Frostaria

## Discovery and Settlement

In the year 3169, scientists from around the globe discovered a nearby wormhole near the gas giant Jupiter. Overjoyed in the close proximity to Earth, a small team of researchers bravely ventured forth. Upon reaching the end of the wormhole, a stunning planet beheld their view. A habitable planet, with vast swaths covered in frigid ice was awaiting them. These researchers gave the planet the name Frostaria.

After taking their initial observations, the researchers took the plunge once more. Holding their breath, they waited as they were once more deposited back into the Sol system. Overjoyed, the researchers had found a gateway to a new star system! Once they had landed back on Earth, preparations were immediately made for the colonization of this new planet.

Within a few years, a colony ship, the Ceres was launched with intent to colonize this new planet, as the other terrestrial bodies had once been. With a population of 4,000, once more did humanity enter the breach. However, unexpected to humanity, this wormhole was not as stable as the pioneering researchers had assumed. The vastly larger mass of the Ceres ended up destabilizing the wormhole, collapsing the one gateway to what was once called home.

The ship survived with a few scratches, still fully functional, but they had ended up stranded. Facing no choice but to continue their mission, the population of the Ceres touched down on Frostaria, starting a small settlement that would eventually become Solstice City.

Early colonial efforts saw the families build a single unified camp but as decades passed, eager for resources, families drifted to the far corners of the planet building new towns relatively in peace. If only it was ever that simple.

In recent years we have found records of the teams created amongst the families alongside their assignments. They are as follows:

The Fornax Collective, assigned to terraforming and climate research.

The Equinox Collective, assigned to defense and extra planetary research.

The Solstice Collective, assigned to societal upbringing and civil order.

The Vernox Collective, assigned to agriculture and survival research.

Despite the name, Frostaria continues to maintain a diverse climate. The north was, for all purposes, a wasteland of snow and frost and not unlike Earth’s arctic. The Fornax Collective would soon find this place to be their home. Their work would later be used to utilize and engage in planetary climate control, terraforming operations that have allowed us to expand our borders.

South of where Solstice City lies today was a vast ocean, one that caught the attention of the Equinox Collective.

The work of the Vernox and Solstice Collective are perhaps the most well documented. Both sought to form the foundations of our society.

In time, society would form. The Vernox and Solstice Collectives would eventually build Solstice City, and splinter groups would form Nova City. Eclipse City was the next in the latest cities to be built by the collective.

It would take about a century, give or take a few years before Frostaria could be recognised for what it is today. Around 120AR, the 4 main cities had monumental growth, but none seemed to reach the size of Solstice City.