Hong
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Hong is a star system located in the Armstrong cluster. The system is moderately sized, and lacks the capability to support permanent civilization due to its five planets lacking any real capacity for habitation: nevertheless, pirates, slavers and mercenary bands enjoyed using the region to stage their operations, due to this very reason. A small Alliance force would be dispatched to the region prior to the Skyllian Blitz to secure it against batarian attack. In 2178 CE, the Alliance would assault and eliminate a pirate faction establishing itself in the Hong system, and the Theshaca Raids led to pirate activity in the cluster diminishing overnight. The small Alliance force in Hong would remain until 2183 CE, where they were expelled from Armstrong by a geth heretic invasion force looking to establish a base there, with the geth establishing a base on Casbin in preparation for this invasion. This was thwarted by the Normandy Squad however, who waged a week-long campaign and eventually kicked the geth out of the system: following the war, the Alliance tightened control over Hong, turning the former geth stronghold on Casbin 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 Casbin was used primarily by the quarians as a penal colony, earning it the name "Bed of the Wicked". After the Dominion Civil War, the Unified Galactic Republics established numerous research posts on Casbin, with the hope of terraforming it to be livable some day. By 2268 CE, the quarians shut down the last of their prisons on the planet, surrendering it fully to UGR control. By 2296 CE, thanks to prior Dominion research, terraforming has produced a thriving community.