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Groundsetting Traditions

One famous Mygdose tradition that has marked their civilization throughout its history is the practice of firing weapons systems into the surface of target celestial bodies shortly before the arrival of the first colonists to set foot on them. In colonial lingo, this was referred to as "groundsetting", and in line with the tradition, the first colony on the world was typically in the site of the very same crater left by the weapons firing.

The practice of groundsetting dates all the way back to the early portions of the Third Wave of colonization before the Sabhara Commonality was formed, and was believed to have its origins among explorers and corporations seeking to establish new colonies. Early groundsetting traditions began as a way to mark a planet as belonging to a certain group as a form of claim-staking, with different weapons systems, impact locations, and firing patterns being used as a signature for different groups and leaving behind different kinds of craters.

The first planet to be marked for colonization by groundsetting was Asharata, in the Jubitos System in Sabhara, the Mygdose's home galaxy. A private explorer by the name of Yune Runaue, working under contract for the Benedicole Settlement Corporation, encountered a habitable world among a wide variety of other candidates in nearby systems, and needed a way to differentiate the target planet from the many other alternatives in those systems, and to ward off competitors.

The solution he discovered was to simply "create a big hole" in the target planet, using his ship's weaponry. Firing repeatedly and for hours on end, the resulting impact site was less of a crater and more like a borehole. Yune returned with barely any energy in his ship to spare with the coordinates of the star with the chosen world in its orbit, and eyewitness accounts from those present at his debriefing claimed that Benedicole executives who heard his testimony were divided as to whether they should apply a deduction to his pay for "damaging the product", which they eventually decided against.

Today, the tradition of groundsetting has carried on to other kinds of settlements and bodies, not just planets and moons. Mygdose colonies-to-be around asteroids are often made in massive, carefully constructed boreholes as a matter of choice rather than necessity. Even wholly artificial structures such as space stations, astropolises, and megastructures incorporate a structure somewhere in their design to symbolize a groundsetting crater.

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