Black Planet

The Black Planet is the Quantonian Empire's scientific and weapons development facility in the Maldonar System. 
The planet was first discovered around 06/08/1968 (Pre-War) by a Passivarian Republic astronomer Lerowlin Velkorin. The world would appear to be a black wasteland planet with no life. on 07/04/2178 a colony ship was sent to explore the planet to see if it was suitable for life, the colony ship landed, and a large team of explorers scoured the surface; to their surprise, the cover was mostly rocky with a lot of dead scorched plant life, there was a lot of skeletons too of what appeared as once was sentient life. The atmosphere has been stripped away by what theorists believe to be is the result of a large explosion of a large magnitude that may have resulted in the extinction of life on the planet.
Over the years, the colony expanded and carried on expanding to the point where the whole facility covered 30% of the surface of the planet. Today, the facility is heavily defended and has an extensive array of defence systems designed to fight against incoming planet-bound enemies.
The reason the planet today is called the Black Planet is due to the surface being a massive facility made of metal and concrete with very few lights surfacing, which through a telescope gives a vision of a black planet. When Lerowlin originally discovered the world, he named it "Geronia".