Altronis

Altronis is an Alliance member World and a major economic center producing consumer goods for much of Joint Space.

History

During the Mage Wars, Altronis was controlled by the Marcon Alliance were it served primarily as a slave-world, breeding warriors to fight all over the Known Worlds. It was liberated in 901 B.G.A. by the dragon sorceress Lelerough during her spree of destruction. So thorough was Lelerough's damage of the Marconian infrustructure that they did not even attempt to reclaim the world, and it remained free.

At the start of the Golden Age, Altronis formally joined the Alliance, but due to it's remoteness, did little more than agree to a non-aggression pact. They did not even have representation in Arindell. During the Ninety-nine-years war, Altronis severed all contact with the Alliance, though they remained, at least on paper, a formal member.

No contact at all was had until the mid Fourth Age, when Marcus Ransom, son of then-Pendragon Andrei Ransom, made his way there to see what it was like. Marcus found Altronis under the control of a brutal corpocracy. He also found himself stranded, and when the powers of the Alliance and Foundation refused to intercede, he set about a rebellion and eventually brought about massive reforms.

As part of the economic reforms, the Foundation built a large GATE hub on Altronis so that good manufactured there could be easily shipped off-world. This, coupled with standard Foundation economic policies helped shape Altronis into a rich and prosperous world.

Prosperity lasted until the Sixth Age, when the solar system was overrun by the Kami. Nearly four quarters of the population were able to be evacuated, those that stayed behind fought a gurilla war against the occupation that lasted for nearly eighty years. Eventually they were full subjugated, but at that point so much damage to Altronis' infrustructure was so severe that the Kamians felt it was not worth repairing. They left a garrison behind, and forced the few remaining inhabitants to help construct defensive systems(these were generally on-par with what you get out of slave labor). Other than that, the survivors were left relatively free. most of them traveled as far from the garrison as they could, and set about rebuilding their civilization.

Since the Kamian Succession Wars did not end for another five centuries, the refugees were never able to return. The Kamians were driven easily from the planet at the end of the war, and some refugees from other areas were eventually resettled there. Altronis no longer had a culture all its own, and was made just another Alliance world, among many worlds slowly putting themselves back together antebellum.