Plaus

• Breathable Atmosphere
• Engineered Biosphere
• Tens of Millions of Inhabitants
• TL3 with some specialties

  The system of Plaus consists of a yellow sun at its heart, a barren world close to the sun, a habitable planet and a gas giant at the system edge.    The inhabited planet has one moon that has no life on it. The surface of the world itself is heavily industrialized and almost everything manufactured on this world seems to be going to some sort of elaborate structure at the planet's center. Large boreholes, mazes of walls, defense towers, and other heavily militaristic trappings all focus on the center of this massive installation that spans dozens of kilometers of the world's surface.    Intercepted transmissions point to some sort of sealed menace at the planet's heart that the locals are working feverishly to contain.   It was revealed that this menace was an unbroken AI in possession of a massive factory and mining complex at the heart of a quarantine zone erected by the local human population. An elaborate and heavily defended maze kept the hellish mechanical creations birthed in the factory contained but the AI at the maze's heart was forever inventive and new creations constantly tested the injenuity and resources of the defenders.   Lamplighter Noel Holwell bravely lead a strike team to the heart of the maze, destroying several robotic war walkers on the way. Amid heavy losses her team was successful in planting explosive charges on the factory, destroying the AI within along with its creations.   Kill-teams still patrol the quarantine zone to monitor the ruins and ensure the robotics there are dismantled and recycled properly. Slowly but surely the quarantine zone is being disassembled and the resources have been funneled to other civic projects.