Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Hapster (section)

===Cloithe Description===
Cloithe is an experiment.  Prior to the arrival of the Glasians, plans to terraform Cloithe and Hapster 4 to a level of habitability similar to Hapster 3 were well underway.  The arrival of the Glasians canceled plans to terraform Hapster 4 at any fast pace, but Cloithe’s atmospheric and gravitic terraforming had already begun.  The Cloithe project is less logistically demanding and some habitation domes are already in place.

The issue that has slowed progress to a crawl is money.  Terraforming is expensive, and with the sudden need for Hapster and the rest of Cloudburst to harden its defenses (and the extra cost of equipping a whole Chapter of Space Marines with no warning), Cloithe’s terraforming has ground slowly down.  The hab domes remain intact for now, but the program to make the planet’s surface habitable is three hundred years behind schedule.

Inside the hab domes, life is miserable.  Every colonist who can afford to leave has done so already, and those that remain squat in poverty, ennui, and fear of what is to come.  Every few decades, the Maskos machine that slowly digs out tunnels between the domes finishes its task, and the populace of each dome exchange a few thousand people desperate to see if the grass is greener on the other side.  Other than that, and a bare-bones manufacturing economy, there is nothing to do on Cloithe.  The Arbites have their hands full with the local Enforcers, who are just as unable to find things to occupy their time as everybody else, and have turned to brutality to relieve the boredom.

When the Glasians arrive, they rarely bother to send more than a token ship to harass Cloithe.  The moon has a small garrison of Hapster Shields to protect it, but even pirates have nothing to do here.  Locals have taken to essentially selling themselves as spouses to visiting Shields in the desperate hope that they will be allowed to emigrate to Hapster itself when the Shields’ unit is rotated back to home.