Myrian

Myrian is a Umojan Protectorate mining world and colony, located in the mid rim of Umojan space. It was part of a massive terraforming initiative between the Umojan Protectorate and the Kal-Bryant Mining Conglomerate. The planet is largely rolling planes spotted by periods of rocky wasteland, with burgeoning plant and animal life introduced by the Umojans. However, what habitability it had was quickly consumed when the Blood Zerg arrived.

Background
Myrian was an uninhabitable world, with a minimal atmosphere not condusive for any kind of life, but containing some water. It did however have a moderate abundance of minerals, including veins of silium crystals. This led it to be bought out by the Umojan Geological Corps for future prospecting, but more lucrative planets and ventures led it to be largely untouched by any mining operations.

This changed in the early 2490s, when the Kal-Bryant Mining Conglomerate entered into a contract with the Umojan Protectorate for an alternative terraforming technology to the Confederacy's "Shake 'n Bake" colonies, allowing some planets with ideal planetary conditions to be livable by human life in the period of less than a year. This "Ecology Salvo" technology, named for the means of which the life-giving packets is launched from former battlecruisers and bombarded on the planet's surface, was tested on seven barren worlds in Umojan space. Of those worlds, three proved habitable, and even then those worlds proved to have harsh and hard to manage climates. The Umojans did not renew their contract with Kal-Bryant for any more planets.

The new atmosphere of Myrian was rocky, with light oxygen and some basic plantlife, but large stretches of rocky land. One small ocean was made on the surface, giving the planet some form of water cycle to facilitate a conventional ecosystem. However, the planet became known for flash storms, with intense bouts of destructive lightning lasting for two to three minutes and later clearing away.

These conditions did not stop industrious settlers and prospectors who were given leave by the Umojan Geological Corps to uproot the planet's resources. In spite of the planet's less than ideal conditions, it had a population of 400,000 by 2503, though absolutely minuscule compared to any populated planet, it proved to me over the Umojan Protectorate's expectations. Many came to seek out the veins of minerals, which had been steadily increasing in value since the Great War's reconstruction efforts expended so much of the sector's mined wealth. After the End War, silium began to prove to be even more of a rare commodity, leading some on the world to begin to amass small fortunes.

This all changed with the sudden arrival of the Blood Zerg, who quickly began to infest the surface of the planet, consuming much of its resources. Nobody knew where they came from, but very quickly outlying population centers were overwhelmed, and the capital city of Fole's Way suddenly found itself under siege by the strange and previously unknown zerg breed.