Icarus

At the peak of the Golden Millennium's level of innovation and technological advancement, an ambitious group of Earthlings sponsored the creation of a project that would theoretically provide electricity to all settlements between the Sun and Jupiter (including the latter). The project, and subsequent power plant, would be dubbed Icarus.

As a result of the various technological evolutions occurring throughout the galaxy, there was the hope of solving the minor drawbacks of everyday life. Thankfully, this included harnessing an expansive supply of energy. Icarus would be a power plant located on Mercury that utilized reimagined photovoltaic cells to convert the light given off by the Sun. A series of satellites were then carefully placed through space in order to transfer the energy to established colonies. While a risky venture, the Earthlings managed to pull it off and convinced settlements as far as Jupiter into an energy bill.

Still, the power plant Icarus would go on to sustain numerous colonies through an abundant amount of solar energy. However, towards the decline of the Millennium, the plant and associated satellites would take collateral damage due to a series of events caused by LUNA. This negatively impacted a decent amount of colonies that relied on the solar power that Icarus granted, leaving millions without power. Notably, the independent group on Mazeran was unaffected, as they refused to trust the project in the first place.


 * A draft found in the writing desk of Vendrea Proslou