PLACEHOLDER
¶ System Information
- Affiliation: Freelance
- Estimated Population: 1.02 billion
- Points of Interest:
- Martel (2nd planet, 1st habitable)
- Pippin (3rd planet, 2nd habitable)
- Charlemagne (4th planet, 3rd habitable)
- Drogo and Pepin (binary gas giants)
The Carolingian system redefined what an eden system was to humanity.
¶ History
Discovered in the early 2300's by an independent exploration guild, the Carolingian system plays host to a staggering three planets in the habitable zone, none of which need substantial terraforming to become ready for human habitation. The system also holds a rare-earth rich asteroid belt and a unique binary gas giant pair, both rich in Helium-3.
If things had gone in a different direction, it would not be hard to imagine that a megacorp could have gotten ahold of the system rights and plundered it for all of its vast material wealth.
Thankfully, the exploration guild in question was under a first-refusal contract with the Joyeuse Group, a colonization company made up of an enclave of families of French descent that operated out of the League capital Calysto. They immediately leapt at the system. By 2322, the first colony was established on Charlemagne and the colonization rights declarations had been filed, meaning that without the express approval of the Joyeuse Group, no external commercial interests were allowed in the system.
By 2388, people were flocking to the system. The Joyeuse Group had opened up Martel and Pippin in the 2350's, and all three worlds were experiencing a population boom. Charlemagne had become a thriving world with half a dozen major cities.
319 years after its founding, though, the dream of the Carolingian system came to an abrupt end as the events of what came to be known as the Charlemagne Disaster played out in an hour in the early morning of August 8th, 2641.