Darth Acharon
Cyrus Teraah
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a planet for future threads involving Cyrus Teraah and the Lords of the Sith
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- Planet Name: Ailara
- Demonym: Ailaran
- Region: Tingle Arm
- System Name: Degan
- System Features: The Degan system contains a single red giant star at its center, with three dwarf planets orbiting around it. Each of these dwarf planets were once within the habitable region of the star system millions of years ago, but when the Degan Star expanded into a red giant, all signs of life on their surfaces were burned away. Each of these dwarf planets are now volcanic husks. An asteroid field separates these three dwarf planets from the rest of the Degan system, formed from the remnants of a terrestrial planet destroyed long ago. Moving further away from the center of the system, and just beyond the asteroid field is Ailara itself, the only habitable and colonized world in the star system. It has three moons in its orbit, and sits just inside the new habitable zone for the Degan system. Beyond Ailara are two gas giants, one with six moons, and the other with twelve. A massive space station lingers at the very edge of the Degan system, largely in disrepair, from when the system was a key resource extraction site for the Old Republic.
- Location: The empty to the right of Weken and Pochi, and below Tash-Taral
- Major Imports:
- Food
- Water
- Hazardous Protection Equipment
- Major Exports:
- Mineral Ores
- Gold
- Copper
- Zinc
- Steel
- Iron
- Mineral Ores
- Unexploited Resources:
- Durasteel Ore
- Gravity: Half Standard
- Climate: The climate of Ailara is largely a savannah world, with more temperate regions located near the equator around the worlds small ocean.
- Primary Terrain: The most prominent terrain type found on Ailara are the vast savannah regions that dominate the northern and southern hemispheres.
- Atmosphere: Type 1
- Capital City: New Talmion
- Planetary Features: Ailara is a mixture of of a highly rural native population and highly urbanized refugee population. The central ocean of Ailara, the Vagrant Ocean, is dotted with coastal cities along its perimeter, with several floating cities at its center connected by massive bridges to the coastal cities. At the very center of the Vagrant Ocean is New Talmion, the capital city of the world built around the planets only mountain. The rest of the planet is dotted with small rural settlements, where the native Ailaran people live mostly in hunter gatherer societies. The ruins of a few ancient cities can be found deep in the savannahs of the world, located near what used to be large bodies of water, evidence that the Ailaran natives used to live in a similar manner to the inhabitants of New Talmion and the Vagrant region.
- Major Locations:
- New Talmion: New Talmion is the capital city and central recognized authority across Ailara. Originally New Talmion was built as a mining settlement, to exploit the resources of the massive mountain that pierced through the Vagrant Ocean. Whatever mineral wealth may have resided there is long since gone, and New Talmion has transitioned from a mining settlement to a large, industrial city. The city covered the entire exposed surface of the mountain, with hundreds of skyscrapers of varying heights spread out across the city in clusters. Several air speeder ports are located along the periphery of the city, as well as four massive bridges connecting New Talmion to the rest of the planet.
- Palace of Thorns: Located at the very center of New Talmion, the Palace of Thorns once served as a warehouse and storage facility for the vast mineral wealth of Ailara to be stored in before being taken off world. When New Talmion transitioned from a mining settlement to that of an industrial capital, the warehouse turned into a bureaucratic center and was expanded to eventually become the central seat of authority for all of Ailara. Following his ascension to rulership of Ailara, Cyrus Teraah claimed the building for his personal palace, and further expanded upon it.
- Temple of the Sith'ari: The Temple of the Sith'ari is a fortified bastion located at the edge of the Vagrant Ocean. Formerly a military bastion of the old Ailara government, it has since been transformed into the academy of main base of operations for the Knights of Ailara, a Sith sect created on the world by Cyrus Teraah. With numerous training centers, meditation rooms, and a constantly growing library, the Temple of the Sith'ari is slowly developing into a seat of Sith authority in the Tingle Arm. The Temple of the Sith'ari is almost entirely empty at present, as the Knights of Ailara draw recruits exclusively from the people of Ailara, who have a uncommonly low number of Force sensitive individuals.
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- Native Species: Human
- Immigrated Species: Human, Rodian, Twi'lek, Zabrak
- Population: Heavy
- Demographics: Ailara has a dominant population of humans, with a a growing mixture of various other alien species in recent times. While no outright discrimination is seen across Ailara, there is a unspoken rule that, in the past, non-humans would not be allowed to assume positions of authority on Ailara. That rule has begun to change as more and more alien refugees arrive on Ailara, and is now being actively combatted by the Imperial regime.
- Primary Languages: Ailil, Galactic Basic
- Culture:
- Culture on Ailara revolves around adherence to the three moons that hang in orbit above Ailara. The three moons of Ailara, Degal, Marthil, and Voyance cross the sky above Ailara each day at varied intervals and in varied directions, and the native Ailaran people have come to base parts of their daily life around them. When the moon Degal crosses the sky above New Talmion, the day officially begins. Business will open, schools will start their classes, and the bureaucracy will begin their day of political business. When Marthil crosses the skies above New Talmion, all work across the planet, from the lowliest dock worker to the upper echelons of government will cease, and all will give brief thanks to the Great Ancestors, the deities the Ailara people worship. Once Voyance crosses the sky, all work must come to an end, and all must return home to be with their families.
- The family structure on Ailara is held in high regard by all, from the rural Ailarans of the savannah plains to the urbanized Ailarans of the Vagrant Ocean region. At the head of each family sits the oldest living relative, and for the Ailaran people gender does not matter. The oldest living relative has certain sway over the rest of the family, rarely used, but felt more prominently when it comes time for the young to find a job, and who they are to marry. The elders of two families must agree to the marriage between their descendants for a marriage to be carried out, and the moment the ceremony is over, the two families are joined. A new family is only ever created when the sitting elder passes away, and the family will divide into however many new smaller families are decided.
- Ailaran art takes the form of how individuals and families decorate their homes, and how business or gathering decorate their buildings. Two houses, while built the same, will look starkly different from one another, as each are painted to the preferences of each family. Every building on Ailaran, in both the urban and rural regions, is painted like this. The wide variety of colors and patterns are seen as just another aspect of daily life to enjoy.
- Government: Imperial State
- Affiliation: Cyrus Teraah, Lords of the Sith
- Wealth: Medium
- Stability: High
- Freedom & Oppression: In the past, Ailara was ruled under a loose confederacy of city states and tribal leaders, brought together out of necessity to survive when they were cut off from the rest of the galaxy. When Cyrus Teraah assumed sole dominion over the world, these ancient ties of independent cooperation were severed. Now, the people of Ailara live under a strict regime of obedience and compliance. While individual freedoms still exist and citizens may choose how they live their lives, the control of the central government is always present and visible. Those who openly speak out against the government are arrested, and those with the most grievance of crimes against the Empire of Ailara are sentenced to death in the mines of the dwarf planets in the Degan system.
- Military: Ailara has a professional standing army, recruited almost entirely from the cities bordering the Vagrant Ocean. While lacking heavy combat experience, the Ailaran Army has received extensive training and drilling from various military instructors brought in from across the galaxy. Currently number roughly three million standing soldiers, the military makes no distinction between male or female, human or non-human, and is currently in the process of expanding its ranks.
- Technology: Ailaran technology is outdated by galactic standards, with most common technology on the surface being nearly a century behind modern standards. Following the change in power, a new renaissance of technological advancement has begun to flow across Ailara, though the more traditional members of the world resist the rapid changes they see being brought to their society.
Ailara was colonized, originally, by the Confederacy of Independent Systems in the early years of the Clone Wars. The systems vast mineral wealth were coveted by the Confederacies was machine, and colonists from across Confederate space were brought in to begin mining first Ailara itself, and then the rest of the star system. By the end of the Clone Wars, a massive space station had been built at the fringes of the star system, and served as one of the key stop for the Confederates efforts in the Tingle Arm region.
The rise of the Galactic Empire brought an end to the relative prosperity of Ailara. Isolated from the rest of the galaxy as it was, Ailara became a Confederate holdout, with a small Confederacy fleet and army using Ailara as their base of operations. They mined the hyperspace routes to and from the system, and settled in for a siege they all thought to be coming. But when first a year passed, then two, and then a entire decade without the arrival of Imperial forces, the Confederate holdout began to dissolve. Ailara was too far away from Imperial authority for the new Galactic Empire, already stretched thin trying to solidify their rule over the galaxy, decided that taking Ailara would be of little true profit.
The Confederate holdout on Ailara, held together by fear of Imperial attack, began to depart from the system. Many of the leading figures returning to their homes across the galaxy, abandoning all former ties to the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The few individuals who remained turned their minds to ruling Ailara itself. The relatively small mining settlement on Ailara began to expand, and over subsequent generations the city of New Talmion came into existence. From this center, the CIS leaders founded the Confederacy of Ailara.
The new Confederacy spread its influence across all of Ailara, and many new settlements were founded along the coast of the Vagrant Ocean. However, without a connection to the rest of the galaxy, and only limited and aging technology, Ailaran civilization began to stagnate. Several settlements were founded deep in the wilderness of Ailara, and those that came to live there slowly developed nomadic communities, still connected with the Confederacy of Ailara, but with a strong independent streak in them.
This status quo would exist for several centuries and into modern times. Over that period of time, the Confederacy of Ailara would join and leave the various galactic powers of the era, until eventually settling into a position of neutrality. This neutrality would eventually lead to the downfall of the Confederacy of Ailara, and the beginning of a new age for the world.
Refugees from the Bryn'adul conquests began to stream in to the Degan system, and while the Confederacy at first accepted the refugees to their world, the limited agricultural produce of the world soon came to be stretched to the breaking point, with no end to the refugees in sight. The Confederacy was forced to seal off their world to the refugee fleet that grew larger by the day, and housed many of those already on the surface in make shift camps. It was this situation that Darth Acharon found during his travels across the galaxy, and where he began to lay the groundwork for his eventual rise to power.
Using what resources and connections he had with the Lords of the Sith, Darth Acharon began to secure vast quantities of food, medical supplies and other equipment needed to help the Confederate government handle the refugee crisis they found themselves in. Through careful maneuvering and backroom deals, Darth Acharon came to provide nearly half the planets food supply, and he made sure that the refugees and citizens of Ailara alike knew this information. At the same time, Darth Acharon began to recruit agents within Ailaran society, and even within the Confederate government. The government officials began to implement policies across Ailara that limited the food supply making its way to the people and refugees.
Once the initial efforts of Darth Acharon's machinations were felt on the planet, other agents within Ailaran society began to spread rumors of government corruption and hoarding of resources. Darth Acharon let these rumors simmer for several months, and mixed with the government efforts still being carried out by his agents, the populace began to turn on the Confederacy. Once he felt the situation was at a boiling point, Darth Acharon cut off all shipments of supplies to Ailara.
Darth Acharon let the refugees and citizens of Ailara know that it was the government that had cut off his live saving supplies of food and medicine to the world, and that despite his best efforts to keep everyone fed, the government was hoarding all that he had brought for them. Mixed with the months of rumors and minor government actions Darth Acharon had been setting up, the new development erupted exactly as he planned. Despite Confederacy of Ailara attempts to decry Darth Acharon as a liar, the refugees and portions of Ailara rose up against the government. Supported by mercenaries brought in by Darth Acharon, the insurrectionists stormed government buildings, finding large stockpiles of supplies sitting within, exactly as Darth Acharon had said.
It had been a dangerous game the Sith had played, and his agents had only barely been able to move the cargo he had brought into the right positions for the insurrectionists to see, but with this new found 'evidence' on their side, the government began to lose all control. Confederate militia forces began to defect all across the world, and in time the only remaining seat of Confederate control sat in the Governmental Capital Center. Darth Acharon himself led the charge against the Center, and he oversaw the detainment and subsequent execution of the old Confederate government. Hidden in the chaos of the insurrection was the death of all of Darth Acharon's agents across the planet, silenced to ensure that the truth would never be revealed.
In the days following the successful overthrow of the Confederacy of Ailara, Darth Acharon took a leading and public role in reestablishing order. When the time came, Darth Acharon called for all the citizens of Ailara, and all the refugees now finding homes for themselves on the planet to elect a new leader to lead them. It came as little surprise when they declared Darth Acharon their leader, and on that day, the Empire of Ailara was formed.
Since then, under the leadership of the new Emperor, Ailara has begun the process of modernizing. Technology and resources from across the galaxy are being brought to the fledgling Empire to be put to use bettering the lives of the Ailaran people.
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