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'''Rophanon''' is a planetary system located in the star cluster known as the [[Protean Ebb]].
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==History=='''Rophanon''' is a planetary system located in the star cluster known as the [[Protean Ebb]]. The planet was first settled by one of the successive waves of human colonists spreading out from the [[Sol system]] during the during the [[Dark Age of Technology]]. It was gleefully colonised due to its lush vegetation and relatively innocuous fauna. The world prospered, and at the time of the [[Great Crusade]], Rophanon willfully joined the [[Imperium]] contributing men for the [[Imperial Army]].
Rophanon's luck turned in the last decades of [[M37]], when a quorum of [[High Master]]s of the [[Administratum]] declared the planet requisitioned. The act was due to centuries of strategic preparation, wherein the system was identified as suitable for a massive data archive facility. The archive was meant to process, classify and store billions of unwanted, outdated or useless reports, messages, dispatches and communiqés, from the entire [[Sector]]. With this act the planet lost its independence and its people were declared entirely subject of the Administratum. There was still a council of hereditary [[governor]]s, but it was stripped of all practical authority and remained only as a facade, to avoid upsetting the already embittered Rophanon populace.
