The 36th has its origin in one of the most embarrassing military disasters in Earth history. In 2571, the battle carrier UEES Olympus pursued a band of pirates and rebels home to their hiding place in the undeveloped Nul system. The carrier’s complement vastly outmatched their foe, but the admiral in charge wanted in on the kill personally. He ordered the Olympus into a pass that was too close to the system’s fifth planet, Ashana. The Olympus was caught in the planet’s gravity, impacted on the world’s surface and lost with only a few survivors.