Gocharo

## Gocharo • Sirius Ⅳ

Gocharo in the present.

**Gocharo**is the sole world orbiting its star, this world was first colonized by an East Asian contingent during the aftermath of the Marsh War. Later, this world was colonized by settlers from the world of Krēslas in the Proxima Centauri system. It was briefly part of M.T.E. before gaining independence after the collapse of the ECA.

## History

### Planetfall

Settlers landed on the world of Gocharo circa 2208 several decades following the conclusion of terraforming. Most of the planetfall sites have been subsumed by the Great Salt Desert, alongside most off-world knowledge brought by the settlers.

### Desertification of Gocharo

With the majority of its surface already naturally desert, as centuries passed the planet shifted between dry and wet periods. As the native civilizations of the planet grew and industrialized the natural balance between dry and wet began to change. First drier periods became longer but than the opposite occurred with wet periods lasting longer. Eventually however, as the oceans began to evaporate and the shallow seas dried into salt flats the cycle slowly died out.

### The Fall

Circa 2358, the local biosphere was recognized to have entered a state of no return. The events set into motion by their ancestors' lack of foresight and the terraforming's failure to complete would lead to catastrophe. In an effort to combat the climate collapse a complex series of machines across the surface. These machines with careful maintenance were able to preserve and expand the few remaining stable regions of Gocharo, all controlled by a single platform in low orbit.

During the Dust Wars, this platform was attacked and plummeted to the surface, creating a new crater in the Great Salt Desert, this event was later known as "the Fall". After the Fall the machines across the surface shut down, with the climate no longer controlled rapid warming quickly reduced the oceans to half their pre-Fall size. The world's continents were laid to waste by constant fires and endless dust storms compounded by the sudden temperature increase. Gocharo was now on the path towards complete destruction, predicted to return to its pre-terraformed state in only a century.

### Present Day Gocharo

After the Dust Wars, the Gocharo's biosphere had been utterly destroyed, the effects of the war were devastating annihilating the last remnants of stability and the scant remains of the dying seas. In the years following the wars, the combined efforts of the populace and off-worlders have begun the slow and methodical process of restoring the biosphere.

## Climate

In the present, the planet is mostly dry and arid with rain rarely fully throughout the globe. With the majority of the surface made up of deserts (salt, sand, rock, and ice), there are nearly constant dust storms and extreme temperatures differences daily. The poles remain covered by reduced ice caps surrounded by thin tundra and temperate forests.

## Geography

Gocharo after being terraformed, was a fairly temperate albeit fragile world. Vast deserts dominated the surface alongside vast shallow oceans. Careful maintenance and limited spread of technology kept the planet's fragile biosphere from collapse. Over time, as technologies were rediscovered and civilization advanced, the oceans dried up and the air became dusty mainly due to neglect and lack of resources.