Marawi is a bitterly cold and windswept place, only marginally suitable for human colonization. Only in the equatorial areas along the southern shores of Lake Lanao is the planet habitable at all - elsewhere the people are forced to live in domed or underground settlements called "barangays". The world was originally settled by the Maranaos, a Muslim ethnic minority from the Philippines. For lack of funding they were forced to accept Marawi as their new home - anything better within range was essentially out of their economic reach.

Marawi is largely self-sufficient and able to feed its quarter-billion population. Taxation, however, has placed a great strain upon the economy, and there is a large group of very poor and very desperate people on the planet. Much of the economy has collapsed, to be replaced by black market barter as a means of avoiding taxation and government "regulations". Anti-Kuritan sentiment is very high, but without any outside allies or funding the "rebels" are nothing more than ill-equipped and disorganized terrorists.

Located in the heart of Rasalhague, Marawi is not an important world, but it does fall under the protection of Tai-Sho Tanida. It's mech garrison was recently shipped to the Kirchbach prefecture, more specifically the world of Harvest. Only a token force remains, backed by garrison of ISF troopers and conventional militia.