Armorica

Departmento Cartographicae pict-file of Armorica.

**Armorica** is a almost barren world with 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, and other commonly used minerals. The world is recently colonized mining world, and most of the infrastructure and industry is yet to be build, mining sites surveyed and shipping lanes set up.
The name was chosen with the intention of coloniztion of this world, and that is to supply huge amounts of steel for the Navy and the Army.
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

Armorica 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 industrial infrastructure is yet to be build, but the backbone systems, are already built.

### 091.M42 to the Present day

An earthqake struck, with the epicentre not far from the main site, which by itself did not cause any significant damage or loss of lives, but miners, and later everybody at the site started reporting neusea and health problems, and rad-counters started to read insane numbers, resulting in the site being evacuated, and a new site being set up several hundred kilometers away, setting the colonization process decades back.
The earthquake was caused by tectonic place movement, which connected two huge underground deposites of Uranium, and ignited a natural fission reaction, irradiating large portion of the planet.

## Landscape & Nature

* The surface is mostly barren, with day temperatures ranging from 35-55°C around the equator and the temperate zone. The sirface itself is covered in mosses, lichens, algae and grass tufts or small shrubbery, no native edible food grows here, but imported plants are able to flourish in controlled environment, although the hightened natural radiation and the earth composition makes it to have, both pleasant and unpleasant side effects after long-term consumption.

* Only small life forms are able to survive, mostly in form of bacteria, insect, lizards and small critters not bigger than a common rat.

## Notable locations

* **Home Site 1** - The original main site that had to be abandoned. Now it is nothing but eerie, empty buildings bathed in high levels of radiation.

* **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 Armorican 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, until proper defensive measures are built.