Shakespeare

Template:Planet attributes**Shakespeare**, formerly known as **Colony I**, was the first human colony planet settled as a part of the Dispersal Project. OK

## Description

In the winter, snows were heavy. Most of the planet was fertile and could support grass and plant life. For some reason, veins and lodes of metals did not coalesce during the planet formation of Shakespeare, and metals were hard to find.

As it was previously inhabited by Formics, the planet still contained the remnants of Formic cities, orchards, and factories. Rather than abandon the infrastructure already in place, the human colonists utilized the sewers, factories, and plowed fields for their own use.

As it was previously inhabited by Formics, the planet still contained the remnants of Formic cities, orchards, and factories. Rather than abandon the infrastructure already in place, the human colonists utilized the sewers, factories, and plowed fields for their own use.

## History

### Pre-Humans

Many years before the Xenocide, Formics colonized Shakespeare. They discovered the native animal that would later be called Gold Bugs, and spliced in Formic genes so they could communicate with the Hive Queen. They used these bugs to do their mining on the metal-scarce world. They encountered the native Dustworms, but since the workers were regarded as expendable they made no effort to develop a cure and let them slowly die.

As the Formic Hive Queens feared their fate at the hands of Ender Wiggin, they took the memory of Fairyland from the Mind Game within Ender's dreams and recreated it on the surface of the planet. They also brought a Hive Queen cocoonfrom the Formic Homeworld and left it in the Fairyland for Ender to eventually find.

###### Founding

After the destruction of the Formics in the Third Formic War, Shakespeare was settled in 0 BX by surviving International Fleetfoot soldiers and ship crew of the fleets near the planet. Vitaly Kolmogorov, an Admiral in the Fleet, was named governor. However, as the ratio between males and females was 10:1, a reproduction plan was implemented where the few females were paired with certain males. For the rest of the males, it became illegal to reproduce; however, libido suppressants were given to them, though some men like Sel Menach could not take them as they needed to be energetic for their work.

Within the first year, the colonists were burying former fighter pilots at the rate of one every other day while the xenobiologistSel Menach struggled to find drugs or treatments that would control or eliminate the airborne Dustworms that were inhaled and burrowed through their veins until they became so perforated they bled out internally. However, this was soon cured by a drug cocktail. Sel found that the worms fed on a certain plant species and had to wipe it out, which he felt sorry about.

The settlement was originally called Colony I, a placeholder name from the International Fleet. The names Tempest and Prospero, after the play by William Shakespeare was proposed and subsequently rejected. Eventually Ender Wiggin and Vitaly Kolmogorov decided on Shakespeare to be the name.

Ender Wiggin became the governor of the planet about 40 years after the War of Xenocide. It became the first formally established colony of humans. After more than 2 years as governor, Ender left the planet with his sister Valentine, bringing the Hive Queen cocoon with him.

## Trivia

* Shakespeare was named after the English playwright William Shakespeare.

## Inhabitants

### Governors

* Vitaly Kolmogorov (First governor)
* Sel Menach
* Ender Wiggin

#### Original Colonists

* Afraima
* Evenezer
* Fernão McPhee

##### Second Colonists

* Valentine Wiggin
* Alessandra Toscano
* Akbar
* Ix Tolo
* Hanna Tolo
* Po Tolo
* Abra Tolo
* Royo
* Clara
* Luton Trey
* Audra Overhill
* Zhang Fakhry
* Anwar
* Munk