Atlan

"'Dreams are the wonders of sleeping men. I shall wake up and seize the day.' - Exerpt from Red Fist Oath of Servitude and a mantra of the Atlanian people."

Atlan is a planet with seven times that of Terra and nearly seventy times that size, orbiting the star Sirius A of the Sirius System and is home to the Atlanian people. It is the source of great controversy and is an influential and terrible discovery of mankind.

A Thousand Troubles
Atlan was the sight of countless failed colonisation efforts from 22nd century all the way up to the 8th century. A planet originally much akin to Mars in the environment, a red dusty planet once containing the potential secrets of life. Unfortunately for humanity, they arrived too late, the hostile world's ice caps melting and reforming over the harsh heat of the day and the terrifying cold of the night. Whilst it is unclear as to why humanity did not survive on the world, nor is the planet actually recorded amongst any Federation database, the once-prospering colonies all remain preserved under the cold caves of the planet in which they were built, the very home of the SSP and likely the reason why they settled amongst the caves. Due to these constant cataclysmic events, the Terran Federation provided military schematics to the Monitor they sent, believing the likely cause of such disasters of a few previous events within the system. With no knowledge of which planet, or in fact if such a world existed, the Federation set off and brought forth its advanced technologies. However, it became clear upon arrival that the world was highly irradiated and the Monitor was malfunctioning. Able to churn out basic defences, the Terrans prepared for centuries of hardship. Amongst the manufactured devices was an AI named Henry, his role being to help study and perform the calculations required in discovering the planet's secrets. The future that came next was marvelous.

A Golden Age
Though records are almost non-existent, Kerrigor, the broken AI formerly known as Henry, revealed footage and evidence of a Golden Age of the world within which he saw the rise and fall off. The world built wonders, vast cities beautifully forged from the enlightened minds of men. The Terran culture boomed strongly at this time and there seemed to be a sense of pride and patriotism, still strong after five centuries of isolation. Many of the pieces of Golden Age information that Kerrigor provided helped gap the bridge in the understanding of how and why he could construct a ship such as the Vagabond-Class Dreadnought, built from the corpses of the once glorious fleets that dotted the sky of the world. Propaganda posters provided in the bloody city which Cato Tigurus visited showed a new style of architecture which saw an almost perfect blend of nature and humanity, the cities described by Kerrigor as a beautiful utopia, much of which is seen. The AI was actually imprisoned for four of the five centuries within which this utopia spread, the imprisoners claimed to be caused by his committing of the greatest crime an AI could commit, a crime which he claimed was made up by rivals of his creator's family to discredit him.

Gold to Dust
The fall from such a Golden Age of science, technology and living was an ironic one, the technology itself destroying the planet that would be called Atlan. As the world advanced and the liberties of the people advanced, radiation cults dedicated to returning the world back to the 'natural state' managed to discover the prison within which Henry, or Kerrigor as he was later known was being kept in. Able to restrict his programming, they forced the AI into both a fabricator and a targeting system, forcing him to create a hundred WMDs know as the Atlas Bombas. Using him, they forced the destruction of all within the power of but thirty of these nuclear weapons, turning a beautiful utopia into a ruined wasteland, the red wasteland it once was. With the descent into dust, seventy million of a population of twenty billion managed to escape the doom, ushered into the domes used five centuries before. It was only after a small sect of the surviving government and its top scientists found the AI that Henry was let free, donning the name of his creator Kerrigor. It was under this machines guidance that the SSP was formed and the current world was formed.

Geography and Economy
Atlan is a hellish world, irrevocably made inhabitable by the nuclear fallout. Much of the planet is covered by rocky terrain and dominating canyons. Atlan is rich in natural resources and minerals, mainly titanium. During Atlan's new life, most of the planet's economy and resources were centred into building and maintaining Atlan's large armies to ensure order and peace, leaving little funds for the improvement of the general population's well-being, hence the slums, dismal civilian infrastructure, and a visible lack of luxuries on Atlan. This did not change and was proudly displayed by the people of Atlan, flaunting their suffering and hardships as openly as if written upon their gaunt skin.

Famous Areas
Al-dorgathil-1, commonly known as 'Atiila's dome' was the capital of the First Socialist Regime of Atlan (or the Regime for short) and notable places include DORVA Parliament Building, Citadel-5 and The Banking Societies Sector.

Acht-4 was the former capital of Atlan and was said to house a quarter of the population at the time, likely around 750 million souls. It is remembered as the greatest loss of life pre-Federation insertion.