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Talahan V

Description
Talahan V is the third of twelve planets in the Cassus Miela system. The planet is located roughly in the Libra constellation about 50 light years from Earth. The planet is mainly tropical with a very high annual mean temperature of around 38 degrees celcius. The planet is orbited by three moons one of which is barely habitable.

History
Talahan V was colonized in about 2603 when the UNSC attempted a revival of Earth's colonies. On the first system they tried, which happened to be the binary star system of Cassus and Miela, they found four terrestrial planets, two of which were rendered close enough to their stars to be 'habitable'. Terraformation of Talahan V was not necessary because the planet already had a stable atmosphere and ecosystem.

The first colonists were in fact miners who drilled the planet's mountain ranges which surveys showed were rich in Aluminum, Copper, Iron, and Gold. The first mining colony of Derrick's Gulch was founded. For about fifty years the colony made a big boom in the galactic economy selling the resources in bulk to the rest of UNSC space to build starships, weapons, and buildings.

In about 2759 the planet had a population of 5,183,961 citizens both permanant and temporary. the Talahanians spread out and created several other smaller colonies and in a few cases large cities. The planet was still on good terms with the UNSC.

It wasn't until 2860 that the loyalties began to falter. Leader of the United Rebel front Gordon Xanados came to preach his message of the UNSC being disloyal toward their own colony cutting back on providing them what they could not get on the planet. In the first place, few believed Xanados' propaganda. As the years rolled by however, the government of the planet really did question how much the UNSC valued the planet. There were thousands of mining worlds in human inhabited space and many more beyond. What did the UNSC care about small, insignificant, backwater Talahan V? So they willingly joined the URF against a general uproar of most citizens.

Those who resisted the movement were captured, "reformed" and sometimes executed. By the time the 33rd century came by, nobody even remembered a time when the URF was opposed on the world.

The leaders of the planet finally wanted to get the UNSC's attention. Encouraged reproduction bolstered the population to 23,182,034. It was more than the planet needed. Small raiding parties attacked their neighboring planet of Tephyson and forced that under their control.

Talahan V eventually built up an infamous reputation that the UNSC couldn't ignore. The rebels even acquired Antimattter Ballistic Missiles from the Robot Wars. That was the final straw. In 3229, the Second Rainforest War officially began. A force of UNSC soldiers arrived and attacked the rebels. Several thousand acres of rainforest were destroyed during the war years and several thousand inhabitants were killed. In the end though, the UNSC won and reclaimed the planet for its own in 3234.

Present Date
Talahan V is still looked upon as an atrocity where many soldiers died, including several million young men who were drafted from Earth and other planets to fight the rebels. The planet now is utilized once again as a mining planet, farm world in which fish are caught and vegitation grown at higher altitudes where it's cooler, and a major trade partner where it shares a trade line with many other planets in the secotr. The UNSC still maintains a watchful eye her in case of another insurrection but it seems quiet.

Geography
Talahan V has two continents named Illash and Lushmak. Both cover the entire planet and thousands of islands, many unnamed, float in the Juth Ocean. The closer to the equator one gets, the temperature approaches peak levels where even vegetation starts to decline. There are several deserts which dotts the planet, one of which is where the still functioning city of Derrick's Gulch is.

The planet has no polar ice caps since it is so close to the suns. Once every five years when the closer planets form a sort of shade in front of Talahan V, frosts are known to occur in the highter latitudes.

Notable places
Derrick's Gulch

Kessiak (Capital)

Langway Station, the largest spaceport on the planet.

Quotes
''I don't care if people say that the war is over. I don't trust anybody on that planet. I fought there, my brother fought there, my brother died there, I...I just don't trust them''

-Anonymous UNSC Marine

''What happened in the past is the past! We were influenced by a rebel leader! We had no idea what we were going into! We don't deserve this, all of this segregation from the rest of the galaxy!''

-Anonymous Talahan V citizen