Factoria and Krevan

## General information

Factoria and Krevan are a binary of a cold lacustrine carbonia and a cool arid subcarbonia that are located in the upper northwestern part of IC 1101. The two were not remarkable before human colonization and their transformation into Earth-like planets. Factoria had some large plains and a few lakes. The clouds on Factoria are yellow, and the sky color is light blue; you can see the star cluster that it would eventually becomea part of in a few hundred million years. Krevan is the binary partner to Factoria that has a purple sky and is smaller than its partner. Factoria and Krevan also have one major moon orbiting them, Seravan; that moon is mostly black due to the rock type that covers the majority of its surface.

## Factoria

Factoria was a cool lacustrine carbonaria discovered by (S)GAIA Expeditions on July 9th, 2024, with some lakes, large plains, and one major sea. The planet orbits a binary star system of a white giant and a brown dwarf, each having their own worlds. The planet before it was named Factoria was called Krevan Major, and it was called Factoria thanks to its later industrialization.

### Industrialization

Factoria earned its name thanks to its industrialization. The planet was first colonized by some space fleets from the lower northwestern portion of the galaxy in 500 MYA, was eventually terraformed, and then promptly paved over by grabby mineral corporations who found rare materials in an environment isolated far away from such minerals. They disregarded the environment of the planet and set up large Gilded Age style factories across the world. Over the course of time, these structures enveloped the world. The people of the planet became accustomed to the culture and environment of this world. Human evolution on this planet shows an extra boost of testosterone in both sexes that helps with muscle growth at an early age, larger diaphragms and lungs, and resilience against impact. The people of this world called themselves "the land of the factories," and it was only the Gearworks Empire, then the Icarian Empire, that named this world Factoria.

The infrastructure on this world has been renewed, left, and built into the world for approximately a billion years at this point, so that the world's geography has been replaced and locked by it. Because of the weight and the fact that infrastructure has tunneled and built large faculties, factories, and facilities into the plates, the tectonic plates have moved slower over time. The planet was officially classified as an ecumenopolis 20 MYA years after it completed its 9th level of factories. The seas that used to exist on the planet have been replaced by horizon-wide scrap fields.

### Society

The social environment that has been molded by the factories is one of resilience, brotherhood, warriorhood, and rebellion. This planet has an effective An-Cap law code that allows corporations to wage wars against each other, and thanks to that, the society, and the youth particularly, have this rebel mindset and are also divided on which corporations they support. A side effect of this is that the majority are runaways. The rest of society is apathetic to the conditions they work in; after all, this is all they have known. After a certain point, they leave the planet in search of the frontier and better working conditions. The population here is 170.9 billion, which is small for an ecumenopolis.

## Additional Information

### Position in Star System

1st (B)

Krevan is a cool, arid subcarbonate that is the smaller partner of Factoria. It has a rotational period of 36 hours, 53 minutes, and 14 seconds. Because it is tidally locked to Factoria, the planet has the same rotational period as it. The atmospheric composition here is a mix of CO2 and C3H8. The age of the planet is the same as Factoria, at 7.51 billion years. The average temperature here is 172.52 kelvin. The planet has one-tenth the mass of the Earth but half the radius.

### Colonization

Krevan's colonization was slower, and the terraforming only began while Factoria was being paved over. During human colonization, the planet was discovered to have very large craters resembling seas, a purple sky, and general shade. The population topped off at the 84 billion mark before going into a steady decline. Humanity settled in the mountains just before the large wastelands of the previously mentioned craters.

### Progress stolen by Factoria

Due to the minerals found on Factoria and the apparent lack of them on this world, suggesting this world was captured instead of being formed with Factoria, this world was left alone by the corporations except for some small industrial planets scattered across the surface that had low maintenance. Humanity did not diverge from the base Homo sapiens as quickly as it did on Factoria. The world is also a sort of refugee camp, with shanty towns being set up around the rivers of this world that get deconstructed later. The planet is viewed by the Factorians as a backwards nature reserve that is to be viewed as an exotic zoo, and due to this view, the development of the planet is looked down upon by large mega-corporations and the general populace. The average annual income here is 10,000 USD less than on Factoria, and the majority of this now-terraformed world is uncontacted wilderness.

### Physical features

Before terraforming, this world was a barren wasteland of tundra that was a shade of purple everywhere. There were extremely large craters that are more accurately described as basins. There were some large canyons that led to the basins, and the plate tectonics were active still as the newest mountain range formed only a few million years ago. Earthquakes have been reported on the planet occasionally, every few years. After the terraforming of this world, the previous canyons and valleys became rivers and streams, and the previous basins became the oceans on this world. Forests were imported later, and they quickly adapted to the mountainous and hilly environments across the world.