Rusty
Purveyor of Fine Weaponry
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Name: The Garden
Region: Outer Rim
System: Eden
Suns: Rudyard's Star, Red Giant
Orbital Position: Habitable Zone
Moons: Tallulah (About 1/15 the size of The Garden, rocky and uninhabitable) The Shipyards (The creatively named orbiting shipyards used by the Rogue Sith to construct their fleet. The Shipyards form a large orbital satellite locked in geosynchronous orbit, always staying on the bright side of The Garden.)
System Features: The Bull, a medium-sized black hole approximately a quarter lightyear away from the edge of the system, around which Rudyard's Star, and indeed the entire system of Eden, orbits. Though The Garden is tidal locked on the far side of Rudyard's Star and away from The Bull, navigation is extremely difficult, as Rudyard's Star orbits The Bull at extreme velocities, fast enough to have a slight time dilation effect and also make hitting the system from the outside nearly impossible without access to orbital data.
Coordinates: 11 horizontal, 6 vertical
Rotational Period: 19.6 Hours
Orbital Period: N/A, Due to the unique orbital mechanics, The Garden remains fixed relative to Rudyard's Star
Class: Terrestrial
Diameter: 9,182 Kilometers
Atmosphere: 1
Climate: Temperate, with the exception of a tundra-like area around the poles
Gravity: Three Quarters Standard
Primary Terrain: Most of The Garden is covered in lush forests, thinning out to tundra towards the poles. Three large freshwater seas that don't quite meet the specifications for oceans can be found, two in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern.
Native Species: The Tree Folk, a species of sentient, mobile plants that live among the rain forests south of the equator. Northern hemisphere is dominated by a species of predatory herbivores (it makes sense in context) who call themselves the Wan'alua.
Immigrated Species: Though the One Sith expedition was mixed species, only the humans have survived.
Primary Languages: The Rogue Sith speak Galactic Standard Basic. The Tree Folk communicate through an as of yet unnamed system of complex signs and flashes of color through their leaves, as well as the complex neural network that runs beneath the forest floor and connects the Elder Tree Folk, and the Wan'alua speak Wan and Basic.
Government: The Tree Folk govern themselves through a sort of democratic anarchy. They mostly leave each other alone, but have been known to come together to make decisions that will affect them all. The Wan'alua are governed through a strict meritocracy, where only the best hunters have any say in things. The Rogue Sith are controlled by their Lord's iron fist.
Population:
Major Imports: N/A
Major Exports: N/A
Affiliation: Rogue Sith
Major Locations:
Tallulah grew up among the stars, and though she saw more alien worlds than most would see in a lifetime, she dreamed of settling down on a planet and growing a garden. As such, she collected promising seeds from any worlds they visited, and was actually making something of a name for herself in horticulture for her rare and exotic discoveries. Jim knew he couldn't keep her with him forever, and promised that, when she turned 18, if she still wanted to settle down, he would invest his savings in a plot of land where she could start her dream flower garden.
She was 16 when they found what would become known as Rudyard's Star.
Jim knew it would be a hard target to hit, even with his souped up ship and the best tracking data he could find, but he didn't anticipate just how dangerous Eden would be. Having long since lost its other celestial bodies to the extreme forces placed upon it by The Bull, sublight navigation was a breeze, but hitting the mark that would drop them out of hyperspace near enough to the planet to make landfall was anything but. A miscalculation in the navicomp caused them initially to revert to realspace on the wrong side of Rudyard's Star, far too close to The Bull. The intense gravity threatened to tear the ship apart, and with no choice but to risk everything or face certain doom, he disabled the safety interlocks on the hyperdrive and jumped blindly. By some miracle, they reverted within a few hundred thousand kilometers of The Garden, but the stressed hyperdrive malfunctioned upon reversion.
Coolant leaked into the main cabin, quickly flooding the ship with toxic gas. Jim was able to get his respirator on immediately, but disoriented by a blow to the head, Tallulah inhaled several lungfuls of the gas before her father could help seal her mask, and badly seared her lungs.
Desperate, Jim landed his damaged ship on the only habitable world in the system and tried desperately to save his daughter, but the damage was done. Their meager bacta supplies only prolonged her suffering, and after a week, in agony and barely able to breathe, she gasped her last breath.
Jim was devastated.
He buried her on the small world, and named it The Garden, since it was her dream to settle down and grow one. If she couldn't grow her own, he thought, she might as well have a whole world to tend in her eternal slumber. He raised a small cairn over her grave, marked the coordinates in his ship's navicomp, and set up camp a few kilometers away. He built a small shelter, since the ship still wasn't safe to inhabit, and planted Tallulah's seeds. In the extremely fertile soil, they quickly sprouted into a beautiful garden.
For weeks, he worked tirelessly on the ship, unaware that he was being watched.
Finally, once repairs were complete and he could limp home, he decided to visit his daughter one last time. Imagine his surprise when he found the cairn had grown considerably.
A strange, six legged creature emerged from the forest and greeted him in a guttural language that sounded like something a strangled Hutt would croak out before giving up the ghost. He quickly realized that the creature was intelligent and that, furthermore, it meant him no harm. Being an old hand at making contact with new species, he quickly worked out a simple means of communicating, and deciphered that the creature, who called itself a Wan'alua, had decided that he was a god, and that his daughter's grave was holy.
Intrigued, he set about learning as much about them as possible.
For nearly a year, Jim lived among the Wan'alua, who taught him many valuable things. He learned, for instance, that the biology of The Garden was nearly unique. Evolution had favored mobile plants over animals, for instance, and it was the smaller species that the herbivorous Wan'alua hunted. He learned of their tribes and their caste system, and how they ruled themselves. He learned their legends, and decided that their world had been visited before, because they had many prophecies dealing with gods coming from the stars and helping their people. He learned that, not long ago, half of them had simply vanished, a fate shared with his wife in the disaster known as the Netherworld disappearances.
The stories that intrigued him most were of the Tree Folk, the massive, mobile plant creatures in the southern hemisphere. The Wan'alua thought of them as something like the boogieman, only scarier. They were said to be thirty meters tall, capable of forging spears from their arms and moving faster than even the fastest hunter. Only the bravest of the Wan'alua ventured into their territory, and few returned. Those that did, however, brought back what they claimed to be the sap from the creatures. The sap, they said, had magical properties. It would drive one utterly mad if they consumed too much, but in small doses, it made even the most pathetic hunter into powerful wizards.
Rudyard discounted the stories as tall tales, but eventually, was convinced to go on an expedition to the southern reaches of Wan'alua territory to see for himself. The stories, he realized, were true, when a single Tree Folk wiped out his entire party. His life was spared, and out of mutual curiosity, he and the Tree Folk learned to talk, after a fashion. Once the Tree Folk got bored with him, they vanished.
Upon returning to his ship, Rudyard decided it was time to say goodbye to the Wan'alua. He promised to send more gods from the sky, packed up a few meager belongings, as well as an offering of the sap, and left.
Hard times awaited as he returned. Still heartbroken at the loss of his daughter and utterly destitute, as his bank account was slowly drained by recurring bills, he sold the information he had gathered on Eden, as well as the artifacts he had claimed, and retired into a life of obscurity.
The stories and the sap, as it turned out, were purchased by a broker who frequently sold information to the One Sith. A particular Lord got ahold of the sap and, determined to see if the stories were true, ingested it.
His powers were magnified tenfold.
The sap, it seemed, could magnify one's connection with the Force, but at a cost. Though it made him immensely powerful, the effects wore off quickly, and when they were gone, his connection with the Force was slightly, but measurably weakened.
Determined to find more, he petitioned the Dark Lord to lead an expedition of 10,000 souls to Rudyard's Star in order to colonize and exploit it for the glory of the Sith.. The Dark Lord was intrigued by the idea of what such a sap could do when subjected to Alchemy, and approved.
The colony expedition, like many such Sith-led ventures, was far from a pleasant one for the lower ranking individuals. Mostly crewed by prisoners of war and other unmentionables, the hundred or so Sith hardly had to lift a finger. The peons were terrified of their new masters, and that was the way they liked it. Even the Dark Lord would have found the cruelty to be unbecoming, but he was never to find out, for the Lord in charge never intended to return under his rule. Instead, he planned to exploit the sap's power and take the throne for himself.
Upon reaching Rudyard's Star, the Lord staged acts of sabotage, disabling the ships' hyperdrives and blaming it on nonhuman crew members. He had always been xenophobic to the extreme, and out from under the watchful eye of the Dark Lord, he was able to create his perfect society, one where the aliens were vented through the airlock.
The Wan'alua initially met the Sith party with open arms. They had remembered Rudyard's promise, though admittedly they hadn't expected the return so soon. They soon realized, however, that their new gods were not the kind and benevolent variety. The Sith forced them to construct a massive temple, and expected them to bring daily tributes of food and sap. The Wan'alua priests tried to explain that the sap was difficult to collect, as the Tree Folk were powerful warriors, but the Lord scoffed. For every day that they did not meet their quota, he explained, one hundred Wan'alua would be publicly and painfully executed.
Sufficiently motivated and armed with weapons more effective than rudimentary stone spears, expeditions southward embarked. Soon, a steady stream of sap was supplied to the Lord and his retinue.
The Alchemists quickly discovered a way to refine the sap. By subjecting it to their dark magicks, they extracted the impurities that caused madness and amplified the effects by a factor of five. The process, however, made it dangerously addictive, and furthermore, it couldn't be stored for more than a few days before losing its potency and turning toxic. Now dependent on the sap to survive, the Lord and his followers bide their time as the Alchemists work to correct the shortcomings. Their fleet grows stronger every day, and as soon as the sap's refinement is perfected, the Rogue Lord plans to take the Core by storm.
Notable PCs: N/A
Intent: Created for the contest. Not gonna lie, I sorta winged it off an idea for massive, bipedal trees I cooked up last night at work. The rest was the result of much liquor and sleep deprivation. I do apologize if it's an incoherent mess.
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Name: The Garden
Region: Outer Rim
System: Eden
Suns: Rudyard's Star, Red Giant
Orbital Position: Habitable Zone
Moons: Tallulah (About 1/15 the size of The Garden, rocky and uninhabitable) The Shipyards (The creatively named orbiting shipyards used by the Rogue Sith to construct their fleet. The Shipyards form a large orbital satellite locked in geosynchronous orbit, always staying on the bright side of The Garden.)
System Features: The Bull, a medium-sized black hole approximately a quarter lightyear away from the edge of the system, around which Rudyard's Star, and indeed the entire system of Eden, orbits. Though The Garden is tidal locked on the far side of Rudyard's Star and away from The Bull, navigation is extremely difficult, as Rudyard's Star orbits The Bull at extreme velocities, fast enough to have a slight time dilation effect and also make hitting the system from the outside nearly impossible without access to orbital data.
Coordinates: 11 horizontal, 6 vertical
Rotational Period: 19.6 Hours
Orbital Period: N/A, Due to the unique orbital mechanics, The Garden remains fixed relative to Rudyard's Star
Class: Terrestrial
Diameter: 9,182 Kilometers
Atmosphere: 1
Climate: Temperate, with the exception of a tundra-like area around the poles
Gravity: Three Quarters Standard
Primary Terrain: Most of The Garden is covered in lush forests, thinning out to tundra towards the poles. Three large freshwater seas that don't quite meet the specifications for oceans can be found, two in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern.
Native Species: The Tree Folk, a species of sentient, mobile plants that live among the rain forests south of the equator. Northern hemisphere is dominated by a species of predatory herbivores (it makes sense in context) who call themselves the Wan'alua.
Immigrated Species: Though the One Sith expedition was mixed species, only the humans have survived.
Primary Languages: The Rogue Sith speak Galactic Standard Basic. The Tree Folk communicate through an as of yet unnamed system of complex signs and flashes of color through their leaves, as well as the complex neural network that runs beneath the forest floor and connects the Elder Tree Folk, and the Wan'alua speak Wan and Basic.
Government: The Tree Folk govern themselves through a sort of democratic anarchy. They mostly leave each other alone, but have been known to come together to make decisions that will affect them all. The Wan'alua are governed through a strict meritocracy, where only the best hunters have any say in things. The Rogue Sith are controlled by their Lord's iron fist.
Population:
- Tree Folk- 1,000,000 (estimated)
- Wan'alua- 23,000,000 (estimated)
- Rogue Sith- 7,302 (NOT estimated)
Major Imports: N/A
Major Exports: N/A
Affiliation: Rogue Sith
Major Locations:
- Rudyard's Landing- The location where Jim Rudyard, the adventurer who discovered the planet, first landed. Revered as a holy site by the Wan'alua. Originally marked only by a funeral cairn for his daughter, Tallulah, the Wan'alua have since added to the original cairn, turning the simple pile of rocks into an artificial mountain roughly 100 meters tall and 300 meters wide.
- Rudyard's Garden- Once it was clear that he'd be stuck for a while, Rudyard constructed a small wooden hut, and cultivated a flower garden from seeds brought by his daughter. Originally, it was supposed to be a memorial for his little girl, but the Wan'alua saw the cultivation of plants as a sign that he was a deity, as it was an art that they never mastered. To this day, Rudyard's Garden is their holiest site, and priests tend it fastidiously.
- Temple of the Dark God- When the One Sith expedition reached The Garden, they were armed with Rudyard's notes on the Wan'alua, and knew that they viewed otherworlders, or "People of the Stars," as gods. The Sith Lord in charge of the expedition, eager to exploit the resources of the system, quickly established himself as a god to the Wan'alua, and a jealous, vengeful one at that. He forced them to build a massive temple, styled after the old Massassi temples. Every day, the Wan'alua tribes bring tributes of food and Tree Folk sap for the Lord and his retinue, and they are rewarded with their continued existence. In addition to the temple, massive weapons emplacements were constructed. Though tibanna gas is at a premium in the Eden system, raw materials are not, so the Sith decided to go primarily with mass drivers capable of hurling tungsten spikes at considerable velocity. Smaller mass drivers designed to take down starfighters are also present in large quantities, and any forces that do land will have to deal with the Rogue Lord and his retinue of loyal Sith, their powers amplified by the sap to unheard of levels.
- Shipyards- Prefabricated orbital shipyards brought in with the Rogue Sith, designed for the construction of warships. Massive and massively unsafe, hardly a day goes by without some poor soul dying in the hard vacuum. The shipyards are heavily defended, both by fighter craft produced locally and by a network of turbolaser emplacements, mines, and missile pods. The system is designed as much to keep people in as out, and the gun and fighter crews are among the best fed and well trained of the Sith conscripts. So long as they keep performing, they'll be protected from the Rogue Lord's wrath.
- Mines of Tallulah- Rich with mineral wealth, Tallulah was quickly surveyed and several mines were drilled. Little more than open pits bored out by turbolaser fire, workers in spacesuits toil day in and day out, collecting the raw ore to be sent to orbit to be processed.
- The Tree Folk's culture is largely a mystery. Though Rudyard heard and faithfully recorded the fanciful stories of the Wan'alua, he didn't quite believe their tales of walking trees with magical sap. None the less, when he ventured south, outside of Wan'alua territory, he discovered that the tales were true, and that the Tree Folk were not only real, but quite dangerous. In an instant, his escort of Wan'alua were wiped out by branches shaped into living spears. The Tree Folk spared him, as he didn't even vaguely resemble the six-legged hunters, and were even open to trying to communicate. They were able to establish a very rudimentary means of communication, in which he learned that the Tree Folk were primarily loners who only gathered in large groups to make decisions. The largest trees in the forest were apparently the oldest Tree Folk, who had grown too large to move and had taken up root. Each one had an extended nervous system that stretched for dozens of kilometers, and allowed them to communicated instantly over great distances. Ambulatory Tree Folk, those less than 30 or so meters tall, would often use their Elders to send messages. After a month or so, the Tree Folk lost inerest in the outsider, and abruptly vanished. Rudyard left without seeing another.
- Wan'alua society is both tribe and caste based. Each tribe has a different amount of territory, with the size of the territory they control being directly proportional to their political power. Within each tribe are several strictly regimented castes, with the best hunters holding the most power. A Wan'alua is not born into a caste, but rather assigned upon reaching adulthood, based on their ability to hunt. Powerful hunters immediately join the ruling caste, while the weak and the slow are relegated to menial labor, and are seen as little more than animals. Curiously, the priest caste does no hunting and holds no political power, but are heavily revered, and are brought the finest cuts from the prey.
- Rogue Sith society is much like normal Sith society, only far more dangerous. Ruled by the Lord and his retinue of Knights and Alchemists, life as a Rogue Sith is both difficult and, for those not fortunate enough to be a favorite of the Lord, either short and painful or long and humiliating. Men who are too insignificant enough to have earned the Lord's approval work as little more than slaves in the orbital shipyards and the mines on Tallulah. Young women who aren't talented enough with the Force or pretty enough to catch the Lord's attention are used for either unskilled labor or breeding stock.
- The Tree Folk have no known advanced technology. They've been observed using their limbs as spears, but they show no signs of tool use.
- The Wan'alua were, upon discovery, still in their Stone Age. They're quite capable with modern tools when given them, but the Rogue Sith have hidden from them the methods of constructing their own, to the point that they don't even share basic metalworking tips that would propel them into a Bronze Age. Though they have a fairly detailed oral history of their people, Wan has no written form.
Tallulah grew up among the stars, and though she saw more alien worlds than most would see in a lifetime, she dreamed of settling down on a planet and growing a garden. As such, she collected promising seeds from any worlds they visited, and was actually making something of a name for herself in horticulture for her rare and exotic discoveries. Jim knew he couldn't keep her with him forever, and promised that, when she turned 18, if she still wanted to settle down, he would invest his savings in a plot of land where she could start her dream flower garden.
She was 16 when they found what would become known as Rudyard's Star.
Jim knew it would be a hard target to hit, even with his souped up ship and the best tracking data he could find, but he didn't anticipate just how dangerous Eden would be. Having long since lost its other celestial bodies to the extreme forces placed upon it by The Bull, sublight navigation was a breeze, but hitting the mark that would drop them out of hyperspace near enough to the planet to make landfall was anything but. A miscalculation in the navicomp caused them initially to revert to realspace on the wrong side of Rudyard's Star, far too close to The Bull. The intense gravity threatened to tear the ship apart, and with no choice but to risk everything or face certain doom, he disabled the safety interlocks on the hyperdrive and jumped blindly. By some miracle, they reverted within a few hundred thousand kilometers of The Garden, but the stressed hyperdrive malfunctioned upon reversion.
Coolant leaked into the main cabin, quickly flooding the ship with toxic gas. Jim was able to get his respirator on immediately, but disoriented by a blow to the head, Tallulah inhaled several lungfuls of the gas before her father could help seal her mask, and badly seared her lungs.
Desperate, Jim landed his damaged ship on the only habitable world in the system and tried desperately to save his daughter, but the damage was done. Their meager bacta supplies only prolonged her suffering, and after a week, in agony and barely able to breathe, she gasped her last breath.
Jim was devastated.
He buried her on the small world, and named it The Garden, since it was her dream to settle down and grow one. If she couldn't grow her own, he thought, she might as well have a whole world to tend in her eternal slumber. He raised a small cairn over her grave, marked the coordinates in his ship's navicomp, and set up camp a few kilometers away. He built a small shelter, since the ship still wasn't safe to inhabit, and planted Tallulah's seeds. In the extremely fertile soil, they quickly sprouted into a beautiful garden.
For weeks, he worked tirelessly on the ship, unaware that he was being watched.
Finally, once repairs were complete and he could limp home, he decided to visit his daughter one last time. Imagine his surprise when he found the cairn had grown considerably.
A strange, six legged creature emerged from the forest and greeted him in a guttural language that sounded like something a strangled Hutt would croak out before giving up the ghost. He quickly realized that the creature was intelligent and that, furthermore, it meant him no harm. Being an old hand at making contact with new species, he quickly worked out a simple means of communicating, and deciphered that the creature, who called itself a Wan'alua, had decided that he was a god, and that his daughter's grave was holy.
Intrigued, he set about learning as much about them as possible.
For nearly a year, Jim lived among the Wan'alua, who taught him many valuable things. He learned, for instance, that the biology of The Garden was nearly unique. Evolution had favored mobile plants over animals, for instance, and it was the smaller species that the herbivorous Wan'alua hunted. He learned of their tribes and their caste system, and how they ruled themselves. He learned their legends, and decided that their world had been visited before, because they had many prophecies dealing with gods coming from the stars and helping their people. He learned that, not long ago, half of them had simply vanished, a fate shared with his wife in the disaster known as the Netherworld disappearances.
The stories that intrigued him most were of the Tree Folk, the massive, mobile plant creatures in the southern hemisphere. The Wan'alua thought of them as something like the boogieman, only scarier. They were said to be thirty meters tall, capable of forging spears from their arms and moving faster than even the fastest hunter. Only the bravest of the Wan'alua ventured into their territory, and few returned. Those that did, however, brought back what they claimed to be the sap from the creatures. The sap, they said, had magical properties. It would drive one utterly mad if they consumed too much, but in small doses, it made even the most pathetic hunter into powerful wizards.
Rudyard discounted the stories as tall tales, but eventually, was convinced to go on an expedition to the southern reaches of Wan'alua territory to see for himself. The stories, he realized, were true, when a single Tree Folk wiped out his entire party. His life was spared, and out of mutual curiosity, he and the Tree Folk learned to talk, after a fashion. Once the Tree Folk got bored with him, they vanished.
Upon returning to his ship, Rudyard decided it was time to say goodbye to the Wan'alua. He promised to send more gods from the sky, packed up a few meager belongings, as well as an offering of the sap, and left.
Hard times awaited as he returned. Still heartbroken at the loss of his daughter and utterly destitute, as his bank account was slowly drained by recurring bills, he sold the information he had gathered on Eden, as well as the artifacts he had claimed, and retired into a life of obscurity.
The stories and the sap, as it turned out, were purchased by a broker who frequently sold information to the One Sith. A particular Lord got ahold of the sap and, determined to see if the stories were true, ingested it.
His powers were magnified tenfold.
The sap, it seemed, could magnify one's connection with the Force, but at a cost. Though it made him immensely powerful, the effects wore off quickly, and when they were gone, his connection with the Force was slightly, but measurably weakened.
Determined to find more, he petitioned the Dark Lord to lead an expedition of 10,000 souls to Rudyard's Star in order to colonize and exploit it for the glory of the Sith.. The Dark Lord was intrigued by the idea of what such a sap could do when subjected to Alchemy, and approved.
The colony expedition, like many such Sith-led ventures, was far from a pleasant one for the lower ranking individuals. Mostly crewed by prisoners of war and other unmentionables, the hundred or so Sith hardly had to lift a finger. The peons were terrified of their new masters, and that was the way they liked it. Even the Dark Lord would have found the cruelty to be unbecoming, but he was never to find out, for the Lord in charge never intended to return under his rule. Instead, he planned to exploit the sap's power and take the throne for himself.
Upon reaching Rudyard's Star, the Lord staged acts of sabotage, disabling the ships' hyperdrives and blaming it on nonhuman crew members. He had always been xenophobic to the extreme, and out from under the watchful eye of the Dark Lord, he was able to create his perfect society, one where the aliens were vented through the airlock.
The Wan'alua initially met the Sith party with open arms. They had remembered Rudyard's promise, though admittedly they hadn't expected the return so soon. They soon realized, however, that their new gods were not the kind and benevolent variety. The Sith forced them to construct a massive temple, and expected them to bring daily tributes of food and sap. The Wan'alua priests tried to explain that the sap was difficult to collect, as the Tree Folk were powerful warriors, but the Lord scoffed. For every day that they did not meet their quota, he explained, one hundred Wan'alua would be publicly and painfully executed.
Sufficiently motivated and armed with weapons more effective than rudimentary stone spears, expeditions southward embarked. Soon, a steady stream of sap was supplied to the Lord and his retinue.
The Alchemists quickly discovered a way to refine the sap. By subjecting it to their dark magicks, they extracted the impurities that caused madness and amplified the effects by a factor of five. The process, however, made it dangerously addictive, and furthermore, it couldn't be stored for more than a few days before losing its potency and turning toxic. Now dependent on the sap to survive, the Lord and his followers bide their time as the Alchemists work to correct the shortcomings. Their fleet grows stronger every day, and as soon as the sap's refinement is perfected, the Rogue Lord plans to take the Core by storm.
Notable PCs: N/A
Intent: Created for the contest. Not gonna lie, I sorta winged it off an idea for massive, bipedal trees I cooked up last night at work. The rest was the result of much liquor and sleep deprivation. I do apologize if it's an incoherent mess.
