Tuchanka
From FABT
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| Star, position: |
Aralakh, IV |
| Location: | |
| Satellite(s): |
None |
| Gravity: |
1.14 G |
| Diameter: |
8,293 km |
| Day length: |
21.4 Earth hours |
| Year length: |
2,200 Earth days |
| Atmosphere: |
1.1 atm |
| Temperature: |
72 °C (36 °C in shrouded ares) |
| Adjective: |
Tuchankan |
| Population: |
2.1 billion |
| Species: |
Krogan (homeworld) |
| Societal approximation: |
Military chiefdom |
| Affiliation: | |
| Technological tier: | |
| Capital: |
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- "Tuchanka was a beautiful world once, and it can be again."
- — Urdnot Bakara.
Tuchanka (Kresh name that means "Hard Home") is the fourth planet of the Aralakh system in the Althak Vepar cluster, and the homeworld of the krogan species. Once the capital of the Tuchankan Empire, Tuchanka was subjected to centuries of warfare exacerbated by over-industrialization, all of which eventually culminated in the global deployment of nuclear weapons that left the planet as a radioactive wasteland. Shrouds, built by the salarians, later stabilized the planet's atmosphere to a habitable condition. After the collapse of the Empire, Tuchanka once again became the only krogan colony, and remained so until after the curing of the genophage in 2186 CE. After the Reaper War, the planet became the capital of the Tuchankan Military Confederacy, with massive terraforming projects being sanctioned, and aided by the New Council, to repair the damage to the planet's ecosystem in hopes to restore it to the state it was in prior to the Neverending Night. Tuchanka was the first planet, followed by the rest of the Confederacy, to declare for the Dominion Dissident Front in January 2253 CE, which kickstarted the Dominion Civil War.
By 2670 CE, the remainder of Tuchanka had been successfully terraformed into a fully habitable planet again, and regained the "garden world" classification. Since then, Tuchanka has become a major tourist attraction.