TRAPPIST-1e

The dark planet of Trappos

**TRAPPIST-1e** (formerly known as **Trappos** during the Zainus Era) is a Class X "Graveyard" Planet located in the Orion Spur of the Milky Way Galaxy, approximately 40 light years from Earth. TRAPPIST-1e is a largely barren earth-sized world that was once the capital of the long gone Trappist Empire. Much of the planets terrain is either abandoned or heavily devastated. TRAPPIST-1e's once diverse landscape is now filled with remains of destroyed cities, lakes and rivers choked with debris, fields of destroyed starships, and evidence of a cataclysmic event occurring around 55,000 years ago.

During its prime, Trappos was a prosperous city planet, and was a hub for technology, science, industry, religion and culture back in the days of the Zainus Era. In the waning days of the Terran federation, the planet became a center of Trappist influenced sedition against the government. Trappos was represented by a Trappist politician in the Federations legislative council, and ideals of separatism were widespread in the planets cities. Revolutionaries rose up on Trappos during the Terran Civil War, and the system was annexed by the Trappist Empire after the war. Trappos was then declared the capital of the Trappist Empire. During the period of the Zainus Cold War, an imperial palace for the reigning monarch of the empire was constructed on Trappos, and stood as the tallest building on the planet. Trappos was rapidly militarized due to its proximity to Earth, and a home defense fleet of Trappist starships was established to guard the planet. Although some minor revolts occurred on the planets surface, the majority of Trappos' population chose to stay in line due to the heavy military presence on the planet. Trappos remained a cultural, technological and financial center of the empire, and the population of the planet increased. New supercities were established on Trappos due to the many reconstruction plans the Trappist Empire had set in motion.

However, when the 200 Year War broke out, life on Trappos began to change violently. The Trappist Military heavily increased its presence on the planet. Police raids over small offenses, and street battles between Trappist soldiers and criminals became commonplace. Poverty increased on the planet as more and more funds went to the empires war effort against the Orion Federation. An underground republican movement began, along with a black market network of criminals, gangs and syndicates forming across the planet. Even after the collapse of the Orion Federation, life was not getting better, crime syndicates dominated the planet, and the Trappists were losing their grip over their own capital planet. Invasions into the Orion remnants halted as forces were called back to quell the dissent on Trappos and other Trappist planets. The Orion Remnants were then able to reorganize a counterattack, and invaded the empire. The Battle of Trappos took place in early 52,638 B.C.E, and culminated with a strike on the planet by the Orion's superweapon, Orion's Eye. The superweapon obliterated the planets surface, every single city, facility, starship, and Zainus on the planet and within its atmosphere was incinerated in the blast that sent out a wall of superheated plasma that took over the entire planet. Every Trappist starship that was defending the planet crashed on the planets incinerated surface. All food sources on the planet were wiped out, any survivors on the surface were as good as dead. All in all, 33 billion Trappist men, women and children, met a brutal end when the Orion's Eye enacted the vengeance of an entire civilization onto Trappos. The emperor at the time died with his people, the last Trappist Emperor to ever reign over the planet again. A small group of aristocratic survivors led by the empress consort went into hypersleep in a bunker outside the capital city.

After the attack, Trappos was abandoned by both factions, and the planet went dark and quiet. Remnants of the Trappist Empires supercities, starships, culture, religion, and technology were scattered across the planet. The attack heated the planets interior, which led to intense volcanism on the planets surface, devastating the planets terrain even more. Trappos became a Graveyard Planet, its continents being dotted with destroyed cities, its fields filled with crashed starships, rivers, lakes and oceans being choked with debris from wrecked cities and vessels, and the planets surface being scarred by the Orions attack.