Bahar

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**Bahar** is a almost barren desert world orbiting around very brightly burning star. It has thin atmosphere, and very small amount of fauna and flora. It is, however, world very rich in Iron, which gives the world it's distinctive orange-brown color, Uranium, as well as endemic fruits and animal species located in the very limited places with access to surface water.
The world is recently colonized as mining outpost, and most of the infrastructure and industry is yet to be build, mining sites surveyed and shipping lanes set up.
It was colonized under the initiative of the Europan Planetary Federation, after the secession from the Imperium of Man.

## History

### 051.M42 to 090.M41

Bahar was found pretty much accidentally, then the technicians from Oriaan perfmormed a long-range Auspex scan, and found a unusual signature that was firstly believed to be a massive armada of space ships but upon scouting by a stealth frigate, it was found it is a planet with very unusual elecromagnetic signature. Since it was colonized just several decades ago, most of the heavy industrial infrastructure is yet to be build, but the backbone systems, are already built.

### 091.M42 to the Present day

Upon further surveys, it was found out the planet's crust is rich in Uranium, and centuries ago, an earthquake triggered a natural nuclear fission, which irradiated most of the planet's surface, increasing it's temperature, and killing much of the already sparse fauna and flora, leaving only small zones free of radiation. This limited the area where permanent population can live, although remote mining locations will still be located deep within the irradiated fields.

## Landscape & Nature

* Due to the star's high activity, and the nuclear fission taking place deep withint the planet's crust, the planet is naurally very hot, and in addition, the planet is constantly bombarded by energy particles and intense UV radiation, resulting in near-constant Aurora Borealis phenmenon being visible all over the planet's sky during the night.

* Planet's flora consist mostly of various mosses, lichens, algae and grass tufts or small shrubbery. It is richer in the non-irradiated zones and near the water wells and oases. Very little of the endemic fruit si edible for humans due to high concentration of sulphur and iron in the ground water, although imported plants are able to flourish in controlled environment.

* Only small life forms are able to survive, mostly in form of bacteria, insect, lizards and small critters not bigger than a common rat. The largest animal, the *Pike-eared Vidican*, can be compared to common canine with its size.

## Population, Society & Culture

* Due to the increased UV radiation, every inhabitant develops a brown skin tone over time. Also, clothing was adapted for the hot, sandy, and often windy environment, with long robes, veils and robes becoming the norm. In addition, everybody carries a pair of protective goggles and a filter mask at them all the time, due to ocassional sandstorm, which often contains irradiated sand. Radiation doses recieved while caught in the open is far from dangerous, however, internal contamination can be life-threatening.

* Most of the inhabitants live in the largest city that is build around the central space port, althogh many people live scattered around in safe zones near oases and deep waterwells, near planned mining locations, and various other points of interests.

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## Industry

The industry is not yet fully established, but plans for vast Uranium mines are made, along with Uranium processing plants to produce mostly weapons-grade enriched Uranium, which will be then made into warheads and supplied to the Battlefleet Europa.

In addition, other types of industry is planned, or is being built with the goal to make the planet fully self-sufficient and able to support the influx of workers and immigrants from other planets of the Federation.

## Notable locations

* *Home Site 1* - <TBA>

* *Home Site 2* - New main site, hastily built, and it consists of nothing but the very backbone infrastructure, such a hab-blocks, hydroponics, life support, storage sites and landing ports, with many less-important systems currently under construction.

## Armed Forces

Security and Law are enforced by Bahar Security force, who monitor the walkways, deal with crime and investigate threats from the inside. Defense against potential outside threats is provided by the orbiting warships and their crew, until proper defensive measures are built.