Jedi Prince
Ezo, in orbit of the gas giant Yesso, with its sister moon Sokan in the background.
- Intent: Create a location for faction roleplay
- Image Credit:
- Upper Image: John Aldred | D|Y Photography
- Ezo Starport: Lenar Shakirov
- Jar'Sei Markets: Finnian MacManus
- Seika Interstellar Hospital: Dominic Chan
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Atrisian Commonwealth [ Wookieepedia ] [ Minor Faction ]
- Astronomical Location Name: Ezo
- Classification: Moon
- Location: Seika System | Colonies Region, near the border of the Core Worlds; galactic northwest of the Kilia System
- Rotational Period: N/A - Tidally locked, synchronous rotation
- Orbital Period: 15 days, 22 hours
- Size: Medium
- Affiliation: Atrisian Commonwealth (historically)
- Population: Uninhabited (currently); Heavy, (historically)
- Demographics: Currently uninhabited, historical demographics included:
- Human (predominantly of Atrisian heritage)
- Herglic
- Chadra-Fan
- Accessibility: Currently difficult. Ezo lies in a system not located along any star chart or hyperspace route known to modern galactic society. It was previously located on a Atrisian Trade Route that split off from the Atrisian end of the Giju Run and supplied one of the historical merchant arteries through the historical Atrisian Commonwealth allied region.
- Description: A habitable moon, Ezo was a colony established by the Atrisian Commonwealth during the time of the Old Republic in order to support mining operations inside the Seika star system -- specifically both the gas giant Yesso and its sister moon, Sokan. By the time of the Galactic Civil War, the profitable mining venture had evolved into a thriving colony in its own right, with a self-sustaining economy that benefitted from its place on a regional trade route to the various star systems of the historic Atrisian Commonwealth. The arrival of the Gulag Plague was devastating on Ezo, ultimately resulting in the death of the entire colony, leaving only a ghost town waiting to be rediscovered.
The ruins of the Ezo Starport.
Once the gateway to the Atrisian colony, today the starport is a rusting monolithic altar to the moon's now forgotten past, with the landing pads and cargo areas being reclaimed by the surrounding flora. Constructed during the time of the Clone Wars, its computer systems were upgraded several times over the life of the colony, but were already dated at the time that the Gulag Plague broke out on Ezo. Nothing here has been functional for more than four hundred years, making it unlikely that any data could be recovered from its degraded data crystals.
The ruins of the Jar'Sei Market road.
The broad avenue leading from out of the Ezo Starport into the colony was once lined with merchants and traders. It was seen as the economic hub of the colony, being a port of call, a place where business was conducted, and where the business elite made their careers. Today, it is just a shell of broken duracrete slowly being reclaimed by the wild.
The ruins of Seika Interstellar Hospital
As the Seika System was first established as a mining colony, housing and facilities for the workers were among the first things to be constructed. As such, the central structure of Seika Interstellar Hospital is the oldest structure on Ezo, dating back to the Republic's Golden Age. Located at the end of the Jar'Sei Markets, it was once the center of the colony. As Ezo grew, so did the needs of the hospital. It's current campus subsumes the original housing for the miners, updated several times over the life of the colony. Today, it is a mausoleum. A silent vigil that serves to remind those who discover it of the worlds that did not survive the Gulag Plague.
Ezo Station (Orbit)A platform-style space station dating back to the Galactic Civil War, Ezo Station was installed during the reign of the Galactic Empire in order to better control customs in the Atrisia Allied Region, and assess tariffs on imports as required by the Imperial law of the period. Unattended for more than four hundred years, it shows evidence of several meteor strikes, with damage breaching the hull and rendering entire sections of the station exposed to vacuum. It's orbit is slowly decaying, with perhaps no more than a decade remaining before the station crashes into the moon.
HISTORICAL INFORMATIONThe Seika System is a system located along the border of the Core Worlds and Colonies regions, located just under 5 lightyears outside the Kiliea System in the former Atrisian Commonwealth allied region. Orbiting a blue star, the system features few terrestrial planets but is host to several gas giants and methane-ice planetoids. The majority of terrestrial objects take the shape of dwarf planets locked in orbit of one (or more) of the gas giants. Yesso 1 and Yesso 2 are two such examples, orbiting the central jovian planet, Yesso. Yesso 2 is the only terrestrial object that has a Type 1 atmosphere and environment suitable for habitation, while Yesso 1 has only a thin atmosphere and is predominantly characterized by barren rock.
The Seika System was discovered by a Herglic mining corporation operating under a commission from the Atrisian Commonwealth. When initial surveys into the Seika System revealed the presence of both tibanna and other profitable minerals, further studies were undertaken to determine the feasibility of establishing a permanent mining operation there, the focus shifted to Yesso 2 as a habitable moon. Though worthless in terms of available ores, the fact that it had a habitable environment supplied a means to establish facilities for workers and their families that were cheaper than purchasing and moving a Lormar-class Mining Station into orbit -- and could be completed before a Lormar could complete the journey through hyperspace.
Colonization of Yesso 2 began in 149 BBY, with the first mining operations taking place just six years later. By the time of the Stark Hyperspace War, the colony had taken root and the name "Yesso 2" had fallen out of use in favor of "Ezo" as the colonists had dubbed their home. Tibana gas collection of Yesso and ore mining of Sokan (Yesso 1) proved profitable in the decades leading up to the Clone Wars, which only drove further demand for tibana and contributed to significant growth and development of the colony over the next hundred years as the Clone Wars transformed into the Galactic Civil War and its subsequent conflicts that followed the New Republic. By the start of 400 ABY, mining operations had begun to wane, though the colony had a well established economy of its own and operated as a self-sufficient colony with its own business and enterprises.
All of that changed just a few decades later, when a mysterious pandemic broke out across Ezo. By the time that information developed about the Gulag Plague, it was already a veritable firestorm decimating the colonial populace. As worlds went dark across the universe, Ezo lost contact with out outside universe. The trade route went untraveled, finally forgotten about as those navigators passed and their star charts went unused for centuries. As such, Ezo died without anyone noticing. By the time that the galaxy began to re-emerge into commerce, it had only partial maps and vague writings upon which to re-construct the picture of the galaxy.
And so Ezo faded into non-existence. A dead colony no longer remembered by the people who had founded it, slowly drifting in orbit of Yesso as time passed it slowly by, and the flora emerged to creep across the dreams that the people there may have once had for their world.
