Iron Giant
CybeResu Heroine
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Name: Exodus
Region: Outer Rim
System: Resu Exodus
Suns: One Yellow Sun
Orbital Position: Fifth Planet
Moons:
System Features: Single Gas Giant, which it orbits
Coordinates: 7, 28 (Hex next to Resu)
Rotational Period: Tidal locked to gas giant
Orbital Period: The moon orbits the gas giant in about five standard days, and makes the trip around the sun in about twenty standard years
Class: Ice Moon with a liquid subsurface ocean.
Diameter: 6,525 km
Atmosphere: Type IV, nonexistent
Climate: Frozen Ice surface, with a slightly warmer subsurface ocean.
Gravity: Roughly 1/3rd Standard
Primary Terrain: Ice Surface with a subsurface ocean, with thermal vents lining the ocean floor.
Native Species: N/a
Immigrated Species: Resu
Primary Languages: Resune, Galactic Basic
Government: Resu Guild
Population: ~100,000
Demonym: Resu Exile
Major Imports: Ships, Technology, Weapons
Major Exports: Metallic Liquid Hydrogen (extracted from gas giant) and related technology, ship retrofitting, navigational services on appropriately modified ships.
Affiliation: The Kathol Outback/The Outer Rim Coalition
Major Locations:
- Refugee Cavern Network - A series of melted ice structures connected to each other underneath the mile thick ice shell of the moon, which have been electronically heated and filled with liquid water distilled with Hydrogen. A number of these small caverns have very basic amenities for the Resu, with the cramped space containing power connections to generators on the surface powered by solar, cosmic, and infrared radiation produced by their gas giant. These connections produce heat that maintain the ice structure and keeps the water from freezing, as well as pumps hydrogen into the water by extracting the hydrogen from the water molecules themselves. A few copies of ancient Resu literature have been distributed, as the only surviving literature of the Resu since fleeing their Realm, exist in these caverns with a number of blank copies for the Resu to record whatever they wish for either personal or other reasons. The caverns deeper into the ice surface become much larger in order to incorporate communal feeding grounds, containing the the last remaining reserves of live stock the Resu managed to bring along with them on their exodus. A few intact artificial Hatcheries have been recovered in order to maintain the livestock population. Lastly, to ensure that no sudden shifts in the ice collapse any important caves or caverns, killing refugees instantly, metal beams have been strategically implanted in the ice and connected to one another to improve structural stability even under extreme and torrential stress, as well as a number of sensors made to warn residences of ice shifts and possible failure areas.
- The Entrance - A massive operation, and an impressive undertaking by the CybeResu engineers to not only improve the Cavern Network, but to make a singular entrance into the sub-surface ocean strong enough to withstand the shifting plates of ice, just like the one constructed on their homeworld of Shikyu. Efforts have also been undertaken while the Entrance is being constructed, to massively pump hydrogen into the ocean below in the hopes that one day the Resu will be able to breathe freely in the ocean without the use of machine assistance. A great number of plants have also been grown through the use of artificial Hatchery technology, intended to reform the the planet into something that can independently support Resu life forms. As to be expected, the project will likely not see completion for years to come, but small leaps of progress are to be expected as they expand their mining operation of the local gas giant to extract hydrogen from its atmosphere, as well as deeper more valuable materials, such as liquid metallic hydrogen deep beneath the clouds of the gas giant.
Culture: The culture and history of the original Resu is a long, and complicated affair to describe, but the culture that has arrived in Exodus has shifted significantly from those old traditions out of necessity. The Resu species, or what remains of their origins, are refugees and exiles of their own home.
After years faced with genocide by the hands of the Morossian Resu, their subsequent imprisonment and role as mere breeding stock, the terrible spread of an Infertility Plague, and the dreadful experiments which faced them with even more monstrous beings than even the Morossian Resu, the cultural identity of most surviving Resu has been unified into something more cohesive than it has ever been. Family loyalties and grudges have been crossed and overruled by a general utter hatred and fear of annihilation by a clearly superior and dangerous force. Though they might not be a family, every Resu who has escaped the horrors still present in the Realm of Resu has accepted the importance of ensuring the well being of every Resu that is around them, no matter what they had done in the past. In essence, and in the eyes of the Resu, through their Exile they have all be absolved of "sin", out of the necessity to keep themselves from self-destructive conflict.
With so few Resu alive, well, and capable of breeding after new methods of curing their plague have begun to affect the population, the generally monogamous culture of the Resu has radically shifted into an almost exclusively polygamous structure. Indeed, breeding between females has also drastically increased. Unfortunately however, the Resu have been forced to lower all conventional standards of Resu beauty, as breeding partners have been pre-screen and selected for them by their CybeResu caretakers and leadership, to ensure the maximum number of healthy offspring are delivered. Due to this, the Resu population has found an equilibrium for the first time since they were threatened with dying off. With some time and more rescue operations into the Realm of Resu, their population may even explode... though the dangers of a genetic bottleneck or possible and feared. Measures are being taken to mitigate this issue, but it may be all for naught in the end; only time can be the judge of that.
Despite the massive increase in the need for breeding, it has been found that the physiological and cultural traditions of eating newborns that are too slow and abandoning weaker offspring has dramatically increased, offering fewer survivors than existed in the old Shikyun culture. This has been likely caused by a lack of resources to support a massive population increase, as well maintaining a balance to support all broods equally, and keep the community and individual parents from being overwhelmed. In addition, it may have to do with a heightened paranoia for weakness in their population, following the infertility crisis, and to test the offspring more harshly now ensures only the best possible stock can survive and mitigate the chances of rearing impotent offspring.
Technology: <A description of how technologically advanced the planet is relative to the galaxy>
History:
Virtually imprisoned for years by an offshoot species instigated into fruition through the use of an ancient viral force ritual preformed by an Aesir of the Moross Crusade, the culture of the Resu was almost entirely destroyed with their civilization. However, while the monstrosities the Moross Crusade had created out of their former Resu kin, nearly completed their genocide of the original Resu in the Battle of Ysraka, the Morossian Resu quickly discovered their own inability to breed. Presented with this problem, they resolved to halt their conversion of the last remaining Resu, and instead allowed the surviving populations of Ysraka to breed, to allow their own population to grow over time.
Unfortunately, even this form of imprisonment did not last long, as a plague spread across the Ysraka populations, known as the Infertility Plague. Fearing for the continuation of their race, the leader of the Morossian Resu, the "Lord Resu" and First Convert of Moross [member="Stone Hermes"] began drastic experiments with forbidden technology to find some means of rescuing his species from extinction. These imprisoned Resu were at the mercy of their enemies belligerent experimentation, but were saved by two very important factor.
The first factor, was the rise of a schism within the Morossian Resu "hive mind" mentality in light of the possibility of their extinction. One side favored loyalty to Stone Hermes, and to continue his experiments to evolve the species once more into a new golden age. The other, vehemently declared the Stone Hermes an outright heretic, denouncing his use of forbidden technology, and favor instead an approach to appease their forbears and find a way to directly cure them instead. Nonetheless, this civil war allowed opportunities they hadn't before to escape notice and find a means to begin forming a resistance.
The second factor, was the return of Iron Giant - an exile with advanced technical knowledge, the became critically important when a team of Veteran Resu enlisted her assistance to free her oppressed people. Using her knowledge of galactic technology and Resu biology, she was able to turn herself and her new comrades into cyborgs now known as the "CybeResu", that would be more effective at resisting the virus and combating the Morossian Resu directly. They became a guerrilla strike force that frequently freed dozen of Resu individuals at a time, until they had rescued hundreds of individuals by the time the Underground of the Kathol Outback had received their call for assistance.
Eventually, with the Morossian Resu Civil War, the rise of the CybeResu, and the assistance of the Underground, the source of the infertility plague had been discovered (and suspected of being deliberate sabotage by an unknown party) with a plan to rid themselves of it, all the while thousands of imprisoned Resu on Ysraka were liberated. However, faced with a new unknown threat lurking the waters of Shikyu and released into Ysraka waters, as well as facing an insurmountable militant regime in the form of the Theocracy of the First Convert of Moross Crusade, and with limiting supplies and space, Iron Giant as the de facto leader of the CybeResu operation issued an Exodus assisted by [member="Bryce Bantam"] and his company to another nearby system with a similar moon to Shikyu.
They have limited supplies, limited building parameters, and limited individual space, but they had at least fled the horrors still present in the Realm of Resu and all 121 moons of the fallen Imperial Confederacy. They survived genocide.
Now under Iron Giant's CybeResu leadership, the world known as "Resu Exodus" now belongs to the "Resu Diaspora Protectorate", an organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of Resu culture anywhere it is present. However, in order to grant their population some sense of purpose without warfare, a guild was formed that would allow them to harness the technical knowledge of their species to not only increase their standing in the galaxy, but also to improve their own state of living through income - selling their services as pilots in ships specially outfitted with their advanced computing technology married to their cybernetics. The Guild would also recruit their youth to form a security force, to harness their natural aggression in ways that are constructive to their new way of life - the life of shipmen and explorers.
Only those who cannot be matched with a mate as a result of the infertility plague, or Veterans seeking purpose are accepted into the Guild, as doing so requires become a CybeResu, which sometimes makes breeding a difficulty in particular cases. Those who have been granted the ability to breed, though only with selected partners, are expected to stay on Exodus to rear children, taking on as many partners as needed. Few Resu see this as a shame however, as all know each Resu now plays a role critical to their collective survival, and continuation.
While initially bleak, the Resu future is looking brighter now more than ever.
Notable PCs: Iron Giant
Intent: To create the official location where the surviving Resu of the Morossian Contact Event, and the Resuspawn Horde (pending dev), made an exodus to lead by Iron Giant and her new found comrade, [member="Bryce Bantam"] who had originally discovered the system. Also, to provide an official head quarters for the Resu Navigation Guild (and eventually CybeResu Security Guild).
