Roth Prime (Roth I)

## History

Roth Prime was originally a lush Class-M world and jewel of the **Rothian Corporation**. However due to extensive geothermal energy production, administered by **Waitang Energy Enterprises**, the planet has become geo-inactive and the surface of the planet has become mostly arctic tundra with just a few pockets of temperate zones still left within the planet itself.

In 1905, this planet was the site of the **"Wainara Riots"**, in which protests, objecting to Waitang's massive influence over the Government were slaughtered by Government troops, in the small city of the **Wainara**. Wainara was one of the first cities to be largely affected by the changing ecology on the planet.

Finally, in 1934, Roth society had grown to over seventy-five billion and Waitang, who had steadily been increasing the molten tapping process for years, discovered that the planet would be rendered geothermally inactive in just a few years.

With only the richest members of Rothian society aware of the coming calamity, which would cause massive climate change on the planet, changing the surface of the planet into a frozen wasteland, the Rothian elite built a colossal space station in orbit of Roth Prime where only the privileged could live.

Over the next few years, Roth society grew as cold as their dying world, Waitang was blamed by the Government for the ecological damage to Roth Prime and disbanded, but by this time, so much of Waitang's influence had corrupted the Government, that Waitang was essentially reborn inside the Government with the control of the entire Roth people.

## Environmental

Roth Prime has been mostly reduced to arctic tundra following the siphoning of all geothermal activity on the planet. As a result, most of the original vegetation of the planet and animal life has been totally destroyed on the planet surface.

Despite this drastic ecological change, some species of Rothian animal have survived and successfully adapted to the frigid conditions, like the colossal **"Regalis Major"**, a massive worm-like creature that measures almost fifty meters long, almost twice the length of a Terran Blue Whale. It is believed that this creature is a carrion, feeding on the many creatures that stray out into the tundra from the small collection of temperate zones still left on the planet. These creatures are usually found encircling various settlements still found in the temperate zones on the planet.

Within the temperate zones, the Rothian Corporation has taken great steps to maintain the unique ecology of each zone, installing technological barriers and environmental systems to help regulate these zones. These were originally put in place to curry favour with the Rothian citizenry but in actual fact, were used to ensure the sustainability for the serf-like population still living on the planet.

Since the fall of the Rothian Corporation following the **Roth/Strategos War** of 2420 against the **United Commonwealth of Planets**, the Roth Union has been accepting aid from both the Commonwealth and the neighbouring Robun to help terraform larger sections of the planet.

## Government and Society

Under the Rothian Corporation, the main seat of power was originally moved away from *"Domi'nera"*, the largest city on the planet and moved to **Canaan Station** in orbit where the aristocracy could live in relative comfort.

Since the fall of the Rothian Corporation in 2420 and the subsequent revolution by the citizenry, the capital has been moved back to *"Domi'nera"*. However their has been constant riots and uprisings on the planet as each faction of the Rothian Union as attempted to seize and solidify their own hold on power.

In theory, the **Rothian Union** is supposed to be a federal democracy but attempts to stage open and fair elections have been repeatedly rejected by different factions within the union.

In late 2420, President **Ues'sos Arran**, a revered **Rothian Resistance** hero formally took office as the first Rothian Union president.