Vendra Vane
Peacekeeper
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To flesh out a piratey canon planet that can serve as another hive of scum & villainy
Image Credit: Star Wars: The Old Republic [X]
Canon: Yes
Permissions: N/A
Links: N/A
GENERAL INFORMATION
Planet Name: Llanic
Demonym: Llanici
Region: Outer Rim Territories
System Name: Llanic System
System Features:
- Metal-rich asteroid fields and gas clouds
- A retrofitted imperial staryard
- Various pirate outposts
- Hidden smuggler caches
Location: In the empty hex to the right of Orto Plutonia
Major Imports: Foodstuffs, Medical Supplies, Luxuries
Major Exports: Spice, Weapons, Droids, Warships
Unexploited Resources: Metal-Rich Asteroids
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Gravity: Standard
Climate: A warm-hot planet with a mixture of temperate and subtropical biomes
Primary Terrain: A large oceanic world with small continents scattered about the entire sphere. Lots of forests, beaches, grasslands, and volcanic mountain ranges.
Atmosphere: Type I
LOCATION INFORMATION
Capital City: Terren Town
Planetary Features: Scattered settlements that come and go with various pirate groups and other criminal outfits. The planet also harbors several massive starship graveyards, the ruins of widespread shipbreaking operations, and abandoned industrial centers constructed during the Imperial Civil War.
Major Locations:
- Terren Town: The largest settlement on Llanic and home to about 4 million people, named for its founder. Terren Town is tucked away within a dormant volcanic mountain range, with numerous structures carved into the cliffs and sprouting from the narrow valley. Many of the structures are built from reclaimed starship hulls and other scavenged materials. Terren Town is the largest settlement and often attracts novice smugglers, tramp freighters, and wildcat mercenaries.
- Fin’s Hold: The second largest settlement and home to about 700,000 people. Finn’s Hold is constructed from the ruins of a major industrial sector. Fin’s Hold is a major producer of processed Spice, black market weapons, droids, and retrofitted starship salvage.
- Purgatory: A small but prominent shadowport of 130,000 people located in “The Drain,” a large cavity located in the planet’s southern waters protected by massive flood walls. Purgatory is the planet’s most infamous shadowport and a hub for slicers, mercenary outfits, criminal bankers, and information brokers. Purgatory is also home to the planet’s largest Gank clan.
POPULATION
Native Species: N/A
Immigrated Species: Humans, Twi’leks, Gank, Duros, and Mon Calamari
Population: 7.5 million sentients
Demographics: Llanic is home to a diverse population of species, with various human cultures making up the largest group.
- 29% Humans
- 13% Twi’lek
- 11% Duros
- 7% Mon Calamari
- 4% Gank
- 36% Other Species
Primary Languages: Galactic Basic, Huttese, Twi’leki, Durese, and Pirate’s Cant
Culture: The entire planet could be described as a shadowport, with a high degree of short-lived settlement and nearly equal rates of immigration and emigration. As a result, Llanic’s culture is very similar to any spacer hub in the Outer Rim, with a significant focus on shipping, smuggling, and black market operations. Locals often work for one of the many pirate and criminal organizations that operate on the planet, relying on gangs and organized crime to provide for and protect their way of life. Despite this, Llanic is no more ‘violent’ or ‘impoverished’ than the average Outer Rim world, with a strong sense of community and politics more often based in democracy, and stakes and contracts rather than salaries as the basis for economics.
GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
Government: Pirate Republic
Affiliation: Independent
Wealth: High wealth from the Spice trade and a thriving black market.
Stability: Medium. Conflicts between gangs and pirate organizations–while often violent–are usually resolved quickly. Local leadership is often built on some form of mutual self-interest or communal trust, curbing the worst excesses of exploitation and tyranny. Your average traveller will find the planet to be relatively safe, though criminal activities can always attract unwanted attention from opportunists and competitors.
Freedom & Oppression: There is a much higher than average social freedom on Llanic. However, the majority of the population is usually beholden to one of the major pirate organizations and other criminal enterprises to provide an income. There are far fewer restrictions on what kind of economic activities are allowed, with a blanket ban on all forms of slavery except debt slavery and impressment.
MILITARY & TECHNOLOGY
Military: Llanic has no centralized military but is home to numerous pirate fleets and criminal enterprises, which will readily unite to defeat any existential threats to their independent way of life.
Technology: Galactic Standard
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Llanic was first discovered as a remote, uninhabited world located in a young star system with vast asteroid belts, planetoids, and dust clouds. Occasionally, prospectors and mining ventures would visit the system in hopes of striking it rich, but major settlement didn’t occur until the establishment of the Llanic Spice Run. With the Spice trade moving through the Llanic System, the planet itself slowly grew from a smugglers’ depot into a network of shadowports and pirate outposts.
During the Galactic Civil War and the following Imperial Civil War, Llanic came under the control of an imperial staryard and military-industrial hub in the Outer Rim. During this period, piracy and smuggling were suppressed by imperial patrols. After the Imperial conflicts ended, Llanic saw a rapid decline in starship traffic, which allowed it to survive the worst realities of the plague-sparked dark age that would eventually follow.
In 846 ABY, a crime lord named Terren found the sparsely populated world and began a campaign of resettlement after rediscovering the prosperous Llanic Spice Run and restarting the Spice trade. By 861 ABY, the planet’s population nearly tripled but began to see a slowdown in growth, particularly as competing organizations began to make claims on the world. Within a few short cycles, Terren was killed, and widespread conflict almost destroyed everything they had built.
After nearly a decade of conflict, the remaining pirate factions sowed a lasting peace within a series of bargains, charters, and a code of conduct by which all organizations on Llanic must operate. Although officially there was no government on Llanic, this nominally began the age of their Pirate Republic. By 899 ABY, the planet had recovered from the conflicts and was on the cusp of a golden age in terms of economic potential for smugglers, mercenaries, pirates, starship thieves, and other hardened criminal operatives on Llanic.
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