Objectives:
1) Locate suitable city areas that can be reestablished/recolonized easily. Clear those areas out if needed. Basically, pick a random underground city & explore/exterminate hostiles.
2) Negotiate with the Houses on Crustai so the civilized areas can be incorporated into the Ascendancy without the need for violence.
3) Fleeters, purge the upper atmosphere of the harmful gasses from the biological weapon that was activated many centuries ago.
The cold snowy, mountainous, boreal forested, and toxic cloud covered world was founded by the Chiss Ascendancy right before 27 BBY. By 27 BBY, the planet was home to scout teams & small colonies. This all changed once the Gulag plague hit - quickly ending the expansion of the Ascendancy on the planet.
Regrettably, as the plague ravaged the planet, society broke down. A bioweapon that had been housed & researched on the planet was accidentally triggered during the commotion. The end result? A subspecies of Chiss that evolved in the coldness with a particularly strange phenotype.
While various species on the planet have been affected differently, most of the "Ghiss" subspecies have devolved into fairly unpleasant creatures that no longer retain much sentience. Really, they have axes, bows & arrows, but really have no other technology despite essentially controlling many of the underground and mountain side cities. They often fight in packs, although these various packs usually will attack each other on sight.
There are a few civilized Houses that are either underground or built into the mountainsides (and both) of Crustai. While technology has fallen back dramatically, they still contain certain aspects of technology (such as blasters that have been maintained, small electric generators & power plants that allow electricity/some lightning underground, etc.) House Crogui currently has the most influence, although there is still dozens of Houses spread over the planet. Note that there is no instant communication systems left on the planet. As such, a convoy of first contact specialists, negotiators and others have landed right outside the entrance to the largest, at least as far as scanners tell, city in hopes to negotiate.
Regrettably, there isn’t much known about the remaining populations on the planet, their ability to speak Basic or Cheunh, or their technology levels. Some educated hypotheses exist, of course, but will they be right? Time will tell.
With the Ascendancy returning to the system, the goal is to revamp the cities so they are habitable once more/purge the ‘Lost’, negotiate with the remaining ‘civilized’ Houses on the planet to ensure a formal integration process without violence, and lastly clean the upper atmosphere from the toxic clouds that have rendered the world.
