Faraway
Role: Agriculture, Mining
Circumference: 22,060 miles
Population: 300,000
Orbital Path: Fourth
Rotational Period (days): 1.08
Orbital Period (days): 341
Primary Function: Agriculture, Mining
Retention Index: 3
In the beginning, Faraway was a colony of friendly, curious, adventuresome people, who thought of the history of their new world as a great mystery to be explored. As time passed, however, and their world became more and more isolated, so too did the colonists. Today, visitors to Faraway describe the colonists, citizen and civilian alike, as hostile or even xenophobic.
History
The most exciting time in the history of Faraway happened before humanity even arrived at the planet. According to the best evidence gathered by Federation scientists, the planet was hit with an asteroid approximately 21 miles wide travelling at 31,000 miles per hour sometime around the year 1650. It impacted on dry land with more force than half SICON’s Fleet could muster, creating such a cataclysm that every form of life on the planet was destroyed.
The planet was far from uninhabited when this happened. Not long after commencing its first large-scale investigation on Faraway, the Federation learned that there had been intelligent life on the planet before the apocalypse when the scientists began to discover evidence of cities, concurrent with a civilisation in the early stages of the Industrial Age.
Since those first discoveries, a number of well-preserved bodies have been found in the thick, caked volcanic dust everywhere on the surface of the world. The civilisation native to Faraway was reptilian, using a long, snakeline tail for locomotion and equipped with four arms, each with two fingers and an opposable thumb. In honour of the star’s name, and in recognition of the race’s reptilian derivation, they were named the Draconians.
For nearly 20 years after the colony’s founding in 2278, Faraway was in the news constantly, as Federation scientists discovered more and more information about the race that evolved, lived and died there. Slowly, the novelty of it wore off and, though there are still scientifi c expeditions launched to Faraway, they have grown fewer and fewer over the years and the population of the Federation as a whole has long since ceased to care about the Draconians.
Close to the galactic core and with nothing whatsoever past it to defend, Faraway is rarely visited by the Fleet. When ships do come to Faraway now, it is usually only a cargo ship or two, there to haul away the valuable produce the world generates for distribution to other colonies. The appearance of a warship in Sigma Draconis system is rare indeed and they are usually only there long enough to do a quick and perfunctory security sweep before departing for another six to eight months.
That is swiftly beginning to change. Though it is certainly not the kind of thing that is reported on FedNet, ships belonging to the Black Cross and the Civilian Militia have been seen in the region and SICON suspects they have been using Fleet’s lax patrolling schedule in order to slip in to Faraway and resupply. Consequently, Fleet has been ordered to step up its patrols dramatically.
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