
Ĭhau Sara and Mar Sara were colonized by an expedition from Tarsonis several years later. Requiring only a minimal guard staff and robotic sentries, New Folsom served as an inexpensive source of unrefined ore and minerals. People who were enemies of the Confederacy, but too valuable (or popular) to kill, were sent there and used to work the mine's machinery. Those same catalytic elements were discovered in the Sara system not long afterward, but Confederate financial analysts were unwilling to let such an expensive investment sit unused for long, so the mine was easily transformed into New Folsom Prison.

The New Folsom Confederate Mine was constructed on one of the stabler lava lakes and was soon producing the materials necessary for the Confederacy to begin building a new fleet of battlecruisers. It conscripted a team of experts, materials specialists, and terraforming engineers for this task. The Confederate government was determined to establish a foothold on New Folsom, as it was the richest source of the catalytic elements required to forge neosteel within Confederate territory. The Confederacy seized control of Khyrador and renamed it Braxis. One of the first "planned" worlds of the Confederacy was Tyrador VIII, which became famous for its centers of higher learning, its orderly streets, and its sanitary parks.

It began extending its influence to other worlds. The Confederacy was founded by Tarsonis and its colonies in 2323.
