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Cleathrine was an anomaly within the Central Realm of the Sirian Principality. An Earth-like planet around a K star, its gravity is .9 G and the atmosphere is quite comfortable for human life. There are three moons, each of them about half the size of Luna. The system also boasts a rocky mini-planet closer to the sun and three gas giants in the cold zone, each with several moons.

The owner of the planet was a Bavanyii entrepreneur, who took over the planet from its human colonists shortly after the Rim Rebellion. He swore fealty to the Sirian Principality and established the planet as a manufacturer of Bavanyii goods, which are highly bio-oriented. Two continents were heavily industrialized, and the entrepreneur's descendants were slowly converting a third. There were also islands thoroughly terraformed and sea farmers who supplied food for the industrial plants (a word with multiple meanings when considered against Bavanyii bio-industrial practices). The family were relatively beneficent and there was little sign of unrest. The Sirian presence was mostly a section of the space elevator near the capitol city and some atmosphere miners and a couple of gunboats.

Then the Sirians and Bavanyii combined to war against the Vrogan League after the Borsellin Prime Incident. For the most part, damage to the alliance took place in Bavanyii space, but one Vrogan probe attack found Cleathrine. The Sirian defenses had been stripped to be used elsewhere and the ruling family of the planet had very little defense against space attack. Vrogan psychic commandoes descended and had most of the planet under control within days.

But the Sirians had been told, and the Navy under Count Proclus arrived before the planet could be secured. Mindful of the value of the planet, Proclus drove away the Vrogan space assets, then re-invaded the planet.

Proclus tried to limit the damage, but his, and the Vrogan, unfamiliarity with Bavanyii methods and processes made disaster inevitable. Things got loose, processes went astray, areas had to be abandoned. By the end of the Battle for Cleathrine, the two main continents were very dangerous areas indeed. With the last Vrogan dead or departed, the civilian population of the world was mostly on the third continent.

Today, the Cleathrine system is is still trying to rebuild. The heirs of the Bavanyii entrepeneurs have taken over the reins of the planet and are trying to reclaim the original colonies, but they have to continue under strict bio-invasion lockdown protocols. They  also had to swear total fealty to the Principality and have no official ties to the Bavanyii homeland. Their space defenses are still minimal, though the Principality maintains a base within a day's travel and there is an FTL com link to the base.

Rogue bio-researchers from both the Principality and Bavanyii, and probably Jackers as well, are known to promote expeditions to the wild areas of Cleathrine to gather specimens for research. Some do not return.