Ningxia

Ningxia is the first stop for many travelers headed into the Sierra Sector from the League of Planets. Once a barren world, scorched by some ancient alien conflict, the Terran Mandate terraformed the planet into a fertile agri-world, one of thousands needed to help feed core worlds. After the Scream, the world was isolated from the rest of human space, with neofeudal domains emerging, lording over vast estates from high-tech redoubts. The Ningxians initially embraced the arrival of the League of Planets, seeing them as the key to vast markets unseen since the Mandate. However, the influx of League settlers and corporations resulted in deep resentment, as they upended the old order. An intense anti-League insurgency broke out across the planet, requiring three full Peacekeeper divisions to quell it. After Ningxia was pacified, the League set up a puppet regime, the Ningxia Protectorate, to govern the day-to-day affairs of the world.