Pirate Prince
The Dragon Attack
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To outline a planet of great significance to my roleplay.
- Image Credit
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: To Purge This Land With Blood: An Account of the Chaldean Civil War
Chaldea's moon, Zara, appears reddish-purple when full.
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Planet Name: Chaldea
- Demonym: Chaldean
- Region: Inner Rim
- System Name: Phytoras system
- System Features:
- Phytoras, the sun for which the system is named.
- Chaldea and its moon, Zara.
- Location: In the empty hex between Jakku and Selvaris (see image).
- Major Imports:
- Major Exports:
- Native Flora & Fauna/Plant & Animal Products
- Ethromite, Halite, and Trenomite Ores
- Atargatis Skins
- Unexploited Resources: There is a deposit of Tydirium located in the region of Bamarre. The locals have resisted mining in the area due to fear of destroying the habitat of the extremely rare Bamarri. Likewise, the mysterious substance known as Chaldean marble may have some use, but the natives refuse to touch it for the same reasons they leave the tydirium alone.
Mer Embassy HQ, Pirivena.
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
- Gravity: Standard
- Rotational Period: 26 hours
- Orbital Period: 690 days
- Climate: Mostly Temperate, but there is variation depending on relation to the poles.
- Primary Terrain: Hills, Plains, Mountains, Forests, Oceans, Lakes; closer to the equator it is more tropical, with rainforests and some desert regions where there is little natural water available. Nearer to the poles it is colder, featuring tundra and glaciers.
- Atmosphere: Type I
Ruins of the former planetary capital of Nezamiyeh.
LOCATION INFORMATION
- Capital City: Nezamiyeh (formerly)
- Planetary Features: Chaldea's settlements were primarily land-based. The skyscrapers and tall stately buildings of its major cities never reached the towering heights of Coruscant. The skyline of Nezamiyeh is now a smoldering ruin. The rest of the world is dotted with the charred remnants of settlements and outposts, the ghosts of a once-thriving frontier civilization.
- Major Locations:
- Force Nexus (Optional): No. There used to be a Force Nexus in Nezamiyeh, but its power waned and it was finally removed by the Mystics.
Chaldean deer in a field outside the ruins of a city.
POPULATION
- Native Species:
- Immigrated Species: Just about any common galactic species that breathes a Type I atmosphere could be found here.
- Population: Scattered survivors scrounge out a living amid the ashes.
- Demographics: Indigenous cultural groups are listed below.
- Primary Languages: Galactic Basic and Binary; Chaldeans are said to speak Basic with a distinct Inner Rim accent.
- Culture: Despite the grim conditions of life on Chaldea, pockets of civilization do exist, and the culture which germinates within them holds many of the same values of the past. Religion remains a vital component of everyday life, and members of the clergy play important roles in their communities. Preservation of the old world has become an ongoing mission of many scholars; their efforts are supported by the Potentium. While the locals are not inherently hostile toward outsiders, they are more suspicious of Force Users. Anyone who claims to be a Sith or Dark Side User is considered an enemy. Chaldeans are also very wary of Jedi and may attempt to run them out of town. Jedi who attempt to recruit from among the Chaldeans are met with hostility and even violence.
- Government: Feudalism; local communities are governed by their own leaders with their own laws. There is no planetary government, though the Chaldean Potentium still functions in an extremely limited (relative to their former power and influence) capacity.
- Affiliation: Chaldean Potentium
- Wealth: Low
- Stability: Low
- Freedom & Oppression: The divisions among Chaldeans haven't healed so much as they have simply become irrelevant, with people realizing that they pose more of a hindrance to the survival of settlements and communities than a boon. Xenophobia is still relatively common, and hostility toward Force Users is still going strong.
- Military: The Chaldean military was greatly decimated by the dragon attacks. The planetary fleet "disappeared" at around the same time, their fate unknown. Outposts and forts are scattered and have been forced to become self-sufficient to ensure their continued operation. The warriors of the Potentium, including the Order of the Mystics and the Paladins, have become errant knights wandering the countryside.
- Technology: Galactic Standard
Chaldea’s only native sentient species is the Bamarri. Born under extremely specific conditions, no more than two living specimens have ever coexisted at the same time, forming not a society so much as a lonesome vigil over the planet’s ecosystems. They share a strange (and often strained) symbiosis with the Chaldean dragons, semi-sentient creatures whose role is to engage in the periodic destruction of those same ecosystems.
For the average galactic citizen indifferent to such esoteric alien concepts, Chaldea's history truly begins with the arrival of the first colonists around a thousand years ago. Many of them were pilgrims, particularly of the Potentium and the Open Hand, seeking religious freedom away from the wary eyes of the Jedi Order. Religion would thus become the defining feature of the civilization they built upon Chaldea. It was Potentiates who established the Chaldean University, which would become the heart of the planet's capital city, Nezamiyeh; the planet's governing body would derive its name from them. But it was the Open Hand who would ultimately seize political power, laying the groundwork for a future theocracy.
Despite the rise of the Galactic Empire two centuries after the colony's founding, Chaldea remained outside imperial influence and was largely unaffected by the tyrannical rule of Emperor Palpatine. After the Empire's fall, however, the New Republic began efforts to extend their power and influence into the Unknown Regions. The effects of this on Chaldea varied; the planet benefited greatly from more trade opportunities and mass immigration, but it also exacerbated tensions between the Potentium and those belonging to other religions. In addition, opening their world to the rest of the galaxy also meant that they were not insulated from the ravages of the Gulag Plague.
During the Reconstruction Era, they offered shelter and work to drifters, reformed criminals, and displaced refugees. This was done out of necessity as the population had been severely depleted by the Plague. However, friction between outsiders and Potentiates resulted in increasingly violent clashes. Eventually the conflict exploded into an all-out war for control over the planet’s government. The Chaldean Civil War, as it came to be known, lasted four years and resulted in the deaths of one in three Chaldeans. The Chaldean Potentium fought against an alliance of political activists, a “terrorist” group known as the Children of the Force, and (allegedly) secret agents of the Sith. The Potentium ultimately emerged victorious, and as a result all Force Users were banned from the planet.
After the civil war, Chaldea went into rapid decline. Reconstruction was slow going, and natives left in droves, seeking better lives and greater opportunities elsewhere. The seemingly endless wars between various factions elsewhere in space brought refugees to the anonymity and relative safety of the region, only for the Chaldean government to abuse and disenfranchise them. The Potentium was found to have engaged in sentient rights abuses, and actions were taken by the Galactic Alliance to prevent further harm against the populace. The Potentium responded to the intervention by preparing for war.
Then, the dragons awoke.
Unwittingly aided by a Bamarri named Kai, the dragons laid waste to both the Potentium and the GA’s forces before moving on to civilian targets. The resulting conflagration was the largest in recorded history, and was tantamount to an apocalypse. Millions of Chaldeans were killed within a matter of hours, including Toloth Threepwood, who represented Chaldea in the Alliance Senate, as well as Kai himself. The Potentium collapsed and the Alliance turned its efforts to evacuating the survivors.
Today, Chaldea is a ghost planet—but it is not devoid of life. Small pockets of civilization remain, and the underwater Finfolk community was largely unaffected by the dragon attack. Essonian refugees have found a new home on Chaldea; their martial culture is well-suited to dealing with the dragon activity.
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