Shanxi is a minor colony world founded by refugees of a border war between an alliance of minor human worlds and an expansionist faction of the Rishathan Sphere. It was settled slightly over a hundred years ago and the population was up to over ten thousand. The colonists landed on the planet of Shanxi because they had little choice, their ships were becoming more and more unreliable and they lacked the resources to continue to refuel them. Shanxi itself is an inhospitable world with a thin, unbreathable atmosphere that almost proved too much for the colony's limited technology base to deal with.
Only after decades of struggle were they able to improve their standard of living enough to re-establish a space presence. They began to survey their world more extensively and found that it was rich in heavy metals and rare earths and even had significant deposits of valuable transuranic elements. The colonists reached out to the Ryles Mining Consortium, they would grant mineral rights in exchange for infrastructure investments and a security presence.
Sadly, something went wrong, the merceneries hired by the RMC proved dangerously unreliable and the colony dome was breached, killing almost the entire colony. RMC has vowed to do everything in its power to hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to justice, and also promised that 2% of the profits from the Shanxi extraction project would go towards a charitable organization they created called the Shanxi fund, a program to help small fringe colonies subsidy local planetary defenses to protect themselves from dangerous space-faring marauders.
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