Polymede

"The Feds and the Alliance aren't welcome here. I appreciate that they're trying to make amends, but they ruined our planet over nothing. They will never be forgiven for that"  - Excerpt of interview with a resident of the Central Restoration Space Station orbiting Polymede

Polymede was a former Federation Colony World that was heavily damaged during the Separation Wars.

## Planet History

### Post-Silence

After the Silence ended, Polymede found itself in a pretty good position. As one of two systems bridging the gap between the budding Federation and Conglomerate, the planet found quite a lot of traffic, traffic that brought along with it a lot of trade from the two emerging economies.

### The Separation Wars

Polymede's positioning ended up as both a blessing and a curse during the Separation Wars. As a sector-wide trade hub, control of the planet would essentially lead to control of a significant share of the trade in the entire sector. Polymede was not defenseless in the war, however. The Cassian Conglomerate had pledged their support in maintaining the neutrality of Polymede, so that they could maintain trade during the war.

However, this support would not be nearly enough to prevent the tragedy that followed when the Alliance came to the planet.

### The Battle of Polymede

The Alliance brought its entire fleet to bear against the Federation, who had set up a sizable force in the Hrefna system in order to protect the borders of their space after being pushed out of systems south of this border by rebellions caused by Alliance sympathizers.

Both sides smelled blood in the water. The Federation was losing ground at a rapid pace, but the Alliance had gambled most of their military might on fighting the Federation here. Both sides saw the end of the war after this battle.

Alliance and Federation ships engaged with each other with tunnel vision, firing off salvo after salvo of munitions at each other. The shots that hit ships were devastating. The shots that missed the ships were even more so.

Polymede was a large planet, large enough that munitions thrown off track would be taken in by its gravity and hit the planet. Spaceports, factories, farms, all of Polymede's economical structure ended up being inadvertently shelled by shots fired from both sides. Population centres were not spared, either. Nor was the plant life, or the wildlife.

By the time the fighting died down, Polymede had taken so much fire, that anything regarding a civilization was utterly demolished. The survivors were lucky that the Cassian Conglomerate was on hand to evacuate as many people as they could into shelters, or off-world. Polymede's time as a trade hub was brought to an end through the myopic ambitions of two fledgling factions of warlords.

### After the Separation Wars

The biosphere of Polymede was completely mutated from the numerous weapons used by both sides in the war. Crops would grow malformed, fauna would grow horrifying mutations and would attack colonists.

The only solution to the problem was to leave the surface and live elsewhere. However, many colonists saw Polymede as their home, and didn't want to leave it behind in its state.

Thus, in a joint effort by the Federation, the Alliance of Independent Systems, and the Cassian Conglomerate, mandated by the Halldis Accords, the Central Restoration Space Station was constructed, and thus, the Polymede Restoration Project was born

The goal of Restoration Station was to coordinate restoration efforts that would be carried out by massive Sky Cities. Each Sky City would be designated an area to attempt to restore, and mission reports were sent out to the station on a regular basis.