Ralliange

Populated in the beginning of the Second Wave of Human Expansion, Ralliange used prototype terraforming technology to turn an otherwise inhospitable ice planet into a green arable land. However, since The Scream errupted, the materials for the terraforming technology were in very short supply and the planet began to return to the ice planet origins.

Temperatures became as cold as -80F in some regions and currently, the remaining powers are in the equatorial region of the planet with the "far north" being at latitudes of 25N and the furthest most remote populated area in the south is at 15S.

The population was reduced from billions to a mere hundreds of millions in the Long Freeze and the main cultural struggle is around control of arable land, property, and now the battle over Ante.

## Planetary Properties

Atmosphere: Breatheable mix

Temperature: Cold

Biosphere: Biosphere remnants

Population: Hundreds of millions of inhabitants

Tech Level: TL4

## History

**2342**: The planet of Ralliange is established as a wholly new colony. Prototype psi-tech terraforming techniques turn this one glacial world into a viable temperate and arable world. The momentum of billions from Old Earth formed the core population of Ralliange as many who had initially wanted to travel to the frontiers found Spike Drive travel too unsettling and settled on this new planet.

**2665**: The Scream erupts from somewhere within the Veil Nebula. Reconstructions of the event suggest that it was some form of faster-than-light psychic emanation, the wave propagating from one end of human space to the other within seventeen minutes. The Scream kills 95% of all people with any psychic potential and the rest become feral. The entirety of the psitech infratructure (manufactories, Jump Gates, etc) collapses overnight due to the loss of all psychic knowledge. The Psionic Authority is obliterated by The Scream.

**2714**: In the Leusa Chi sector, the planet Ralliange begins to suffer from a terraforming failure as the temperature rapidly cools. Pretech mechanisms which stabilized the planet's orbit fail throwing Ralliange's orbit further outwards from the Aethilo star system. Weather patterns get steadily worse as the local nation states on Ralliange initially deny any problems to quell public panic. This begins the return of Ralliange's previous ecology as an ice-world.

**2819**: Ralliange's ecosystem faces a mass extinction as the freeze event forces massive populations to move towards the equatorial regions. Billions die in famine and the remaining powers wage war on each other for control of the last remaining arable regions on the planet. the latitudes above 25 N and below 15 S are rendered nearly inhospitable due to the bitter cold.

**2845**: Contact between Ralliange and Ante is established and the nation states of Ralliange agree on a potential proposal to colonize Ante. While resources and the infratructure to build enough system ships have to be reconstructed from ground zero, a tentative cooperative peace has been formed as the remaining civilians of Ralliange exhibit signs of societal exhaustion from violence and death. Though in the background, attempts to sabotage the infrastructures of opposing nation states remain the primary source of warfare.

**3063**: In the Leusa Chi Sector, industries on Ralliange finally complete the system shipyards and the first in-person contact from Ralliange to Ante is made.

**3113:** The nation states of Ralliange begin to start attempting to carve out entire regions of Ante for themselves to sustain enough agricultural land and infrastructure to both feed the people at their homeworld and expand their influence.

**3167**: Battles between the political nation states of Ralliange on Ante begin. Varying polities wage war, and the political tensions that existed during the 29th century erupt again as food and resources become more available.

## Factions

* The League of Provincial Powers
* The Auva Confederacy
* The People's Republic of Solvega
* The Senn Venn Concordat

A description of the factions listed can be seen in the Xenobestiary.

## World Tags

#### Civil War

The world is currently torn between at least two opposing factions, all of which claim legitimacy. The war may be the result of a successful rebel uprising against tyranny, or it might just be the result of schemers who plan to be the new masters once the revolution is complete.

#### Terraform Failure

This world was marginal for human habitation when it was discovered, but the Mandate or the early government put in pretech terraforming engines to correct its more extreme qualities. The terraforming did not entirely work, either failing of its own or suffering the destruction of the engines during the Silence. The natives are only partly adapted to the world's current state, and struggle with the environment.