[b]January 2057[/b]
[b]Union of Kor[/b]
[b]Capital City[/b]
The capital city of the Union of Kor was built into the tundra where its towering walls dominated the horizon. City was shaped like a hexagon and streets were constructed in grid format. It was the most heavily defended city in the Union of Kor with anti-air defenses on roofs of almost every building and no building above six stories except the grand palace. In streets workers were cleaning up debris from celebration of the new year. The garbage from celebration was being just dumped outside city walls directly into slums that surrounded the city. Poor tari of the working caste were waiting for dumpings of garbage to strip for anything of use.

High King Van'Kor Ol sits in office as advisers go over reports. For the most part it is reports on food production, and trade. The years of peace after Void War had resulted in a surge of population numbers higher then expected with no internal conflicts to cull the excess population. Such a bother to have inherited from previous High King who died near end of Void War. A buzzer would ring on the High King desk and he waved away the advisers. After the advisers had left a very old male tari would wheel in, he a flat face had a breathing apparatus attached to his face.
	Van'kor "It is good to see you Gol, I hope you have some good news?"
	Gol "Depends... the... chitanite farm holders have agreed... to increase exports."
	Van'kor "Good, the Union of Kor could use the increased trade. Though what is the bad news?"
	Gol "The... export amount... increase is only seven... tons..."
	Van'kor "Ancestors spit on them. Chitanite is our main export.... It will have to do, you are dismissed."
Gol would press a few buttons on chair wheeling himself out. Once alone High King Van'Kor would open a drawer on desk taking out a bottle and poured himself a small glass. The High King would then take glass to look outside window of palace. The High King was only one of a handful with a view outside walls of Capital City, but his was the best. Royal Palace of High Kings was simple yet efficient, a rectangle reinforced with clearly visible chitanite as a symbol of strength.
	Van'kor: "Damn those farmers, they refuse to increase exports to acceptable numbers. Last thing I need though is to stir up internal conflicts like High Kings of the past."

[b]Orbital Station Kor-1[/b]
Aboard the metal coffin of a station were two tari scientists relaxing after celebrations for the new year. Chief Scientist Yor and Assistant Scientist Grik. The Kor-1 had no windows, the only way for the two aboard to see outside were to put on eva suit or use cameras positioned around outside the ship. Inside the station was a bit of a mess with a empty bottle floating through air along with various tools.
	Yor "Do the reports... my head is killing me."
	Grik "Fine but you were one to not secure instruments."
	Yor "I did not expect to get head hit by a wrench. Anything on the censors?"
	Grik "Nothing... well we got readings from something but probably nothing but a anomaly."
	Yor "Let those on ground deal with the data. Get on with experiment."
	Grik "When the next inspection of outside must be done your going on EVA."
	Yor *grumbles*
Grik would open a hatch to go into lab area of the station. The goal of the Kor-1 was to test the affects of zero gravity on chitanite. For almost a year now the two scientists had been carefully monitoring chitanite to see if space affected it at all. A rather boring task but the Union of Kor wanted to prove chitanite was just as good as steel in space. Both scientists found this research to be mostly a waste as the main use of chitanite was in medical field.