Fawcett's World was an uninhabited planet beyond the frontier of the Terran Confederation that was colonized by humans around 2629. However some time before 2634[1] the Empire of Kilrah granted it to the Vakka clan as an outpost world.[2]
Just a few weeks after the Terrans colonized the planet, the Vakka clan invaded it and took the Terran colonists by surprise. They were captured and their ship torn apart and looted for information, revealing the existence of the Confederation to the Kilrathi.[3][2]
Per Kilrathi customs they would have been slaughtered by Lord Vakka intervened to save them; he knew that war was inevitable but sensed something speciual for this new species.[2] By knowing them better, Lord Vakka felt that humans were unlike other species they had encountered before, and firmly believed that they should be used as assets instead of underlings.[3]
Vakka was assigned to spend some time there and evaluate the humans so that the Empire would prepare for an invasion.[4] He put the master of the planet Harga, as their retainer under his protection.[4]
The Kilrathi concentrated the colonist-slaves in open-air compounds, between electrified wire, where they were tilling the fields, mainly to feed themselves.[2] Many colonists, all who had served with the Confed Fleet[2] were transported to the Imperial Palace on Kilrah and the questioning chambers. The process left them as empty, terrified animals. The capture of their ship also provided some intelligence to the Kilrathi, such as some information concerning the Base McAuliffe and the Panama System war games.[4]
As the planet with its blue-gray mountains, hills and cooling breeze seemed alien to the Kilrathi, they imported some ulanna trees from Kilrah in order to provide some familiar landscape for them.[2]
However because of its strategic position, the Emperor laid a claim on it, compensating the Vakka clan with another planet. With the beginning of his campaign, the planet was scheduled to become a military base.[5]
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 William R. Forstchen, Action Stations, ch. 4
- ↑ William R. Forstchen, Action Stations, ch. 5