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Deraten is an independent human colony world located lightyears outside UEG controlled space.

Colonization
The UNSC Nirvana, a newly commissioned Phoenix-class colony ship, was on its way to the freshly discovered Hestia star system. While en route to their new home, the Nirvana's slipspace drive malfunction which forced the colony ship to stay in slipspace well past their desired arrival point. When they exited their dimensional prison, their ship crash-landed on a nearby planet, resulting in her passengers becoming stranded in the middle of an uncharted star system. Alone and terrified, the survives (those who desired to survive) used all they had to fight to survive in this untamed world.

Settling
With dozens of colonists being killed a month by animal attacks, food shortages, and emerging bigotry among the survivors, their morale began to dip and they began to split themselves into several different "clans" that each had their own plans for the future. A hundred years had passed and the feelings toward each clan began to boil over, resulting in a short but destructive civil war with the goal of dominance over each other. The conflict was eventually ended because of the actions of Ryder Chase and his friend Michael Elks, but unfortunately, their population had nearly been halved by that point.

Over the next few dozen years, the separate clans tried lived and work together for a common cause, survival. They shared resources along with different culture and beliefs that had sprung up from Earth but developed on Deraten. With their co-operation, the Deraten began making impressive improvements in their technology, allowing them to spread further across the planet. The colonists soon spanned across the remaining continents and would establish a presence on their moon. As the population in these settlements grew, new clans began to emerge and they themselves would keep close ties to their parent-clans. The construction of space stations would begin within their star system and they would continue to establish outposts on other nearby celestial bodies.

First Contact
Finally achieving the paradise they had dreamed of, the people of Deraten were largely unprepared for what disaster would find their way to their doorstep. Their period of peace would be interrupted by the arrival of an unknown alien starship. After years of solitude, the Deraten system came under assault from the newly arrived alien ship which brutality attacked everything that came near. With this new foe, the pent-up aggression of humans became uncorked and they went on the offensive after quickly retrofitting constructs of peace into that of war. Their offensive would exhaust all they had but managed to destroy their attacker. Rebuilding from the random incursion, the Deraten people recovered the alien spacecraft and began to reverse engineer all they could. In the aftermath of this event, certain clans and leaders used it to gain power and turned the pacifist society into that of militarization

With the research into the technology of the unknown species, the Deraten would develop their own weaponry and ships based on the invaders own advancements. Despite the militarization of their society, civilian life began to improve even more with the development of anti-gravity, medicine, and the enhancement of the slipspace drives used by both military and civilians. Unfortunately, their first contact with an alien species would force them into an even further isolationistic mindset.