Quay
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Failed Colony Quay
Quay is a young world barely a billion years old. It is Earth-like in size and composition so its gravity is close to Earth norm (.96g). It has three moons which are much smaller and have slightly more distant orbits making them appear more like very bright stars. Quay has no native life-forms but introduced algae and bamboo grew extremely well. The atmosphere is low oxygen and high carbon dioxide, but terraforming was proceeding smoothly. Colonists had to have lung capacity enhanced to breathe without a respirator.
When it was settled, no one involved realized the solar system charts made by the Darjee were centuries old and needed updating. Just over a year after the colony was founded, meteor activity increased dramatically, culminating in a massive asteroid impacting the planet, causing an extinction-level event.
The original governor of the colony was a rather paranoid man named Sean Passa. He was killed along with almost all the other sponsors during the initial impact. The concubine Char became de-facto leader of the survivors. The survivors were rescued and relocated to Frigia, in the Aquat system, where Char was officially given governorship of the planet.
There have been no efforts as yet to assess the damage to Quay and determine whether it can be made habitable again.
Story Usage
A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 9/2019 and performed on 2019-09-23 and using SS Lib ver 1.15.08 (9/21/2019) identified the following usage counts for Quay:
- Aftermath by Frostfyre 98 instances.
- Islanders by Duke of Ramus 11 instances.
- Acceptance by Frostfyre 9 instances.
- The Enemy Within by Frostfyre 4 instances.
- Family Letters by Allan Joyal 3 instances.
- Targets of Opportunity by Frostfyre 1 instances.
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