Kian Karr
Kel Dorable
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a planet that was previously included in the following thread. To established a planet in Wild Space to serve as a base of operations for the Republic Remnant.
- Image Credit: Image from this artist.
- Canon: N/A
- Links: Planet originally found in this thread.
- Planet Name: Ciomia
- Demonym: Ciomian
- Region: Outer Rim Territories/Wild Space
- System Name: Ciomian System
- System Features: The Ciomian System is relatively unexplored due to the hazards of space travel to the system. The system is surrounded by a dense asteroid field as well as two large nebulae which make travel to and from the system hazardous for those who have not traveled in the system previously. Ciomia is currently the only known planet in the system.
- Coordinates: Approximately at 40AH
- Major Imports: The planet, though once well known to other systems, was isolated and forgotten after the devastation of the Gulag Plague. Since that time, life on the planet has been allowed to progress with relatively little interaction with the outside systems. As such, little is imported into Ciomia.
- Major Exports: As Ciomia has not yet established strong ties outside the system, trade off world has not been exploited.
- Gravity: Standard
- Climate: Temperate
- Primary Terrain: Large lush forests cover the one large continent of Ciomia. The ocean that surrounds this content takes up about 65% of the planet, while the continent and a few scattered but isolated islands make up the rest.
Major Locations:
Theron: This is the major city of the people of Ciomia and, with few exceptions, the only place where people can live safely on the planet. The woodlands of Ciomia have evolved a dangerous collection of flora and fauna that make life in the unsettled city almost untenable for the natives or anyone venturing to the city. As such, Theron is vast, holding a population of 10.5 million. The city itself, while considered a single city, is divided into seven regions, each protected from the wilderness by large, guarded walls. These sections are connected together by covered bridges that allow the population to travel among the seven regions (Esqin, Paletin, Caplis, Veminis, Avelia, Callis, Quirin). One of the most remarkable things to an outside observer is the pure chaos of the city design. Theron, starting as a number of small villages that banded together to face the menace of the wildlife, grew and expanded with little planning and mostly out of necessity. As such, the streets are chaotic and confusing and the layout less planned than many other cities.
Temple of Awakening: This is a ruin located deep within the forests to the south of the city of Theron. It was once the home of a force cult that existed in the city of Theron. The leaders of the city, fearing the popularity and the power of the group, cast them out of the city. The cult was not aligned with either the light or darkside of the force. Similar to the Baran Do in that they focused their force techniques on surviving in the harsh conditions surrounding them, the cult went extinct after the Gulag Plague made it way to Ciomia. Few can survive the voyage to see this temple, as it lies in the heart of the deadly forests surrounding Theron.
POPULATION
- Native Species: Much of the woodlands of Ciomia have been unexplored due to the dangers of the wildlife. However, there are a number of animals of note.
- Canis: These are one of the deadliest of predators in the woodlands of Ciomia and the one that claims the most lives annually. Canis are large wolves, reaching 100-150lbs. They are pitchblack in color with bright yellow and red eyes. The wolves typically hunt in packs of 4-8. They have six toes on each paw, with the largest being a retractable claw for grabbing and clashing at prey. The Canis's mouth is full of sharp teeth and it has two tusks that jut out from its mouth. What makes the beasts so deadly is their intelligence. The Canis are boaderline sentient and seem to communicate telepathically when on the hunt.
- Liphisti: Another great predator of the woodlands is the Liphisti. These are enormous spiders, reaching 4-5' across and with venom that is meant to incapacitate not kill. The Liphisti is an ambush predator. Burrowing into the ground, they spread a fine web along the ground stretching out from their burrow for several yards. Vibrations in the silk alert them to approaching prey. When an animal, or unsuspecting Ciomian, wanders to close, the Liphisti springs into action and pulls their prey into their burrow where they will be consumed alive.
- The planet is covered in vast and large conefer forests with a vast number of uncharted plant life.
- With a relatively large ocean, there is a multitude of fish species that the Ciomia use as their primary source of food, in addition to grain based foods.
- Ciomians: The Ciomians are a human race that settled on Ciomia in ages past. The Ciomians are not native to the planet, not having evolved there, but were explorers who settled on the world. It was a long and hard process, establishing a foothold in a planet so dangerous. The Ciomians slowly established themselves as the ultimate innovators and supreme species on the planet before the Gulag Plague struck and devastated the galaxy to such an extent that the Ciomians and their system was lost to the galaxy at large.
- Immigrated Species: N/A
- Population: Sparsely Populated (10.5 million of Theron is virtually the sole residents of the planet).
- Demographics: Entirely human. The Ciomians are aware of other species and have done some small scale missions off-world, for the most part they are small enough in population to stay content with life on their homeworld and have not made an effort to establish anything interstellar.
- Primary Languages: Galactic Basic
- Culture:
- Military: The Ciomian military is centered almost exclusively on maintaining order in the city and keeping the wildlife out. As the population has established itself in a single epicenter, there is little concern for warfare. As such, the military forces focus their day-to-day on policing and protecting the city from the hostile fauna.
- Religion: The Ciomian's lack a structured organized religion. There are a number of small cults and religious sects among the people, and each hold different sway in the various regions of the city, but none can claim to be dominant and the governing body does not favor any religion, having a strictly sectarian government system. This was necessary in the early days to band the different groups together to unite for survival. While these small cults and religious sects might disagree and ultimately contradict one another, there is little conflict among the groups. This is a byproduct of the strong secular government of Theron and the fact that they all have a common goal they have had to work towards together, i.e., survival.
- Politics: The Ciomian government is a republic style of government, with each region of Theron electing a handful of officials to oversee the governing of the city. Like the chaotic nature of the streets and development of the city, so too has the political system developed haphazardly through the needs of the growing population over time. As such, the governing counsel has swelled from four members in the early days to over 300 and is made up of all political positions from each of the cities seven regions. While the 300 members of the governing counsel are often in flux, as most positions are only 3-5 year terms, each region elects a senior Magistrate whose duty is to act as the head of that region for a term of 10 years. This position, while open to all within a region, is typically controlled by the wealthiest of Ciomians due to the influence of wealth on elections. The senior Magistrates ultimate powers lay in their control over each regions military/police forces. Their ultimate duty is to ensure the safeguarding of the city and its citizens rights, while the governing counsel are more focused on the plethora of tasks needed for a city to function.
- Legal: Juries in Ciomia, who overhear all cases, are collections of professional legal scholars not laypersons selected at random. Judges, who are promoted from within Jury pulls for years of dedicated service, oversee trials and ensure that the juries are basing their verdicts on sound legal reasoning. There is a legal constitution outlining the rights of Ciomians as well as outsiders, though, as with many things on Ciomia, it is chaotic and often hard to interpret.
- Government: Federal Republic
- Affiliation: Independent until recently when it entered into alliance with the Republic Remnant
- Wealth: low, while there are wealthy Ciomians, the planet, until recently, has not engaged in off-world dealings and therefore can not be said to be wealthy in comparison to those with off-world trade.
- Stability: High. Nothing pulls a society together more than an outside threat, and the dangerous nature of the planet has done just this. While there is infighting and conflict to be sure, there is also a shared sense of needing to work together to keep themselves safe.
- Freedom & Oppression: Relatively free. Ciomians have the right to vote in their leaders and terms are limited, but the highest positions are often held election after election by those with the financial means to support campaigning.
MILITARY & TECHNOLOGY
- Military: The military of Ciomia centers around policing the city of Theron and safeguarding it from the dangers of the planets flora and fauna. Due to the dangers of the planet, the military is large in relation to its population and terms of civil service are required of all Ciomians and the military is the most commonly chosen path. With regards to defenses against foreign invaders, the Ciomians have little to guard against this given the difficulties of navigating the Ciomian system provide a deal of protection and isolation.
- Technology: Prior to the Gulag Plague and Ciomia's fall into obscurity, the planets technology was on par with that of similarly populated planets. However, with the lack of interstellar travel the planet has lagged behind other systems. Blaster weapons, shielding technology, durasteel, and other modern technology is all present on Ciomia but it is technology that would be considered "dated" on other worlds and, while the technology is similar to other worlds, it has deviated from it in construction due to the isolation of the planet.
- Storms: Violent thunderstorms are common on Ciomia and one technology that Ciomians have excelled at is the use of naturally occurring electricity to generate power. Lightning is remarkably hard to harvest to generate energy due to the fact that it is random and that most of the energy transferred in lightning strikes is heat. The Ciomians have cornered the market on utilizing lightning to generate power as violent thunderstorms are an everyday occurrence on the planet as well as prediction technology for knowing when the storms will strike. Knowing when the storms will strike, Ciomians use laser-induced plasma channels to control where lightning will strike, directing it away from Theron and harvesting the energy.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Earliest History:
The planet that would become Ciomia was first discovered by explorers fleeing the great war between the Sith Empire and the Old Republic over 2,000 years before the battle of Yavin. The explorers, who number only a few hundred, were seeking a peaceful place to settle down and establish a place free of warfare and destruction. Many viewed the verdant landscape and beautiful ocean and thought they had found a paradise. However, upon entering the atmosphere they quickly found their vessels disabled by the deadly thunderstorms and the environment to be harsh and unforgiving. Many died in those early years and the few that managed to establish themselves would go on to live a sheltered, vigilant life for many years.
Republic Era:
With the founding of the Galactic Republic (1032BBY) exploration became more common and explorers once more stumbled upon the planet of Ciomia. They found the Ciomians whose population had gone through a series of bottlenecks and growths, resulting in a relatively genetically homogeneous group of humans. These explorers aided in the establishment of trade routes and goods began to flow to Ciomia. The city of Theron, which before this time was no more than a fortified village, began to take shape into the vast walled city it would grow into. Throughout this period of time, Theron began to grow and expand rapidly, as the flowing in of goods and the sudden growth to their population that resulted pushed the planets technology and infrastructure ahead by centuries. However, the people of Ciomia, focused as they were on survival, did not advance to the point of establishing interstellar travel, relying on others to bring supplies in and out.
Empire-New Republic-Yuuzhan Vong:
Throughout the period after the fall of the Galactic Republic and until the defeat of the Yuuzhan Vong, the planet of Ciomia went through several periods of loss and rediscovery. As governments shifted and the galaxy at large was thrown into chaos, the planet, secluded as it was in the dangerous Ciomia system, was lost and rediscovered many times. Each period of loss was associated in the planet slipping behind technologically and suffering population dips while each discovery was associated with a population boom and technological advancement, though the people of Ciomia never established interstellar travel.
Gulag Plague:
The planet of Ciomia was just coming off of a period of unprecedented growth and trade with planets outside of the system when travelers to the planet brought with them the deadly Gulag Plague. As it did with the galaxy at large, the Gulag Plague devastated the people of Ciomia, causing the population to bottleneck dangerously and bringing the city of Theron to the brink of collapse. The people of Ciomia, being use to devastation and hardship, however, prevailed and slowly began to rebuild, though the planet remained lost to the galaxy.
Rediscovery:
With the fall of the Galactic Republic, senators, Republic soldiers, and Jedi were thrown into exile as galactic powerhouses continued to struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. They resurfaced in Wild Space as the Republic Remnant. Ciomia, whose planet was rediscovered by Jedi Master Kian Karr in his duties as a Jedi Shadow but whose people had not been, was once more thrust into the galactic spotlight as the Republic Remnant set their eyes on this planet as a potential home base to regroup their shattered government.
