Tupã

"When ecological collapse became inevitability on Earth, one system above others was chosen to bear the fruits of the cradle's endangered Amazon and Congo rainforests: Tupã. Moñái, named for the great serpent of indigenous Tupi-Guarani myth, was selected as a prime candidate for terraforming. The system has since become a beacon of hope for the advancing of ecological causes in the Coalition." —General History of the Coalition, Vol. 138
The Tupã System, also referred to as Tupan, is a habited Coalition star system located in the Frontier. Comprising gravitationally-bound bodies in orbit of the eponymous G-Type Main Sequence star, the system boasts multiple planets, of which five are permanently habited by human populations, along with two space colonies and non-permanent settlements on Moñái's moon, Iracema. It is referred to as the "Miracle System" following the 2300s due to the density of colonized worlds within; this label forgoes the general poverty, corruption, and exploitation rampant throughout the system that has stunted colonial growth and immigration for nearly a century, however.
The system boasts two circumstellar discs, the inner Tupanese asteroid belt and the outer Tabajaran Zone. Due to the particularly resource-rich nature of the system, Tupã is a major exporter of raw materials to the rest of the Coalition at large, with the rainforests of Moñái, Tupã Prime, and Refúgio providing a bountiful amount of natural wood and biosynthetic precursors for pharmaceuticals.
Initial planetary settlement was completed in 2291 as part of the Terran Species Preservation Initiative, with Tupã being chosen for its stellar similarity to Sol. Moñái in particular possessed a desirable day length of 24 hours, 35 minutes, making it the foremost target of the initial settlement effort. Earthforming endeavors commenced in 2252, seeking to give Moñái a climate and environment ideal for hosting the continuation of the Amazonian and Congolese rainforests, allowing species and specimens of the dying Terran rainforests to thrive and prosper. While protected ecological status was granted to Moñái, with urban expansion, industrialization and environmental exploitation closely regulated by the titular Stellar Republic of Tupã, licenses to its asteroid belts were given liberally to Coalition military and Corporate entities alike, establishing Tupã as an exporter of raw materials. The dwarf planet Anhangá, situated on the Tupanese asteroid belt, became the second habited world in the system in 2348 after Earthforming, chosen as particularly desirable for hosting permanent and non-permanent asteroid mining workers. Later on, under population pressures from the Core and as a desire to increase agricultural outputs, the Coalition terraformed Tupã Prime and Refúgio in 2360 due to their proximities to the star's goldilocks zone. However, from a mixture of corporate corruption and terraforming mismanagement, Refúgio regressed into a cold jungle and swampland world split into numerous independent countries, whereas Tupã Prime also fractured into differing nations after ethnoreligious conflicts erupted between colonial populations (later evolving to the Krielander Insurgency. This has relegated the Stellar Republic of Tupã into only partially controlling those two worlds. The latest colonial addition to Tupã is Lehetőség, a corporate mining world directly under the rule of the United Mineral Consortium with only mininal government oversight that was colonized in 2504.
Beyond its raw material industry, the Tupã system is of particular interest to phytology and biology research, as the various worlds within provides apt conditions for microevolution to be observed and tested. Due to its exotic Terran wildlife and natural beauty, Tupã is a popular tourist destination in the CCR, made especially desirable due to its tight ecological regulations, national park programs, grand resorts and getaways.
With a population of fifteen billion, Tupã has become one of the most influential frontier systems of Coalition, though it remains geopolitically non-influential due to its general rates of poverty in addition to the ongoing Krielander Insurgency and the Anaxian Heresy, two low-level insurrections primarily set on the planets of Tupã Prime and Refúgio. The Holy Army is also believed to be involved in aiding Krielander rebels.
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