P3-X2

The planet **P3-X2** is the home of Watchtower Station, and was the sight of the Battle of the Colonies between CSS (Colonist Survivors) and DRF (Drone Reactionary Force) forces. Both sides were eventually defeated by the Green Drone Armada, who drove them away. Eventually, the GDA took control of the planet and the surrounding system, and established their headquarters on the surface planet.

## History

### Colony Wars

After Captain Jack Roberts and his colonists escaped the unknown planet when New Dawn Base and the original *Dawnbreaker* were destroyed, they returned to Watchtower Station and began repairs. However, an accident caused by Craz fixing the FTL Drive made the station FTL jump to P3-X2 by accident. Once it exited hyperspace, it smashed through a salvaging vessel belonging to Castle and crashed into an asteroid.

Instead of abandoning the station, however, the crew expanded the station further into the asteroid, building a hangar, hallways, production and storage facilities, dry docks, and even a construction bay in a massive natural cavern, over which Craz eventually built the Waffle Iron 2.0.

The colonists eventually launched the CSS *Pioneer*, which landed them on the planet. Eventually, Jack and Castle encountered a strange tent and underground structure and drilling ship near the *Pioneer*, which they blew up and seemingly killed someone called Kevin, who left them a message about “Green Eyes”. Soon after, the rest of the team was called down to the planet and they found the Tenth Supply Convoy members Bashful and Lyderian, as well as their enormous mobile base, the *Bison*, who had just been ambushed by an unknown enemy.

Finn and Eike Sky were soon ambushed by something with Green Eyes on a scouting trip. The entire crew picked them up and carried on to discover seemingly abandoned underground base. However, inside they not only saw members of the DRF forces on the planet, but also the one who became known as “the Controller”, the diabolical leader of the Green Drone Armada. It is this reason that prompts the belief that P3-X2 is the homeworld or origin world of the GDA, as this was the first time they had been encountered. After a lengthy firefight, both the colonists and the DRF managed to escape.

The DRF army soon attacked Pioneer Base, utterly destroying the *Bison* and severely damaging the *Pioneer*. The colonists soon counterattacked with an Orbital Rotor Gun Platform built at Watchtower, but it and a few hover tanks could not do enough damage in time, and were quickly destroyed. The GDA drone army also struck and forced the colonists to re-launch the *Pioneer* into space, though Lyderian was killed in the evacuation. The DRF also fled the planet and built a large fleet in space.

The GDA continued to strike at anyone and everyone who came near P3-X2, including several RWI (Red Wood Industries) ships, including four RWI Defender-class Frigates, the *Stalwart,* the *Gauntlet*, the *Talon,* and the *Karnack*, two INIC ships, and the Watchtower itself, eventually driving the colonists from the station and killing Eike Sky.

Jack’s colonists and the DRF fleet fought one last time above the planet, but as five GDA destroyers showed up to wipe them out, the two enemies united. Though they destroyed a few destroyers, the DRF flagship, the *Exturtle*, was destroyed, the *Avalon* was destroyed (and with it, Venom was presumed dead), and the *Vengeance* was nearly destroyed before its FTL core warped it away to another unknown planet, leaving the GDA as the sole presence on the planet.

### Colony Lost

After a thorough analysis of GDA fleet activity, Captain Sarah Hawk and the RWI *Discovery* were dispatched to scan P3-X2 and the surrounding system, believing that the GDA headquarters, or at least an important base of operations, was located on or near the planet. The Artifact's tracker signal was located on the surface, but soon after, a massive power surge was detected. Before the *Discovery* could come about and jump to FTL, they were ambushed, and forced to crash-land on the surface. This prompted the Allied fleet to send the invasion force in three days later

The GDA had established an orbital base in the remains of Watchtower Station, which they had taken from the RWI colonists earlier. Before RWI’s invasion of the world during the Green Drone War, Captain Roberts and his team, now officially part of RWI and serving aboard the RWI *Eclipse*, infiltrated the station. They disabled several critical systems, including an Atlas Superlaser cannon fitted to the bottom of the station, in order for the invasion fleet to have an easier time fighting the defending GDA fleet. The massive Allied Invasion fleet moved in and quickly dealt with the defending Dreadnaught and Destroyers.

Once the blockade was broken and a landing site was established at a GDA ground-to-space Altas Laser cannon facility, Jack’s Team was sent in rovers and gunships to infiltrate the GDA base while Captain Jonathan Hunter used the RWI *Tigris* to assault the base’s main entrance. Jack’s team found the Controller and the GDA Commander inside, but the Artifact was missing. The Controller soon set the base’s self-destruct sequence, prompting RWI to withdraw all forces from the planet and return to space.

Meanwhile, the Alliance Invasion Fleet was able to pinpoint the RWI *Discovery*’s crash site and sent the RWI *Osiris* evacuate Captain Hawk and the survivors. Jack’s team also helped locate them, as the *Osiris* was engaged by two GDA Scourge-class Carriers, and soon left the planet on the *Eclipse*. Soon after, a massive ship, identified later as the GDA Super-Dreadnaught, rose from the surface with Artifact on board, cleared the planetary gravity well, and after a skirmish with RWI forces led by the RWI *Apollo*, jumped away.

It is unknown whether or not P3-X2 was completely abandoned by the GDA during or after the Invasion, but it is likely, since the war ended soon after, when the Artifact, the Commander, the Controller, and the Super-Dreadnaught were all destroyed during the Battle of the Black Hole.

## Properties

P3-X2 was a planet covered in vast orange deserts, mountains, and canyons, which hot temperatures and a bright sun. The planet’s gravity was 0.9 G, just under the standard 1.0 G found on many other planets. P3-X2 had one icy moon and belonged to a solar system with a few other planets, including the Earth-like planet settled on by Captain Roberts’ original colony, as well as that planet’s moon, and another green-colored planet and its moon. It was also surrounded by several asteroid clusters.