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.

Physically, Eracustas is a H-type (Human-habitable) world and is a Tepid subclass (colloquially termed as Eracustan-like). A Tepid world is described in which the planet has almost no axial tilt, resulting in year-round growing season and extensive floral biodiversity. Due to this "eternal summer", flora has evolved to photosynthesize more heavily, resulting in nearly all flora giving off a teal hue, since the host star produces excess light in that spectrum.

Sedaurian Consolidation
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 and Osiris systems were launched. Networks of giant "tether systems" were constructed to launch and retrieve interplanetary vessels across the Sedaurus system. These became obsolete a century later with the invention of the Tritium Torch Drive, allowing conventional and consumer spaceships to make interplanetary voyages. Before long, the United Nations of Eracustas had consolidated the entire Sedaurus system.

The Little Diaspora
Trips between Sedaurus and the Glenn and Osiris star systems in the 25th Century BCW took nearly 50 years by Generation Ships. It was during the following decades that research into superluminal travel was funded extensively, resulting in the discovery of a higher dimensional space that would later be known as Voidspace. After successfully tested with a gate system between Eracustas and a major Sedauran Gas Giant, the first Interstellar Gateway started construction in orbit of Havon, and took nearly six years to complete. At the same time, another gateway was being constructed in the Osiris system, which connected the two systems in 2238 BCW, only taking 2 hours of travel time. During this time, the first Eracustan colony of Osiris III was formed, which was a cascadian world with a similar average temperature and atmosphere to Eracustas. Multiple space stations in the Glenn system were also constructed for habitation and resource acquisition. Now the Eracustans were not limited to thier home system, and have become a proper interstellar people.

But they were quick to figure out that they were not the only beings in their stellar neighborhood, as foreign pirate cabals and mercenary clans soon became prevalent, originating from worlds beyond explored Eracustan space. But most importantly, they were human, just like the Eracustans. At the time, this was very confusing for government officials, scientists and historians alike, but today we well know of Humanity's origins thanks to the Ancient Galactic Empire. Nevertheless, early Eracustan colonies had to contend with these forces almost entirely on their own, but a space police force was soon established by the United Nations of Eracustas, ensuring safety from these minor forces.