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At the beginning of the [[First Succession War]], Governor Patton MacDonald led several initiatives to improve security and infrastructure, but also championed a referendum in [[2789]] to rename the planet. Cynics might describe it as a ploy to distract the masses from the interstellar crisis. The winning name was... "Bob."<ref name=TtSBp5/> At the beginning of the [[First Succession War]], Governor Patton MacDonald led several initiatives to improve security and infrastructure, but also championed a referendum in [[2789]] to rename the planet. Cynics might describe it as a ploy to distract the masses from the interstellar crisis. The winning name was... "Bob."<ref name=TtSBp5/>
− Tragically, the name change caused unforeseen dire complications. A perfect storm of lost courier communiqués, wartime demand for [[JumpShip]]s, and a nonfunctioning [[HPG]] station meant that "Dunklewälderdunklerflüssenschattenwelt" vanished from the Combine bureaucracy without being replaced by "Bob." Trade and supplies dried up, with no way to communicate off-world and call for help.<ref name=TtSBp6/> + Tragically, the name change caused unforeseen dire complications. A perfect storm of lost courier communiqués, wartime demand for [[JumpShip]]s, and a non-functioning [[HPG]] station meant that "Dunklewälderdunklerflüssenschattenwelt" vanished from the Combine bureaucracy without being replaced by "Bob." Trade and supplies dried up, with no way to communicate off-world and call for help.<ref name=TtSBp6/>
Within fifteen years, over half the population had perished to economic collapse, rioting, starvation, illness, and ravenous native predators. [[ComStar]] survey teams in [[2815]] found only the wreckage of a lost civilization and wrote the world off.<ref name=TtSBp6/> Within fifteen years, over half the population had perished to economic collapse, rioting, starvation, illness, and ravenous native predators. [[ComStar]] survey teams in [[2815]] found only the wreckage of a lost civilization and wrote the world off.<ref name=TtSBp6/>
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At the beginning of the [[First Succession War]], Governor Patton MacDonald led several initiatives to improve security and infrastructure, but also championed a referendum in [[2789]] to rename the planet. Cynics might describe it as a ploy to distract the masses from the interstellar crisis. The winning name was... "Bob."<ref name=TtSBp5/> | At the beginning of the [[First Succession War]], Governor Patton MacDonald led several initiatives to improve security and infrastructure, but also championed a referendum in [[2789]] to rename the planet. Cynics might describe it as a ploy to distract the masses from the interstellar crisis. The winning name was... "Bob."<ref name=TtSBp5/> | ||
− | Tragically, the name change caused unforeseen dire complications. A perfect storm of lost courier communiqués, wartime demand for [[JumpShip]]s, and a | + | Tragically, the name change caused unforeseen dire complications. A perfect storm of lost courier communiqués, wartime demand for [[JumpShip]]s, and a non-functioning [[HPG]] station meant that "Dunklewälderdunklerflüssenschattenwelt" vanished from the Combine bureaucracy without being replaced by "Bob." Trade and supplies dried up, with no way to communicate off-world and call for help.<ref name=TtSBp6/> |
Within fifteen years, over half the population had perished to economic collapse, rioting, starvation, illness, and ravenous native predators. [[ComStar]] survey teams in [[2815]] found only the wreckage of a lost civilization and wrote the world off.<ref name=TtSBp6/> | Within fifteen years, over half the population had perished to economic collapse, rioting, starvation, illness, and ravenous native predators. [[ComStar]] survey teams in [[2815]] found only the wreckage of a lost civilization and wrote the world off.<ref name=TtSBp6/> |