Meraal Vaun
Heir to Clan Vaun
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To provide an RP environment for a future thread, and to provide Clan Vaun a home.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Planet Name: Glacies Domum
Demonym: Glacians
Region: Unknown Regions
System Name: Glaci
System Features:
Major Imports: Food, Oil
Major Exports: Titanium and Durasteel
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Gravity: Standard
Climate: Frozen in the Northern Hemisphere. Arid and barren on the planet's Equator and in the Southern Hemisphere
Primary Terrain:
- Mountains
- Tundra
- Hills
- Geothermal Geysers
Major Locations:
- The Ymatti Mountain Range
The Ymatti Mountain Range is a mountain range which wraps around the entire Northern Hemisphere of the planet. The Ymatti Mountain Range was named after the pilot of the first known ship to touch down on the planet, Captain Joseph Ymatti. This mountain range is home to thirteen different ski resorts and a number of water processing plants which provide for water for the resorts and Eilydn city.
- Eilydn City
Eilydn City is the only civilian population center on the planet. Geysers plague the Southern Hemisphere, making founding a new city in the south extremely impractical, and mountains making building difficult in most areas in the Northern Hemisphere. Eilydn City occupies one of the only plateaus in the northern hemisphere, making it the prime location for anyone wanting to build anything on Glacies Domum. The city itself is relatively well off, with a low crime rate and a population that is a little over 500,000.
- Equatorial Titanium and Durasteel Deposits
High concentrations of ilmenite (iron titanium oxide) and Zersium ore deposits have been discovered in scans along Glacies Domum's equator and in scans of the Southern Hemisphere of the planet. Before scans of these deposits were available to the public, the main industry of Glacies Domum was tourism. However, in 688 ABY, a spacer discovered readouts of these deposits after investigating a crashed vessel in the Southern Hemisphere. In 689 ABY, it became common knowledge that Glacies Domum had a large amount of Ilmenite and Zersium ore and mining operations began cropping up along the planet's equator. Many organizations have set down mines along the equator, and even the Eiyldn Security Force and Clan Vaun have established their own mining facilities.
- Southern Hemisphere Geyser Plains
The geyser plains in the Southern Hemisphere have caused the citizens of the planet to stay in the northern hemisphere for generations. Most of the ground in the geyser plains is very thin, making it poor for building or even walking on. Naturally, some of the planet's entrepreneurs have turned a handful of geyser basins along the equator into tourist destinations, which has desensitized an infinitesimal percentage of the local population to the dangers of the geyser plains. Warnings by the Eilydn Security Force do not always stop the bold or the foolish from entering the geyser plains, and the few people who enter the true wilderness of the Southern Hemisphere rarely live to tell the tale.
- Clan Vaun Estate
A monument to the occasional dumb luck of the bold and foolish, the Clan Vaun Estate stands atop a small hill in the Southern Hemisphere of the planet. The hill's surface is one of a few areas in the Southern Hemisphere which is on top of bedrock instead of superheated water. This bedrock foundation allows the estate stand proudly above the nearby geyser plains.
The Vaun Estate is a 50 meter tall stone castle, built by a group of Mandalorians who have long since forsaken the cause of Mandalore under the leadership of Detrik Vaun. The surrounding geyser plains offer the Vaun Estate a great deal of protection from ground based attacks and a good deal of seclusion at the cost of being able to expand the Clan Vaun sanctuary.
- Vaun Industries Ground-Based Shipyard
The Vaun Industries Shipyard is also located in the Southern Hemisphere, 50 miles away from the Clan Vaun Estate. Like the Clan Vaun Estate, the shipyard is located above a bedrock formation which allows for the shipyards structural foundation. The shipyard was originally built to repair the damaged and aging ships of Clan Vaun, but over time the shipyard has expanded its facilities to allow for the production of new vessels. Unfortunately, because of the shipyard's location, the shipyard can only produce ships up to frigate class in size. Anything longer than the maximum length of a frigate would be dangerous, as workers would have to work on unsteady geyser plain ground. Construction of the shipyard's repair facilities finished in 827 ABY, and the final addition to the shipyard was completed in 835 ABY. Since 835 ABY, the shipyard has built and repaired starships for both the Mandalorian clan and the open market.
POPULATION
Native Species: Wampas, Tauntauns, Dune Lizards, Gorgs
Immigrated Species: Humans, Chiss
Population: Sparsely Populated
Demographics:
Culture: The people of Glacies Domum have been relatively unaffected by the plagues and wars of the galaxy, and because of this most Glacians are well-off in terms of credits and material possessions. Glacians pride themselves as being individualists and citizens of a free-market society. Since it is dangerous to wander into the planet's Southern Hemisphere, the Glacian culture revolves around the main weather witnessed in the Northern Hemisphere: snow. Glacian culture is obsessed with snow. The planet's most acclaimed artists all heavily incorporate snow into their works, many forms of local entertainment rely on snow, and snow skiing is the planet's most popular sport.
GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
Government: Federal Republic
Affiliation: Independent
Wealth: Medium. When Glacies Domum was first discovered, upper class citizens thought it would make an excellent vacation destination. The planet's mountains in the north are always snowy, making it perfect for ski resorts, and the geyser basins of the Southern Hemisphere had the potential to allure middle-class citizens who had never seen such natural desolation. The majority of Glacians are not rich like the people who established the ski resorts, but they are not poverty stricken either.
Stability: Medium. The Eilydn Security Force and Clan Vaun work hard to keep crime off the streets of Eilydn. The former of the two groups keeps crime low by arresting criminals and sending them to work in the planet's durasteel or titanium mines located on the planet's equator. The latter group keeps crime off the street by encouraging criminals to commit their crimes in other systems - encouragement is accomplished either through bribery or violence. Unless you are a criminal the planet is a free place to live.
Freedom & Oppression: The atmosphere of the planet is mostly one of freedom. The planet has its own system of government which is ran by elected officials, and the Eilydn Security Force is a force made up of working Glacian citizens. The flow of information is not restricted by the local government, and public law and court records are available for the planet's citizens. The same cannot be said of the Mandalorian clan which has established a stronghold in the Southern Hemisphere of the planet. Glacians do not know what happens to criminals who are detained by Clan Vaun, but it is easy for the uninformed to assume that the Mandalorian clan kills its prisoners. In reality, Clan Vaun attempts to hire on the criminals that they catch to act as spice runners, smugglers, or soldiers for the clan. If the criminals refuse the clan's offer, they are sent to work in the Mandalorian clan's titanium mine.
MILITARY & TECHNOLOGY
Military: The planet has no official military force. Instead, the planet relies on Clan Vaun to deter pirate activity in space, and a combination of Eilydn Security Force and Clan Vaun forces to provide for ground defense troops if the need for such aforce were to ever arise.
Technology: Planetary technology and civilian fashion is roughly a year behind what is considered current galactic standard. Although the planet has no shortage of trade, it takes time for traders to reach the Glaci system due to a lack of complete hyperspace routes near the system.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
651 ABY - The Glaci system was discovered in 651 ABY by a luxury cruise liner which horrifically miscalculated a hyperspace jump. The cruise liner landed on the first planet with an atmosphere it could find in order for the pilot to find his position in the galaxy. The pilot landed on the North Hemisphere of Gacies Domum, translated as "Ice Home" in Galactic Basic. Named so because the passengers aboard the cruise liner believed that the planet's snow-capped mountains would be the ship's final resting place.
After unsuccessfully attempting to find the cruise liner's location in the galaxy star charts, the pilot sent out a distress signal which was quickly detected by a Chiss patrol ship. The patrol ship met up with the luxury cruise liner, and redirected the lost vessel to its intended destination.
652 ABY - The owner of the luxury cruise ship receives and reads the liner captain's report of the Glaci system, and determines that it would be a great place to set up a ski resort for members of the upper class.
652.5 ABY - Construction of Glacies Domum's first ski resort begins.
654 ABY - Construction of the first ski resort is completed after several unexpected setbacks caused by hazardous weather conditions.
655 ABY - Ski resort visitors go missing. The entire Northern Hemisphere is searched with no results. An expedition to search the Southern Hemisphere is launched. The search and rescue ship goes missing after being deployed to search the Southern Hemisphere. The incident was never officially revealed to the public.
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662.5 ABY - A coalition of extremely rich business people has formed with the intention to make a city for tourists to get a sense of being out on the town after a long day of skiing. Construction of Resort City begins.
663 ABY - More ski resorts begin to crop up across the planet's northern hemisphere, and Resort City's commercial district opens up three big-city themed restaurants.
664 ABY - Additional restaurants and hotels finish construction. The city's first jail is made, and a local police department is established.
666 ABY - A herd of hungry Wampas enters the city. The Resort Town Police Department fails to kill the herd. Several citizens and police officers die. A distress signal is sent out and once again a Chiss vessel responds. This time the ship responding is a Chiss privateer vessel. Chiss privateer Captain Eiylidn links up with remaining Resort Town police officers and saves the town. The privateer and some of his crew decide to retire the lives of adventurers and live out their lives establishing and protecting the fledgling city. This causes the birth of the Eiyldn Security Force, and is also the cause of the Chiss population on the planet.
667 ABY - Citizens realize that Resort Town is a stupid name, and rename the town "Eilydn City" in honor of the Chiss privateer captain that saved them. The city begins constructing a large spaceport.
681 ABY - Eilydn City Spaceport is completed.
688 ABY - A spacer discovers the wreck of an old ski resort search and rescue ship. A wealth of knowledge related to the Southern Hemisphere is gained from a search of the wreckage. High concentrations of ilmenite (iron titanium oxide) and Zersium ore deposits are discovered in readouts of the Southern Hemisphere. There is no indication of what happened to the lost ski resort visitors, and scans reveal only geysers on the equator and Southern Hemisphere.
698 ABY - Eilydn City reaches a population count of 100,000. Criminals start being sent to mine durasteel by the Eilydn Security Force.
798 ABY - Eilydn City population count reaches 400,000
822 ABY - A clan of Mandalorians -Clan Vaun- enters the system and lands somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere of the planet amidst the geyser plains.
823 ABY - Clan Vaun begins mining stone in the Southern Hemisphere. Construction of a clanhouse begins.
824 ABY - Clan Vaun has built a fortress out of stone in the geyser plains. The Vaun Estate has finished construction. Detrik Vaun - the clan leader - begins getting involved in Eilydn city politics.
824.5 ABY - A small pirate gang threatens to capture a durasteel transporting vessel leaving the planet. A starship under the banner of Clan Vaun destroys the pirates. Detrik Vaun is hailed as a hero of Glacies Domum.
825 ABY - Clan Vaun begins constructing a ground based shipyard to repair their damaged and aging vessels.
827 ABY - The Vaun Industries shipyard finishes construction. Local citizens and Clan Vaun now have access to starship repairs.
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Current Report: Eilydn City population 537,109. Clan Vaun has begun mining ilmenite to make titanium.
Intent: To provide an RP environment for a future thread, and to provide Clan Vaun a home.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Planet Name: Glacies Domum
Demonym: Glacians
Region: Unknown Regions
System Name: Glaci
System Features:
- Glacies Domum - the fourth farthest planet from the star in the center of the Glaci system. Glacies Domum is the only habitable planet in the system. Glacies Domum has three moons, and a rotational period of 26 hours, and a orbit period of 394 days.
- V97 Minor - V97 Minor is a yellow dwarf star near the center of the Glaci system.
- Settler's Shield - Settler's Shield is a series of large planetoids which orbit on the edge of the Glaci system. The planetoid belt receives its name because the planetoids are struck by asteroids which would impact the surface of Glacies Domum if the planetoids did not exist.
Major Imports: Food, Oil
Major Exports: Titanium and Durasteel
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Gravity: Standard
Climate: Frozen in the Northern Hemisphere. Arid and barren on the planet's Equator and in the Southern Hemisphere
Primary Terrain:
- Mountains
- Tundra
- Hills
- Geothermal Geysers
Major Locations:
- The Ymatti Mountain Range
The Ymatti Mountain Range is a mountain range which wraps around the entire Northern Hemisphere of the planet. The Ymatti Mountain Range was named after the pilot of the first known ship to touch down on the planet, Captain Joseph Ymatti. This mountain range is home to thirteen different ski resorts and a number of water processing plants which provide for water for the resorts and Eilydn city.
- Eilydn City
Eilydn City is the only civilian population center on the planet. Geysers plague the Southern Hemisphere, making founding a new city in the south extremely impractical, and mountains making building difficult in most areas in the Northern Hemisphere. Eilydn City occupies one of the only plateaus in the northern hemisphere, making it the prime location for anyone wanting to build anything on Glacies Domum. The city itself is relatively well off, with a low crime rate and a population that is a little over 500,000.
- Equatorial Titanium and Durasteel Deposits
High concentrations of ilmenite (iron titanium oxide) and Zersium ore deposits have been discovered in scans along Glacies Domum's equator and in scans of the Southern Hemisphere of the planet. Before scans of these deposits were available to the public, the main industry of Glacies Domum was tourism. However, in 688 ABY, a spacer discovered readouts of these deposits after investigating a crashed vessel in the Southern Hemisphere. In 689 ABY, it became common knowledge that Glacies Domum had a large amount of Ilmenite and Zersium ore and mining operations began cropping up along the planet's equator. Many organizations have set down mines along the equator, and even the Eiyldn Security Force and Clan Vaun have established their own mining facilities.
- Southern Hemisphere Geyser Plains
The geyser plains in the Southern Hemisphere have caused the citizens of the planet to stay in the northern hemisphere for generations. Most of the ground in the geyser plains is very thin, making it poor for building or even walking on. Naturally, some of the planet's entrepreneurs have turned a handful of geyser basins along the equator into tourist destinations, which has desensitized an infinitesimal percentage of the local population to the dangers of the geyser plains. Warnings by the Eilydn Security Force do not always stop the bold or the foolish from entering the geyser plains, and the few people who enter the true wilderness of the Southern Hemisphere rarely live to tell the tale.
- Clan Vaun Estate
A monument to the occasional dumb luck of the bold and foolish, the Clan Vaun Estate stands atop a small hill in the Southern Hemisphere of the planet. The hill's surface is one of a few areas in the Southern Hemisphere which is on top of bedrock instead of superheated water. This bedrock foundation allows the estate stand proudly above the nearby geyser plains.
The Vaun Estate is a 50 meter tall stone castle, built by a group of Mandalorians who have long since forsaken the cause of Mandalore under the leadership of Detrik Vaun. The surrounding geyser plains offer the Vaun Estate a great deal of protection from ground based attacks and a good deal of seclusion at the cost of being able to expand the Clan Vaun sanctuary.
- Vaun Industries Ground-Based Shipyard
The Vaun Industries Shipyard is also located in the Southern Hemisphere, 50 miles away from the Clan Vaun Estate. Like the Clan Vaun Estate, the shipyard is located above a bedrock formation which allows for the shipyards structural foundation. The shipyard was originally built to repair the damaged and aging ships of Clan Vaun, but over time the shipyard has expanded its facilities to allow for the production of new vessels. Unfortunately, because of the shipyard's location, the shipyard can only produce ships up to frigate class in size. Anything longer than the maximum length of a frigate would be dangerous, as workers would have to work on unsteady geyser plain ground. Construction of the shipyard's repair facilities finished in 827 ABY, and the final addition to the shipyard was completed in 835 ABY. Since 835 ABY, the shipyard has built and repaired starships for both the Mandalorian clan and the open market.
POPULATION
Native Species: Wampas, Tauntauns, Dune Lizards, Gorgs
Immigrated Species: Humans, Chiss
Population: Sparsely Populated
Demographics:
- 71% human
- 21% Chiss
- 8% other
Culture: The people of Glacies Domum have been relatively unaffected by the plagues and wars of the galaxy, and because of this most Glacians are well-off in terms of credits and material possessions. Glacians pride themselves as being individualists and citizens of a free-market society. Since it is dangerous to wander into the planet's Southern Hemisphere, the Glacian culture revolves around the main weather witnessed in the Northern Hemisphere: snow. Glacian culture is obsessed with snow. The planet's most acclaimed artists all heavily incorporate snow into their works, many forms of local entertainment rely on snow, and snow skiing is the planet's most popular sport.
GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
Government: Federal Republic
Affiliation: Independent
Wealth: Medium. When Glacies Domum was first discovered, upper class citizens thought it would make an excellent vacation destination. The planet's mountains in the north are always snowy, making it perfect for ski resorts, and the geyser basins of the Southern Hemisphere had the potential to allure middle-class citizens who had never seen such natural desolation. The majority of Glacians are not rich like the people who established the ski resorts, but they are not poverty stricken either.
Stability: Medium. The Eilydn Security Force and Clan Vaun work hard to keep crime off the streets of Eilydn. The former of the two groups keeps crime low by arresting criminals and sending them to work in the planet's durasteel or titanium mines located on the planet's equator. The latter group keeps crime off the street by encouraging criminals to commit their crimes in other systems - encouragement is accomplished either through bribery or violence. Unless you are a criminal the planet is a free place to live.
Freedom & Oppression: The atmosphere of the planet is mostly one of freedom. The planet has its own system of government which is ran by elected officials, and the Eilydn Security Force is a force made up of working Glacian citizens. The flow of information is not restricted by the local government, and public law and court records are available for the planet's citizens. The same cannot be said of the Mandalorian clan which has established a stronghold in the Southern Hemisphere of the planet. Glacians do not know what happens to criminals who are detained by Clan Vaun, but it is easy for the uninformed to assume that the Mandalorian clan kills its prisoners. In reality, Clan Vaun attempts to hire on the criminals that they catch to act as spice runners, smugglers, or soldiers for the clan. If the criminals refuse the clan's offer, they are sent to work in the Mandalorian clan's titanium mine.
MILITARY & TECHNOLOGY
Military: The planet has no official military force. Instead, the planet relies on Clan Vaun to deter pirate activity in space, and a combination of Eilydn Security Force and Clan Vaun forces to provide for ground defense troops if the need for such aforce were to ever arise.
Technology: Planetary technology and civilian fashion is roughly a year behind what is considered current galactic standard. Although the planet has no shortage of trade, it takes time for traders to reach the Glaci system due to a lack of complete hyperspace routes near the system.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
651 ABY - The Glaci system was discovered in 651 ABY by a luxury cruise liner which horrifically miscalculated a hyperspace jump. The cruise liner landed on the first planet with an atmosphere it could find in order for the pilot to find his position in the galaxy. The pilot landed on the North Hemisphere of Gacies Domum, translated as "Ice Home" in Galactic Basic. Named so because the passengers aboard the cruise liner believed that the planet's snow-capped mountains would be the ship's final resting place.
After unsuccessfully attempting to find the cruise liner's location in the galaxy star charts, the pilot sent out a distress signal which was quickly detected by a Chiss patrol ship. The patrol ship met up with the luxury cruise liner, and redirected the lost vessel to its intended destination.
652 ABY - The owner of the luxury cruise ship receives and reads the liner captain's report of the Glaci system, and determines that it would be a great place to set up a ski resort for members of the upper class.
652.5 ABY - Construction of Glacies Domum's first ski resort begins.
654 ABY - Construction of the first ski resort is completed after several unexpected setbacks caused by hazardous weather conditions.
655 ABY - Ski resort visitors go missing. The entire Northern Hemisphere is searched with no results. An expedition to search the Southern Hemisphere is launched. The search and rescue ship goes missing after being deployed to search the Southern Hemisphere. The incident was never officially revealed to the public.
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662.5 ABY - A coalition of extremely rich business people has formed with the intention to make a city for tourists to get a sense of being out on the town after a long day of skiing. Construction of Resort City begins.
663 ABY - More ski resorts begin to crop up across the planet's northern hemisphere, and Resort City's commercial district opens up three big-city themed restaurants.
664 ABY - Additional restaurants and hotels finish construction. The city's first jail is made, and a local police department is established.
666 ABY - A herd of hungry Wampas enters the city. The Resort Town Police Department fails to kill the herd. Several citizens and police officers die. A distress signal is sent out and once again a Chiss vessel responds. This time the ship responding is a Chiss privateer vessel. Chiss privateer Captain Eiylidn links up with remaining Resort Town police officers and saves the town. The privateer and some of his crew decide to retire the lives of adventurers and live out their lives establishing and protecting the fledgling city. This causes the birth of the Eiyldn Security Force, and is also the cause of the Chiss population on the planet.
667 ABY - Citizens realize that Resort Town is a stupid name, and rename the town "Eilydn City" in honor of the Chiss privateer captain that saved them. The city begins constructing a large spaceport.
681 ABY - Eilydn City Spaceport is completed.
688 ABY - A spacer discovers the wreck of an old ski resort search and rescue ship. A wealth of knowledge related to the Southern Hemisphere is gained from a search of the wreckage. High concentrations of ilmenite (iron titanium oxide) and Zersium ore deposits are discovered in readouts of the Southern Hemisphere. There is no indication of what happened to the lost ski resort visitors, and scans reveal only geysers on the equator and Southern Hemisphere.
698 ABY - Eilydn City reaches a population count of 100,000. Criminals start being sent to mine durasteel by the Eilydn Security Force.
798 ABY - Eilydn City population count reaches 400,000
822 ABY - A clan of Mandalorians -Clan Vaun- enters the system and lands somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere of the planet amidst the geyser plains.
823 ABY - Clan Vaun begins mining stone in the Southern Hemisphere. Construction of a clanhouse begins.
824 ABY - Clan Vaun has built a fortress out of stone in the geyser plains. The Vaun Estate has finished construction. Detrik Vaun - the clan leader - begins getting involved in Eilydn city politics.
824.5 ABY - A small pirate gang threatens to capture a durasteel transporting vessel leaving the planet. A starship under the banner of Clan Vaun destroys the pirates. Detrik Vaun is hailed as a hero of Glacies Domum.
825 ABY - Clan Vaun begins constructing a ground based shipyard to repair their damaged and aging vessels.
827 ABY - The Vaun Industries shipyard finishes construction. Local citizens and Clan Vaun now have access to starship repairs.
[---ENTRY REDACTED---]
Current Report: Eilydn City population 537,109. Clan Vaun has begun mining ilmenite to make titanium.
