A 31st century gold rush broke out in the Kraz system when vast golden seams were discovered running through the previously ignored and uninhabited planet then known only as Beta Corvi XXIII . Copernicus "Cop" Diamond, a humble mining robot from the Corvus Coal Pits, was the discoverer of this gold, and within days he was the richest robot in the Southern Sky. He claimed the planet as his own, renamed it Diamondas, and created a vast city of refineries and golden spires, using his new found wealth to also entirely refashion his body from gold, including his distinctive diamond-shaped head.
Unfortunately, his exploitation of the lax environmental laws of the region soon led to the planet being swathed in thick yellow clouds; not a problem until they burst in a great toxic shower of aqua regia, or nitro-hydrochloric acid, the only acid which can dissolve gold. Cop was never heard from again, and his great city was washed away into nothing.
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