Activon and its Fall - Actinium
cw: destruction of a whole planet
Activon was one of the FIRST colonized planets in this universe, and they were actually very advanced compared to what the history books tell them. They were wiped out by this force called The Great Reckoning (A solar flare knocked out their grid, and then they got "targeted" aka their planet got hit with rocky debris and asteroids, causing the planet to quite literally fall apart into pieces), and they decided that the best course of action was to take their stasis pods (cruder than other current stasis pods but it definitely still worked).
They put all of their younger population (from new adults to like 30 [in earth years/numbers] into them, ship them off while the planet and systems were still whole and powered with the emergency generators (they could only afford the larger facilities, not enough for that PLUS the houses, so they came together and decided on this). They sent off these pods to the spatial vacuum and jettisoned them out of the Activon atmosphere, keeping them in stasis until the pods found coordinates to habitable planets, where they then would land, open, and the person would be free to live the rest of their life there.
This was done to try and preserve what was left of the population Since there were few other Activon people left, though, the population became very diluted. Most of the stasis pods opened once they found habitable planets, but there were already other populations on it (ones that hadn't been properly colonized to form a planetary union but were civilized all the same), and they mingled and eventually became assimilated into that population, which increased their survival 100 fold











