Altronis

Altronis is an Alliance Member World and a major economic center producing consumer goods for much of Joint Space. It is a round planet orbiting a middle-class star, approximately 70,000 light-years from the Progenitors' home-world.

History

During the Mage Wars, Altronis was controlled by the Marcon Empire which 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. So thorough was Lelerough's damage of the Marconian infrastructure that they did not attempt to reclaim this world, and it remained free.

At the start of the Golden Age, Altronis formally joined the Alliance; but due to its 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, but remained nominally a member.

No contact at all occurred until the mid Fourth Age, when Marcus Ransom, son of then-Pendragon Andrei Ransom, found Altronis under the control of a brutal corpocracy. He also found himself stranded, and when the Alliance and Foundation refused to intercede, he set about a rebellion and eventually brought about massive reforms.

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

Prosperity lasted until the Sixth Age, when the solar system was subject to blockade, and later overrun, by the Kami. Nearly all the population were evacuated, while those that stayed behind fought against the occupation for nearly eighty years. Eventually they were subjugated; but the damage to Altronis' infrastructure was so severe that the Kamians felt it was not worth repairing. They left a garrison behind, and forced the few remaining inhabitants to construct defensive systems (generally on-par with what you get out of slave labor). Other than that, the survivors were left relatively free. Most traveled as far from the garrison as they could, and set about rebuilding their civilization.

Because the Kamian Succession Wars did not end for another five centuries, the refugees never returned. 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 of its own, and was just another Alliance world, among many worlds slowly putting themselves back together postbellum.

Religion

Some Altronics worshipped the One King and Last Dynasty; others worshipped Lelerough, under various pseudonyms; some worshipped the Broodmother, and practiced serpentine mythology; others worshipped their ancestors; some worshipped the Sun, Moon, and other nearby celestial bodies; and some practiced variations of Cardinalism. A few of their religions were almost as misogynist as the extinct Marcons'; but most religion was discredited and debased in the corpocratic days, except where it supported racism or anti-intellectualism.