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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To submit a planet for future submissions and role-playing.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Planet Name: Laranis III
Demonym: Laranisian
Region: Seswenna Sector – Outer Rim Territories
System Name: Laranis System
System Features: (See Laranis System)
Location: N-47
Major Imports: Various Foodstuffs, Luxury Items
Major Exports: Materials, Seafood, Technology
Unexploited Resources: None ; Laranis III is not as mineral rich as its neighbor, Laranis II, but boasts a scenic and pleasant environment, abundant marine life, and is a popular destination for tourists.
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Gravity: Standard
Climate: Temperate
Primary Terrain: Mountains, Forests (Coniferous, Broadleaf, Mixed), Grasslands, Lakes, Oceans
Atmosphere: Type I
LOCATION INFORMATION
Capital City: Laranis City
Planetary Features: Snow-capped mountains and lush green forests abound, descending into grassy plains in the central lowland areas. Vast oceans bear home to abundant marine life. Frequent rains and massive storm systems fill the skies.
Major Locations:
- Laranis City - A modern, sprawling metropolis, home to the financial and political hub of the system, this city features a stunning nightlife, terrific attractions, and much, much more.
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POPULATION
Native Species: Numerous non-sentient flora and fauna.
Immigrated Species: Human, Sullustan, Wookie, Rodian, Other.
Population: Heavy (3.43 Billion)
Demographics: Human (33%), Sullustan (34%), Wookie (6%), Rodian (8%), Other (19%)
Primary Languages: Galactic Basic
Culture: Populated mostly by corporate employees, the skyline is filled with modern skyscrapers towering over the cities. Smaller-sized settlements, mostly agricultural dot the landscape of the prairies where huge farms work to feed the systems’ population, and quaint fishing villages, mostly Wookie sailors and their families, set out to sea in fishing fleets to feed the planet’s mighty fishing industry. Prosperity is seen most everywhere, and the carefully-built façade of a blissful and open society remains intact, despite the harsh conditions and desperate struggle of the planet’s lower classes.
GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
Government: Corporatocracy
Affiliation: Laranis System Protectorate
Wealth: High
Stability: High
Freedom & Oppression: The Laranis System Protectorate is the corporate-run government of the system. A deliberate and painstaking effort has been made to ensure the visage of a free and open society, widespread prosperity, and benevolent rule. However, this is all a mirage. The Protectorate is a ruthless conglomerate of the system’s most wealthy and powerful corporations, backed by a corrupt and powerful Protectorate Security, whose only concern is the acquisition and keeping of wealth and power. While on the surface, all appears well, the Protectorate ruthlessly stifles the pleas and cries of the lower classes – the workers and common people from whose labor they derive enormous profits. Those who try to rise are quickly silenced, and ‘disappearances’ and rushed kangaroo courts are not uncommon. Heavy fees and high costs of living, coupled with corrupt law enforcement, ensure that the common people stay in their place, all while their corporate masters play a life-and-death game, viciously rivaling one another for power and position, using every means available to climb the ladder towards dominion over the system.
MILITARY & TECHNOLOGY
Military: The Protectorate Security is a well-funded and well-equipped paramilitary and law enforcement agency of soldiers, intelligence operatives, and bureaucrats whose ruthless tactics and ferocity ensure the Protectorate’s power and keep the engines of commerce and trade working to their advantage. Recruited from seasoned veterans, mercenaries, and bounty hunters across the galaxy, Security personnel enjoy high wages and privileges far and above that of the ordinary citizen, the price of their loyalty and service.
Technology: Laranis III is a thriving and modern world, able to avail itself of the highest and most current technologies available in the galaxy.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
As the “Laranis Gold Rush” as it became known, swung into its peak fervor, successful prospectors and miners sought to establish their corporate headquarters on the neighboring world of Laranis III. Already settled by farmers, with a mounting immigrant population, the wealth corporations established Laranis City. Later, an influx of Wookies began to settle the coastlines where they gave birth to a thriving fishing industry. Soon, Laranis III would be a prosperous and heavily settled world.
Becoming the capital of the Laranis System Protectorate in the wake of the Empire’s demise, Laranis would transform into a modern and sophisticated world, imbued with the technologies, amenities, and comforts which such wealth and position offers. For the corporate executives and legions of bureaucrats and office workers, the cities became as fine as any across the galaxy, while for the lower classes – their struggles and hardships were neatly swept under the rug, so to speak. Protectorate Security, a ruthless military and law enforcement organization recruited from hardened mercenaries, would ensure that the Protectorate’s power and privilege, and above all, its profits, would be secured by any means necessary. In the dense, congested working class towns and neighborhoods, just as on the neighboring mining world, life was different than the clean, sterile, seemingly happy world most visitors would see. High costs of living, strict enforcement of Protectorate rule, and long hours of backbreaking labor were the norm here.
So it would remain, century after century, as disparity widened and enforcement continued…
