Epicanthix
| Athos IV |
Athos IV has a history rich with art, philosophy, and religion, even in spite of and perhaps because of the tragedy that took placemillenia ago. This is certainly an excellent chance to study a culture relatively uncontaminated by outside contact with the galaxy.
Areas of Interest
Dancing Mountain Lights is an area once held within the Shattered Lands. The explosion that devastated the planet also threw up great chunks of the planet's inner crust. Luminous fumes pool beneath massive, unrefined gems and create a cascading river of color and light against the night sky. But for all its beauty, there are those would would prefer to mine away the massive gems for sale elsewhere, and a fight continues over rights and mining attempts.
The Endless River is a place formerly touched by the ShatteredLands, but reclaimed by the efforts of the Ithorians. Positioned over a massive, ancient aquifer, the Endless River takes its name from the massive river that runs down the mountain into an endless pool which feeds back directly into the aquifer. Volcanic activity was roused after the explosion that created the Shattered Lands, which heated certain areas of the aquifer. This expansion of water is pushed out through an old volcano, creating this natural wonder.
The Goni Military Base is a floating citadel above the Shattered Lands. Originally it was the center of Ithorian Reclamation efforts. After the Gulag Plague struck, Athosians took custody of the station and saw to its maintenance. In time, the Athosians began to stockpile their military hardware on the platform. When the galaxy was ready to come back a third time, the Athosians had transformed the citadel into a massive floating fortress. Airships and fighters can be deployed nearly anywhere over the planet in as little as an hour. Many of the planet's Ithorians have carved out a home within the base and do their best to restart efforts to reclaim more of the Shattered Lands.
The Mourning Wall is not a singularwall, but is in fact sections of wall placed in front of every shield emitter on the planet's surface. Every year, hundreds of thousands make the pilgrimage to each wall in remembrance of those who perished in the first Anavosi'nri. There are those who claim ancestry to someone who died in the terrible explosion and who guards the walls, maintaining them throughout the year.
The Shattered Lands are perhaps the greatest, and most terrible, feature of Athos IV. Greater than even the Goni Military Base,Thousands and thousands of square kilometers of surface have been twisted by the explosion of untold millions of liters of fuel. The atmosphere in these regions is a hellish thing, full of toxic fumes and hellish as great pools of fuel still burn and renew the corruption. No life exists within the Shattered Lands, and at their heart is a crater whose mammoth size cannot be fully comprehended from the surface, as its edges extend over the horizon. The oceans within the region are equally tainted. Only through the efforts of the Goni Military Station are the levels of the ocean maintained.
OBJECTIVES ON ATHOS IV
- Exploration: Explore the crystal caves and discover a few for your own use.
- Peaceful: Make an NJO settlement and temple at the Dancing River Lights.
- Humanitarian Aid: Attempt reconstruction and cleansing of the Shattered lands - through corporations or alliance aid.
- Bring your own objective.
| Xagobah |
From space, Xagobah appeared to be a cloud-covered world that was shrouded in purplish mists. This was caused by the incredible amount of spores and pollen found in its atmosphere, given off by all manner of trees and fungus. While most of the planet's spores were harmless, some varieties caused certain changes in off-worlders. As such, taking an antidote prior to exposure was recommended for those unaccustomed to the planet's environment.
The fungi that produced these billions of spores resembled giant mushrooms and were found in a variety of forms. Carnivorous varieties like the flimmel tree and Xabar fungus had the ability to immobilize their prey through the use of a green, sheet-like adhesive, or through the injection of a paralyzing toxin. The malvil-tree, on the other hand, was a far more docile fungus, with numerous tree-limb like tendrils that could actively move, pick up objects, and support members of the native Xamster population.
Prior to Separatist occupation of Xagobah, the native Xamster race, reptilian-looking practitioners of the Tal-Gun martial arts technique, lived in relative peace. Xamster families held bonds with malvil-trees, which seemed to possess some sort of sentience, but after the war found the planet, Xamsters were either used as laborers or hired by the Republic to fight the droid armies of the Mazariyan. This left the native population devastated and the malvil-trees largely unprotected. Little is known as to what happened to them after the end of the war.
OBJECTIVES ON XAGOBAH
- Aggressive Negotiations: The native Xamster's have been having trouble with Warlord Kar Va. His slaving empire has been taking the native Xamster's as a slave force. Bring a stop to this Warlord and his slaving.
- Hunt down the Sithspawn: Eliminate the Sithspawn lab [member="Eldaah Aderyn"] an unknown Sith has on Xagobah so that the lab can't churn out more Sluissi turned Star Wars Hydralisks that were kidnapped from Sluis Van.
- Change over of the Guard: Rogue Squadron CO [member="Alexandra Russo"] has stepped down from her position and in her place, XO [member="Asmus Janes"] will be promoted as the new Commanding Officer of Rogue Squadron. Come for the ceremony and the party afterward.
- Humanitarian Aid: Revitalize the Malvil-Trees, help with reconstruction for the Xamster. Malvil-trees were at least semi-sentient fungus trees native to the planet Xagobah. They had tendrils that they could move about and that could detect temperature and heat. Malvil-trees seemed to have a special symbiotic relationship with the Xamsters. Also feel free to learn from the Xamster about Tal-Gun martial arts.
- Bring your own Objective.
