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History > 3200 to 5350 AT: Inner Sphere Era > 4450 to 4650 AT: The Version War Period
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Galactography > Systems and Worlds > Systems & Worlds W - X
Galactography > Regions of Space > Middle Regions/Hinter-regions
Galactography > Civilized Galaxy - Sephirotic Empires > Solar Dominion
Galactography > Systems and Worlds > Systems & Worlds W - X
Walloo - Data Panel | |
| Star | YTS 543 8932C I, in the Bellerophon Archipelago |
|---|---|
| Stellar Type | K5V |
| Luminosity | 0.4 x Sol |
| Distance from Sol | 721 light years |
| Planetary type | Paraterraformed moon of a Jovian gas giant |
| Diameter of moon | 6596 km |
The Walloo Disaster
A line of three systems at 1200 ly from Sol in the Further Enif Prefecture, colonised by Solar Dominion linelayer Bellerophon in 4207 and lost when both legs of the wormhole link to Enif were detonated by Metasoft infiltration in 4578. The first system in the line was Idina, where all the population centres were in O'Neill habitats near the wormhole epicentre and were sterilised by the blast. This dead system was discovered by a Dominion relativist ship in 4893, and led to the abandoning of the archipelago as lost for two thousand years.In Jabez system the Shabtis survived, and began to self evolve in order to throw off their conditioning of subservience. A civilisation of miniature Shabtis serving and worshipping a large immobile solipsist hyperintelligence (housed in a mighty Pyramid) was found in 6930 by Deeper Covenanters, raising hopes that the last colony, Walloo, might have survived in some form.
The last colony had a partially paraterraformed moon, Walloo, as its main population centre, but unfortunately the system hyperturing had been mostly based in the Wormhole Lagrange cluster, with the baseline human colonists attempting to colonise the moon using sub turing computers only. Most of these computer systems were not shielded and were also lost in the wormhole Gamma blast, together with half the population and the chemical integrity of half of the worldhouse roof, which started to depressurise slowly.
Efforts of the twenty thousand survivors to repair the roof failed, as most nano and AI blueprints had been lost. A desperate effort to produce excess oxygen and nitrogen allowed the atmosphere to stabilise temporarily, until the air pressure outside the world roof built up and the damaged portions hanging limply began to tear and fall.
Sulphur build-up in the atmosphere from the moon's few tidal volcanoes also caused a problem, as the ecological management no longer existed to deal with the acid rain and food and biomass fuel production began to fail.
Attempts to reverse engineer nano and artificial intelligence failed, as the colonists did not have the resources to spare from dealing with the environmental disaster.
After three hundred years the three thousand now surviving crowded into the single surviving O'Neill Habitat, where they finally managed to bring their standard of living up to industrial age levels.
After the traumatic events of the Walloo collapse the colonists became inward looking and traditionalist, expending only enough energy to travel to the outer moons of Walloo's Jovian primary to collect volatiles for survival. After contact with the Covenanters in 8970 the population was diluted and lost through emigration until the eleventh millennium when a limited disaster site tourism trade has developed.
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Development Notes
Text by Steve Bowers
Initially published on 31 December 2007.
Initially published on 31 December 2007.
