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Sorry about that, it seems fine to me! I do want to know what was especially unique about their planet that had prevented them from colonizing a new one. Mainly for plot reasons, because some of the Rissan homeworld concepts are somewhat similar to what you described (Tidally locked, lots of iridium for obvious reasons). Of course, one has it being a super Earth, which would actually give my troops a way to fight back.
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They COULD have colonized a planet habitable to them, but it would be far from an ideal one, and thus not really fit to be called a homeworld. Besides, with only million people left, they feel safe within the EMP storm littered nebula that will likely be too hard for any of the player races i've seen so far to navigate through, let alone find them. The ideal planet for them would have 70% O[sub]2[/sub]/30% N[sub]2[/sub] atmosphere, crust consisting of good amount of silicon (iridium is jsut the construction material, they would learn to use another one, but silicon they need to live), gravity around 0,8G and surface temperature around 300°C. That's the ideal, although they can survive in a lot more drastic environments actually maintainable on the ships, which for simplicity's sake should be survivable for the other races.

EDIT: Out-of-universe reason is that I compensate for my quite advanced tech with too few in numbers to be any threat. You give Faira a 'garden' world and they'll become the dominant species of the galaxy xD