Muphinz
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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a hellscape in need of reform, a place for Roleplay and hopefully the rise of a faction.
- Image Credit: Michiel Rensen, Stefen Beckhusen, Daria Khlebnikova, Daria Schreiber
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- Planet Name: Dronto ol Frero (Translates to: Planet of Fire)
- Demonym: Frerin
- Region: Unknown Regions
- System Name: Avaey System
- System Features: A Red Giant star orbited by nine small planets and two gas giants. The inner most planet being Dronto ol Frero
- Location: The hex South of Lao-Mon and North East of Oriam Mei
- Major Imports: Slave labor, food, medicine
- Major Exports: Quadria, Steel, Durasteel, Aurodium, Chromium, Carbonite, Quadanium, Hollinium, Titanium, Songsteel, Beskar, Neuranium, Laminanium
- Unexploited Resources: N/A
- Gravity: Standard
- Climate: Arid/Molten
- Primary Terrain: Arid ash deserts, lava streams, rivers, and lakes, mountains
- Atmosphere: Type III
- Capital City: Dronto ol Frero has no official capital, but the most powerful city and de facto capital is 'Pohskapforian Major' which is the capital city of the FPH.
- Planetary Features: Large lakes filled with Quadria crystals
- Major Locations:
Pohskapforian Major
Pahskapforian Major is one of the few surface settlements and the earliest known colony on the Dronto ol Frero, and its size and power has seen it become the de facto capital of the planet. The original colony was seeded by a crashed Chiss freighter during the height of the gulag plague which had been misdirected by faulty navigational equipment. The planet these Chiss landed on those many hundreds of years ago was drastically different than the one we see today. A stable biosphere, breathable atmosphere, and fertile soil saw the colony grow rapidly. But as the FPH gained more power and began to absorb the colonial government the biosphere became less habitable due to a disregard for life in pursuit of profit.
Using local materials the colonists began to build upward to create strange spires, the rich living at the top with the lessers living on the lower levels. Now that the planet is completely uninhabitable these spires are hundreds of meters tall reaching well above the clouds and some even into low-orbit. Their 'heads' have branched out into large habitable sections for the Chiss and the few others who live as equals, while their slaves and underlings live on the lower floors directly connected to a massive tunnel network of mines and boreholes.
Pahskapforian Major has made a great deal of wealth due to being the only location on Dronto ol Frero where Beskar can be refined and shaped by real Mandalorian craftsmen who are paid through the roof by their Chiss employers for their work. The largest of the great spires also act as space-elevators, allowing easy and cheap transport of goods from the surface to orbit for transport. It is also in the very center of the FPH's Corporate State, and filled to the brim with defenses and a professional military to help protect the exchange of goods and safety of the city making it the safest although most authoritarian place on the planet.
The City is also located to one of the large mud-lakes filled with microscopic Quadria crystals. This boiling lake can not only kill anyone who falls into it but its unique properties of Quadria sees any force user near instantly be drained of their powers upon falling in. Several spires have taken advantage of this lake, being built in it to help drain the lake and siphon out the crystals to be utilized or sold.
The Caverns
'The Caverns' is a catchall phrase used to describe the massive network of natural caves and bored out tunnels that run like a spiderweb across the entire planet. Most of the planet's population live in these caves, as their secluded nature allows for pockets of breathable type I atmosphere sometimes left over from long ago or maintained through the use of machinery or an enclosed ecosystem. The Caverns are plagued by the constant warfare of the corporate states, giant digging machines burrowing into enemy city-caves, or planting seismic charges to try to collapse it all together. Tunnels turn into massive choke holds where the front line is fought, with the line changing very rarely and often if it does its only for a short period of time.
What is left of Dronto ol Frero's ecosystem has moved into these caverns. Great tunneling beasts, packs of hungry mutant dogs, towering fungi and plants clinging on for life. Life is not easy here, but it is the only kind of existence for the beasts and slaves on Dronto ol Frero.
The Free City of Kityado ol des Quebos Trati
There are legends among the slave population of the cave-cities, of a free city of former slaves who live by their own rules and as equals. Many believe these legends to just be that, a myth and completely unfounded. But this city exists.
The Free City of Kityado ol des Quebos Trati (Translated to 'City of the Free Peoples') is the center of the People's Revolutionary Army, the largest resistance cell on the planet. Its location is a heavily guarded secret, and those brought here from the slave-cities must be heavily drugged to prevent a possible force user from accessing their memory to find the location should they be caught. Only those who go through extensive training are allowed to leave, and those that do tend to be gathering supplies or carrying out covert operations to free more slaves or hurt the corporate states production network.
The Free City has a long and rich history branching back to the very first slaves who fought their way to freedom. Rooted heavily in egalitarian and socialist ideals which were born by these first founders as they rejected the elitist capitalists who had enslaved them and formed what was little more than a commune of a dozen or so people that slowly grew to encompass a few thousand of dozens of species all located around two carved out spires in a massive cavern. Resources and goods are shared, and individuals work not for themselves but for their cause and for the freedom of their world. A city of thousands united in a single purpose and guided by a council of elected officials pulled from a pool of their most experienced citizens.
It is within this city that the language known as ol Bes was first created. This secretive language originally just used as a code language invented by the founders soon became almost a symbol of pride for the People's Revolutionary Army and replaced what ever native languages new rebels brought with them. It would permeate much of the slave population as the rebellion grew, and even finding its way into the renaming of the planet by the corporate powers.
The mythic status of this city is rooted in a deep secretive culture and need to remain hidden. Technology is hidden deep under rock, and used rarely. The city runs mostly off of steam and other low-tech equivalents that tend to blend into the thermal scans of the warm caverns and don't give out electric or other signs of high levels of technology that may give them away to scans. Blimps and similar air-ships are the most common form of transportation to and from the city. To great pathways leading to potential targets or to a dozen small mines where the citizens of Kityado ol des Quebos Trati dig out raw materials for construction of weapons or the continued growth of the city. Recently one of these mines has struck a large vein of songsteel, a valuable resource and one that may turn the tide in their favor.
POPULATION
- Native Species: N/A
- Immigrated Species: Chiss, Human, Hutt, and a variety of other near humans
- Population: Moderate
- Demographics: The corporate states that make up Dronto ol Frero have a wide range of species, mostly slaves to the Chiss and Hutts and other smaller less influential groups.
- Primary Languages: Cheunh and Huttese, Galactic Basic is incredibly rare as it is outlawed to prevent slaves from being able to escape and communicate with the outside world. To make up for this a language has arisen among the slave population called ol Bes or 'The Tongue' which is a constructed language originally used my slave rebel forces.
- Culture: There are two kinds of people on Dronto ol Frero. Those who live in luxary, and those who live as slaves. The slaves come from mostly humanoid species but a variety of religions, creeds, and backgrounds while the rich tend to be Chiss, Hutts, or a few other individuals without a standard set of morality.
- Government: Dronto ol Frero is divided into a series of Corporate States and thus has no official planetary government. The major nation states are as follow:
Frero Planetary Holdings: A Chiss Company, and discoverer of Dronto ol Frero. The FPH is the largest and most influential of the corporate states but any attempt at expanding is met with large resistance from the other factions. Xenophobic to the extreme, the FPH brings in millions of slaves annually to be worked to feed their own war machine as well as to constantly improve profit. They were set up by a colonial administration and quickly grew to replace said administration.
Hutt Territories: A loose conglomerate of Hutt crimelords who have set up on the planet, employing ex-slaves as labor and enforcers. Not much better than the corporate states but at least they pay their workers, even if it is minuscule.
Nova Techno Union: The NTU is said to somehow be related to the old Techno Union, even if instead of producing technology they act as a mineral extraction company. Claiming glory from some past ancestor which they may never have been related to, the NTU uses their expertise in droid manufacturing to produce their own army rather than buy one. These droids, being mostly B1 and B2 units are usually kept on planet as the cost alone to ship them off is greater than that to actually produce them due to such readily available resources.
- Affiliation: N/A
- Wealth: Wealthy: Most of the wealth is concentrated at the top, a few hundred CEOs and executive officers scattered across the upper atmosphere habitats who profit off the slave labor and exploitation of the planet to fuel their lavish life styles and off-planet investments.
- Stability: Low: Constant slave riots, wars between the corporate states, disease, famine, and frequent tectonic/volcanic activity make it difficult to maintain order outside of a few authoritarian slave/mining cities which are either underground or domed in or a few low-orbit habitats inhabited by the wealthy.
- Freedom & Oppression: Everything is designed for profit, the slaves on the surface barely even know words for freedom while the rich elite in low-orbit live out their hedonistic lives however they wish. What few freed slaves there are live in the one free city, and live in poverty.
- Military: The Corporate States on Dronto ol Frero are in a near constant state of war, meaning sizable and capable ground forces are able to defend the planet, even if they are fractured and spend their time killing each other. There are several small defense satellites orbiting the planet but those mostly shoot at each other.
- Technology: Technology on the planet's surface is as advanced as it needs to be, purposefully kept primitive by galactic standards so that slaves have no way of rising against their masters. Those who live in the cities or low-orbit habitats live in luxury with as much technology as they can get to make their lives easier. The free city is the one exception to this, but not by much as it only has industrial revolution level tech with the occasional blaster or generator scavenged from their enemies.
The Gulag Plague was harsh on the galaxy, and although terrors and hardships effected everyone in the galaxy the story of Dronto ol Frero begins with only two hundred Chiss stranded far from home. Csilla had barred them entry to their homeworld as rumors had spread that the freighter these lost souls were on board had been used to ferry the dead. The ship had been chased from the system only to be sucked up by an unknown spacial anomaly and dropped at the other end of the galaxy in an unknown system. The Avaey system as it would come to be known was uncharted, unexplored, but most importantly uncolonized. As the freighter, dented, bruised, malfunctioning, and slowly venting atmosphere fell into the orbit of one of the two gas giants these first survivalists managed to get some small systems back up and running which they used to detect their last hope of survival, the inner most planet. It had a type I atmosphere, stable biosphere, water, and no signs of civilized life.
The would be colonists started their long journey by venting atmosphere in controlled bursts to slingshot around the surrounding planetary bodies into the orbit of Dronto ol Frero and then started a rapid and dangerous descent to land. Re-routing all power from the ship to the shields during entry certainly helped, but only one hundred and fifty one Chiss would climb from the wreckage. The wreckage was repurposed, weapons of war were crafted into mining equipment to withdraw raw materials from the shockingly mineral rich planet, wildlife was domesticated, and the expertise of the engineers combined with a somewhat functioning medbay from their old ship saw the founding of their city: Pohskapforian Major. And only after a short two generations within this city maintained by limited cloning and gene-editing to prevent the stagnation of their gene-pool the people of Pohskapforian Major launched their first ship back into the stars.
Orbital scans cemented what was already common knowledge: this planet was going to make them rich. Rather than try to return to civilization these pioneers did not look to the stars, but rather within and forged ahead.
Yet, the Chiss are not a perfect people. The stress of work to keep their little civilization running was too much for such a small population, and so that first ship helped in the construction of three others that would venture into the void to plunder and raid. Valuable technology, slaves, raw resources, credits, anything to help them survive and grow.
As hundreds grew to thousands, and then hundreds of thousands, and as a four ships turned into a small fleet Pohskapforian Major grew in wealth and size. However the local government was wary to mine the planet, the colonists who were the children, or grand children of those first few saw this planet as a new start, somewhere to start anew. Yet one man, one who had come from Chiss space having heard of this strange rogue colony saw only opportunity. His company United Planetary Holdings which he had founded on this world soon grew. Subterfuge, illegal mining in banned reserves, assassinations, false data campaigns, and even the rigging of a few elections slowly saw the old government fall away and his corporation grow in prominence. As it spread out and ceded new cities he discovered something: they were no longer alone. The hutts had found this world, and sought after its wealth and soon knowledge of this world became far too wide spread. Other corporations soon landed on this world and staked their claim.
As Pohskapforian Major slowly grew in height to escape the toxic gases of damaging mining techniques that scarred the planet it became ever evident that something was wrong. The slaves were speaking a language, one not on any record. Rumors of a city not under anyone control began to permeate the slave population. And as the world slowly grew worst, as wars raged, as the atmosphere became unbreathable, as the last native species became extinct, these rumors only spread. That language only grew in popularity. Soon United Planetary Holdings was more commonly known as Frero Planetary Holdings even by its CEOs as that language permeated every aspect of society no matter how much those in power focused on extinguishing it.
It is said that the founder of this 'free city' was the last descendant of those who originally came to this world. One of the last who saw it as a place for a new start, corrupted by tradition and outsiders. Maybe this world will become free again? Or will this city be crushed into obscurity. The history of this world is still unfolding, all it takes is a few to guide it.
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