New Argus

New Argus (also known as *Vectia)* is a rogue planet in the Kabbalan Sector of the Omega Quadrant.

## History

New Argus is the only planet of the New Argus Star System, a planet caught in a stable orbit of an errant small star. Until 2419, it was completely uninhabited with only very few amounts of non-sentient animal life living within the equatorial planes and forests.

In January 2419, the planet became the new home planet of the surviving members of the Argussian Imperium, who settled in the planet's smaller temperate zones. Subject to many harsh weather conditions on the planet, the Argussians managed to build the capital city of *Veridihearn*, which is located at the northern part of the equatorial band.

In April 2419, the United Commonwealth of Planets attacked the planet after it was discovered that the entire Argussian species had fallen under the control of the Old One known as *Yama*. This engagement was later known as the Battle of New Argus.

In this battle, New Argus was destroyed when the U.S.S. Nightshade launched a hellfire torpedo at the New Argus star, causing a supernova which wiped on the planet and most of the Argussian people.

New Argus and its people were restored by the Q Continuum in December 2419, after the conclusion of the Void War as the Void had originally prevented the Q from using any of their powers in the Black Eye Galaxy (M64).

New Argus and the Argussian Imperium joined the United Commonwealth of Planets in January 2420.

However in March 2420, the Argussian Imperium ceded from the Commonwealth, convincing both the Kabbalis Consortium and the Sonsinite Confederacy to join them. The Argussians had become increasingly concerned over the rising tensions with the Rothian Corporation and the Strategos Collective, which had led them to become convinced that the Commonwealth could not survive another sustained conflict.

The Argussians were also enraged that the Commonwealth was expending so many resources in helping Bunuaa, what they considered to be a strategically insignificant planet and an inferior species.

As a result, the Argussians attempted to forge an alliance of their own, forming the Black Eye Sedition in March 2420. The Argussians then negotiated a secret non-aggression pact with the Roth as tensions continued to build within between them and the Commonwealth.

The Black Eye Sedition was dissolved in April 2420, when the death of former Argussian leader, General Alexandrite Witherstone on New Ctarl-Ctarl, caused a power vacuum on New Argus, allowing a radical religious order known as the Church of Unifying Effulgence to seize power.

The Church began to make massive changes to New Argus, reverting Argussian society back to a pre-warp state claiming that technology had led them astray. However, in actuality, the Church still fully enjoyed the benefits of superior technology and used it to take control of the general population.

Supreme Pontiff Tourmaline I secured the Argussian leadership and declared that the United Commonwealth of Planets were heretics and needed to be brought to justice following the original destruction of New Argus. The Argussian Imperium lured the U.S.S. Nightshade to New Argus in an attempt to make Captain Luxiri face judgement for genocide.

When Captain Luxiri escaped, Tourmaline declared a holy war on the Commonwealth, using his newly constructed Argussian Eternity Class battleships to attack Chion Prime however this caused the Argussians to suffer yet another humiliating defeat when the entire attack force was destroyed at the Massacre of Chion Prime in which over 60,000 Argussian soldiers were killed while the Commonwealth suffered only 24 non-fatal casualties.

Due to the defeat of the Church's *Army of the Undying Light* at Chion Prime and the loss of so much Argussian life, the civilian population began an uprising in late July 2420. The revolution, led by civilian leaders who became enraged at the luxurious hypocrisy of the church while they lived in poverty, successfully overthrew the Church and instituted a new civilian government.

In late 2420, New Argus was rendered incapable of supporting carbon-based lifeforms when The Pryde of Ma'lkon terraformed the planet and destroyed a significant portion of the *Argussian* species. The planet was subsequently dragged into subspace and is at present presumed destroyed.

In December 2420, the U.S.S. Normandy discovered New Argus within Fluidic Space, now completely *prydeformed* and devoid of life. As a result, the Argussian Remnant have been reduced to near extinction.