Draka III

**Draka III** is an M Class planet orbiting a single G Class star in the Draka System. The planet 96 light years from Earth, and 32 light years from the closest Federation planet. The planet was settled by settlers from Earth fleeing World War III on June 5, 2155.

## History

***Super Soldier Program***

In 2023 with World War III sweeping across Earth the United States Army began developing a super soldier program using the same research that created the Augments. Mindful of the Eugenics War they tried to engineer a soldier that had all of the benefits of an Augment without creating the next Kahn Noonien Singh.

Subject 428 became the Army's new prototype soldier which were re-designated the Mark 5. Two Mark 5 Super Soldiers were created in the lab, and were fully grown in 2038. It became apparent that the Mark 5's still had the enhanced ambition and cruelty that befell Kahn and the rest of the Augments.

On October 12, 2038 the super soldier program was cancelled by order of the US President and the Joint Chief's . All data, equipment, and subjects were to be destroyed. During the purge one of the Mark 5s, serial number 78955B killed the soldiers sent to eliminate him, and escaped the Groom Lake facility and disappeared into the Nevada desert.

***A New Hope***

Already the war between the US and Eastern Coalition had claimed 105 million lives, and Colonel Green's extremist forces had killed 37 million "undesirables". Under the direction of billionaire Elon Musk the DY-200 sleep ship program was continuation of the old DY-100 program from the mid 1990's. Using new a new Ion drive the DY-200 could achieve .82 of light speed. The ship had a crew of 40 and another 1,400 "sleeper" beds for colonists. Enough supplies to establish a colony would be launched separately from a dozen subsequent rocket launches.

Christened the *New Hope* the first colony ship used a lottery system to fill its passenger list. Tickets were based on the need of the individual's skill and ability to pay. The New Hope was launched on December 26, 2038 without any issues. On January 19, 2039 the Hope with all of it's passengers put into long term hibernation it set off for HD 10237.

The body of one of the passengers, Dominick Ryder was discovered murdered in his former home on February 20th. The manifest of the *New Hope* Dominick Ryder did report to the ship. A secret DOD investigation confirmed their suspicions that the 78955B was responsible from the DNA collected at the scene, but chose not to share this top secret information with investigators from the FBI. Attempts to contact the *New Hope* remained unanswered.

***A New Colony***

The passengers and crew were automatically awoken when the ship achieved a standard orbit with the planet now called Draka on June 2, 2155.Landing the ship on the main continent they colonists immediately went to work on building a new society. The colonial governor Tim Masterson establish a counsel to democratically make important decisions. Unfortunately landing in the tail end of the growing season, and the counsel's inability to agree to important measures lead to a very difficult winter and the colony saw fifty three deaths from starvation.

The man who had taken on the persona of Dominick Ryder lead a revolt against Masterson and the feckless colonial counsel. After a 38 hour standoff between the rebels and loyalist Dominick Ryder took control of the colony and christened himself President. His rule was absolute and there was little room for failure, but the new president pushed forward the reforms needed to stabilize the colony. He instituted the necessary reforms to get the fields planted and proper village built.

Ten years later the colony had swollen to nearly 2,000. Dominick had taken a wife and had six children. He had ceased calling himself president and taken of the title of Lord Dominus, Emperor of Draka.