Caruthers System

Caruthers System Discovery & Exploration -  The Caruthers System was discovered on November 25th 2769 by the Martian Technology and Exploration Institute and an Icarus-Class Survey Cruiser was dispatched, after six months to reach the system and another three years to survey and categorize it.

The first colony mission was dispatched and was lead by the Caruthers Corporation which was headed by Robert Caruthers who with funding from the government established a colony in what would come to be known as the Caruthers System.

The Colony mission reached the Caruthers System in 2778 after a slow five year trip through hyperspace with most of the crew in stasis.

The Caruthers system has a standard class G Yellow star with a habitability zone of approximately 0.5 AU and contains four planets Caruthers I a.k.a. Casterman a roughly earth sized planet with a miniature system of moons around it and an atmosphere of Sulfur Dioxide which orbits out to 23 million kilometers, Caruthers II another uninhabitable planet with again a Sulfur Dioxide atmosphere that orbits out to 99 million kilometers, and there is Caruthers III and Caruthers IV a binary planetary system that orbits each other and the sun at the same time at 135 million kilometers distance.

With the loss of Thebes the residents of Mars were looking for a new home and focused alot of their energy and effort on the Caruthers System turning it into and economic and manufacturing powerhouse in less than a century.

Originally Caruthers world was also home to the Theban Cluster Government but after the rediscovery of the idiosyncratic hyperspace drive and the ability to penetrate Thebes protective shield again the government was moved back to there.

However as Caruthers has grown population wise alot of their manufacturing as moved to orbit and to other moons in the system with mainly corporate offices and non space intensive manufacturing with large swaths of forestry.

Most of the system is dotted with space stations, gas extraction plants, manufactories, orbital farms, and mining stations.