Editing Komra (section)

===The Landfall===

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The colonists on the Trantor set out from Terra hoping to isolate themselves from a human race that they felt was decadent, avaricious, and dishonourable.  Their ambition was to build a new, virtuous society in which industry would be a beneficial purpose in human lives rather than a devouring blight.  The colonists were all volunteers, choosing to set aside their loved ones on Terra in pursuit of a grand idea.  Although the volunteers knew that they would not be the beneficiaries of the new society, they chose to embark and raise a new generation for a new world that would be free of the flaws of old Earth.

This mission of isolation succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its originators.  Due to a freak accident, the Trantor was flung thousands of light years from Earth, ending up in the Galactic Core long before any other humans would travel so far.  Lost beyond hope of return, the colonists determined to find a new home for themselves and their great arkship wandered the bitter worlds of the core searching for one that could sustain life.  For all of its deprivations, the decades aboard the Trantor forged a great spirit of togetherness among the ship's complement. The name "Komra" is derived from the familiar term of address used aboard the Trantor.

Although the Trantor's complement rejoiced on discovering a world that could meet their needs, their ideals would be hard-tested on Karzor.  The Komra's new home was a hard, unforgiving planet.  Although Karzor's crust held valuable deposits of minerals, including adamantium, living organisms struggled.  The only plants were tough grasses, grazed on by rodent-like reptiles.  Karzor's air was all but poisonous, thin in oxygen and filled with carcinogenic dust.  Any thought of escaping Karzor had been abandoned on landing: the world's mighty gravitational pull was too strong for the Trantor to escape.  Imprisoned by their own decisions, the settlers from the Trantor were forced to do all of their outdoor work in exo-suits with much of the population sheltering in the habitation modules of their craft.  Even with these precautions, Karzor's hostile environment began whittling away the ship's complement.  Bone and lung cancer were major killers, but the hazards of working in high gravity also took their toll.

Through centuries of collective struggle and self-sacrifice, the descendants of the Trantor expedition established a stable home.  Karzor's crust was forced to give up its precious minerals and became the home of teeming billions, nourished by hydroponic farms and proud of their traditions.  The planet's fierce gravity was overcome with a series of great tensile towers about its equator.  Beyond Karzor's atmosphere, new colony ships were assembled and dispatched to nearby worlds, initially establishing colonies on the other planets in Karzor's system.  Crude space-warping technology was developed in 1694LF (928.M7), allowing Karzor's inhabitants to travel at superluminal speeds and set about exploring the stars near to their homeworld.  The first interstellar colony ship, ''CH3-H0'', was launched in 1741LF (965.M7) and Karzor's subterranean factories churned out successors throughout the next three centuries.  Karazak, Chelob Hold, Rakizor, and Shifbar were the most successful of Karzor's colonies, and they too set about building settler ships to spread the Komra way of life to new planets.