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Luthien Chosen as Coordinator Sanethia Kurita’s industrial project in 2619, Luthien was transformed from a sleepy backwater farm world into the Combine’s largest manufacturing center in less than two centuries. With the construction of Imperial City, Luthien’s place as the Combine’s new capital was secured. Covered in kilometers upon kilometers of giant factory complexes, utilitarian housing barracks and ribbons of ferrocrete and asphalt, the planet suffered massive environmental degradation from the unregulated industrialization. The “Black Luthien” moniker was well earned, due to the skyrocketing pollution. The crown jewel of the planet is the sprawling Imperial City, home of the ruling Kurita family. It was a virtual fairy-tale of a city, surrounded by verdant gardens and hectares of natural forest, before the Black Dragon coup in the waning days of 3067. The largest industrial complex resides less than ten kilometers from the center of Imperial City on a small chain of man-made “islands” strung along the Unity Plateau. Guthry Island boasts the massive Luthien Armor Works OmniMech production plant, with Tokyo Island hosting the company’s headquarters complex and LAW City. Covering ten square kilometers above and below the surface, the industriplex produces a sizable percentage of the system’s gross domestic product and employs millions people, scattered among the satellite facilities across the planet. On the southern continent of Aichi, mining is the largest industry with multiple operations scattered throughout the Fukui Wastes. The Buda Weapons facility and headquarters is located here; over 500 hectares of forest was transplanted nearby in late 3059 in accordance with Coordinator Kurita’s Environmental Reclamation Program. Scattered around the planet are memorials and museums that honor both the First Star League and the origins of the Combine. One of the largest and most popular is the Dragon’s Tears Plaza, which boasts a three-meter stone samurai replica for each warrior who fell on Luthien during the Clan invasion in 3052.