Well-Known Member
Name: Shikyu
Rotational Period: Being tidally locked to the Realm of Resu, the rotational period is the same as its orbital period, with slight eccentricities due to interactions with the gas giant and neighboring moons, allowing the the tidal forces necessary to heat a liquid ocean.
Orbital Period[SIZE=9pt]: Approximately 11 Standard Days around the Realm of Resu, and 29 years around the local star.
Classification: Moon
Diameter[/SIZE]: 7,268 kilometer diameter
Atmosphere: A tenuously thin atmosphere of oxygen rests on the icy surface of the lunar crust, though it is far from breathable. To anyone standing on the surface, it is essentially vacuum.
Climate: The entire world is enveloped in a sheet of ice several km thick, protecting a sub-surface global ocean warmed by the radioactive decay of its core, tidal friction, and tidal flexing all acting on it as it orbits its gas giant parent.
Gravity: Roughly 1/3 Standard gravity.
Primary Terrain: An entirely oceanic biome, with an ice sheet several km thick covering the entire glove.
Native Species: The Resu
Immigrated Species: N/a
Primary Languages: Resune, Galactic Basic (uncommon)
Government:
- Imperial Confederacy (Former) - The original government which controlled the system for hundreds, possibly thousands of years prior to the Moross Contact Event. It consisted of a Grand Emperor, who executed the agenda set forth by a Parliament of "Minor Emperor's" who ruled the 121 other moons in the realm, who in turned exerted their families dominance over lesser noble "monarchies" in their respective lunar territories. A minor Emperor on any given moon was selected through a series of brawls between the great families, where the resultant winner then was represented (and often as a result pushed out the old regime through popular support among all lesser families against a single rival). In essence, it was a stratocracy with a loose connection and influence over all other Resu Empires. Notably, terrestrial colonies never gained representation.
- Theocracy of the First Convert of Moross Crusade (True) - In essence, an absolute Theocractic Dictatorship with Stone Hermes at its head. Through divine will Stone Hermes had become the First Convert of the Moross Crusade, and as such was ordained the Lord Resu of the entire Realm. It is by his word, that the Original Resu were allowed to survive on Ysraka upon learning about their inability to reproduce as a result of Neth's gift... it is also his will to bring forth a New Resu, despite his use of heretical pagan vong 'technology', to cure their infertility.
- Inquisition of the Stone Hermes Heresy (Insurgent) - The civil insurrection of Morossian Resu, who's main goal is to stop the Theocracy from allowing Stone Hermes experiments, and to open a discourse with the surviving Originals on Ysraka on a solution to their Infertility Crisis. They are the first documented instance, of Morossian Resu turning against, and possibly 'grudge-forming' against other Morossian Resu despite their viraly shared faith.
- Resu Diaspora Protectorate (Insurgent) - The official entity headed by the CybeResu leadership (under provisional guidance of exile Iron Giant), which seeks to free any all Original populations from their confinement under Morossian rule, and to initiate the absolute genocide of the Morossian Resu. They have virtually no presence in, on, or near Shikyu, though given it is the ancestral homeworld of the Resu, they claim as their own.
Population: 222 million Resu
Demonym: Shikyun
Major Imports: Hyperdrive material and schematics, as well as ship material and schematics, as well as an influx in cybernetic technologies and arms.
Major Exports: Advanced electronics based off of liquid metallic hydrogen mined from the native gas giant.
Affiliation: Moross Crusade (Former), The Kathol Outback
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- [SIZE=9pt]The Tall Tower (Capital) -[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=9pt]The First Converts Stronghold - [/SIZE]
- [SIZE=9pt]The Inquisition Stronghold - [/SIZE]
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Notable PCs: Silver Sentinel (Defunct), Iron Giant, Stone Hermes, and possibly Mercury Tongue? (New Character?)
Intent: To expand on the Realm of Resu with extensive lore
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