Veris

Veris is a former colony of Earth now under direct control of the Singulus. The planet has the grim distinction of being the first colony to be invaded and destroyed during the Singulus Invasion.

Establishment
Veris was discovered and settled in the same year, 2233. The founding colonists were on their way to Veris' sister planet Ujuma, when their sensors discovered a second planet in the habitable zone of Ujuma's star. Veris was settled first, as Ujuma was drier and hotter than its much more desirable neighbor. Veris was the furthest and newest of the colonies, and was home to 1 billion people. It has three moons, Veris 1, 2, and 3, that orbit in concentric rings around the planet. The planet's position around its star, and its temperate climate, made it attractive to agriculturalists and aquaculturalists for its vast fresh water supplies and abudant ariable land. Veris is 1.2 times the size of Earth making it the closest planet to resemble humanity's home world. Food production from Veris nourishes billions of humans across 3 colonies, and was seen as a stabilizing force in an increasingly impoverished sector of the galaxy.

The Fall of Veris
The Singulus targeted Veris first due to the colony's isolation and fairly small population. Veris served no military strategic value and thus was only protected by one battalion of troops and a fleet of six Hades-class frigates when the massive Singulus armada emerged over the planet. The laughable fleet was destroyed minutes into the battle, with the orbiting communications satellites shortly thereafter. The Singulus deemed surface invasion unnecessary and elected to bombard the the planet's population centers with kinectic and nuclear weapons. When it was all over, Veris was reduced to a barely stable rubble pile with massive craters where cities once stood. Fallout from the nuclear weapons rendered the once abundant farmland lifeless and decimated.

With the Veris population destroyed, the Singulus moved to assemble shipyards and ressuply posts in orbit around Veris and its moons. The Singulus rounded up what little human surviors were left and subjected them to mass killings and the Return Process. The colony known for bringing stability and life to the sector, would now be used as a staging post for a genocidal army that would bring more devastation to the other colonies.