Cortez 12b

Overview
Saying cortez 12b is a hellhole would be a understatement cortez is way at the edge of its stars habitable zone making it freezing but somehow life managed to thrive in the early days the cortex went underground only leaving to get food from land animals and water but around 10000 years ago some of the cortex left caves building on land the freezing environments brought the cortex closer together and a population boom from 560k cortex to 2.4 million cortex within a span of 50 years happened the cortex have a very strong martial culture around around 5000 years ago the cortex achieved space travel originally starting off as a very weak star empire but they just kept building and building weaponized space ships eventually becoming the strongest empire in the galaxy in 1975 a ws science ship stumbled across this planet they managed to translate their language quickly