Korzon (planet)

A planet approximately seven days travel from Jimmian in a line generally perpendicular to that drawn between Jimmian and Earth. Korzon is generally opposite the galactic center from Jimmian

Summary

Discovered by Jimmian on Cryllanyen, 6 Tarsion, 1025 as the result of radio wave analysis, the G'Zheret system contains four rocky planets, including Korzon and three gas giants. The first two planets are much too small and hot to be useful for colonization. The third is quite large, seven times the size of Korzon with a solar day cycle of almost four months. It's atmosphere is much to dense, poisonous and radioactive for much other use than industrial mining. Korzon, the fourth planet is large by Jimmian standards, for a habitable planet, coming in at almost twice the size of Jimmian.

International Relations

At first, Korzon and Jimmian developed a mutually beneficial trade relationship. Korzon received space faring technologies that allowed it, in time, to begin looking for much needed colony worlds to offload their burgeoning population. Jimmian received much valued medical and biological research technologies, curing many diseases and generally improving lifestyles and longevity on Jimmian. But this warm relationship was not to last.

Dispute Over Scanning and Engine Designs

In 1034 after a long and some argue, biased investigation, the Korzon government accused Jimmian of purposely withholding their latest, long-range scanning technology as well as their best engine designs for improved gravimetric efficiency. This suggested that Jimmian was purposely limiting Korzon's ability to "see" and "travel to" the furthest reaches of the galaxy before Jimmian could, even though they had agreed to avoid one another's discovery paths. Korzon also charged Jimmian with deliberately choosing the most statistically advantageous regions of the galaxy to search for life and colony worlds.

Rejection of Korzon Relief Requests on Jonteau

In 1038 Jimmian discovered and claimed a small but environmentally hostile world in the Deldrenough 441 system, in accordance with the treaty of Gaweti-ne guidelines, posting a claim beacon satellite and filing their claim with the Korzon embassy in Craz. Then, after requesting and receiving Korzon assistance to develop biological elements and a plan to help reform the planet into something more suitable for life, Jimmian began building a colony and named the world Jonteau. It was still a barren wasteland of a world, but with the powerful biological vectors developed using Korzon technologies, it would become more suitable over the next decade, until it could support quite reasonable farms and towns, with a little technological help from Jimmian power reactors and radiation shields, for the planet has natural magnetic field.

In 1040, Korzon officially filed a request to allow third of the planet to be colonized by Korzon for the relief of their poorest and most-desperate population - this in return for their assistance in developing the biological vectors that were transforming the planet into something useful. But after a month of consideration by the Jimmian government, and assurances that there were good planetary indicators in other areas the Korzons were surveying, their request was denied. And Korzon was stunned at this second refusal for help.

Discovery of Delazhavos

Delazhavos is a world in the Ganari-néte 2345 system discovered on Mandzetuk, 41 Nukhel 3590. Unlike Jonteau, Delazhavos is a perfectly suited world with the very best possible conditions for food production and colonization. As per the treaty of Gaweti-ne, the Korzon government posted a claim beacon satellite in orbit around Delezhavos and filed their claim with the Jimmian embassy. After hastily putting together an initial set of colony ships with twenty-five hundred colony families and almost a thousand tons of supplies, they arrived at Delezhavos only twelve days later to discover a Jimmian starship and a fresh Jimmian claim beacon already in orbit, claiming the world for Jimmian.

Since Jimmian had clearly broken treaty, the Korzon fleet commander ignored the Jimmian ship and their insistence on Jimmian's claim and ordered the colony ships to land. The Jimmian starship moved into attack range of the colony ships with weapons charged and seeing no other choice, the Korzon commander ordered his escort ships to defend the colonists. But the Jimmian starship and attack ships were too powerful and the Korzon escorts too disorganized in their attempt to protect scattering colonists to mount an effective defense. The entire Korzon colony fleet was wiped out and the war with Jimmian began.

Government

See: Korzon Political Parties