Tanis

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Tanis
System Information
Star names1
Spectral classF3V[1]
Recharge time174 hours[1]
Planet(s)4[1]

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Tanis System

System Overview

The Tanis system was the system within which the worlds known as the Tanite worlds were settled. The Tanis system contained four planets: Alexandra, Stacha, Tanis and Talbot. Tanis was located in the Deep Periphery.[1]

System Description

Of the four planets in the Tanis system only Talbot was inimical to human life, being a massive gas giant located close to the edge of the system. The system was first discovered by humans in 2494 when Albert Radulov, a deep space explorer employed by a company named The Rigelian Collective. He promptly named the system Radulov, but was subsequently convicted of interstellar fraud, and the details of the location of the Radulov system and the survey information on its worlds gathered by his expedition were promptly lost for several decades as a result.[1]

Kylie Tanis, granddaughter of Albert Radulov, rediscovered the lost system data in 2576. Kylie was a strident dissenter against the Prollux Proclamation issued by First Lord Ian Cameron, and she decided to gather together more than one and a half thousand like-minded dissenters from the Draconis Combine and Lyran Commonwealth and set off for the Radulov system.[1]

Tanis' colonization expedition arrived in the Radulov system in 2600, but Kylie Tanis had died two jumps prior to their arrival; the colonists chose to rename the system to Tanis in honour of their leader and founded their first colony settlement on Stacha. The settlement was named Markham, and was soon beset with problems; ravaged by a series of pandemics, the first decade was very hard for the colonists, and when a second colony expedition arrived in 2670 they discovered that only four hundred and fifty colonists were still alive. With the infusion of new blood the colony was soon growing, and by 2750 was far enough along the road to recovery that the colonists had founded a second colony, Khartoum.[1]

By 2850 all three habitable worlds within the Tanis system sported colonies, all of which were linked in a symbiotic relationship that met all of the system's needs; as a result, the Tanites developed no outside contact with outside systems and had mothballed or re-roled their supplies of military equipment.[1]

Clan Cloud Cobra discovered the Tanis system in 2965 and immediately set out to conquer the system. Completely outclassed and outgunned, the Tanites had no realistic means to fightback and were swiftly conquered, leaving the Cloud Cobras with three successful Star League-era colonies that were self-suficient and had basic infrastructure in place, but which were populated by a population determined not to assimilate.[1]

The Tanites initially opposed the Cloud Cobras via passive resistance, stopping services, allowing elements of the infrastructure to develop mechanical problems and slowing production at their various factories and facilities. The Cloud Cobra warrior caste reacted in a belligerant fashion, destroying the city of Placard and killing the five hundred thousand Tanites living there. Despite this genocidal act the Tanites continued to refuse to assimilate, leaving the Cloud Cobras facing the prospect of having to annihilate the colonists.[1]

In 2995 a rebel group on Alexandra acquired enough weapons to rise up, capturing the main planetary DropPort and declaring Alexandra a free world. The Cloud Cobras responded with a two-year campaign that involved almost half the Cloud Cobra touman, but which still couldn't subdue the Tanites, who were prepared to die rather than assimilate.[1]

Peace came to the Tanis system when leaders from the labor and merchant castes of Clan Cloud Cobra came to an agreement with the Tanites in 2997 that saw the Cloud Cobras officially declared the owners of the system, but agree to leave only a light guard, in exchange for allowing the Tanite worlds to govern and operate themselves as they had before while producing the resources and products demanded by the Cloud Cobras. This staved off the complete genocide of the Tanite population, and the apparent worthlessness of the Tanite worlds saw the Cloud Cobras officially remain the uncontested overlords of the Tanis system until the Wars of Reaving.[1]

In practise, output from the Tanite worlds was constantly low, and in 3004 the Cloud Cobras implemented heavy sterilization protocols on the populace; the combination of isolation and self-governance saw the Tanite worlds become a haven for the Dark Caste. Although the system would change hands between the Cloud Cobras, Clan Burrock and Clan Star Adder, the Tanite leaders mantained the appearance of subservience while continuing to expand the influence of the Dark Caste and later the Society on the Tanite worlds. After the absorption of the Burrocks the Tanite leadership threw their lot in with the shadow leadership of the Burrocks and their plans for the rebirth of their Clan.[1]

Owner History

Alexandra

Planetary Description

The innermost world of the Tanis system, Alexandra has large underwater mountain ranges forming a number of long island chains, and almost three quarters of the planet was covered in water. The water itself contained large quantities of arsenic, and Alexandra became home to the majority of the Tanite mining industry and the main heavy factory complex for the system. The factory complex would later be converted to military use.[1]

Stacha

Planetary Description

Locked into an elliptical path roughly opposite to the world of Tanis and at approximately the same proximity from the system star, Stacha was a world suitable for widespread agriculture. The first world in the system to be colonized, Satcha had large swaths of plains and was planted with vast agricultural crops by the citizens of Khartoum, the second colony founded in the system. The original colony, Markham, was the site of the largest spaceport in the system, along with a number of small factories and repairbays, making Stacha an important part of the Tanite shipping network and infrastructure.[1]

Tanis

Planetary Description

Tanis was half-covered with water and provided most of the fresh water used by the population of the three colony worlds. The three major coloneis on Tanis were Mockva Central, Punjabi and Yule; Yule was surrounded by pastureland and Punjabi was the center of a large number of fisheries, but Mockva Central was the site of most of the Tanite industry. Outside of the three major colonies were numerous small family compounds, generally numbering less than a hundred people and dotted acorss the main continent. The major settlements and their outlying supply stations were all connected by broad, raised track beds that were laid down with great precision, running laser-straight between destinations; visible from orbit, these track beds gave Tanis an unusual geometric visual texture.[1]

References

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 The Wars of Reaving Supplemental, p. 5-6, "The Tanis System"

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