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Imperial
Name: Sirat Wen System and Primary Planet
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System: Sirat Wen System
Suns: Binary Star System
Region: Unknown Regions
Coordinates: Between Bintir, Serpena, and Ozzlekk
System Features:
Surrounded by turbulent Hyperpsace Lanes, Sirat Wen can only be reached through one of three artificial Hyperspace Lanes created by S-Thread Booster Stations that connect the system to Bintir, Serpena, and Ozzlekk.
The Sirat Wen system is a diverse solar system comprised of two stars, one a Red Giant and the other a White Dwarf. At the outer edge of the solar system, a near-star gas giant (known as a brown dwarf) adds a secondary habitable zone to the solar system's already wide habitable area of space. The two planets closest to the center of the solar system are uninhabitable by any traditional sense of the word, but through tenacity, sentient life has managed a handful of self-contained mining outposts on these two worlds. The third world in of the Sirat Wen system is a massive terrestrial giant, orbited by six large moons and one terrestrial world with a type 1 atmosphere. Also orbiting the terrestrial giant is a derelict worldcraft, a scarred remnant of ancient times. The fourth planet of the Sirat Wen system sports a type 2 atmosphere and a massive, world spanning ocean. Though well within the habitable zone of the solar system, the planet's atmosphere is inhospitable to most sentient lifeforms. In spite of this, the planet is host to a sizable population that etch out a living within massive domed cities, commercially fishing the worlds massive ocean to feed the populace of the fifth planet in the solar system.
The fifth and primary planet of the Sirat Wen system is known as Sirat Wen Prime. At one point called "The Coruscant of the Unknown Regions", Sirat Wen Prime has been a massively urbanized city-planet for longer than any historian can accurately predict. A large asteroid field resides between Sirat Wen Prime and the sixth planet in the solar system.
The sixth planet of the Sirat Wen system is a massive gas giant orbited by three large asteroids, three small moons, two large moons, a small terrestrial world, and a standard sized terrestrial world. Existing outside the habitable zone of the solar system, these frigid worlds and moons are uninhabitable in the traditional sense. In spite of this, a number of domed cities and underground complex's exist on the two largest moons of the gas giant. The eighth planet of the Sirat Wen system, also a gas giant, is far larger than the seventh planet and is classified as a brown dwarf. While it is theorized that Sirat Wen was once host to as many as twelve planets, it is believed that one by one, each of these distant worlds was drawn into the gravitational field of Sirat Wen's eight planet or were lost to the heat of the solar system's twin sons as they transitioned from main sequence stars to red giants.
Due to an odd fluke of orbital dynamics, the gravitational fields of the sixth and eighth planet tug upon one another, locking the two planets in near identical orbits, in spite of the vast distance between the two orbital bodies. Almost directly between these two worlds, bathed in the light and radiation of the brown dwarf, the seventh planet of Sirat Wen orbits the solar system directly between these two celestial giants. Though highly radiated and host to a number of air-born particles that are toxic when inhaled, the seventh planet in the solar system has always been a garden world, host to thousands of species of resilient plants. But over the last five hundred years, the people of Sirat Wen Prime have torn down the natural habitat of the planet and replaced it with massive, world spanning farms used to feed the formerly starving masses of Sirat Wen Prime.
Throughout the system, tens of thousands of cargo transports ferry food, water, gas, oxygen, ice, ore, medical supplies, and a thousand other trade goods between the various planets and orbiting facilities that make up Sirat Wen. Among it all, thousands of Imperial patrol craft police the system to ensure the safety of the Siratian people and the security of Sirat Wen Prime's control over its own system.
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Name: Sirat Wen Prime
Orbital Position: fifth planet
Rotational Period: 30 Hours
Orbital Period: 84 galactic standard years
Class: Large Terrestrial
Diameter: 18,675km
Atmosphere: Type 1 Atmosphere
Climate: Controller
Gravity: 1.4x Standard
Primary Terrain: Urban, Urban Tunnels, Urban Ruins,
Moons:
The Primary Moon of Sirat Wen Prime is a small planet of its own right. With a diameter of nearly 7,000km 0.8x Standard Gravity, and a Type 1 Atmosphere, the planet is a comfortable habitat for the wealthy denizens of Sirat Wen. Converted into a nature preserve, the moon is a vibrant green and is dotted by luxury resorts, hotels, and expensive residential districts.
The Secondary Moon of Sirat Wen Prime is significantly smaller, sporting a diameter of only 1,837km and a gravity of 0.1x Standard. The planet sports a thin, Type 3 atmosphere and is populated sparsely by a handful of mines and factories.
Orbital Facility: Nationalized TIE Fighter Construction Facility
Native Species: Unkown
Immigrated Species: Humans 51%, Ragithian 8%, Rattataki 9%, Zeltron 4%, Chiss 6%, Pantoran 2%, Twi'Leks 9% Sullustan 8%, Yevetha 2%, Zelosian 1%,
Primary Languages: Galactic Standard Basic,
Government: Imperial
Population: ~540 Billion
Demonym: Siratian
Major Imports: Food, Water, Alcohol, Luxury Goods, Entertainment,
Major Exports: Technology; Electronics, Starship Components, Starfighters, Colonists, Workers,
Affiliation: Imperial, Galactic Empire,
Major Locations: Thousands of city blocks and sectors, kilometers of undercity, exc
Imperial Heritage Museum
Name: Imperial Heritage Museum
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Classification: Museum, Public landmark
Location: Sirat Wen Prime
Affiliation: The Galactic Empire
Population: N/A
Demographics: N/A Open to all Imperial Citizens
Points of Interest: Glory of the Empire exhibit
Description:
The Imperial Heritage Museum houses the largest collection of Imperial artifacts outside the core. Exhibits range from Imperial walkers to wings dedicated to the hero's of the Empire. One such wing houses the Palpatine Exhibit chronicling his rise to power and the creation of the Empire. Deep underground sits the Glory of the Empire, one of the last remaining Imperial Mk I Star Destroyers in existence.
History:
The Imperial Heritage Museum was built on the site of one of the mining quarry's originally built by Chiss settlers centuries before the Imperial Remnant made the Sirat Wen system their home. The Star Destroyer Impenetrable, which was nearly destroyed in the exodus of the Imperial Remnant was renamed Glory of the empire and moved into this quarry and became the first exhibit of its kind. The museum grew around the exhibit eventually covering it completely. Today the museum, dedicated to the glorious beginnings of the empire, draws millions of visitors.
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North Polar District
Name: North Polar District
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Classification: CIty Sector
Location: Sirat Wen Prime
Affiliation: The Galactic Empire
Population: 5 billion
Demographics: Imperial military, Prisoners, Guards, Judicial Personnel
Points of Interest: Rison starport, Imperial Judicial Housing, Grand Imperial Court, Imperial re-education Center, Iron Helm (Prison)
Description:
The North Polar Region is the northern most city sector on Sirat Wen Prime. It is maintained by the Galactic Empire and houses the majority of its prisons and penal facilities. Hosting its own small star port, prison ships can bypass commercial approach lanes and land directly inside the district making prisoner transfer much more secure and less time consuming.
History:
After the Imperial Remnant settled the world, construction on the norther most regions of Sirat Wen was one of the first projects to begin. Need for law enforcement was paramount to maintain order on the world. The original inhabitants and expat workers, brought in to rebuild the city grew restless, grew restless and disobedient causing progress to slow to a stop and crime to increase world wide. Order was restored by the Imperial Judicial Guard containing the populace and maintain order through the transition of government and the mass inflow of Imperial citizens. The Judaical Guard imprisoned millions of troublemakers and dissidents in order to keep the peace as the world grew. After mass inflow of Imperial refugees from around the galaxy poured into the world population exceeded the judicial facilities ability to contain prisoners the need for larger more secure facilities was was clear. At this point the entire northern sector of the world became one larger facility devoted to the judicial arm of the Empire.
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Grand Imperial Court
Name: Grand Imperial Court
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Classification: Judaical Headquarters of the Sirat Wen System
Location: Sirat Wen Prime (North Polar District)
Affiliation: The Galactic Empire
Population: N/A
Demographics: court clerks, judges, prisoners, judicial guard
Points of Interest: Imperial High Court
Description:
Sitting atop the northern pole of Sirat Wen Prime, the massive court building housing the judicial command and the headquarters for the Imperial Judicial Guard contained hundreds of courts and law offices. Millions of lawyers, judges, clerks, guards, and prisoners cycle through these hallowed walls every day seeing that law and order are maintained equally for all people of the Galactic Empire.
History:
Created shortly after the Imperial Remnant settling the Sirat Wen system. Here the Imperial Judicial Branch maintains the Imperial Judicial Guard to act as a militant arm of the judicial office. These Guards carry out the enforcement of order through out the system and enforce the Imperial Courts Order without question.
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Iron Helm
Name: Iron Helm
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Classification: Prison
Location: Sirat Wen Prime
Affiliation: The Galactic Empire
Population: 500 million
Demographics: Imperial military, Prisoners, Judicial Guards
Points of Interest: Hydroponics Farms
Description:
Iron Helm is the largest and most secure prison on Sirat Wen Prime housing five hundred million prisoners. The massive complex extends twenty kilometers into the planets crust with level after level of containment cells, Interrogations rooms, and a self contained life support grid with no access to the upper levels and the surface. Only the main repulsor lift has access to any level above five kilometers below the surface.
Iron helm is basically a starship buried in the ground for all practical purposes.
The environment is artificial and sealed preventing any outside contaminates. Oxygen is scrubbed and recycled by massive CO2 scrubbers and the food is provided by an internal hydroponic farm. High Energy Laser grids line the air and engineering ducts making them impossible to traverse unless deactivated. The outer wall is a forty meter thick shell of durasteel/carbonate alloy and electrified to keep any tunneling in or out of the complex contained.
A staggered guard rotation schedule keeps the facility constantly guarded and the guard change unpredictable. These systems leave the main repulserlift shaft the only way into or out of the prison. This shaft is kept vacuum sealed and prothium gas, from the nearby gas giant, is pumped in while not in use. Motion sensors inside the shaft will ignight the gas when activated flushing the tube and incinerating everything inside.
One heavily guarded landing platform is the only access to the upper facility. Prisoner transports are monitored upon approach and departure, scanned upon landing and searched before prisoner transfers are given the green light to proceed. Upon entry into the upper level sally port, prisoners are striped and searched for any foreign objects or contraband.
History:
Iron Helm was built twenty seven years after the settlement of the system by the Imperial Remnant. It houses the worst of the worst the Empire can capture. Every prisoner here is sentenced to life without parole. Once interred here there is no visitation or contact with the outside. A prisoner who is sentenced to Iron Helm simply disappeared to the rest of the galaxy.
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Imperial Re-education Center
Name: Imperial Re-education Center
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Classification: Education Center, Prison
Location: Sirat Wen Prime (North Polar District)
Affiliation: The Galactic Empire
Population: N/A
Demographics: Military personnel, Judaical Guards, Guests
Points of Interest: Library of Order
Description:
The Imperial re-education center is a massive complex dedicated to furthering the knowledge base of Imperial citizens, often times against their will. Here the uneducated citizens of the system can be shown the truth about what it is to be an Imperial citizen. Classes are held daily for the uneducated, often times lasting days on end without break. Recreation corrective reinforcement is often used as a is often used to rehabilitate guests who have been poisoned by false propaganda. Not all guests require the same treatment many come to the center to learn about the Galactic Empire for personnel reasons. Also all Imperial Judaical personnel must finish the extensive training regime offered by the center. At the entrance of the center sits the Library of Order, a grand library dedicated to the history of the Empire and its society. Here anyone can find public records dating back to the time of The New Order, Stories of the heroes of the Empire and information needed to serve the Empire as a good citizen.
History:
Established after the Remnants rise to power, the Imperial Re-education Center served to fight false propaganda from dissident citizens in the time of transition. After the government settled in and order was solidified the center remained active to help educate the population about the glorious Galactic Empire.
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Imperial Intelligence Headquarters
Name: Imperial Intelligence Headquarters
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Intent: To provide Imperial Intelligence with a structure and to flesh out Sirat Wen Prime even more for the Empire's purposes.
Classification: Government Agency HQ Building
Location: Located on Sirat Wen Prime, on the other side of the Ecumenopolis of a planet from the Grand Court.
Affiliation: The Galactic Empire
Description:
Designed to blend in with the many other towering buildings of the cityscape that is the majority, if not entirety, of Sirat Wen Prime, the headquarters of IMperial Intelligence operates as a local communication network service on the surface. All markings of the structure and thereof, while bearing the Imperial symbol as an official business, point towards a functioning civilian enterprise. To the point of which that a number of everyday citizens are actually employed alongside intelligence personnel who handle the communication network to provide local stations with lines to promote their holovids.
However, in the lower levels below ground of the structure the Imperial Intelligence houses their true daily operations. It is there where members of the analysis division work to sift through data routinely delivered to the group to upload to their databanks for their personnel and slicer droids to sort through and file properly. It is in this section where Imperial Intelligence puts together their reports for the military and upper echelons regarding any pertinent information they uncover.
Also set in the lover levels of the Imperial Intelligence Building is a small barracks and training center for the Imperial Commandos and Field Agents, who are deployed on missions around the galaxy on a frequent basis, and who act as security or work for Internal Affairs if they are stationed at the Headquarters on a permanent assignment.
History:
Once actually just a communication network hub for the entertainment of the local population of Sirat Wen Prime, the Imperial Intelligence Building was thoroughly renovated when a new company bought out the dying corporation's land and building. The company being a front for Imperial Intelligence who setup their agency's operations beneath the legitimate business, a win-win in a sense as the communication hub for holodramas brings in revenue for the Intellgence group to help fund the upkeep of their assets.
Links: IT-O Interrogator Droids, Slicer Droids, HoloDrama Flicks
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Culture:
The Siratian Culture is one of nationalist pride and imperial ideals. Forced to recover from a galaxy-spanning plague and the starvation and death that comes when an Ecumenopolis is severed from agricultural worlds, the Siratians have adopted a system of Imperial Rule of Law. All major corporate assets are the property of the government and the people are expected to obey their government leaders at all times. In exchange for this, the Imperial Government has protected and provided for its populace for the last four hundred years. Planets have been conquered, worlds have been turned into nationalized farms, and the economic resources of an entire solar system have been harnessed for the sake of providing for the Siratian people.
Truly a class two civilization, the Siratians are accustomed to viewing the needs of the many above the needs of the few and will gladly brave unknown worlds or the deep of space for the good of the nation.
Technology: Hyperspace Capable
History:
Referred to as an Ecumenopolis, Sirat Wen Prime was theorized as being a cold but habitable planet at the edge of the system's habitable zone when the system still sported two main sequence stars. As the stars aged into red giants and swallowed the inner planets of the system, they also knocked several moons from the orbits of the Gas Giants and Terrestrial Giants of the system. Some of those moons, namely those planets currently known as Sirat Wen Alpha and Beta, settled into new orbits around the pair of raging stars. And though the habitable zone of the twin stars greatly expanded, Sirat Wen was fortunate enough to remain within the system's habitable zone, though on the hotter size of the zone. In modern times, one of Sirat Wen's stars has aged into a white dwarf and it is theorized that the other star will be doing the same in the next few billion years. But until such a time occurs, Sirat Wen Prime finds itself sitting comfortably within the optimal part of the system's habitable zone.
The origins of Sirat Wen's earliest civilizations have long ago been lost to the eons of time. As city after city is built upon the ruins of that which came before, the urban growth of Sirat Wen extends for at least a dozen kilometers farther than the light of Sirat Wen's twin suns is capable of reaching. But during the ages that are still remembered, Sirat Wen has been a relatively peaceful planet ruled by actual democracy, with each citizen of the planet casting their vote on local and global issues via the holonet.
Sirat Wen Prime was once known as the Coruscant of the Unknown Regions, similar to Taris's reputation of being the Coruscant of the Outer Rim. Far to the galactic west and isolated from much of the galaxy by turbulent hyperspace lanes, the Sirat Wen system was unknown to most of the galaxy at large and did not exist on any of the ancient Republic or Empire star charts. Siratians were, however, known to the Chiss and a few other hyperspace capable civilizations that dotted the Unknown Regions. During the many wars between the Republic, Old Republic, New Republic, Seperatists, Sith, and numerous Empires, the people of Sirat Wen avoided the conflicts of the galactic center and east. Freighter pilots and other merchants kept Sirat Wen aware of the goings on of much of the galaxy, though Sirat Wen kept to itself in all things not related to trading technology for food and water, or the defense of civilized worlds from the ravages of Mnggal-Mnggal infestations.
In the time before the great plague struck the galaxy, Sirat Wen Prime contained a population of just over 120 Billion and survived off of a trade of technology and medical supplies with agricultural worlds such as Uystrao.
425 ABY. The year the Gulag Virus was unleashed upon the galaxy.
Unleashed initially at Csilla, the virus quickly reached the nearby world of Uystrao and Sirat Wen not long after. As plague ravaged the planet and rumors of a galaxy in chaos spread as rapidly as the plague itself, emergency protocols were put into place and the S-thread Stations connecting the system to the galaxy at large were shut down. Isolated from the rest of the galaxy and contending with a plague, more and more emergency powers were given to the planetary leaders. Desperate for a solution, over 12 Billion infected or exposed were executed as any and all traces of the plague were expunged from the planet over a three year period of purging. In the 50 years to follow, nearly 72 Billion lives would be lost to starvation alone.
Cut off from the rest of the galaxy, and thinking themselves the sole survivors of the plague, desperate measures had to be taken. Living on an Ecumenopolis world, the Siratians found themselves isolated and incapable of utilizing the resources of their planet to grow food or livestock. As cannibalism swept the planet, government and military leaders quickly seized control of all private and corporate assets as they attempted to save their people. All property on Sirat Wen's primary moon was destroyed to make room for vast farms that would encircled the tiny planet. Similarly, the "backwater" world of Titana Alpha was taken by military force in a quick and brutal war with the planet's native Ragithian population. Nationalized and enslaved, the native Ragithians were joined by humans and other immigrants from Sirat Wen Prime as national farms were established across vast swaths of the planet's surface. Similar attempts to take over Titana Alpha's moon, Rebirth, were met by brutal resistance by an order of force sensitive monks that were native to the moon. Recognizing the value of these monks, but desperate for farmable land, the Imperial government sent diplomats to negotiate with the monks. Once they were made aware of the desperate situation of Sirat Wen Prime, the monks agreed to allow the farming of their world, so long as their temples and sacred sites remained untouched.
Sirat Wen Delta, a water world with deep oceans was descended upon with fervor and desperation. In spite of its hostile atmosphere, millions of Siratian citizens were forced to relocate to the planet and harvest the bounty of its oceans by any means possible, including any and all surviving aquatic species and races. As Siratians starved to death by the millions, greater and greater acts of desperation were undertaken by the planet's surviving leaders. Even the toxic and uninhabitable world of Sirat Wen Gamma, then populated only by Zelosians, was overtaken by military force. The native population was enslaved, and Siratian colonists were forced to the planet in an attempt to convert its lush forests, jungles, and grasslands into farm-able land with which to feed the starving populace of Sirat Wen Prime.
478 ABY
As the Time of Darkness comes to a close, the system of Sirat Wen finds itself with a population of nearly 40 Billion sentient lifeforms spread over four planets and two moons. From the ashes of a once democratic republic, an Imperial government has risen to power and though the threat of starvation and death are no longer the immediate concerns of the populace, the fear of which and the not so distant memories of cataclysm have built a society of stanch nationalists who will bravely and proudly sacrifice all for the good of all. As the immediate struggle to stay alive falls to the wayside, the National Imperial Party turns its attention away from the acquisition of food and water for its people and instead looks to the future.
The creation of additional domed cities on Sirat Wen Delta and Gamma continues as reform and perfection of fishing and farming techniques bring larger and larges bounties of food to the no longer declining population of Sirat Wen Prime.
Having nationalized control of all of Sirat Wen's corporate assets during the time of darkness, the new imperial government found itself with total control of its own economy. Seeking to put that control to good use, and to ensure that the future of their people would never again be shrouded in darkness, the government began a second stage of expansion into the Sirat Wen system as they sought out ever more desperate substitutions for the goods and supplies they would have otherwise obtained from foreign planets, were it not for the plague ravaging the galaxy.
On Titana Alpha's moon, Rebirth, efforts to restore the world to its original state begin as Imperial politicians and military leaders establish an academy on the planet from which to train Imperial Officers who are discovered to be force sensitive.
583 ABY
The population of the Sirat Wen System, having experienced 100 years of relative economic stability with a constant supply of food, has tripled. Now host to roughly 120 Billion sentient lifeforms, Sirat Wen faces a new set of challenges. Facing civil unrest on many of the colony worlds within the system, the Imperial government puts forth reform policies and free the enslaved native species of Titana Alpha and Sirat Wen Gamma. Seeking to strengthen the loyalty of their citizens and end the civil unrest on Sirat Wen Prime and her colony worlds, renewed colonization efforts are put into place that are based heavily upon race and species. As all people are reminded of their civil duty and nationalist pride, most those same citizens of Chiss and Pantoran decent are relocated to Golgatha Prime in a vast colonization effort due to their "natural ability to tolerate the harsh conditions of the planet." The end result is a higher percentage of "humans" on Sirat Wen Prime.
649 ABY
The total circumference of Sirat Wen Gamma has been taken over by farmland. The vast quantities of food created by the planet have lessened the need for food grown elsewhere in the system. Likewise, the commercial fishing of Sirat Wen Delta has reached such levels as to reshape the seasonal flow of life in entire swaths of ocean. Many predator species have been hunted to extinction or driven to the deepest parts of the planet's oceans. Forty seven species of fish now dominate the entire biome of the planet and are harvested seasonally. The recent discovery of a Kolto-like substance created by one of Sirat Wen Delta's native lifeforms adds new value to the planet. The species in question is relabeled as a protected species and the breeding cycle of these creatures are artificially enhanced each season.
Titana Alpha, no longer needed strictly as an agricultural resource, is viewed more and more as a luxury retreat from the highly urbanized planet of Sirat Wen Prime, in spite of the worlds high gravity. The primary economic resource of Titana Alpha changes from agriculture to raw ores and the refinement and creation of medical supplies for the Sirat Wen System, most of which originating from Sirat Wen Delta. On Sirat Wen Prime's moon, farmland is allowed to return to its natural state and the entirety of the moon is classified as the National Park of the Sirat Wen system. A number of hotels, resorts, and luxury mansions are established on the planet for the rich and powerful of Sirat Wen Prime.
721 ABY
Two hundred and forty three years after the official end to the Time of Darkness and the population of the Sirat Wen System has grown to over 480 Billion, roughly tripling each one hundred years. As the need for raw resources continues to increase, the remaining planets and moons of the Sirat Wen system are analyzed for their economic value. Two years later, mining operations begin on Sirat Wen Alpha and Beta in spite of the toxic and hostile nature of each planet.
844 ABY
A new catastrophe has taken its tole on the people of Sirat Wen. Mystically and without warning, nearly two thirds of the population of the entire system vanishes without a trace. Angry and afraid, the remaining populace turns to its government for answers. In response, ancient S-Thread Booster Stations are returned to life and Siratians venture forth into an unknown galaxy. Scouts quickly return with information about a war-torn galaxy that has recently recovered from the effects of the galaxy-spanning plague and with rumors of mystical beings called Celestials being to blame for the disappearance of their people. Alongside the scouts, representatives of a half-dozen different Empires make their way into the Sirat Wen System.
As rumors of a powerful and economically stable heart of Imperial ideals spreads among distant warlords and retired Moffs and Admirals, a flood representatives and refugees find their way to Sirat Wen Prime.
In the deep quiet of the Galactic West, a new Empire is Born.
Notable PCs: NA
Intent: To create a plausible capital planet for a Galactic Empire, and to create a plausible Class 2 Civilization in the Star Wars setting based on the Kardashev Scale.
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System: Sirat Wen System
Suns: Binary Star System
Region: Unknown Regions
Coordinates: Between Bintir, Serpena, and Ozzlekk
System Features:
Surrounded by turbulent Hyperpsace Lanes, Sirat Wen can only be reached through one of three artificial Hyperspace Lanes created by S-Thread Booster Stations that connect the system to Bintir, Serpena, and Ozzlekk.
The Sirat Wen system is a diverse solar system comprised of two stars, one a Red Giant and the other a White Dwarf. At the outer edge of the solar system, a near-star gas giant (known as a brown dwarf) adds a secondary habitable zone to the solar system's already wide habitable area of space. The two planets closest to the center of the solar system are uninhabitable by any traditional sense of the word, but through tenacity, sentient life has managed a handful of self-contained mining outposts on these two worlds. The third world in of the Sirat Wen system is a massive terrestrial giant, orbited by six large moons and one terrestrial world with a type 1 atmosphere. Also orbiting the terrestrial giant is a derelict worldcraft, a scarred remnant of ancient times. The fourth planet of the Sirat Wen system sports a type 2 atmosphere and a massive, world spanning ocean. Though well within the habitable zone of the solar system, the planet's atmosphere is inhospitable to most sentient lifeforms. In spite of this, the planet is host to a sizable population that etch out a living within massive domed cities, commercially fishing the worlds massive ocean to feed the populace of the fifth planet in the solar system.
The fifth and primary planet of the Sirat Wen system is known as Sirat Wen Prime. At one point called "The Coruscant of the Unknown Regions", Sirat Wen Prime has been a massively urbanized city-planet for longer than any historian can accurately predict. A large asteroid field resides between Sirat Wen Prime and the sixth planet in the solar system.
The sixth planet of the Sirat Wen system is a massive gas giant orbited by three large asteroids, three small moons, two large moons, a small terrestrial world, and a standard sized terrestrial world. Existing outside the habitable zone of the solar system, these frigid worlds and moons are uninhabitable in the traditional sense. In spite of this, a number of domed cities and underground complex's exist on the two largest moons of the gas giant. The eighth planet of the Sirat Wen system, also a gas giant, is far larger than the seventh planet and is classified as a brown dwarf. While it is theorized that Sirat Wen was once host to as many as twelve planets, it is believed that one by one, each of these distant worlds was drawn into the gravitational field of Sirat Wen's eight planet or were lost to the heat of the solar system's twin sons as they transitioned from main sequence stars to red giants.
Due to an odd fluke of orbital dynamics, the gravitational fields of the sixth and eighth planet tug upon one another, locking the two planets in near identical orbits, in spite of the vast distance between the two orbital bodies. Almost directly between these two worlds, bathed in the light and radiation of the brown dwarf, the seventh planet of Sirat Wen orbits the solar system directly between these two celestial giants. Though highly radiated and host to a number of air-born particles that are toxic when inhaled, the seventh planet in the solar system has always been a garden world, host to thousands of species of resilient plants. But over the last five hundred years, the people of Sirat Wen Prime have torn down the natural habitat of the planet and replaced it with massive, world spanning farms used to feed the formerly starving masses of Sirat Wen Prime.
Throughout the system, tens of thousands of cargo transports ferry food, water, gas, oxygen, ice, ore, medical supplies, and a thousand other trade goods between the various planets and orbiting facilities that make up Sirat Wen. Among it all, thousands of Imperial patrol craft police the system to ensure the safety of the Siratian people and the security of Sirat Wen Prime's control over its own system.
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Name: Sirat Wen Prime
Orbital Position: fifth planet
Rotational Period: 30 Hours
Orbital Period: 84 galactic standard years
Class: Large Terrestrial
Diameter: 18,675km
Atmosphere: Type 1 Atmosphere
Climate: Controller
Gravity: 1.4x Standard
Primary Terrain: Urban, Urban Tunnels, Urban Ruins,
Moons:
The Primary Moon of Sirat Wen Prime is a small planet of its own right. With a diameter of nearly 7,000km 0.8x Standard Gravity, and a Type 1 Atmosphere, the planet is a comfortable habitat for the wealthy denizens of Sirat Wen. Converted into a nature preserve, the moon is a vibrant green and is dotted by luxury resorts, hotels, and expensive residential districts.
The Secondary Moon of Sirat Wen Prime is significantly smaller, sporting a diameter of only 1,837km and a gravity of 0.1x Standard. The planet sports a thin, Type 3 atmosphere and is populated sparsely by a handful of mines and factories.
Orbital Facility: Nationalized TIE Fighter Construction Facility
Native Species: Unkown
Immigrated Species: Humans 51%, Ragithian 8%, Rattataki 9%, Zeltron 4%, Chiss 6%, Pantoran 2%, Twi'Leks 9% Sullustan 8%, Yevetha 2%, Zelosian 1%,
Primary Languages: Galactic Standard Basic,
Government: Imperial
Population: ~540 Billion
Demonym: Siratian
Major Imports: Food, Water, Alcohol, Luxury Goods, Entertainment,
Major Exports: Technology; Electronics, Starship Components, Starfighters, Colonists, Workers,
Affiliation: Imperial, Galactic Empire,
Major Locations: Thousands of city blocks and sectors, kilometers of undercity, exc
Imperial Heritage Museum
Name: Imperial Heritage Museum
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Classification: Museum, Public landmark
Location: Sirat Wen Prime
Affiliation: The Galactic Empire
Population: N/A
Demographics: N/A Open to all Imperial Citizens
Points of Interest: Glory of the Empire exhibit
Description:
The Imperial Heritage Museum houses the largest collection of Imperial artifacts outside the core. Exhibits range from Imperial walkers to wings dedicated to the hero's of the Empire. One such wing houses the Palpatine Exhibit chronicling his rise to power and the creation of the Empire. Deep underground sits the Glory of the Empire, one of the last remaining Imperial Mk I Star Destroyers in existence.
History:
The Imperial Heritage Museum was built on the site of one of the mining quarry's originally built by Chiss settlers centuries before the Imperial Remnant made the Sirat Wen system their home. The Star Destroyer Impenetrable, which was nearly destroyed in the exodus of the Imperial Remnant was renamed Glory of the empire and moved into this quarry and became the first exhibit of its kind. The museum grew around the exhibit eventually covering it completely. Today the museum, dedicated to the glorious beginnings of the empire, draws millions of visitors.
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Name: North Polar District
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Classification: CIty Sector
Location: Sirat Wen Prime
Affiliation: The Galactic Empire
Population: 5 billion
Demographics: Imperial military, Prisoners, Guards, Judicial Personnel
Points of Interest: Rison starport, Imperial Judicial Housing, Grand Imperial Court, Imperial re-education Center, Iron Helm (Prison)
Description:
The North Polar Region is the northern most city sector on Sirat Wen Prime. It is maintained by the Galactic Empire and houses the majority of its prisons and penal facilities. Hosting its own small star port, prison ships can bypass commercial approach lanes and land directly inside the district making prisoner transfer much more secure and less time consuming.
History:
After the Imperial Remnant settled the world, construction on the norther most regions of Sirat Wen was one of the first projects to begin. Need for law enforcement was paramount to maintain order on the world. The original inhabitants and expat workers, brought in to rebuild the city grew restless, grew restless and disobedient causing progress to slow to a stop and crime to increase world wide. Order was restored by the Imperial Judicial Guard containing the populace and maintain order through the transition of government and the mass inflow of Imperial citizens. The Judaical Guard imprisoned millions of troublemakers and dissidents in order to keep the peace as the world grew. After mass inflow of Imperial refugees from around the galaxy poured into the world population exceeded the judicial facilities ability to contain prisoners the need for larger more secure facilities was was clear. At this point the entire northern sector of the world became one larger facility devoted to the judicial arm of the Empire.
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Name: Grand Imperial Court
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Classification: Judaical Headquarters of the Sirat Wen System
Location: Sirat Wen Prime (North Polar District)
Affiliation: The Galactic Empire
Population: N/A
Demographics: court clerks, judges, prisoners, judicial guard
Points of Interest: Imperial High Court
Description:
Sitting atop the northern pole of Sirat Wen Prime, the massive court building housing the judicial command and the headquarters for the Imperial Judicial Guard contained hundreds of courts and law offices. Millions of lawyers, judges, clerks, guards, and prisoners cycle through these hallowed walls every day seeing that law and order are maintained equally for all people of the Galactic Empire.
History:
Created shortly after the Imperial Remnant settling the Sirat Wen system. Here the Imperial Judicial Branch maintains the Imperial Judicial Guard to act as a militant arm of the judicial office. These Guards carry out the enforcement of order through out the system and enforce the Imperial Courts Order without question.
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Name: Iron Helm
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Classification: Prison
Location: Sirat Wen Prime
Affiliation: The Galactic Empire
Population: 500 million
Demographics: Imperial military, Prisoners, Judicial Guards
Points of Interest: Hydroponics Farms
Description:
Iron Helm is the largest and most secure prison on Sirat Wen Prime housing five hundred million prisoners. The massive complex extends twenty kilometers into the planets crust with level after level of containment cells, Interrogations rooms, and a self contained life support grid with no access to the upper levels and the surface. Only the main repulsor lift has access to any level above five kilometers below the surface.
Iron helm is basically a starship buried in the ground for all practical purposes.
The environment is artificial and sealed preventing any outside contaminates. Oxygen is scrubbed and recycled by massive CO2 scrubbers and the food is provided by an internal hydroponic farm. High Energy Laser grids line the air and engineering ducts making them impossible to traverse unless deactivated. The outer wall is a forty meter thick shell of durasteel/carbonate alloy and electrified to keep any tunneling in or out of the complex contained.
A staggered guard rotation schedule keeps the facility constantly guarded and the guard change unpredictable. These systems leave the main repulserlift shaft the only way into or out of the prison. This shaft is kept vacuum sealed and prothium gas, from the nearby gas giant, is pumped in while not in use. Motion sensors inside the shaft will ignight the gas when activated flushing the tube and incinerating everything inside.
One heavily guarded landing platform is the only access to the upper facility. Prisoner transports are monitored upon approach and departure, scanned upon landing and searched before prisoner transfers are given the green light to proceed. Upon entry into the upper level sally port, prisoners are striped and searched for any foreign objects or contraband.
History:
Iron Helm was built twenty seven years after the settlement of the system by the Imperial Remnant. It houses the worst of the worst the Empire can capture. Every prisoner here is sentenced to life without parole. Once interred here there is no visitation or contact with the outside. A prisoner who is sentenced to Iron Helm simply disappeared to the rest of the galaxy.
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Name: Imperial Re-education Center
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Classification: Education Center, Prison
Location: Sirat Wen Prime (North Polar District)
Affiliation: The Galactic Empire
Population: N/A
Demographics: Military personnel, Judaical Guards, Guests
Points of Interest: Library of Order
Description:
The Imperial re-education center is a massive complex dedicated to furthering the knowledge base of Imperial citizens, often times against their will. Here the uneducated citizens of the system can be shown the truth about what it is to be an Imperial citizen. Classes are held daily for the uneducated, often times lasting days on end without break. Recreation corrective reinforcement is often used as a is often used to rehabilitate guests who have been poisoned by false propaganda. Not all guests require the same treatment many come to the center to learn about the Galactic Empire for personnel reasons. Also all Imperial Judaical personnel must finish the extensive training regime offered by the center. At the entrance of the center sits the Library of Order, a grand library dedicated to the history of the Empire and its society. Here anyone can find public records dating back to the time of The New Order, Stories of the heroes of the Empire and information needed to serve the Empire as a good citizen.
History:
Established after the Remnants rise to power, the Imperial Re-education Center served to fight false propaganda from dissident citizens in the time of transition. After the government settled in and order was solidified the center remained active to help educate the population about the glorious Galactic Empire.
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Name: Imperial Intelligence Headquarters
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Intent: To provide Imperial Intelligence with a structure and to flesh out Sirat Wen Prime even more for the Empire's purposes.
Classification: Government Agency HQ Building
Location: Located on Sirat Wen Prime, on the other side of the Ecumenopolis of a planet from the Grand Court.
Affiliation: The Galactic Empire
Description:
Designed to blend in with the many other towering buildings of the cityscape that is the majority, if not entirety, of Sirat Wen Prime, the headquarters of IMperial Intelligence operates as a local communication network service on the surface. All markings of the structure and thereof, while bearing the Imperial symbol as an official business, point towards a functioning civilian enterprise. To the point of which that a number of everyday citizens are actually employed alongside intelligence personnel who handle the communication network to provide local stations with lines to promote their holovids.
However, in the lower levels below ground of the structure the Imperial Intelligence houses their true daily operations. It is there where members of the analysis division work to sift through data routinely delivered to the group to upload to their databanks for their personnel and slicer droids to sort through and file properly. It is in this section where Imperial Intelligence puts together their reports for the military and upper echelons regarding any pertinent information they uncover.
Also set in the lover levels of the Imperial Intelligence Building is a small barracks and training center for the Imperial Commandos and Field Agents, who are deployed on missions around the galaxy on a frequent basis, and who act as security or work for Internal Affairs if they are stationed at the Headquarters on a permanent assignment.
History:
Once actually just a communication network hub for the entertainment of the local population of Sirat Wen Prime, the Imperial Intelligence Building was thoroughly renovated when a new company bought out the dying corporation's land and building. The company being a front for Imperial Intelligence who setup their agency's operations beneath the legitimate business, a win-win in a sense as the communication hub for holodramas brings in revenue for the Intellgence group to help fund the upkeep of their assets.
Links: IT-O Interrogator Droids, Slicer Droids, HoloDrama Flicks
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Culture:
The Siratian Culture is one of nationalist pride and imperial ideals. Forced to recover from a galaxy-spanning plague and the starvation and death that comes when an Ecumenopolis is severed from agricultural worlds, the Siratians have adopted a system of Imperial Rule of Law. All major corporate assets are the property of the government and the people are expected to obey their government leaders at all times. In exchange for this, the Imperial Government has protected and provided for its populace for the last four hundred years. Planets have been conquered, worlds have been turned into nationalized farms, and the economic resources of an entire solar system have been harnessed for the sake of providing for the Siratian people.
Truly a class two civilization, the Siratians are accustomed to viewing the needs of the many above the needs of the few and will gladly brave unknown worlds or the deep of space for the good of the nation.
Technology: Hyperspace Capable
History:
Referred to as an Ecumenopolis, Sirat Wen Prime was theorized as being a cold but habitable planet at the edge of the system's habitable zone when the system still sported two main sequence stars. As the stars aged into red giants and swallowed the inner planets of the system, they also knocked several moons from the orbits of the Gas Giants and Terrestrial Giants of the system. Some of those moons, namely those planets currently known as Sirat Wen Alpha and Beta, settled into new orbits around the pair of raging stars. And though the habitable zone of the twin stars greatly expanded, Sirat Wen was fortunate enough to remain within the system's habitable zone, though on the hotter size of the zone. In modern times, one of Sirat Wen's stars has aged into a white dwarf and it is theorized that the other star will be doing the same in the next few billion years. But until such a time occurs, Sirat Wen Prime finds itself sitting comfortably within the optimal part of the system's habitable zone.
The origins of Sirat Wen's earliest civilizations have long ago been lost to the eons of time. As city after city is built upon the ruins of that which came before, the urban growth of Sirat Wen extends for at least a dozen kilometers farther than the light of Sirat Wen's twin suns is capable of reaching. But during the ages that are still remembered, Sirat Wen has been a relatively peaceful planet ruled by actual democracy, with each citizen of the planet casting their vote on local and global issues via the holonet.
Sirat Wen Prime was once known as the Coruscant of the Unknown Regions, similar to Taris's reputation of being the Coruscant of the Outer Rim. Far to the galactic west and isolated from much of the galaxy by turbulent hyperspace lanes, the Sirat Wen system was unknown to most of the galaxy at large and did not exist on any of the ancient Republic or Empire star charts. Siratians were, however, known to the Chiss and a few other hyperspace capable civilizations that dotted the Unknown Regions. During the many wars between the Republic, Old Republic, New Republic, Seperatists, Sith, and numerous Empires, the people of Sirat Wen avoided the conflicts of the galactic center and east. Freighter pilots and other merchants kept Sirat Wen aware of the goings on of much of the galaxy, though Sirat Wen kept to itself in all things not related to trading technology for food and water, or the defense of civilized worlds from the ravages of Mnggal-Mnggal infestations.
In the time before the great plague struck the galaxy, Sirat Wen Prime contained a population of just over 120 Billion and survived off of a trade of technology and medical supplies with agricultural worlds such as Uystrao.
425 ABY. The year the Gulag Virus was unleashed upon the galaxy.
Unleashed initially at Csilla, the virus quickly reached the nearby world of Uystrao and Sirat Wen not long after. As plague ravaged the planet and rumors of a galaxy in chaos spread as rapidly as the plague itself, emergency protocols were put into place and the S-thread Stations connecting the system to the galaxy at large were shut down. Isolated from the rest of the galaxy and contending with a plague, more and more emergency powers were given to the planetary leaders. Desperate for a solution, over 12 Billion infected or exposed were executed as any and all traces of the plague were expunged from the planet over a three year period of purging. In the 50 years to follow, nearly 72 Billion lives would be lost to starvation alone.
Cut off from the rest of the galaxy, and thinking themselves the sole survivors of the plague, desperate measures had to be taken. Living on an Ecumenopolis world, the Siratians found themselves isolated and incapable of utilizing the resources of their planet to grow food or livestock. As cannibalism swept the planet, government and military leaders quickly seized control of all private and corporate assets as they attempted to save their people. All property on Sirat Wen's primary moon was destroyed to make room for vast farms that would encircled the tiny planet. Similarly, the "backwater" world of Titana Alpha was taken by military force in a quick and brutal war with the planet's native Ragithian population. Nationalized and enslaved, the native Ragithians were joined by humans and other immigrants from Sirat Wen Prime as national farms were established across vast swaths of the planet's surface. Similar attempts to take over Titana Alpha's moon, Rebirth, were met by brutal resistance by an order of force sensitive monks that were native to the moon. Recognizing the value of these monks, but desperate for farmable land, the Imperial government sent diplomats to negotiate with the monks. Once they were made aware of the desperate situation of Sirat Wen Prime, the monks agreed to allow the farming of their world, so long as their temples and sacred sites remained untouched.
Sirat Wen Delta, a water world with deep oceans was descended upon with fervor and desperation. In spite of its hostile atmosphere, millions of Siratian citizens were forced to relocate to the planet and harvest the bounty of its oceans by any means possible, including any and all surviving aquatic species and races. As Siratians starved to death by the millions, greater and greater acts of desperation were undertaken by the planet's surviving leaders. Even the toxic and uninhabitable world of Sirat Wen Gamma, then populated only by Zelosians, was overtaken by military force. The native population was enslaved, and Siratian colonists were forced to the planet in an attempt to convert its lush forests, jungles, and grasslands into farm-able land with which to feed the starving populace of Sirat Wen Prime.
478 ABY
As the Time of Darkness comes to a close, the system of Sirat Wen finds itself with a population of nearly 40 Billion sentient lifeforms spread over four planets and two moons. From the ashes of a once democratic republic, an Imperial government has risen to power and though the threat of starvation and death are no longer the immediate concerns of the populace, the fear of which and the not so distant memories of cataclysm have built a society of stanch nationalists who will bravely and proudly sacrifice all for the good of all. As the immediate struggle to stay alive falls to the wayside, the National Imperial Party turns its attention away from the acquisition of food and water for its people and instead looks to the future.
The creation of additional domed cities on Sirat Wen Delta and Gamma continues as reform and perfection of fishing and farming techniques bring larger and larges bounties of food to the no longer declining population of Sirat Wen Prime.
Having nationalized control of all of Sirat Wen's corporate assets during the time of darkness, the new imperial government found itself with total control of its own economy. Seeking to put that control to good use, and to ensure that the future of their people would never again be shrouded in darkness, the government began a second stage of expansion into the Sirat Wen system as they sought out ever more desperate substitutions for the goods and supplies they would have otherwise obtained from foreign planets, were it not for the plague ravaging the galaxy.
On Titana Alpha's moon, Rebirth, efforts to restore the world to its original state begin as Imperial politicians and military leaders establish an academy on the planet from which to train Imperial Officers who are discovered to be force sensitive.
583 ABY
The population of the Sirat Wen System, having experienced 100 years of relative economic stability with a constant supply of food, has tripled. Now host to roughly 120 Billion sentient lifeforms, Sirat Wen faces a new set of challenges. Facing civil unrest on many of the colony worlds within the system, the Imperial government puts forth reform policies and free the enslaved native species of Titana Alpha and Sirat Wen Gamma. Seeking to strengthen the loyalty of their citizens and end the civil unrest on Sirat Wen Prime and her colony worlds, renewed colonization efforts are put into place that are based heavily upon race and species. As all people are reminded of their civil duty and nationalist pride, most those same citizens of Chiss and Pantoran decent are relocated to Golgatha Prime in a vast colonization effort due to their "natural ability to tolerate the harsh conditions of the planet." The end result is a higher percentage of "humans" on Sirat Wen Prime.
649 ABY
The total circumference of Sirat Wen Gamma has been taken over by farmland. The vast quantities of food created by the planet have lessened the need for food grown elsewhere in the system. Likewise, the commercial fishing of Sirat Wen Delta has reached such levels as to reshape the seasonal flow of life in entire swaths of ocean. Many predator species have been hunted to extinction or driven to the deepest parts of the planet's oceans. Forty seven species of fish now dominate the entire biome of the planet and are harvested seasonally. The recent discovery of a Kolto-like substance created by one of Sirat Wen Delta's native lifeforms adds new value to the planet. The species in question is relabeled as a protected species and the breeding cycle of these creatures are artificially enhanced each season.
Titana Alpha, no longer needed strictly as an agricultural resource, is viewed more and more as a luxury retreat from the highly urbanized planet of Sirat Wen Prime, in spite of the worlds high gravity. The primary economic resource of Titana Alpha changes from agriculture to raw ores and the refinement and creation of medical supplies for the Sirat Wen System, most of which originating from Sirat Wen Delta. On Sirat Wen Prime's moon, farmland is allowed to return to its natural state and the entirety of the moon is classified as the National Park of the Sirat Wen system. A number of hotels, resorts, and luxury mansions are established on the planet for the rich and powerful of Sirat Wen Prime.
721 ABY
Two hundred and forty three years after the official end to the Time of Darkness and the population of the Sirat Wen System has grown to over 480 Billion, roughly tripling each one hundred years. As the need for raw resources continues to increase, the remaining planets and moons of the Sirat Wen system are analyzed for their economic value. Two years later, mining operations begin on Sirat Wen Alpha and Beta in spite of the toxic and hostile nature of each planet.
844 ABY
A new catastrophe has taken its tole on the people of Sirat Wen. Mystically and without warning, nearly two thirds of the population of the entire system vanishes without a trace. Angry and afraid, the remaining populace turns to its government for answers. In response, ancient S-Thread Booster Stations are returned to life and Siratians venture forth into an unknown galaxy. Scouts quickly return with information about a war-torn galaxy that has recently recovered from the effects of the galaxy-spanning plague and with rumors of mystical beings called Celestials being to blame for the disappearance of their people. Alongside the scouts, representatives of a half-dozen different Empires make their way into the Sirat Wen System.
As rumors of a powerful and economically stable heart of Imperial ideals spreads among distant warlords and retired Moffs and Admirals, a flood representatives and refugees find their way to Sirat Wen Prime.
In the deep quiet of the Galactic West, a new Empire is Born.
Notable PCs: NA
Intent: To create a plausible capital planet for a Galactic Empire, and to create a plausible Class 2 Civilization in the Star Wars setting based on the Kardashev Scale.
