System: Sadurni

Sadurni’s largely agrarian economy allowed the world to weather the Andurien civil war much better than many of its neighbors, but the collapse of its urban economic systems triggered a humanitarian disaster that cost many more lives than the battles that raged on the planet. City-dwellers fled to the country and relied on cousins and the kindness of strangers, at least until military authorities organized relief efforts.

After the war, life on Sadurni quickly returned to a semblance of normality, at least on the main continent of Patra; life on agrarian Katerini and Xanthi changed little even during the war. Many of the skilled artisans and stonemasons for whom the world was famous — Sadurni marble built the Court of the Star League in Unity City — devoted their talents to rebuilding Jojoken on Andurien, and a host of other battle-scarred cities across the duchy. Consequently, non-essential reconstruction on Sadurni itself did not commence until the late 3040s, and in a number of areas it remains incomplete even twenty years later.

[3038] Landing on Sadurni on 11 February 3038 – as part of the FWL’s campaign to re-conqueror the rogue Andurien province - the Eleventh Atrean Dragoons and the Eighth Orloff Grenadiers faced a single battalion of the Third Defenders of Andurien. They were warned against over-confidence, however, as the Third had put up stiff resistance on Xanthe III despite equally poor odds. The Third proved as tough an opponent as predicted, but without backup they were unable to repeat their success on Xanthe. They did, however, extract a price.

Rather than staging a stand-up fight, they broke into lance-sized units and scattered, forcing the pursuers to likewise break into miniature task forces to hunt them down. Working to a prearranged schedule, several of these lances would come together for a raid against a loyalist force before scattering again, inflicting a host of small wounds whose effect grew steadily.

These hit-and-run tactics could have continued indefinitely but the Eighth Orloff, already infamous on the Periphery border, fought back mercilessly, caring little for collateral damage to people and property. After less than two weeks of fighting, realizing that their tactics would only lead to civilian carnage, the Third Defenders abandoned Sadurni and chose instead to focus their efforts on protecting Andurien.

There are no functional factories located on this planet.