Zahori Denko
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a planet.
- Image Credit: Vadim Sadovski
- Canon: N/A
- Links: N/A
- Planet Name: Mardum IV
- Demonym: Marduman
- Region: Deep Core
- System Name: Mardum System
- System Features:
Sun: Ileo - Planets: Mardum I, Mardum II, Mardum III, Lashos
[*]Location: Right about round this one here
- Major Imports: Prisoners
- Major Exports: Metals, Stone
- Unexploited Resources: N/A
- Gravity: Standard
- Climate: Hot
- Primary Terrain:
Deserts - Volcanoes
- Lava rivers
[*]Atmosphere: Type II
LOCATION INFORMATION
- Capital City: N/A
- Planetary Features: N/A
- Major Locations:
Vorkuta: One of the finest gulags in the Imperial Confederation, Vorkuta is a massive facility, holding nearly 5,000 prisoners, and contributing to almost half of the Imperial Confederation's metal production. Vorkuta itself is a marvel. Metal walls several feet thick and several stories tall surround the facility, giving the incarcerated no chance of escape. If that's not enough, around the clock guards, an extensive security camera system, and an alarm system that is infallible.
POPULATION
- Native Species:
Giant Sandscorpions - Rock vipers
[*]Immigrated Species: Humans
[*]Population: Sparse - 6,428
[*]Demographics:
- 68% Human & Near-Human
- 32% Other
[*]Primary Languages: Galactic Basic
[*]Culture: If you are a prisoner, the only culture you know is working in the mines. Day in and day out until your sentence ends or you die. Whichever comes first. Some prisoners from different corners of the Galaxy try to keep their spirits up with memories of home and racial traditions, but those are quickly stomped out by the guards. There is no happiness in Vorkuta if you are a prisoner. Point blank period.
GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
- Government: None.
- Affiliation: Core Imperial Confederation
- Wealth: Low - Only amount of wealth that can be found on the planet is within the prison facility.
- Stability: High. Prisoners are kept in line by strong security measures and around the clock guards.
- Freedom & Oppression: Should someone end up a prisoner on Mardum IV, they are forced to forfeit all of their freedoms they had before and they are replaced with the scarce amount of freedoms allowed on Mardum IV. Freedom to eat, sleep, and, most importantly, work are all the freedoms that the prisoners of Mardum IV have.
- Military: Currently, the lone installation on Mardum IV has the only military forces in the system. Numbering over 2,000 strong, the Imperial forces there are composed of troopers, medical staff, and some armored vehicles.
- Technology: Galactic Standard
The world of Mardum IV is rather bare as the planet's surface has proven rather hostile to most who attempted to inhabit the world.
First exploration of the world occurred during the era of the Republic. Preliminary reports on the planet's terrain allowed explorers to deploy probe droids to search for any lands able to be inhabited. The deserts appeared to be decent enough spots to start up camp. Explorers landed on one of the planet's many deserts and began to set up camp. For several days, they studied the environment and sent their research back to Coruscant. Within a couple weeks, the explorers had nearly the entire desert mapped out.
Then, suddenly, explorers would start to go missing without a trace. One by one, they would be taken until none were left. What was behind their disappearance continues to remain a mystery.
In 847 ABY, the Galactic Alliance expressed their interest in the Mardum system, however the reports from the Republic's archives led them to decided to leave the system in peace.
After the fall of the Galactic Alliance, others have attempted to tame the savage world, but none were able to. That was, until, the Imperial Confederation had gained control over the system. Utilizing brute force, the CIC was able to successfully create a mining colony on the planet. After many months of the mining colony growing, it came under attack by the planet's native sandscorpions. After this, the Emperor declared the planet unsafe for habitation. Instead of trying to form a mining colony, the CIC instead had a gulag constructed over the old colony. There, the CIC would send it's prisoners to work until death for the glory of the Imperial Confederation.
