Canaan Station

## History

**Canaan Station** was a colossal **Orbital Ring Station** built in orbit of the **Rothian Federation** home planet of **Roth Prime**. Originally completed in 2101 under **Emperor Enicles I**, Canaan Station took a massive amount of slave labour to build including the inhabitants of many different client kingdoms of the old **Rothian Corporation**, including the **Zoranastris** and **Asturian** peoples.

The station was constructed with the help of several manufacturing facilities discovered on **The Circle**, a **Cronus** ring station discovered in orbit around the distant world of **Monarchia (Zeta Felis XII)**, which had since become the secret throne world of the **Rothian Imperial Family**. This technology, now claimed by the Roth, allowed a swift construction of the ring through **Particle Synthesis**, allowing large sections of the station to be created through **Matter/Energy Conversion** of **Interstellar Hydrogen** around Roth Prime.

Canaan Station served as the new seat of power for the Rothian ruling class, essentially allowing them to leave the confines of the devasted Roth Prime, which had long since become an arctic wasteland due to expansive geothermal tapping by **Waitang Energy**. The station contained massive cities, parks and living complexes created with Cronus technology and was considered a highly impressive **Megastructure** and one of the finest in the **Black Eye Galaxy**.

However in 2420, the **The Roth/Strategos War** began, a military campaign that led to an alliance between the Rothian Corporation and the **Strategos Collective** against the rising power of the **United Commonwealth of Planets**. The Roth, having become concerned about the Commonwealth's expeditions into the **Zeta Quadrant** and the spread of democratic ideals over that of imperialism, launched a pre-emptive strike on the Commonwealth, resulting in this attempt to curb the spread of the Commonwealth backfiring when the last Rothian Emperor, **Taltrix III** was killed on Canaan Station by a strike team from the **U.S.S. Generation**.

During this operation and against the will of the Commonwealth, **Ues'sos Arran**, a Rothian freedom fighter who assisted the Commonwealth in gaining access to the station, set the station's multiple **Zero-Point Reactors** to overload, destroying the station in the process. Despite the Commonwealth heavily protesting this and the loss of several million of the Rothian aristocracy, Arran claimed that they had acted in the best interest of the Rothian people.

The station was destroyed and debris rained down on **Roth Prime**, worsening environmental conditions on the already devastated planet and ending the Rothian/Strategos War. Parts of the station collided with the planet's surface as Roth Prime's gravity pulled them down to the surface creating large areas of the planet where parts of Canaan Station can still be seen today in the frozen wastes.

These parts became national monuments by 2452 and were visited by former **Rothian Liberation Army** leader and future Rothian president, **Xei'nrn M'sorn**, who was convinced to give up his hatred for the **Aventis Empire** following the death of his husband. He remarked that Canaan Station was a tragedy that proved how much true freedom from oppression would cost, commenting on how Arran had been plagued by guilt his entire life for the deaths of so many of his own people. M'sorn committed to not letting his hatred consume him as it had Arran and seek a peaceful resolution with the Aventis following their annexation of Roth Prime in the 2420's.

M'sorn met with Queen **Hild I** of the Aventis Empire, who had also been marred by the effects her mother, Queen **Celia MacLowan** had created by invading the weakened **Rothian Union** in the first place. It was at the **Canaan Memorial Ice Fields** in the northern part of Roth Prime, that both of them came to the agreement to free the Rothian people, allowing the Rothian Federation to be formed and work alongside the Aventis Empire, with both joining the **Galactic Commonwealth** as independent powers in 2453, as Hild was determined not to repeat the mistakes of her mother.