Archepedes

Archepedes, officially Archon Prime, is an Earth-Like Terrestrial planet that is currently the capital of the Vassal of Haigon, with a population of 35 Billion. Due to its large population, the surface is nearly all metropolis; the streets are not like other colonies of Haigon as the layout is in a grid therefore easy to invade and take ground although the Defences present within Shinrhata Dhezra are made to annihilate anything that would resemble a threat from coming near the capital.

As one of the inner terrestrial planets of the Shinrhata Dhezra, the planet has a wide variety of different ecosystems from plains to Frozen Rainforests; like most generic terrestrial planets the majority of the surface is an ocean at roughly 65%. The planet is approximately 180M kilometers from the star; as is human tradition the star(s) to a colony are referred to as ‘The Sun’ even though in the Shinrhata Dhezra it has no official name. Unlike most Haigon colonies the planet was formed extremely violently causing the planet to have much thinner than normal crusts on planets causing most of the heating of the planet to be from the planet core that is much closer to the surface. Although the crust is thinner than earth the diameter of the Archepedes is 21,478km nearly doubling the diameter of Earth.

## Early History

Some 1300 years before the settling of the first cities by Haigon a Fungi-Humanoid civilization developed into a continent-wide race, the race later was named Tetra Fungi as an insult due to early Haigon's xenophobic ideals. Tetra’s discovery was a complete accident due to the arrival of the first Haigon Glorious Class Colonisation ship. After the ship landed and a base began to form from the partially deconstructed ship, research had begun on the surrounding area, after some test in the soil a fair amount of living organisms mainly fungi were discovered although this did not come to the surprise of the scientists as the fact the planet could sustain life was the reason why they were there; the scientists were intrigued by the discovery of the high concentration of fungi in the soil as it was unusually high in contrast to other habitable planets. Later in the investigation scientists discovered that the fungi was a semi-sentient species; The Haigon approach to possible sentient life is known to be cataclysmic and Tetras existence was no exception, Every man woman and child was evacuated from the planet and a virus bomb was devised that only targeted Tetra life forms and cells, after the Haigon fleet arrived bearing the bombs and exploding shells containing the virus, the damage was apocalyptic causing the entire race to be infected and subsequently were eliminated. Shortly after the evacuees returned to the colony it was decided to create kill squads that would patrol to make sure none of the surviving xenos were near the colony, thousands of Tetra were slaughtered.

Archepedes was not the origin planet of Haigon, therefore making the colonization much easier as no previous infrastructure was in the way of development apart from some "pesky xenos", the planet was planned before its colonization to be the capital of the empire and as such does not have many military installations in place as they are elsewhere in the system as to make more space for the population to occupy. On the landing of the planet on 30/12/2311, it was decided to officially establish the colony on the 1st day of the year. Within 10 years of habitation the population steadily increased from 60,000 from the day of establishment to 130,000, the population continued to increase by a matter of 2 - 3% for about 100 years. The Colony then began to experience the flattening of its population curve soon after the 100 years of growth and the population growth of Archepedes slowly declined before it reached an equilibrium where the population no longer increases. This has caused many issues regarding the economy as it continues to cause unemployment, bankruptcy and an all around rise in the discontent of the local populace.