Nectaris Prime colony was a colony on the moon.
The moon colony was the first attempt at off-world settlement. The plan was to steadily populate the Lunar Frontier' and relieve the population problem back on Earth. The Thunderhead had it all worked out. Then came the disaster.
In the Year of the Lynx, the Nectaris Prime colony on the moon had a catastrophic atmospheric failure. Their entire supply of oxygen, even the reserve of liquid oxygen, vented into space, killing every colonist. Not a single survivor.
That’s all the public knows because the public history databases are all subject to scythes approval. Scythes are allowed to do anything they want. Even censor history.
In the Thunderhead's backbrain are:
- Those first articles written.
- Personal recordings made by the doomed colonists before they died.
- Broadcasts pleading for help.
In the short story A Martian Minute it could be assumed that Xenocrates was involved in the accident to preserve the Scythedom way of life.