Darth Themis
The Best of Frenemies
- Intent: To describe the Light Side Sith Version of Korriban
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- Planet Name: Ankhanos
- Demonym: Ankhanosian
- Region: Unknown regions
- System Name: Thanaton System
- System Features:
- Location: on the very edges of the Unknown regions, just slightly above Ahch-To's hex and below the region where The Gears Of is located
- Major Imports: Water
- Major Exports: Crystals
- Unexploited Resources: Durasteel Ore, Aurodium Ore, precious gemstones
- Gravity: Coruscant Like
- Climate: Arid
- Primary Terrain: Mountains, Plateaus, sinkholes, basins, most of the sand and rock is a black color, due to large deposits of Obsidian. Very minor grass lands
- Atmosphere: Breathable for humanoids
- Capital City: Academy of Snakes
- Planetary Features: Ankhanos is littered with Ancient ruins, tombs and temples. There are no cities. All communities live in ancient forts in the deserts and mountains and engage in basic agriculture. There are occasionally scattered fields of flowers and trees
- Major Locations:
Built by the Serpents of Ashla in the era before the Gulag Virus, The Temple of Seers channels the Force via Alkahest ritual sites in a manner similar to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, allowing for potentially more accurate readings of the Future. Fallen to ruin, only the powerful enchantments prevented The Jedi from breaching it's interior and ruining the secrets within. The concentration of the Light here is unnatural, causing storms of green, light side charged lightning
Necropolis of Dynamis
The Necropolis of Dynamis is the Light Side Sith's answer to the Valley of the Dark Lords. Built during the ancient Cold War Era by heretics within the Empire of Darth Vitiate, it's filled with the bodies of those who walked a shunned path. Aspiring Sith Knights and Masters whose Achievements would otherwise be swept aside and forgotten are entombed here to guard their secrets. Many an aspiring Light Sith's journey is often cut short, so to get to a point you warranted having a tomb built is a momentous achievement, and the tombs are often filled with those who dared to twist the Light and use it in ways Jedi would never dare to. Terrible reality warping Force Traps await any who would attempt to plunder it's secrets
Lake Talus
This underground Volcanic Lake is extremely dangerous, and it is used to test aspiring Light Sith by making them keep themselves alive with the Light Side in unnatural ways, purging themselves of malice and hatred in the process as they meditate within the terrible caverns, manipulating magma to form Lava Crystals
Academy of Snakes
A training Praxeum dedicated to training Light Side Sith, this structure was put in place by Ancient Vitiate era Heretics. It contains a library and Holocron chamber as well as dorms and training facilities. Serves as the center of government
Ankhanos Crystal Caves
Vast crystal deposits lay underneath Ankhanos, many suitable for use in a Lightsaber that are equivalent in quality to those found on Ilum. Most Kyber Crystals are Orange, Cyan or Purple
Orange Crystals typically call to Martially oriented Light Sith, Cyan Calls to Assassins in the Light Sith, while Purple calls to their Mages
- Force Nexus (Optional): Yes
Intent: Provide a powerful, Planetary scale Force Nexus that poses a major danger to Jedi and Dark Force Users
Nexus Name: Ankhanos Nexus - Nexus Alignment: Light Side (Twisted by the Alkahest of Light Side Sith)
- Size: Planetary
- Strength: Strong
- Accessibility: Planetary
- Effects: The Light Nexus of Ankhanos invigorates Light Side Users--but the longer they remain on Ankahanos, the longer they seem to develop a Myopia/Super OCD to a cause they are attached to. For the weak willed lightsider, this may devolve into a severe monomania with seeing the Cause succeed at all cost. Dark Force Users may be severely weakened walking its surface.
- Native Species: None
- Immigrated Species: Humans, Aliens
- Population: Moderate
- Demographics:
- Primary Languages: Ankhanosian
- Culture:
GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
- Government: Ankhanos is exclusively controlled by the Serpents of Ashla, and all laws are based on their religion
- Affiliation: House Io, The Serpents of Ashla
- Wealth: Medium. The Ankhanosians live off the desert and otherwise save what moderate wealth they accrue through off world shell businesses
- Stability: High: Due to being populated mainly by Monks, the environment is normally completely restricted to Outsiders thus, Criminal wrongdoing is so rare as to be shocking when it occurs. While not oppressive, the Foot soldiers of the Serpents are nearly omnipresent and regard unusual behavior in the normally docile populace as something worth investigating
- Freedom & Oppression: While not a Tyranny, the Populace is sworn to uphold the Light Sith's vision for the Galaxy and to assist them in every way in the achievement of it. It is not a dictatorship...there are no secret police...but in order to aid the Light Sith, it at times requires ones individuality to be placed to one side for the greater good
- Military: Ankhanos is protected by both the Serpents of Ashla and their Acolytes as well as significant Military detachment of House Io Soldiers. The planet itself is mainly deserts of black sand and rock and remains such, and thus defenses must be maintained on the ground and orbit, supplied from elsewhere. That may change as House Io grows into stewardship of the planet
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HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Ankhanos, Tomb World of the Light Side Sith, was the stronghold of the Serpents of Ashla in the era before the Gulag Virus. Founded supposedly by Ancient heretics from Vitiate's Sith Empire, a small population of monks was raised up to tend to the world and it's tombs as anchorites chronicling the studies and journey of its founders and masters in experimenting with Alkahest to create dangerous creatures, areas, and objects, before also becoming one of the only places for the deeds of such heretics to be remembered and chronicled. Light Sith are a greater risk of succumbing to insanity than other Sith, so tombs are often filled with the ghosts of the mad, whispering terrible secrets of the Light that True Jedi dare not explore, let alone ask of. The Light Sith were often guilty of committing terrible crimes for the sake of the greater good, and this was only further codified when Darth Themis, the first Light Sith to be in the position of a Grandmaster in generations first discovered the world. In her terrible quest to delay the Advent of the Gulag Era, she committed deadly acts against the Jedi and The Republic, plotting many of them from this location. But the Jedi inevitably discovered her stronghold and attacked.
It is currently poorly understood why the Republic did not raze the surface of Ankhanos with Turbolasers after capturing Themis. Some believe The Jedi and the Republic did not understand the significance of the world they had discovered, believing it to merely be an old desert hideaway selected solely for it's remoteness. The other, more likely explanation is that the Jedi were all too aware they had uncovered a Sith Stronghold and wished to study what they found, but the sudden crisis with the Gulag Plague completely destroyed any hope for an in depth study, and likely everyone alive who knew its location were dead or had worse problems by the conclusion of the Plague Era, and the location ended up being lost, even to Themis, who spent centuries dead and ended up forgetting it's coordinates herself, only recently having rediscovered it's location after extensive investigation and the return of vital memories after an extensive period in meditative seclusion following her confinement aboard a house vessel for kidnapping The Battalion, Consort of Darth Xiphos, now known as The Parliament.
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