Jux (Omega Beta III)

## History

Known to the Interstellar Alliance, *Jux*, also known as *Omega Beta III* is the third planet of the *Omega Beta Star System* in the Omega Quadrant of the Black Eye Galaxy.

For over a hundred years, Jux was home to an advanced humanoid society that regularly engaged in trade with the Interstellar Alliance, providing them with much needed *Plasma Technology* for their vessel's power systems.

Despite their advanced technology, which was the envy of other great Black Eye Galaxy civilisations such as the Xen'Trist Prime and Sobekka Hegemony, the Jux never sought to move beyond their own planet or explore space due to various political and social problems with emerged on their world.

Although democratic in nature and with a culture based around free and open expression, the Jux were plagued by a myriad of different interest groups that fought to seize power over each other, resulting in constant protests, riots and small scale social engagements on the surface of their world.

In 2418, before the arrival and formation of the United Commonwealth of Planets, the *Omega Beta Star* began to go through an intensely violent sun-sport phase, resulting in widespread ecological changes to Jux.

Despite calls to relocate Jux's population and petition the Interstellar Alliance for help, a small protest group inside Jux's government blamed the spread of Jux's industry as the culprit for the ecological changes on their world and began a widespread riot on the planet, damaging heavy amounts of industrial infrastructure on the planet.

This group, known simply as *"Natural Defiance"* were frantically devoted to Jux and caused untold damage to Jux's infrastructure and sought to convince the public by causing major blockades of Jux's commercial sectors, resulting in the Government being forced to take wider action to remove them.

Several social groups within Jux society saw this as an opportunity to claim power and used the weakened political system which had existed for hundreds of years to attempt to influence the public, claiming the system was "unjust, broken and unfair" and began also rising up through protest action that slowly became more violent.

As a result of this, the *Omega Beta Star* began to steadily get worse over the cause of a year through an unknown process while Jux continued to be heavily divided and protests raged over the planet. *Natural Defiance* were convinced that *"Science above all else could save them"* and promoted the explanations of *"experts"* above all else, further drowning out the Government's message of wide-scale evacuation.

Believing that *"Science"* would be able to save them and Jux was scared and needed to be protected at all costs, *"Natural Defiance"* was able to confuse the population enough, that when the star emitted a huge *Gamma Ray Burst*, the surface of the planet was heavily irradiated, with only 2% of the total population surviving due to the planet's lack of planning, needed starship development or realistic attempt to evacuate.

Curiously, the *Natural Defiance* members that somehow survived were quick to celebrate the death of their leaders, claiming them to be *"Arrogant Elite that deserved their fate"*, although they themselves were quickly executed by the angry and vengeful surviving public who saw them as the reason Jux had not had time to prepare for the calamity.

Interestingly enough, the Jux civilisation survived, albeit in a crippled state and relocated to Jux IV, which was *Class-L* and rather harsh in conditions. They also became an Interstellar Alliance children's tale as a warning about the dangers of environmental and social fanaticism, lack of empathy and educated arrogant hubris.