Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
Name: Sabarene
Region: Unknown
System: Sabar
Suns: Three: Two yellow main sequence (Sabar Aurek and Sabar Besh), one more distant white dwarf (Sabar Cresh)
Orbital Position: Only planetary body; figure-eight orbit around Sabar Aurek and Sabar Besh.
Moons: None
Coordinates: E-22, on the spiral arm
Rotational Period: 24 hours. Due to odd orbital structure, daylight length is variable depending on time of year. It varies between 24 hours (when in between system primaries) and 8 hours.
Orbital Period: 730 rotations.
Class: Terrestrial
Diameter: 12,400km
Atmosphere: Type I
Climate: Arid
Gravity: 0.9 Standard
Primary Terrain: Desert, tundra, oceans, mountains
Native species: Blenjeel-like sandworms
Immigrated species: P'w'eck
Primary languages: Ssi-Ruu
Government: Acephalous
Population: 200,000
Demonym: Sabarene
Major cities: None (villages, nomadic)
Major imports: None (isolated)
Major exports: None (isolated)
Affiliation: None
Culture: The P'w'eck runaways of the Ssi-Ruuvi Imperium's last several thousand years have found refuge on Sabarene, a harsh but isolated (and thus safe) world. Their culture is dependent on freedom from all authority; as a result, they have no government, merely acephalous, nomadic groups based on families. They welcome non-Ssi-Ruuvi outsiders as traders, or prophets, or meals. Their communities are few and far between; one could walk for weeks without encountering a trace of them.
Technology: The wheel. Upon reaching Sabarene, all P'w'eck break their technology, allowing the enteched P'w'eck souls within to escape.
History: The crash of an ancient, apostate warfleet became a bloodbath of Ssi-Ruuk against P'w'eck, a genocide that left the slaves the only survivors. Over the ensuing centuries, Sabarene has been a name passed from slave to slave within the Imperium, a promised land, a sanctuary. Occasional runaways have even managed to locate it. With the final conquest of the Ssi-Ruuvi Imperium by the Lords of the Fringe, P'w'eck aescetics have begun making pilgrimages or migrations to Sabarene, making the world a valuable dumping ground for malcontents as well as a religious shrine for a uniquely P'w'eck faith.
Sabarene is outside Fringe territory, just as it was outside the Imperium. Its approaching hyperlanes are circuituous enough that it rarely sees visitors of any kind. However, a simple, unmanned monitoring station has been established there, in case of extragalactic contact or anything of that nature.
Notable PC's: None
Intent: To provide an essential link in Fringe public relations, and help stabilize the Ssi-Ruuvi Imperium. Also because elliptical orbits.