Derisive Umbaran
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A private colony operated by the Commerce Guild.
- Image Credit:
- Original Art: Gaelle Marco - secret-base 13 jungle
- Banner Art: The inimitable Arage Bao.
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links:
- Revolving Fondor - The aftermath of the Commerce Guild’s takeover
- Landmark Name: Kojulna Archipelago
- Classification: Region - Tropical Archipelago
- Location: Giju
- Affiliation: Commerce Guild
- Size: Large (28,311 km2)
- Population: Sparse (130,000~)
- Demographics: 35% Human, 29% Keshiri, 20% Sakiyan, 10% Herglic, 4% Chiss, 2% Neimoidian
- Accessibility:
The Kojulna Archipelago was accessible by only a handful of commercial flights from elsewhere on Giju. All local spaceports are controlled by the Commerce Guild Provisional Authority, who only approved landings for related business or emergencies. CGPA-operated air shuttles periodically ferried residents and visitors between islands.
There were few restrictions on movement throughout the archipelago or its settlements. Some areas were occupied by members of various resistance movements, who generally did not take kindly to foreign visitors. Other areas were locked down by the Silver Shield Group - either because they were essential to business operations or to contain resistance activities.
- Description:
A small, remote island chain on the planet of Giju, the Kojulna Archipelago was located in the north-eastern hemisphere of the planet. It was under the control of the Commerce Guild, who governed the region independently through the Commerce Guild Provisional Authority. The CGPA was only nominally answerable to planetary authorities and essentially acted as a de facto independent state.
There were two major islands, then a dozen more of varying sizes trailing out from there. Kojulna was noted for its beautiful jungles and pleasant tropical weather, but it was not a tourist destination by any stretch. The Commerce Guild had different interests in the region. Because of its uneven terrain and dense jungle, armed resistance to CGPA activity by native groups was common.
Major industries included: waste recycling, commercial agriculture, and commercial fishing.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Honar
Inland Honar is a labyrinth of garbage and refuse, as demand for a place to deposit this junk has outstripped capacity for the Commerce Guild to recycle it. A handful of natural harbors along the beaches play host to power plants, molecular foundries, and one spaceport. Useless scrap is sucked in, sorted, processed, and then shipped to various manufacturers for a pittance. The whole operation was environmentally beneficial for many different regions and planets - just not Kojulna.
Honar possesses no permanent residents. Laborers are periodically shuttled back and forth in accordance with their shifts. Most of the land has been developed and transformed into a scrapyard. Defunct vehicles, starships, droids and other electronics are shipped here from around Giju (and some other star systems) for reclamation.
Notable Locations:
Ko-Malar - The spaceport. Space for several dozen large freighters are available. Ko-Malar is used primarily to load up recycled materials. The freighters which deposit junk and scrap typically do so randomly over the island.
Redpoint - The largest of the recycling harbors on Honar. Redpoint is a series of blocky warehouses, with large domes housing molecular foundries scattered among them. There are a few barracks and common halls for laborers who go on break. Redpoint also featured a small landing pad for the air shuttles that ferried workers between islands.
Galau
The largest and most populated island in the archipelago. Much of Galau has been developed for agriculture, but large swathes remain pristine. Generally, the deeper one gets into Galau, the more wild it becomes, and the more likely one is to run into one of several active guerilla resistance movements. The various port towns are perfectly secure.
Galau is largely engaged in the farming of several tropical cash crops from around the galaxy. Canned foodstuffs, largely fish, are also produced in bulk for sale elsewhere.
Notable Locations:
Goratown - Not actually a town, but an open mass grave in which many of the killed Bando Gora were dumped into. It is in the north-west of the island, about a quarter of the way inland. The grave was never filled, and in lieu of this, a ramshackle fence was erected around the area. As of now, the pit is only a tangle of bones, rags, and broken weapons.
Grand Cato - The largest settlement in Koljuna, and where the Provisional Hall and the Kojulna's austere governor resides. It was previously called Nau, but the viceroy renamed it shortly after being appointed. Grand Cato is a modest and productive settlement and closely monitored by the Silver Shield Group.
Grigori's Watch - A smaller settlement not far from Grand Cato, it housed the bulk of the region's keshiri and sakiyan immigrants. It was named after an unlikely hero who perished fighting the Bryn'adul on Saki. Most of the town's populace worked in the surrounding farmland, with the rest working in canneries and processing plants.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Kojulna Archipelago was an unremarkable stretch of land for much of history. Its local populace, exclusively herglics, toiled peacefully away without complaint. Most of galactic history passed them by without note - even the more traumatic events in Giju's history.
When the Confederacy of Independent Systems collapsed, however, Kojulna fell into the Bando Gora's crosshairs. The Bando Gora turned most of the inhabitants into slaves and turned the larger islands into airfields from which they could pillage the rest of Giju at their leisure.
Giju's planetary government contracted the Silver Shield Group to get the situation under control. The Commerce Guild then involved itself, and arranged that the archipelago would be leased to them indefinitely, contingent on an end to the Bando Gora's presence in the area. With little other options, the planetary government was forced to accept the arrangement.
There was, naturally, strenuous disagreement with the native inhabitants of the archipelago, who had not been consulted about this arrangement. Some left. Some remained. And some fled into the jungles to wage a resistance movement. As recently as 874 ABY, acts of sabotage and violence were not uncommon.
Because many of the natives left, the Commerce Guild imported many workers from abroad - particularly devastated regions of the Scar Worlds and an element of the Chiss diaspora. The viceroy of Kojulna, a neimoidian himself, filled out many important administrative jobs with members of his own species.
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