Pyke Exile
Doan as viewed from space.
Fintekan, Doan’s Capital City.
The Royal Manse.
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To update a Canon planet for future stories.
- Image Credit: Space View, Fintekan, The Royal Manse
- Canon: Doan
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Doan Royal House, Garel, Intergalactic Banking Clan, Confederacy of Independent Systems, Black Sun, Nihil, New Republic, Galactic Empire, Zann Consortium
- Planet Name: Doan (Galactic Basic), Hudyaka (Pyke)
- Demonym: Doanite
- Region: Outer Rim Territories
- System Name: Doan System
- System Features:
- Location: Leftmost vertex of the hex below Zigoola
- Major Imports:
- Mining Equipment
- Food
- Water
- Major Exports:
- Ore
- Iron
- Copper
- Titanium
- Chromium
- Cobalt
- Nickel
- Zirconium
- Tungsten
- Silver
- Platinum
- Gold
- Rhenium
- Uranium
- Crystals
- Amethysts
- Quartz
- Gypsum
- Pyrite
- Garnets
- Fluorite
- Malachite
- Azurite
- Ore
- Unexploited Resources: None
- Gravity: Slightly lower than standard.
- Climate: Arid and cool.
- Primary Terrain:
- Furrows
- Quarries
- Mountains
- Plateaus
- Caves
- Atmosphere: Type 2
- Capital City: Fintekan
- Planetary Features: Mines
- Major Locations:
- Royal Manse: This ancient stronghold has been the Royal House of Doan’s seat of power for its entire history. It is located atop a massive stone plateau, and overlooks a wide, unbroken expanse of Doan’s natural rock formations. It is well-defended, with both ground-based turbolaser batteries, and a hangar stocked with 2 squadrons of Predator-class Starfighters.
- Fintekan: This is the Capital City of Doan under Pyke colonial rule. Before they moved in, Fintekan was a relatively small mining city, with little to note. When the Pykes set up on Doan, they greatly expanded the city in order to serve the interests of various Pyke-affiliated corporations, and to further solidify their control of the planet. Most of their new buildings were built in the tall, obsidian architectural style popular on Oba Diah, rather than the standard utilitarianism seen in the rest of the city. The city has an unfortunate pollution problem, thanks to its proximity to the mines, a poor waste management system, and the irresponsible policies of Frej Thylvan, the Pyke Supervisor of Doan. In some parts of the city, it is so bad that people have taken to building small sailboats out of garbage to sail across areas of still waste water.
- New Samana: This city is the primary population center of Doan’s Rodian population. Named after a city on Rodia, it was founded in 1244 BBY by a group of Rodian settlers seeking to escape the chaos of the New Sith Wars. They entered an agreement with King Jorus VIII to settle on the planet in exchange for filling necessary roles in Doan’s society outside of the traditional caste system. Since then, the city has expanded into an important spaceport and trade hub, and one of the few cities whose economy is not dominated by mining. The city also has a lively Rodian Theater tradition, with an annual city-wide contest to determine the best acting troupe in the city.
- Force Nexus (Optional): N/A
POPULATION
- Native Species: N/A
- Immigrated Species: Humans, Rodians, Pykes
- Population: Sparse
- Demographics:
- Humans: 85%. Humans make up the vast majority of Doan’s population, both among the Miners and the Nobility. The Royal House of Doan is also comprised of Humans.
- Rodians: 8%. Rodians make up a small but not unimportant part of Doan’s population. The Rodian Community on Doan is quite closely connected, and primarily centered in the Rodian-founded city of New Samana. While many of the Rodians do work as miners, a fairly large portion of them act as independent tradespeople who operate outside of the traditional Doan class system. This makes them valued by both the Miners and the Nobility, but not necessarily respected.
- Pykes: 5%. A small portion of Doan’s population is made up of Pykes living on Doan, mostly there on Syndicate business. The Pyke population is on top of Doan’s social hierarchy, thanks to the Syndicate’s rule over the planet. Members of the Pyke population often get special treatment and privileges based on their status. Humans and Rodians are not allowed to publicly disrespect Pykes, or they will suffer severe consequences, such as arrests and/or public beatings by law enforcement.
- Others: 2%. A few individuals on Doan do not fit into any of the above categories. They tend to mostly be providers of specialized services who cater to the Nobility, but a few are miners. One particular Noble House also falls into this category: House Yagadronsa, which is composed of Ithorians rather than Humans.
- Primary Languages: Galactic Basic (Primary Language), Rodese (Minority Language), Pyke (Officially Used Language)
- Culture: Doan is a planet with a long history, during which its culture has developed in relative isolation from the rest of the Galaxy.
- Doan’s inhabitants follow a semi-official caste system, consisting of the Miners, the Nobility, and the Royalty. While it is not an “official” part of the system, there has also always been a middle class of tradesmen and merchants which exists somewhere between the Miners and the Nobility.
- Despite being a component of the caste system, the Royal House is just as much of a cultural institution in and of itself. The King of Doan serves as a unifying figure for the Nobility, and a voice for the planet. The other members of the Royal House are also the subject of great interest for the public, and are followed extensively by the media. Surprisingly, this only increased after the King of Doan became a figurehead for the Pyke Syndicate.
- Government: Autocratic colonial rule with a figurehead monarch.
- Affiliation: Pyke Syndicate
- Wealth: Low Most of the planet’s population is comprised of barely-paid miners, with only the wealthy elite seeing the profits of the planet’s mining operations.
- Stability: Medium The Pyke Syndicate has the Royal House and the Nobility under its thrall, but it has struggled to control the Miners, who are known to commit insurgent activities from time to time. However, a full-scale rebellion seems an unlikely possibility.
- Freedom & Oppression: For most people on Doan, oppression is a harsh reality of daily life. The Miners are essentially wage slaves with very little social mobility, while the Nobility is kept under close supervision by the Pyke Syndicate. Even the Royal House has to answer to the Pykes, and has limited authority to act on its own.
- Military: Doan’s military consists of a Pyke Syndicate garrison, the Doan Royal Guard, and the personal forces employed by various members of the Nobility. The Pyke Garrison is the largest of these branches, but is not larger than the other two combined.
- Technology: While a few people such as the Pykes and the Nobility are up to Galactic Standard, many of the Miners are stuck with outdated technology in their daily lives.
The planet Doan was formed approximately 2,500,000,000 BBY. Before this, a single large planet existed in the Doan system named Quunddoan. The planet was split in half as a result of an unknown cataclysm, with the two halves forming into the separate planets Quund and Doan. There are varying theories as to why Quunddoan split in half, ranging from the fairly plausible to the outright impossible.
But according to the ancient religious traditions of Doan, the split was the collateral damage of an ancient battle between two Celestials named The Sentinel and The Devourer. As the story goes, The Devourer had been driven to insanity by gazing beyond the limits of the Universe, and embarked on a mad quest to consume every star in existence. He managed to consume many stars, until he was confronted by The Sentinel. The Sentinel battled The Devourer on the planet Quunddoan, where they used such great displays of power against each other, that the planet itself was torn in half. In the end, The Sentinel performed an act of self-sacrifice which permanently sealed both himself and The Devourer within the two halves of Quunddoan. The Devourer’s half became the hellish and lifeless Quund, while The Sentinel’s half became the tenacious and metal-rich Doan. It is not known how much truth this story holds, but it has been noted that both Quund and Doan’s cores have a number of unusual geological properties.
For the vast majority of its existence, Doan had been completely uninhabited. This changed in the year 11500 BBY, when a Human colony ship from the planet Coruscant arrived. The early existence of colonists was a bleak ordeal. They did not have sufficient technology to stay in constant contact with Coruscant, and thus had to rely on occasional visits from supply ships for news about events in the Galactic Center. More importantly, this also meant they had to mostly fend for themselves on the wild and untamed world. The minimal soil Doan possessed turned out to be mostly unfit for growing crops, and water was scarcely found outside of the frozen tips of the mountains. After many generations of hard work, conditions stabilized enough for the people of Doan to begin performing jobs not essential for the Colony’s survival. Right around this time, the colony’s geologists had discovered valuable ores and crystals in Doan’s crust. Mining operations proved to be a profitable enterprise on Doan, and soon enough, trade ships from Doan were headed back to Coruscant filled to the brim with valuable minerals.
Between the stabilized living conditions, and the profits of the mining operations, things were looking bright for the future of Doan. During this time of prosperity, a formal government was set up consisting of a council of regional elected officials. This government was known as the Board of Governors. The Board of Governors had a tendency to squabble amongst itself, but it managed to reach consensus on all of the important issues.
That is, until the pirate raids started. Starting around 9,110 BBY, a group of ruthless space pirates based on the planet Garel began attacking Doanite trade ships, killing their crews, and plundering the valuable ore they carried as cargo. These pirates called themselves the Unyielding Blades, and were led by the former Republic Navy officer Commodore Isadora Stagheart. The Board of Governors was split on how exactly to deal with Stagheart’s raids, and as they squabbled, Stagheart just continued to launch more and more aggressive attacks. This inaction outraged the people of Doan, and many began calling for the dissolution of the Board entirely. A particular representative for these voices emerged in the form of Captain Pando Tellerian, a young starfighter pilot in Doan’s small planetary defense force and a political activist who advocated for stronger leadership.
Eventually, the Board of Directors reached the consensus to formally ask the Galactic Republic for help. In exchange for this help, Doan would have to sacrifice a good deal of its former independence to the Republic. This deal further outraged the people of Doan, who wanted to maintain their unique identity separate from the Republic, and viewed the deal as cowardly. In spite of their protests, the deal went through, and a Republic Fleet was dispatched to Garel to battle the Unyielding Blades.
The leader of the Republic forces at the Battle of Garel was Admiral Wilhelm Lysencar, an older officer who was well-respected throughout the Galaxy. Going into the Battle of Garel, he expected an easy victory against what he assumed would be a disorganized rabble of pirates. This is not what he got. As it turns out, Stagheart had been concealing the true number of warships she possessed, and used Lysencar’s assumptions to lead him into a devastating trap. The Battle of Garel was a devastating loss for the Republic, and resulted in the capture and later execution of Admiral Lysencar. After the battle, Stagheart openly began styling herself as an Admiral, and declared her intention to completely conquer Doan itself.
When word of these events reached Doan, mass panic erupted throughout the planet. Seeing the writing on the wall, the Board of Governors voluntarily abdicated, leaving a significant power vacuum. This vacuum was filled by Captain Pando Tellerian, who accepted the title of Acting Planetary Governor from the people. His first order of business was the organization of a defense for Doan against the Unyielding Blades. To do this, he ceased all trade ship runs to Coruscant, and began the process of outfitting the ships with improved shielding and weapon systems in order to convert them into makeshift combat vessels. At the same time, he also began hiring professional soldiers from off-world to train Doan’s professional defense force as well as Doan’s civilian population in guerilla warfare for the event of a ground invasion. And of course, he made a number of inspiring speeches to his people in order to rally them, like any good leader in a time of war.
When the Unyielding Blades inevitably invaded in the year 9,099 BBY, the people of Doan were ready for it. Nonetheless, the Battle of Doan was a drawn out and brutal affair, with both sides suffering many casualties. In the end though, the Unyielding Blades were defeated after a daring starfighter attack run personally led by Captain Tellerian torpedoed the bridge of Admiral Stagheart’s flagship. This act killed the Admiral and caused the now directionless flagship to crash into a mountain on Doan’s surface, obliterating it. Upon seeing this, the remaining forces of the Unyielding Blades lost any sense of coordination, and were all either destroyed or scattered in the ensuing chaos. The Battle of Doan became an important symbol of planetary pride in the planet’s culture, and has achieved an almost mythical status in the 10,000 years since it took place. To this day, it is commemorated as the day where the small and independent Doan stood triumphant over an evil which even the high and mighty Galactic Republic had been unable to stop.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Doan, much of the population viewed Pando Tellerian as a force-chosen savior of their planet. Following this logic, many also believed that his status as ruler of the planet should be made permanent by declaring him King. Tellerian was reluctant to accept absolute power at first, but eventually did so after rationalizing that elected democracy had failed Doan in the past. Thus, he was crowned as King Pando I of Doan, beginning the Royal House of Doan which would continue to rule the planet for thousands of years.
The next few thousand years would be relatively uneventful for Doan. During this period, Doan’s caste system first began to formally develop, and its economy began to increasingly focus on mining above all else. During this period, Doan’s level of independence from the Galactic Republic fluctuated considerably from year to year, but it always managed to stay self-ruling to some extent. The Sith Order was relatively uninterested in Doan, with the exception of one particular Sith Lord named Darth Lithos who was a nobleman from the planet. He specialized in crafting objects alchemically imbued with the Dark Side for the other Sith Lords in the Sith Empire to use against the Jedi Order. However, he kept the best of his creations for himself, and was buried with them on Doan after his death.
These artifacts stayed with Lithos in his tomb for hundreds of years, until they were stumbled upon by a group of miners in the year 980 BBY. They did not know it at the time, but their discovery would set off a chain of events which would eventually lead to the overthrow of King Drecaldu IV by revolutionary miners. The revolution was fairly short-lived though, as soon enough, troops from off-world arrived on Doan to quell the revolution and reinstate the King. As it turned out, these off-world troops were actually hired mercenaries working on behalf of the Hutt Cartel. Unsurprisingly, the Hutts were not helping Drecaldu out of altruism. They wanted something in return for their help. That something being the extension of the Hutts’ sphere of influence over Doan. With no other choice, Drecaldu agreed to their terms, thus starting what came to be known as the Era of Humiliation on Doan.
Over the next 1000 years, Doan essentially became a football for the various powers of the Galaxy to toss to each other. At various points, Doan was controlled by the Hutt Cartel, Black Sun, the Nihil, the Intergalactic Banking Clan, the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Galactic Empire, the Zann Consortium, the New Republic, and finally the First Order.
But when the First Order imploded in on itself in 35 ABY, Doan was left without an external controlling force for the first time in over 1000 years. With the Era of Humiliation at an end, the people of Doan were allowed to be truly independent once more. Under King Onyax XIX, Doan experienced a start of a new era. He was an unusually progressive king, and introduced social reforms which weakened the planetary caste system, and gave the miners and the Rodian population additional rights. To this day, Onyax XIX is regarded fondly by most of Doan’s population, and has earned the nickname “The Emancipator King”. His descendants continued his progressive policies, and the period from 35 ABY to 435 ABY is known on Doan as the Era of Freedom, thanks to both Doan’s independence, and the decreased influence of the caste system.
During this time, a few other nearby planets also became subjects of Doan’s government, thanks to the crafty political maneuvers of King Finbar XI in the 80s ABY. Among these planets was Doan’s ancient rival, Garel. This newly formed Doan Commonwealth became a minor regional power in the Outer Rim, and while it never challenged the power of the Galactic Alliance, it was by no means insignificant.
However, nothing lasts forever in history, and the Era of Freedom and Doan Commonwealth were no exceptions. With the advent of the Gulag Plague, the Doan Commonwealth’s constituent planets were quarantined, and communications ceased between Doan and the rest of the Galaxy. The quarantine hit Doan especially hard, as the planet relied heavily on imported food and water to sustain its population. While Doan was never infected with the plague itself, over half of its population died of starvation or thirst. Those who did not were forced to become survivalists, living off of whatever they could scavenge or steal from the ruins of civilization. During this time, Doan’s government effectively collapsed, and several Kings of Doan spent the entirety of their lives taking shelter in the Royal Manse and relying on its indoor gardening system for food. When the Gulag Plague finally began to recede, the people of Doan wasted no time in taking spacecraft off-world in search of food and water. Gradually, formal trade routes were restored, the scarcity crisis ended, and order was restored to Doan.
However, Doan was neither the first nor the most powerful civilization to return after the end of the 400 Year Darkness. Not long after order returned to Doan, a Pyke Syndicate occupation fleet led by an Ostenxa-class Carrier arrived in orbit, and demanded that King Gerran XXIV negotiate a treaty with the Syndicate. The treaty’s terms were extremely lopsided in favor of the Pykes, and essentially reduced the King to a figurehead ruling on their behalf. While the idea of trying to recreate King Pando I’s great victory at the Battle of Doan was appealing, the King realized that the Pykes had a far greater arsenal at their disposal than Doan had ever had, and that if he refused the treaty, it would ultimately just lead to more suffering for him and his people with the same end result. And so, King Gerran boarded the Pyke Flagship, and signed away Doan’s freedom.
Since then, the Pyke Syndicate has been firmly in control of Doan. Many Pykes have migrated there in order to help the transition of power go smoothly, and to manage the Pyke Syndicate’s enterprises on the planet. As a part of their larger program of changes for Doan, the Pykes have partially reintroduced the caste system of old into formal use. This has won them the loyalty of a large portion of the Nobility, but has alienated pretty much everyone else. Especially the Rodian Community, which does not neatly fit into the system, despite them being near essential for the planet’s functioning.
The current King, the recently-crowned Orokalnar XXII, publicly claims that the Pyke Syndicate’s presence on Doan is good for the planet, but privately detests it, and his status as a puppet leader for the Syndicate. The syndicate-appointed Supervisor of Doan is the true ruler of the planet. The supervisor in question is a Pyke (of course) by the name of Frej Thylvan. Thylvan is infamous on Doan for his rather absurd demands on the Miners, and his lack of concern for their safety. Under his rule, the pollution on Doan has gotten so bad, its atmosphere is officially classified as low-end Type 2 (breath mask recommended) by the Galactic scientific community. This has earned him the nickname “Supervisor Sootsmog” among Doan’s general population.
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