Red Dawn

The planet Red Dawn is a secret outpost of The State used to train a special kind of deep cover agents called Red Agents or Mages.

History
The world used to be a colony established by a corporation to mine some valuable minerals found in its crust. Due to the remote location of the planet, communication was diffcult and transport off-world was expensive. The shipments of mined resources were sent on cheap but very slow cargo transporters that took up to ten earth years to get to their destination and were often the only means of relaying messages. Fast couriers serving as a connection to the outside world were employed to ply, but their services were deemed to expensive by most.

After the mined resource was depleted, many of the miners chose to stay. The planet was verdant garden world back then, overgrown with plantlife the colonists had brought with them. For a time, it was just a little inhabited planet lost somewhere in the vast cosmos, with little to no value to anyone except its inhabitants. Eventually any remaining connections to the outside world were abandoned and forgotten.

However, the planet proved unable to sustain the ecosphere forced onto it, and soon the plants started dying off. Oxygen levels dropped drastically. The people of the colony were starving and unable to send a plea for help because they had lost the knowledge and technology for spacetravel. Their technological level was dropping further and further, sending them into barbarism. From several dozen million, the population was reduced to several hundred over the course of about 300 earth years.

The world was dominated by charred deserts and scorched by extreme temperatures. The survivors lived in ruins and skin tents, and fed off of any remaining life forms. Cannibalism was often the only path to survival.

During this last stage, the State was conducting extensive space exploration. It found the lost colony and started uplifting and rebuilding it and terraforming the planet. It brought it's own food and medicine to save the remaining 155 people of the world. It was dubbed Red Dawn. The people were willing to do anything for their saviors. They proved to be very smart, strong, tough and loyal people, and the State started training them into Red Agents, all the while turning Red Dawn into a thriving, verdant world with a recovered population, another utopian world of the State.