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At its Zenith, the Ardan Empire encompassed 70% of Ardana and 65% of its population, though it would be what it did and didn't control that led to its downfall. | At its Zenith, the Ardan Empire encompassed 70% of Ardana and 65% of its population, though it would be what it did and didn't control that led to its downfall. | ||
===The End of Old Ardana and the Birth of Stratos=== | |||
The Ardan Empire fell to strife within and without its own borders. The third of the planet not under its control had proven to be a worthy adversary to the Ardan Empire, and cost the Empire that was nearing its 10,000th year its existence. Uniting the rest of the planet not under its control in a grand coalition, the Jenerite Republic led a crusade against Ardan's control of the planet. Though initially successful, such a vast Empire that had stood for all of recorded history was not so easily taken down, and the Ardans fought back decisively against the Jenerite coalition. What the Ardans didn't account for was the Colun's desire for freedom from their servitude, and with the backing of the Jenerites, launched an insurrection against their masters. This caused the Ardans to pull their forces away from their borders and focus on putting down the rebellion. Seizing the opportunity, the Jenerites marched into the heartland of the Empire, to the gates of the capital city of Ezentera itself. | |||
Feeling that they had no options but to distract the enemy army in kind, the Ardans launched nuclear strikes against the Jenerite coalition, utterly devastating both the land and population of these nations. In retaliation, the Jenerites launched missles of their own, and in the process of this deadly exchange, Ardana itself is devastated and the survivors crowd into the few surviving cities that are both still standing, and free of radiation. | |||
For fifty years the Ardanans toiled in this near hell-like post-apocalyptic landscape, until salvation arrived from a secret Ardan laboratory that survived the war. The scientists announced their plan to use up the remaining resources of Ardana to build a great floating city in the clouds to serve as an ark for the remaining survivors, and a launching point to terraform and heal the planet. Banding together, all of the survivors who contributed to Stratos's construction were guaranteed a place in the city, and the scientists announced it would be open to all. After fifteen years in the Earth Year 1356 Stratos lifted off from the ruins of Ezentera and ascended into the clouds above. | |||
For three hundred years all Ardanans enjoyed the paradise of Stratos, though a loose and informal class system remained. Eventually though, after the planet had become stable enough environmentally and expeditions had been sent down to the surface, the citizens of Stratos encountered an unexpected side-effect of the nuclear bombardment. Zenite, a fable ore of supposedly demonic origins, had presented itself in vast quantities on the planet's surface, and while the Ardanans initially thought little of it, visitors from a first-contact delegation from Retellians found Zenite of immense value and eagerly bought up the samples the crews had returned with. Eventually small mining expeditions were unable to meet with demand as Ardana became wealthy from interstellar trade, and the various uses for Zenite ore became known in entirety. The High Advisor at the time proposed exporting some of the population of Stratos to the surface to mine the ore, to be brought back up when another solution could be found. | |||
By the 22nd century however, those exported to Ardana's surface had endured five hundred years of forced labor as generations lived and died in the Zenite mines. They developed into a sub-culture called the Troglytes, while the elite of Stratos became known as City-Dwellers, their high culture, decadence and enormous wealth was built upon the backs of forced labor in the mines below. | |||
By the time of Ardana's admittance to the Federation, a group of Troglytes known as the 'Disruptors' had started to resist the oppression of the Stratos Elite and after the intervention of the USS Enterprise, waged war against the City-Dwellers and founded Ardana anew. | |||
==Government== | ==Government== | ||