Tatov

Tatov is an inhabited ringed rocky moon of Gengerth. Its colonization and subsequent history of government are quite troubled. In the period after the Empire-Union War, the Asgardian Alliance acquired many systems which were formerly controlled by the Galactic Empire or the Bandorian Protectorate. The citizens of these systems posed a major problem for the government of the Alliance; there were many uprisings, and eventually the Asgardian central government decided to deport nearly 40 million of the "most troublesome" individuals to a new colony, which was planned to be a high-security, controlled-access facility on a massive scale- essentially, a giant prison for those the Asgardian central government, supposedly committed to democracy and human rights/freedoms, deemed most likely to cause uprisings. Asgardian scientists observing the Huriq star system thought that Alagua was habitable based on their observations; however, when the massive ships holding the colonists and building supplies arrived in Huriq, they found that the two major planets in the system were both small gas planets, totally uninhabitable for humans. Probes were sent out to explore the system more thoroughly, and these probes discovered that Tatov, the moon of the outer planet, was potentially habitable, though it would require extensive terraforming. The Asgardian central government assembled a rapid-terraforming team and sent it to Huriq, but it was still nearly 20 years before Tatov was made properly habitable. The colonists were basically made prisoners on the colonization ships during this time, and there were major concerns that supplies would run out before terraforming was complete. Supplies ran out 2 years into the terraforming process, and major supply trains had to be created to keep oxygen, food and water supplied to the colonists on board the ships for the rest of the time while Tatov's terraforming process was completed. Once the terraforming was finally complete, the process of building homes (which were basically containment facilities, and housed 10,000 people each) for the colonists was begun. Near the end of the building process, the colonists staged a massive rebellion, taking control of the ships and landing on the surface of Tatov, nearly 500 kilometers from the planned building site. The colonists started their time on the moon by building living structures from the remnants of the ships. They formed an independent government after a brief period of anarchy, although during this time the Bandorian Protectorate agreed to supply the colonists with food and water until the colony became self-sustaining. The Asgardian Alliance considered the system heavily in debt to them because of the unplanned terraforming project there. Eventually the system joined the Alliance of Independent Settlements, which imposed the condition that the local government begin working to pay off its debt to the Asgardian Alliance. As of 4025 the system still owed over 10 trillion credits, according to the Asgardian central government. The area where the controlled-access facilities intended to house the colonists was constructed was abandoned, although after the local government joined the AIS the AIS central government deployed soldiers to the system and declared the abandoned buildings to be a restricted area. The buildings had been surrounded by several different forms of containment devices from electrified fences to microwave-beams running around the area, which the Asgardian government had planned to use to prevent escapes.