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Well-Known Member
Name
Kaltes
Region
Wild Space
System
Kalt
Suns
One sun, Kalt, yellow main phase star.
Orbital Position
Far habitable zone
Coordinates
Image
Rotational Period
30 Standard Hours
Orbital Period
525 Days
Class
Terrestrial
Diameter
22,323km
Atmosphere
Type I
Climate
Tundra
Gravity
Standard
Primary Terrain Types
- Mountainous
The most notable mountains are those around the equator, however the majority of the surface is composed of mountains and vistas, in a hostile beauty that some spacers have compared to Ziost.
- Oceanic
Covered in three to ten metre thick ice or large ice floes, the oceans are deep and support the only life in the Kaltese oceans. Sailfish.
Native Species
- Kaltese Sailfish -- The only fish that exist in Kaltese seas. Are harmless, but tasty.
- Gentun -- Yeti-like near-sentient native specie to Kaltes. Peaceful, but strong and lethal when provoked.
- Taun-Taun
- Arctic Horny Whelmer
- Snow Mynock
Galactic Basic
Government
The Kaltese government is centred around commerce. A supervisor is assigned, by a company, to the various fishing cities around the world -- especially around the Whitewater Sea. These supervisors have a tendency to mind their own affairs, but if necessary they will discuss agreements for mutual profit.
Population
Approx. 1-2.5million sentients worldwide
Demonym
Kaltese
Major Imports
- Food
- Landspeeders
- Fishing equipment and repulsor barges
- Cold weather survival equipment
- Kaltese Sailfish
- Kaltese Sailfish products
Neutral. They just like to sell fish.
Major Locations
- The Whitewater Sea
A strange sea of Kaltes that is always hued white and slightly luminescent, its shores are the location for many fishing and shipping operations due to the massive, seemingly infinite quantity of sailfish in the waters. So many so, that they have nearly condensed into a ring-like city around the sea. This is the primary source of activity on Kaltes, where cargo ships often can be seen moving to-and-from the world transporting both imported necessities and exporting fish and fish products.
- Shearpoint Mountains (See picture)
Nobody in modern times knows what formed these dagger-like peaks in the world. They go all the wat around the equator, almost as if the two hemispheres were mashed into one another, and for miles outward the razor-spike peaks carry on, some even creating strange islands in the local waters.
For Force Users, the entire area would reek of the Dark side, and it would echo across the entire planet.
For as long as anyone can remember, trade has been the name of the game on Kaltes. Fish for wares, wares for fish, and all for credits. The day-to-day of an average colonised Kaltese is simple, really. They wake up, get prepared for the cold, beat off the mynocks that followed them to the planet ages ago, and begin fishing operations. The goal every day is to survive to see your employer's profit margin increase, and by proxy see your paycheck increase. It's a simple life of do your job and make money.
Technology
Modern technology, but nothing extravagant.
History
The History of Kaltes is a rather boring one, except for one event. Throughout time it has been used for fish. Nobody even knows who discovered Kaltese Sailfish, but they're unnaturally tasty fish. The Whitewater Sea is the result of various fluids from the fish, but don't tell the swimmers that.
The Shearpoint Mountains are decidedly more interesting, however. Some ages ago, there was a mass conflict between ancient Jedi and Sith, and the Sith had attempted making a kind of Death Star-like super weapon. That weapon honed Dark energy into a planet-destroying beam, but the result was unexpected. The shot destabilised the world rather than destroyed it, and along the main blast path of the equator, the mountains rose from writhing, twisting volcanoes born of the Sith weapon.
While the population itself is negligible and would not even have much of a history aside from the text books, it should be noted that initial journeys, pre-fish, to the planet were considering using it as a military staging area. As such, beasts from other worlds were added to the local list of fauna to attempt to "regulate" the climate. Herds of Taun-Tauns were the first to breed transportation, and the snow mynocks were among the last, the result of space mynocks undergoing identical evolution to those on Hoth.
Aside from that, though, most of the planet's recorded existence is as a fisher's paradise where you freeze to near-death but get a pretty penny from your pain.
Notable PCs
N/A
Intent
To populate Wild Space and provide expansion potential.