Gagarin
From FABT
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Formerly 900,000 |
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Prothean Empire |
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Neema (formerly) |
Gagarin is a star system in the Armstrong cluster. In the asari cycle, the Gagarin system was colonized by the Greater Quarian Republic in 213 CE, with settlement focused on the planet of that they named Neema, which would later be renamed Rayingri. The Turian Hierarchy deployed troops to the planet to help defend it against krogan attack during the Krogan Rebellions, and both quarian and turian troops made a last stand against krogan troops as they invaded the planet in 752 CE. With quarian reinforcements on the way, the krogan dropped on an asteroid on Neema before withdrawing, the impact wiping out the entire population of the planet, including one million of their own troops, but leaving the planet permanently devastated and its eco system obliterated. This impact displaced the asteroid Vahtz, which had already been slowly decaying in the planet's atmosphere, speeding up its rate of decay. Due to this, and the toll the asteroid attack incurred on the planet's ecology, Rayingri was left permanently uninhabitable, and the Citadel Council has banned all colonization efforts. As a result, Gagarin was passed over for centuries after, making it a perfect haven for slavers, pirates and mercenary bands to run their criminal activities with impunity within the system.
In 2183 CE, the geth heretics invaded and expelled Alliance forces in the system, establishing an outpost on Rayingri in preparation for an invasion of the Alliance. This was thwarted by the Normandy Squad however, who waged a week-long campaign and kicked the geth out of the system: following the war, the Alliance tightened control over Gagarin, turning the former geth stronghold on Rayingri into an outpost to monitor pirate activity. When the Reapers invaded in 2186 CE, the entire cluster was swiftly abandoned. At the height of the Galactic Dominion, the Republic of Rannoch, Systems Coalition and Tuchankan Military Confederacy co-jointly began colonization efforts across Armstrong, although Gagarin was entirely ignored due to Rayingri's rapidly decaying state. After the Dominion Civil War, the Unified Galactic Republics established numerous research posts on Rayingri to find a way to stop Vahtz's disintegration, with the hope of terraforming it to be livable some day, but these were eventually abandoned in favor of focusing on other worlds, leaving Gagarin largely abandoned. In 2371 CE, Vahtz finally smashed into Rayingri's surface, devastating its western hemisphere.