Desolation was once a thriving planet, home to an ever-expanding planet. With three moons, two of stone and one of machine, the planet was just entering its space age when disaster struck.
One of its moons collided with another, sending both wildly off course. The first of these moons crashed into the planet below, splitting a third of the planet off, and disrupting all life across the planet.
The only sapient survivors were those in the satelites and stations orbiting the planet, who quickly had to learn to adjust to their strange new reality. Having lost their home, they were now fully reliant on what few minerals they could scrape from the debris, and the food that they were able to grow aboard their still primitive space stations.