With the help from the Lamp's librarian team, we are making some headway in sifting through these archives to trace back the history of the attempts at colonization of Anath V.
The oldest records of Amarrian colonists date back from about one thousand years ago, when the first Imperial exploration ships arrived in Aridia. This is also when the 51st Exploration Corps famously reached Mishi IV and encountered the Ni-Kunni civilization.
However, these first colonists of Anath report the existence of ruins of an even older settlement on the auspicious spot they chose for their own town. These ruins predating the first Amarrian colony could conceivably be the deepest layer of construction, eight or nine levels below the latest.
Perhaps a lost civilization existed on world of Anath V, predating the arrival of Amarr settlers? It seems implausible that civilization arose on this inhospitable storm planet, and created just one town...
I think it more plausible that this was some sort of colony or outpost from another civilization. Perhaps the Takmahl? That would certainly have piqued the interest of professor Bathana, but I doubt the Takmahl could (and would) venture this far from their home worlds in Araz. Are the Jove involved, whose influence is strangely and strongly present in the Fabai constellation through several Society of Conscious Thought stations? Again, implausible, as their downfall comes only in recent times.
My best guess at this point is that there could have been a colony from another cryoship with fleeing Sabik. They scattered in all directions after Queron I's purges two thousand years go. The most famous group started the Takmahl civilization on Aphi, but it could be that another group reached this place and was forced to settle here, never reaching the grand heights of an own empire.
