Most believe that without support, the initial terraformers probably died out, but no one really knows what to expect on the other side if that jump point ever reopens. After all this time, Oretani is only ever debated among select number of historians. As years stretched into decades, people studied the area around the former jump point, hoping for a sign that it had reopened, but after time they gave up. Scientists scrambled to figure out a solution, but it was the first time an incident like this had occurred. The terraforming Corp that won the bid sent a mid-level team (and their families) into the system to start processing when the only jump point into the system collapsed. Only one planet seemed to be a viable candidate for terraforming. The surveyors noticed nothing in the system’s six worlds of immediate importance.
Even the most jaded NavJumpers can’t help entertaining the possibilities for scientific understanding or new species or even a new home that could await them on the other side of a new jump point.
After years of debate in the political and scientific community, the population was allowed to stay, but only under certain conditions: future terraforming attempts have been outlawed and the Human population has been consolidated to a single arcology to minimize their impact on their environment and the development of whatever species is growing in the deep. Unfortunately, Humans had been living here for almost over three hundred years and the families that had been here for generations felt that they had earned rights as residents. Carteyna was immediately placed under the Fair Chance Act. This caused a massive uproar throughout the UEE at the prospect that they had been attempting to terraform a developing world. Almost fifty years ago, scientists discovered microscopic organisms in the very early phases of life in the depths of the oceans. In fact, over the years, every time there’s a new technological development in geo-engineering, they test it out here on Carteyna only to yield the same result. Multiple attempts have been made to try to convert the thick atmosphere into something breathable, but the process never seemed to stick. Fortunately, its planetary axis constantly keeps the northern hemisphere away from the sun, which allowed for the water to freeze into the landmasses used as the initial landing zones in 2587. Located on the edge of habitable zone, Carteyna is a classic waterworld. Of the four planets in the system, only one is inhabited: Carteyna.