Faltan System History

FACILITY
Faltan Station is the name collectively given to a pair of facilities in the system: Faltan Command in a mountain river valley 40 miles from the Faltan colony, and Faltan Engineering, a Corps of Engineers facility on the outskirts of a lunar colony run by the Caerus Mining Company.

FALTAN COMMAND
An administrative facility built in a mountain river valley on Faltan III roughly forty miles from the Faltan colony, Faltan Command was originally constructed in 2380 by Starfleet to oversee mining operations on the Faltan lunar colony and liaise with the Faltans. In 2387, it has found new purpose as a command, engineering and diplomatic hub of Starfleet operations in the southern Raeyan Sector and eastern Raeyan Transit Corridor.

FALTAN ENGINEERING
Over their thirteen year stay, the mining colony has developed a large footprint across Faltan III's sole moon. In 2387, the mining collective agreed to cede a region already stripped of deuterium deposits to the Corps of Enginers. Refitting an old refining plant as a manufacturing facility and building docking facilities in several old mining craters, the facility is now capable of supporting servicing any regional asset, including capital ships.

HISTORY
Four hundred years ago, an advanced humanoid species from the furthest reaches of the Delta Quadrant attempted to test a new subspace technology. While the drive worked, it did so unpredictably and threw them over a 100,000 light years across the galaxy into the Raeyan Sector. Unwilling to risk a second attempt, the crew decided to wait for rescue, setting up a small outpost in a large desert valley on the third planet of an uninhabited system. Unfortunately, as the years went by, it became clear that rescue wasn't coming. They were forced to build a new society far from their home across the galaxy. Using the technologies from their vessel, the small outpost grew into a thriving metropolis, their original crew growing to over two hundred thousand across sixteen generations. Thisspecies became known as the Faltans. In 2375, an independent mining company arrived in the system while surveying the sector. They found that the only moon of Faltan III had highly concentrated deuterium deposits, and they wanted to set up a facility to refine the ore. However, the Faltans had already set up a facility on the moon to support the growth of their colony on the planet below. With similar technology to that of the Federation, the decision was made to approach them directly to try to get mining rights. The Faltans shared a small amount of information about their history and explained that they were only interested in survival and not the affairs of others. As such, they informed the mining company that they were free to set up operations so long as it didn't interfere with the Faltan way of life. Unfortunately, as the mining colony grew, it quickly became a nuisance. With a population of workers growing to over fifty thousand, the lunar mining colony became crime ridden, and their profit-focused techniques were considered dirty and wasteful by the Faltans. This tension came to a head by 2380, and Starfleet was brought into the region to mediate. The outcome of the negotiation was that Starfleet would set up a small base on Faltan III to ensure that the lunar mining operations conformed with both Faltan and Federation standards. This base was located in a mountainous region roughly forty miles from the desert valley where the Faltan colony was located. At first, this seemed to have restored the peace. The Faltans and Federation co-existed, sharing many of their ideals, and the mining operation cleaned up its act. However, with the withdrawal from the Raeyan Sector in early 2386, only a small administrative staff was left on the Faltan III base to maintain order. The mining colony continued to search out new digs, and they began returning to some of their old ways, tension returning between the Faltans, the Federation and the mining cooperative.