Laurata

The former homeworld of the Lauresh people before the Second Lauresh War, Laurata was a wealthy and powerful world in it's Sub-Sector, and was highly prized by it's human inhabitants as a testament to the early Human Imperial Alliance's military conquest. After the death of Karvan the Uniter, the inhabitants of Laurata built a tribute the the first emperor in the form a new governmental building named in his honor.

The Lauresh species was native to Laurata, and their advanced power generation allowed them to create a small interstellar empire that at it's height controlled over 248 inhabited and strong worlds of various species. Laurata greatly benefited from the material wealth taken from these conquered worlds, and used it to continue to update their military and to increase the efficiency of their technology.

After making contact with a species called humanity, the Lauresh saw that conflict was inevitable, as both species, being very close and in the resource rich Terra Sector, were certain to clash over territory. After spying on humanity and it's military capabilities, the Lauresh managed to cause a coup by manipulating competing human factions inside the Human Federation's Parliament, resulting in a greatly weakened Humanity that was easily crushed by the Lauresh military.

After the war, Laurata was once again filled in with resources coming from it's territories, had claimed victory over the disputed territory between the Lauresh Empire and the Human Federation, and had taken many human worlds. Laurata was untouched due to it's advanced defense systems and the pride of the Lauresh Navy guarding the planet in orbit.

The Second Lauresh War
Agrica Karvan would march his army on Earth, and would install himself as humanities rightful ruler. After many years of restabilizing and conquering human planets, he would begin fortifying the border worlds between Human and Lauresh territory. The Lauresh would prepare to march on humanity once again, and did so after the strike against Ullyte-2 destroyed missiles that were pointed at Earth that would destroy the massive factories if all made contact with their target. With humanity launching it's first strike, Laurata would board itself up throughout the war, and would remain relatively safe until the fortress planet of Latali was conquered in 3,579, and human forces would begin a year long siege. With rebellions and riots breaking out across the world, which was unable to support itself and its large population, the Laurata government would begin to fall apart. As human dropships landed across the world, the few remaining Lauresh military forces attempted to retreat aboard remaining vessels, most of which were shot down. Karvan himself would step onto the planet at the end of the siege, and human forces would wipe out any remaining Lauresh on the planet, cleansing its population of aliens.

Rebuilding
The planet of Laurata was devastated. With its population eliminated and cities burned, human forces had to choose what to do with the once great planet. It was decided that human colonizers would repopulate the planet, as it was near several resource rich systems and a Gateway Station, meaning the planet could be of great value to the Human Imperial Alliance. So it was agreed that repopulating of the planet would begin. After 300 years, the planet had met a point were it was on par with several other human civilized worlds, and would remain so.

War of the Corruptor
During the War of the Corruptor, during which Horathus instigated a coup to gain control of the Human Imperial Alliance from Ventalis the Brave, and then resulted in a massive civil war, Laurata had aligned with Earth against the Outer World Revolution. At one point during the war, Laurata was the site of an attempted invasion by the Outer Worlds, however forces from the Bastion planet Latali would support the defense of Laurata, and the planet's forces would suffer minor casualties.

Age of Chaos
During the Age of Chaos, Laurata would be invaded by The Betrayer on his quest to the Terra System. Laurata and Latali were another important planet to control, as they held in their system a Gateway Station, of which control over would be vital for his invasion to be successful. Latali was razed to the ground in 28,891, with Laurata shortly after falling to his forces. During the retreat of The Betrayers forces toward Archeon, the scorched earth strategy was successful in cracking the planets crust, badly damaging it in the process. Now being disregarded as to dangerous for widespread settlement due to the planets lack of stability in the crust, Laurata was abandoned, one of many great planets that fell during the Age of Chaos and its aftermath.

Current Time
With the loss of the records of systems across the Galactic Mass, Laurata was seemingly lost to existence. However, human explorers using the Gateway Station above the planet, had found the lost world after accidentally coming out of the Horizon Plane too early. After surveying the wreckage of a small fortress that had wasted away over the thousands of years, the two explorers left a small memorial to the planet, as they did not know what planet they had landed on, only that it had once, in the far past, been colonized by humans like them, during the age of the Human Imperial Alliance. Laurata is one of only a few important human worlds found post collapse of the Human Imperial Alliance.