the Great War into the mid-rim colonies saw the settlements as host to millions of military personnel throughout the latter years of the war. A dogged colonial effort effectively forced the Covenant skirmishers to retreat from the sector; Daramir, along with much of the Mimosa system, survived the Great War with minimal human loss or damage to infrastructure.
Daramir is represented throughout the colonies by a presidentially-appointed governor, a position currently occupied by Army Lieutenant General Peter van de Merwe, and in federal parliament by a non-voting delegation in the Hall of the Colonies. The Settler's Council consists of elected leading citizens as the colony's de facto legislative body.
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Category:Daramir
Category:Colonies