Samradi

Samradi is the fourth planet orbiting the star Anyabar, the second largest star of the Star System. Samradi is orbited by Khamot, it's only natural moon. Samradi was the first body to be colonized in the Star System, and is traditionally the center of power, culture, and influence in the System.

Discovery
Samradi had been known to scientists on Earth for over a century before the first colonization efforts began in the system. However, the planet was not surveyed until -057 FL, when a probe was sent to the Star System as part of the United Nation's Star System Discovery Program. Immediately recognized as a likely habitable world, Samradi was added to the list of UN planet's of habitation potential, which were then distributed to different organizations for colonization. However, due to the system's extreme distance from Earth, colonization was not possible at the time With the invention of the Reusable Class 2 FTL drive for larger vessels, the ability to colonize Samradi suddenly became easy. However, by this time, colonial enthusiasm had died down during the decades between discovery of the system and the invention. In the end, the UN granted a colonial charter to a group of large corporation's, interested mainly in resource extraction.

Early Colonial Era
While Tycell Inc. was the first corporation to survey the planet in detail, and the first to begin construction of a colony ship, Bura Inc. was the first to establish a permanent settlement on the planet with the landing of the Amapola Arcology in 000 FL. Despite Tycell's starting advantage, they did not land their first colony of Madjami until a year later, in 001 FL.

Shortly after the establishment of Madjami, both Wu Corp. and the International Collective Commune (ICC) announced their intent to colonize Samradi. The ICC wished to spread their socialist utopia to a new world and establish business ties with Amapola, while Wu Corp. stated an intent increase their income. In 003 FL, the ICC landed their first colony ship in the Serebrygor Mountain Range on the shore of Lake Lenin, the city of New Cleveland. It was not until 004 FL that Wu Corp. landed their first colony on the continent of ???, Him Prung Ya, founded mainly by Thai settlers recruited by the corporation.

The cities grew relatively slowly in the first few years, although a steady influx of colony ships rapidly increased the population, and new settlements grew from these ships. Bura Inc. settlements had an initial advantage, given their Arcology colonizing strategy allowed them to transport over 100,000 people per colony ship, as opposed to the average of 26,000.

Over the summer of 005, a contest was held to decide a name for the planet, open to all of the inhabitants of Samradi. The plan was devised and agreed to in a meeting of high ranking officials of Bura Inc., Tycell Inc., the ICC, and Wu Corp., who believed it might spark pride in colonists and increase productivity. By one report, 17,625 names were submitted from every major settlement, inspired by languages from Russian to Hindi, from Serbian to Lao. In October of 005, a conference of leading members of colonial society from every different settlement met for a two week long conference to narrow down the list and eventually pick one name. Included were esteemed scientists, corporate officials, and many other leading citizens. By October 25, the conference had narrowed it down to just three names. On October 26, the conference announced the winning name, "Samradi", submitted by 18 year old Janani Prajapati, a Gujarati colonist from the then recently established colony of Dajani. However, the name choice was not without its controversy, and the conference had in fact actually sparked extreme and tense debate. One delegate was so distraught over the name choice, which he thought was too biased towards South Asian immigrants to the planet, that he plunged himself into the ocean off of his transport boat on the way back to Him Prung Ya.

By the end of 005, Samradi had started to make a name for itself, with a population quickly approaching one million. Demand to move to Samradi increased at a rapid pace on Earth, passing capacity on colony ships by far. This led to Bura Incorporated announcing in December of 005 that they would begin offering transport via a fleet of transports equipped with class 2 FTL engines for those who wished to relocate to Samradi permanently. This scheme was to start at the beginning of 006. Tycell Incorporated announced a similar plan starting in spring of 006. Within the next few years, several private transport companies started with the same services due to the massively high demand to move to Samradi. The announcement that Jumlaya was also habitable, opening the possibility of two inhabited worlds in the system, increased demand even further, although Jumlaya would not be colonized for another five years after the announcement.

In October of 006, A Tycell Colony Ship disappeared over the Mutalah Ocean near the Temren Archipelago on its way to drop off its 30,000 colonists to Madjami for settlement. Tycell immediately commenced a search for the vessel, but no trace of the vessel could be found at the time. During the search, an additional Tycell naval corvette also disappeared.

The disappearances led to the Tycell government becoming a proponent of a planetary council to better organize diplomacy and response to issues on Samradi, an idea first proposed by Wu Corp. Samradi Chairman Benjamin Burke. By December, all the major companies holding territory on the planet had agreed to come together for a planetary council, which was named the Samradi Diplomatic Council (SDC). This cooperation between governments quickly devolved into petty arguments over which city should host the council, with one Tycell corporate manager threatening to shoot the Wu Corp's CEO if Madjami was not chosen (Said manager was subsequently removed and quietly returned to Earth). This early bickering and general ineffectiveness would prove to foreshadow the norm for the Council.

Emerald City, a rapidly growing Bura Inc. sponsored settlement situated on the Bay of Haloni, was eventually chosen as the location for the Samradi Diplomatic Council. The disappearance of two delegations, from Lucinara and Bircagir, near the Temren Archipelago cast a mood of failure as the Council first started. This was only intensified by several delegations failure to show up, and even further when a Madjami representative, Bartolo Benvenuto, spent an entire night barhopping in Emerald City and was forced to be airlifted to a hospital. These events surrounding the establishment of the Council turned many in public against the idea, with the Council quickly becoming incredibly unpopular. One opinion piece by Amapola Daily characterized the Council as a "scandal ridden, useless disgrace."

Facing continued disappearances and a inefficient global diplomatic council, Tycell Inc. announced on October 17, 007, that they would be permanently deploying the TSS Yunali in orbit of Samradi permanently for safety reasons, as well as declaring a military exclusion zone around the Temren Archipelago to avoid future disappearances. This militarization drew concern both internally and externally across the System, began a new era of increasing tensions.

Increasing Tensions
In February of 008, a ICC transport ship suffered from a navigation malfunction, causing it to get caught in a collision course with the star Anyabar. ICC forces were able to rescue all of the crew, but the ship and all of its cargo were lost.

Mystery surrounded the exclusion zone around the Temren Archipelago, spawning multiple conspiracy theories about the source of the disappearances and Tycell Incorporated's role in them. While not taken seriously by reasonable people, the continuing mystery and belligerent nature of Tycell naval forces surrounding the zone were drawing the ire of the other governments of Samradi, and increasingly riling certain people up. On April 8, 008, an alleged survivor of the TCS Janralar began attacking civilians in Asdiya Square, Madjami, claiming the ship was shot down by a massive alien laser beam from space and that Tycell was covering up the discovery of sentient alien life. The man was shot by police and later died in the hospital, but he was responsible for the death of one Madjami police officer and injured 4 civilians, including a child. No questioning of the man could take place, and his body disappeared from the Hospital under suspicious circumstances, meaning no identification could take place either. Despite this tragedy, interest still abounded as to the mysterious disappearances and Tycell's possible role in them. In November of 008 a Hermes event was created to storm the Tycell Archive Building in Madjami scheduled for March 6, 009, in an apparent attempt to emulate a similar social media event to storm the United State's Area 51, an obscure historical event from hundreds of years ago. An eventual 415,000 people agreeing to attend from across human colonized space, but only a crowd of 36 actually showed up on March 6, with most simply believing it to be a joke.

In January of 009, a cargo ship registered to the Serebrygori city of New Cleveland disappeared near the Temren Archipelago, slightly outside the exclusion zone. Then, in July, a Lucinaran fishing boat was shot and sunk by a Tycell naval cruiser, causing all 22 of the crew to drown. Lucinara strongly protested this action, and when Tycell simply ignored their protests, began providing weaponry to their fishermen to arm their boats with. The Bura Inc. Federal Government quickly put a stop to this, but relations between Lucinara and Tycell remained strained. Relations between Lucinara's autonomous government and the Bura Inc. Federal Government also faltered, causing Lucinara to increasingly pursue of policy of self-reliance. Partially in response to this, Tycell announced the construction of a massive shipyards and naval base on the coast near Madjami.

First Conflict

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