Before the great powers that existed could turn their wrath against the independents of Karn, their wrath collided against each other, and a great war was fought above and on this distant world. Giant cities were destroyed as the landscape became a monument to its own destruction as crashed ships soon littered the planet.
On a navigational display, Karn, was made to show as a territory of the United States, but less than a squad of Marines were left on its only known base to remain in control of the ungovernable. These people failed as oppressors as Karn became a scattered world of settlements that consisted of the civilized who were governed by their word from faith, and the outlaws in between. The planet was a shadow of the mistakes of a destroyed humanity.
“Karn is a rock filled with rebellious people. Keep them in line and enforce all regulations. Remind them that their rock belongs to us.” - Colonel Tani’s orders to Lieutenant Eli Gibson.
Author of the Space-Girl Michelle series of books.