The Fading Stars, Traveller rpg setting

Kildareth

Kildareth was once one of the most intact Ancient sites. Amongst the miracle left by the Ancients lived the transplanted ‘Kidarethians’ who prospered and multiplied. Around them were the vaults, floating cities and palaces of their “masters long gone”. Though a warm world it seemed perfect for the inheritors who were in fact Azhanti, a minor human race from the Antares sector.  They had adapted to a warm environment on their original world of Irale and the world of Kildareth was cooler; this was a good thing. Below 35° Celsius they are quite placid and even sluggish but above that they become much more animated, charismatic and potentially very violent.

Three hundred years ago wide scale solar flares raised the planetary temperature of Kildareth and the planet baked. Physiologically the populace handled it well but psychotically it triggered planet wide change in the citizens. They became active, animated and also hot-headed and rash. They broke in to the ancient vaults and stormed the empty flying cities.  They took offence and injury from their neighbours and soon were at each other’s throats. They reverted to the true Azhanti traditions of combativeness and aggression; they fought.  

Soon they used the weapons of their “masters long gone”, the seas boiled and the skies bleed. Bioweapons ravaged the populace and billions died. Three hundred years later Kildareth is an irradiated plague pit. The survivors live in deep bunkers, moon bases or semi-derelict orbital facilities.