Fabula Caromed
Belle of the Brawl
(c) Jorge Jacinto
Name: "Home"
Region: Yuuzhan Vong Galaxy
System: UH-4827490
Suns: One, immense red giant
Orbital Position: 7
Moons: No natural moons remaining. Several fragmented and obliterated artificial satellites orbit the planet, but none have functioned in millennia.
System Features: Eight other planets, none with signs of habitation or the capability to support life. Ninth planet has what looks like a meteorite-blasted shipyard south of the equator, but it's in greater ruins than even Home is.
Coordinates: N/A
Rotational Period: 13 standard hours
Orbital Period: 610 local days
Class: Terrestrial
Diameter: Unmeasured
Atmosphere: Type III, breath mask required. The planet's atmosphere has only trace amounts of oxygen at all, and exhibits a number of uncatalogued gasses with no known equivalent.
Climate: Arid
Gravity: Approximately 1.5 Standard
Primary Terrain: Deserts, sandstorms, ravines, monolithic hills of mechanical debris
Native Species: Abominor (functionally extinct), barbaric droids called "the Last."
Immigrated Species: None
Primary Languages: Binary
Government: Tribal and nomadic. The Last are isolationist by nature, and rarely gather in groups of more than a dozen. The strongest droid makes decisions for the group, who follow out of fear and a need to survive.
Population: 20,000 droids
Demonym: None
Major Imports: None
Major Exports: None
Affiliation: None
Major Locations:
- Abominor Remains: Apart from desert and small, windscarred sandstone cliffs, the planet's only meaningful terrain features are the cannibalized and desecrated corpses of Abominor droids. These vary in size, as certain bodies are ransacked for parts more frequently than others. Ranging from immense to monolithic, these timeless droids have been ripped apart for the parts needed to repair the Last since time immemorial.
- The Rift: A seemingly-bottomless ravine running like a scar through half of the planet's northern hemisphere. The sheer walls have yet to be successfully scaled by any of the Last, and whatever caused this planetary wound is bound to have been a weapon of incredible scale. The natives refuse to go near it, citing it as certain death because "the Serpent lies below."
There is a surprisingly small overlap between keepers and chiefs, likely due to the aforementioned insanity. A chief's main task is keeping the tribe safe from destruction by other tribes or sandstorms. As long as this safety is maintained, his next task is securing enough material to keep his tribesmen repaired and mobile.
As far as the keepers remember - and each one has its own opinion on the matter - the world was once ruled by powerful gods. The people became greedy and desired the gods' power, so they destroyed them and ate of their bodies. In retribution, the last living gods scoured the world. The people of the world were destroyed, and the few survivors, "the Last," have attempted to live in their hellish world ever since.
In some tribes, the Last themselves are thought to be the old gods, stripped of their power and forced to wander through hell for eternity, in penance for their hubris and cruelty. However, most tribes believe this to be insanity bordering on heresy.
Technology: It's sufficient to say that the planet revolves entirely around technology. The Last are droids, and procuring enough technology to repair themselves and keep functional is the primary driving force for their lives. However, despite the incredibly advanced technology of their original Abominor selves, it's markedly rare to find any weapon more advanced than a spear among these droids. While their energy cores still function, they've long since shed the multiple backup generators necessary to support their previous colossal bodies.
As a result, there could be valuable secrets destroyed every day when the Last consume their own desecrated bodies in a mad break to stay functional just a few more days. Dismantling the Last themselves will reveal a chaotic, senseless, redundant, and badly imagined droid that seems to be comprised entirely of jury-rigged repairs. No two droids look anything alike, and they have only the most fundamental mechanical similarities to each other.
History: The Abominor-Silentium War left its scars all across the galaxy. Many planets were outright destroyed, and others faced worse fates. The Abominors on the planet currently known as "Home" were attempting to put up planetary defenses against some form of Silentium superweapon. They were unable to stop it, and the planet was torn open. Worse, a not insignificant fraction of the Abominor detatchment defending the planet were rendered flightless by some form of magnetic discharge. Those capable of flight were ordered to return to the main Abominor force, leaving the flightless to fend for themselves.
For a century or two, this was thought to be hell. However, when their bodies began to fail, the Abominor began to panic. A completely different war broke out on the planet's surface, resulting in widespread destruction as the droids effectively killed themselves back to prehistory. Every few centuries they'd forget a bit more about where they came from or what started their perpetual war as they wiped their own memories to prevent insanity. The eventual result, after thousands of years of self-destruction, cannibalism, and forgetting, was "the Last," a collection of scrapyard droids living in a barbaric state.
Some few Abominor thought to retreat from the surface world to save themselves from yet another war. These colossi hid in the immense fissure caused by the Silentium superweapon, but even they weren't spared the madness of immortality, or the primitive rage that came with their inevitable memory wipes. Once more, war occurred, but this time between full Abominor in all of their power. There was only one survivor, who immediately absorbed all it could of its fallen kin to become as powerful as possible. Thousands of years of loneliness and self-preservation programming rendered it bestial, and finally the last of the Abominor on "Home" had truly fallen. They had become extinct by their own actions.
The Last remember none of this. Most habitually memory wipe themselves every hundred years or so to keep themselves safe from the madness that plagues their keepers. They know of the bones of the gods, and to stay clear of the rift, for the Serpent lies below. They scavenge what they can and war for what they can't. Twenty thousand dwindle a bit more every year.
Notable PCs: N/A
Intent: To explore the possibility of what might have become of the Abominor after countless eons of decline.
