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San Angeles - Circa 2540 |
System: Hermiod |
Moons: Losan and Sanfran |
Diameter: 10 661 Km |
Day Length: 22 hours, 33 minutes and 6 seconds |
Year length: 390.4477 days |
Government: UNSC |
San Angeles
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San Angeles was a human colony, first founded in 2410. Being an inner colony, it's population was typically higher than most outer colony planets. With a population of 52 million people, and a size only slightly smaller then that of Earth, San Angeles had many isolated pockets of people, typically living in vacation resort fashion. However, there were several highly dense population centers based around urban living.
- Early History
- Human-Covenant War
- Post-Covenant Status
- Ecosystem
- Population
- Director Vernette's Personal Notes
Early History
San Angeles was a human colony, first founded in 2410. It was discovered 6 years earlier by a deep space probe launched by the UEG. Upon initial discovery, research teams were dispatched to the planet to further analyze the planet for long term colonization. It was discovered that despite a different day length, and a different orbital period, this planet was nearly identical to Earth in terms of its ecosystems, climates, and even some natural phenomenons. San Angeles had its own version of the Aurora Borealis, which was initially nicknamed, and later finalized, as "Aurora Duplicalis"
Human-Covenant War
San Angeles was attacked by The Covenant in 2540. It was later learned that The Covenant had discovered a large quantity of Forerunner artifacts beneath the planets surface. As it turns out, the Covenant has invaded this world to get access to the Forerunner artifacts laying beneath the surface of this planet, artifacts, that Trust-controlled ONI Operatives had discovered, and had been trying to excavate for their own purposes.
The Covenant had a very keen interest in this planet, which is why they devoted incredible resources into capturing this planet. As it turns out, The Covenant had intended to attack both San Angeles and Midnight, at the same time, because they believed that ONI had already gathered a significant amount of information on the artifacts located on San Angeles. This assumption on the part of The Covenant, however, was wrong. Reguardless, the attack on Midnight, which was planned to happen in 2540, never took place.
Post-Covenant Status
There is no status...
Ecosystem
San Angeles had a very diverse ecosystem, however, there was very little life on this planet, as the bio-diversity was a fraction of what was typically found on Earth. The reason for this was an issue of hot debate in the scientific community.
Despite this, in early 26th century, careful planning was carried out to increase bio-diversity, by introducing a new batch of bio-diversity to San Angeles, by moving animals from Earth to San Angeles, and placing them in near-indentical eco-systems.
Population
San Angeles had a population of 51 832 754 people. 80% of the population lived in large urban centers, while the other 20% lived in rural and/or remote locations. The following is a breakdown of ethnic background based on the most recent census.
- Caucasian - 58%
- Hispanic - 18%
- Black - 11%
- Asian - 9%
- Native American - 4%
Director Vernette's Personal Notes
San Angeles was a very Earth-like planet. No atmospheric processing was needed to make this planet idea for human colonization, which was very odd, and very strange...but...nobody cared about that. Nobody stopped to think about the "why", and they just focused on the process of immediate and rapid colonization. That very fact alone should of raised red flags, but...nobody cared. But...how were we supposed to know what was laying beneath?
In terms of San Angeles, the planet itself was a great planet, and a very popular vacation resort leading up to 2539...but...ONI did a very good job in killing that, and turning this world into a highly defended military installation. I spent almost every waking moment trying to figure out what Spender was after on this planet, what he was hiding from me. Had I known then, what I now know about San Angeles...things would of been different. However...what is done is done, and there is no going back. What a shame.
I should point out...that the "why" in terms of "why this planet was a PERFECT habitat for humans" became very clear to me near the end of the Covenant invasion of this planet.
-Director Vernette
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