Eracustas

Eracustas is the fifth planet of the star Sedaurus, located in the middle north-eastern tip of the Kentauran Spur, part of the larger Median Rim. It was an Isolated Human Colony that likely bore the same name during the Golden Age, however this is unconfirmed. Through many conflicts and struggles, Eracustas is one of few former Human Colonies to achieve spaceflight on their own, a title that few worlds have the privilege of. It has been the capital world of the United Nations of Eracustas, the Eracustan Republic, and finally the Galactic Concordat.

Pre-Solar Wars
In the time after the Age of Dissidence, Eracustan civilization had been reduced to a pre-industrial age as larger nations collapsed. This was likely due to famine, caused by no new imports from the Galactic Empire coming in. Around 12,000 BCW, civilization had entered a cycle of large nations forming, only to fragment hundreds of years later. It was only around the year 5,000 BCW that stable democratic nations had emerged to keep themselves functioning. By 3,500 BCW, most nations had entered into the atomic and early space ages, and more nations were annihilated by wars and nuclear exchange. Only the strongest of these nations remained to then begin a gradual unification of the planet. It was a slow and painful process, but by 3,007 BCW, the United Nations of Eracustas had formed, along with the establishment of several planetary bases on two of the other planets in-system.

One such planet was Havon, a metal-rich rocky world with a breathable atmosphere, but experiences very low temperature drops in the winter. But despite this, Eracustans colonized and mined the world for vital and rare metals. An entrepreneur by the name of Yoshua Vilinka realized the amount of wealth one can get from Havon, and through economic planning and acquisition, bought out every mining and foundry company on the planet. The new monopoly was renamed to "Vilanka Materials", and began to sell all raw and manufactured materials on Havon at ridiculously high prices to Eracustans back home.

Naturally, Eracustas grew resentful of Vilanka and those who supported him, which eventually led to the UNE boycotting Havonite materials, and instead resorted to extensive mining operations in the system's rich asteroid belt. Vilanka didn't like this so he began a military build up of void ships in secret, and a recruitment of Havonite voidmen and soldiers. His intentions were to attack and capture the mining operations in the asteroid belt, so that Eracustas had no choice but to buy from Havon. When the attack came, the UNE declared it a violent act of aggression and sent their own forces to destroy the Havonite fleet and blockade Havon. Thus began the Vilanka Conflict, aka "Eracustan-Havonite War", which wasn't really a war, when in reality it was a national response to the Vilanka Materials corporation.

After about three months of fighting on-world, Vilanka was finally captured and tried in Eracustan court for militarizing a corporation and a planet, and served 38 years in prison before dying. After the Vilanka Conflict, the UNE made it illegal to form a monopoly, individually own a large celestial body, or individually fund a para-military force. From what most Eracustans thought of the Havonites, they were actually greatly opposed to Vilanka's "rule", as they were simple miners forced to fight against their own people.

Soon after this, Eracustans began colonizing all major celestial bodies in the system and industrializing them, and soon the first generation ships to the nearby Glenn system were launched.