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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To make a planet for a future character to reside on and also to make a pleasant planet for player characters to visit.
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- Planet Name: Lóng Xīngzuò
- Demonym: Xīngzuòese
- Region: Outer Rim Territories
- System Name: Lóng Xīngzuò System
- System Features:
- Zhēngfú Zhī Xīng: The Star of the Lóng Xīngzuò system roughly translated into "Star of Conquest" in the local dialect is a small, white dwarf star that was formed over 4 billion years ago.
- Lóng Xīngzuò: The Main Planet of the System roughly translated as the "Dragon Constellation", and is covered in beautiful mountain ranges, vast oceans, grasslands, caverns with a temperate climate to make for a pleasant atmosphere.
Zhòng Shén Zhī Yuè: The Moon of the Planet, roughly translated into "Moon of the Gods" and contains mining facilities and factories. The lights and thick fog of the factories are visible from down on the surface and the locals believe that their gods reside on the moon and come down each day to collect the souls of the departed. As such it is heavily worshipped by the populace alongside Ancestor Worship. - Tūn Chuán Zhě: The Main Asteroid Belt of the Planet, roughly translated into "The Ship Devourer" because of its dense composition of asteroids. The locals believe that only those blessed by the gods can leave and enter through the asteroid belt without being devoured "destroyed" in common tongue by the monster that resides there which is nothing but rocks and asteroids.
- Qǐzhòngjī Xīngzuò: The Second Planet within the System, roughly translated as the "Crane Constellation" and is covered in rocky outcrops and deep caverns filled with rare minerals and precious resources for the main planet of the system. The mining and extracting operations are controlled by the Heaven-Earth Corporation who exploit the planet without consequences.
- Xiè Xīngzuò: The Third Planet within the System, roughly translated as the "Crab Constellation" and is covered is snow and mountains, filled with shipyards and industry and is a main economic powerhouse with a distinct culture that is different than Lóng Xīngzuò but they still share the same ethnic composition.
- Location:
- Nearby the Heaven System [Oplovis Sector]
- Major Imports:
- Food Supplies
- Medicine Supplies
- Starships & Starship Weaponry
- Silks & Luxury Items
- Advanced Technology
- Major Exports:
- Armor
- Weaponry
- Clothes
- Advanced Technology
- Martial Arts
- Luxury Items
- Unexploited Resources:
- Gravity: Standard
- Climate: Temperate
- Primary Terrain:
- Mountains
- High Plateaus
- Deserts in the West
- Many Rivers
- Vast Oceans
- Grasslands
- Forests in the North
- Atmosphere:
- Type I
- Capital City:
- Zongmen City
- Planetary Features:
- Hùndùn Zhī Shān Ranges:
- The Largest Mountain Range on the Planet, roughly translated into "The Mountains of Chaos" is the tallest and largest mountain range anywhere on the planet. Standing directly in front of the Capital City of Zongmen City, it provides a safe bastion of defense for the city and the emperor himself. Carved into the range is various defensive ditches and fortified bunkers littered without to protect from invaders and provide a safe haven for refugees.
- Kuàngshí Dòng:
- The Largest Cavern on the Planet, roughly translated into "Cavern of Ores" is a large and deep scar that runs throughout the landscape of the planet. Underneath the scar is a vast network of tunnels that are filled with raw materials and ore that can be extracted than exchanged for galactic credits or through the local currency. These ores are processed in the foundries near by the cavern and mining settlements are not uncommon, once processed they will be shipped to the various dockyards or be transported to the capital city.
- Dàoyǐng Hú:
- The Largest Lake on the Planet, roughly translated into "Lake of Reflection" is a massive lake that is the ending point for the majority of the vast rivers on the planet. The locals on the planet believe that an ancient spirit resides within the lake that will show your fortune, and if your fortune is good they will heal you from any ailment but if your fortune is bad, they will curse you and make you reflect on your life for all eternity.
- Hùndùn Zhī Shān Ranges:
- Major Locations:
- Zongmen City:
- The Capital City and Largest of the Planet, Zongmen City sits directly behind the Mountains of Chaos which provide a great bastion of defense for the city's inhabitants. The city is split into 3 different levels with majority of the transportation in the city provided by repulsor trains. Surrounding the city is 3 sections of high city walls that are packed thick with durasteel and permacrete, while having various other layers of materials to prevent anyone from just breaching the walls without effort. The city itself is split into various subsections which have their own defenses and fortifications that provide choke points to stop an army from advancing towards the Forbidden Palace of the Dragon Emperor.
- Jiānrèn Xiūdàoyuàn:
- The Monastery of Fortitude is a large temple like compound that belongs to the Ru Xing Order of Monks which practice new forms of martial arts from all over the galaxy and provide recruits for the Warrior Monks of the Emperor's Imperial Army. Situated and fortified at the vary east of the Mountains of Chaos, it provides both another spiritual area for the people of the planet and a martial arts training center for rare outsiders that focuses on strengthening your mind and soul to resist the pull of the dark side of the force and strengthening your entire body into a weapon through a specialized martial arts called the Way of the Dragon.
- Zǔxiān De Duànzào:
- The Forge of the Ancestors is a large workshop deep in the northern part of the planet, built deep within the heart of the snowy mountains. It serves as the main forge for the planet and produces weaponry for the Emperor's Imperial Army. Churning out objects and items extracted from the Cavern of Ores for exportation to other worlds within the system. They have a number of forges within the workshop each dedicated to something, such as starship weaponry and vibro blades. And the workshops main focus is on the crafting skills that have been forgotten by the galaxy for a considerably long time. Force imbued blades are also crafted here by a master craftsman who belongs to the Otaka Guild of Craftsmen.
- Antohang Dockyards:
The Antohang Dockyards are named after the Antohang Emperor, the 4th Emperor of the Shao-Gong Dynasty. It is the main shipyard for the Emperor's Imperial Army, constructing both airships and starships to defend the system from pirates and invasion forces. Although burned down and destroyed in the Rebellion of Mongde, the emperor has reconstructed the dockyard using finer materials and adding extra security around the perimeter to produce the starships necessary for his proposed Grand Mandate of Heaven. - Kai-Sung Barrier:
The Kai-Sung Barrier named after the Ancient City of Kai-Sung before the capital was moved to Zongmen City after the Rebellion of Mongde. Located directly south of the capital city, to protect it from behind attacks while the Mountains of Chaos protect the north, its a mighty wall that stretches' for miles throughout the landscape. Connecting with the Mountains of Chaos Fortification Ranges, it forms a almost impenetrable line of defense save for single river crossing that the wall couldn't be constructed on. Artillery batteries and other defenses are ready for any intruders that manage to make it to the capital city form behind. - City of Grand Kaizong:
The City of Grand Kaizong is the second largest city after the Capital City of Zongmen. Located directly south of the capital city, it is surrounded by hills and naturally forming rock gardens. It is a merchant city, where commerce and currency flow through under the watchful eye of the Trade Lords whose authority is limited to just a single city but they run it effectively enough that some have called for them to rule over other cities to bring prosperity. However the Emperor knows the consequences of allowing banking lords to gain influence within the Imperial Court, which would mean giving up some of his absolute power in exchange for prosperity and major reforms to fill their own coffers. The Grand City is also the only city that allows foreign trading and foreigners to actually reside on the planet, and the exchange rate can influx based upon what the trade lord desires to pay. - Nung Jin Military Grounds:
The Nung Jin Military Grounds are the main military center for the planet being established near a local mountain range that artillery can be tested against, the grounds have a majority of the armed forces loyal to the Emperor stationed here to control the provinces. While the provinces do have their own separate armies to defend themselves with in times of war, the Imperial Army is by far the most advanced and most numerous force on the planet. With defenses and fortifications, it is a mighty fortress within its own right and is the second most defended place on the entire planet due to the military heart of the emperor residing here, and the only place that ranks above it in defense is the capital city where the emperor and his family resides. - Zhao Ming Shrine:
- The Zhao Ming Shrine is the main spiritual center for the people with a majority of the shrine being dedicated to ancestor worship with a smaller but no less important section that belongs to death worship. Named after the First Female Priest on the planet that was allowed to gain a position within the Imperial Monastery. Built and Established inside the forest of the planet by the 2nd Heavenly Emperor and his Clergy to allow people to give offerings to the Heavenly Emperor and contact their ancestors for advice and provides a safe space for those that lack a personal shrine in their own homes, although typically not a business or corporation. The Shrine is also telling people their fortunes for a small fee, with mostly accurate predictions which keeps people coming back to try their luck or perhaps turn their bad fortune around by volunteering at the shrine to cleanse themselves.
- Yuncheng Grand Gardens
- The Yuncheng Grand Gardens are a massive garden park that occupies a significant area of the Capital City of Zongmen. Covered in ornate statues and filled to the brim with rock gardens and red colored trees, it makes for a calming atmosphere and a place for the populace to spend time with their families after a harsh day in the various workshops that are the backbone of the planet economy. It is typically not that crowded considering its popularity because the government enforces a quota of who can get in and how many can be within the park at all times as to not damage the park and its atmosphere with litter and waste that naturally comes with a populace. It also host the Great Dragon Parade, where everyone inside Zongmen city will dress up in ornate robes and make their way to vendor stalls, that are occupied by various species with the main event being fireworks and an appearance from the elusive Heavenly Emperor who leaves his forbidden palace to mingle among the population for a while.
- Force Nexus (Optional): N/A
- Native Species:
- Immigrated Species:
- Various Species [Mainly in Grand Kaizong]
- Humans
- Andronius War Boars
- Sith Warbird
- Akk Dogs
- Kell Dragon
- Whisper Bird
- Convor
- Yobcrab
- Drouk
- Orbak
- Horse
- Exalted Storm Dragon
- Population: Heavy
- Demographics:
- Xīngzuòese Humans 95%
- Other 5% [Focused in Grand Kaizong]
- Primary Languages:
- Rei Ginxa [Primarily Language spoken only by inhabitants]
- Galactic Standard Basic
- Business & Trade Languages
- Culture:
- The People of Lóng Xīngzuò are a commerce and trade society underneath the absolute authority of the Heavenly Emperor who gives some power to the Six Ministries, who directs much of the populace through public works projects and giving out social credit scores to people so that they are more easily controlled.
Society is mainly dominated by the expression of art and beauty, with famous tapestry and statues littered around the place and ornate stone gardens littered around in almost every city. The daily life of a regular person is filled with working the various jobs that are on the planet and both women and men are treated as equals in their crafts. Although typically the woman will stay home and be a housewife, keeping the grounds clean of an estate and managing the finances of the house. The Aristocracy are a far different story, with many of them having large grants of land and small fiefdoms, often engaging in petty acts of assassination and blackmail to lower a rival's standing within the aristocracy, however they typically only use humiliation, to force their rival to work for them because killing them would be a waste of talent. The Imperial Court of the Emperor is the main organ of the state, and is vested with some of the immense power of the emperor to do their duty in providing all the major settlements with equipment and supplies to survive the changing seasons. Tournaments of all kinds dominate the sports of the planet, with the strongest and mightiest emerging from those tournaments with the chance to become one of the Imperial State Guards, the most skilled and powerful warriors on the entire planet, there training focuses on using the body as your main weapon, with a physical weapon just being a defensive instrument to break open your opponents guard. They are skilled in almost every form of martial art in the galaxy, and becoming masters of their own style of Martial Arts, the Way of the Dragon. Imbuing their bodies with the mystical energies of the force to turn their skin into rock solid in defense and their bodies becoming immensely more durable to allow them to stand up to more punishment.
Religion of the Planet is mainly focused on two different things, death and ancestor worship. Death worship is an important part of the planet due to everyone dying at some point, with the oldest and more venerable of the populace being treated with respect because they have been favored by the gods with longevity. Those that do pass on will be reincarnated by the gods into a form that they desire most and return to the living to start anew. Ancestor Worship is also an important part of the planet due to a believe that your ancestors are always watching over you and will protect you against evil, summoning a spirit guardian to protect you and your family. Praying and remembering them will cause them to grand your favors or counsel you on a difficult decision. Ancestor Worship is so wide spread that it is the National Religion of the Planet, enforced by the various religious orders and by decree of the Heavenly Emperor.
GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
- Government: Absolute Monarchy
- Affiliation: Independent
- Wealth: Wealthy | The Level of Wealth can be considered wealthy by galactic standards, this is due to an abundance of industry on the planet that mainly deals with precious gemstones and silks that are top quality, selling them to the various nobility within the galaxy for a fraction of what other companies and planets might do. They also have a hand in manufacturing and processing of luxury items that would make even the richest senator in the galaxy awed. Although long forgotten underneath the current settlements, there are plenty of vast ruins and other evidence of advanced civilizations that had settled on the world before being either eradicated or extinct.
- Stability: High| The Stability of the Planet is quite high, as the majority of the populace are law-abiding citizens. However there are times when major rebellions will sweep the planet but the emperor will tolerate such rebellions until it gets out of control and moves the Grand Imperial Army to stomp out the unrest and restore order, mainly using rebellions as a way to focus the anger of the populace towards the state and pick out problem individuals that need to be captured for public execution. With the power of the emperor, he has fortified the planet to become a fortress world to galactic standards, installing orbital defenses and ground defenses to make the planet almost unconquerable without suffering massive casualties. The planet is generally safe for outsiders and travellers provided that they remain within the City of Grand Kaizong, as there is no guarantee by the government to ensure your safety while traveling anywhere else on the planet. There are no current threats to the stability of the planet at this time, due to the modernization of the government and giving some measures of freedoms in exchange for absolute loyalty to the emperor and the state.
- Freedom & Oppression:
- The Planet can be considered quite free and the citizens are free to do whatever want, so long as they don't disobey the absolute authority of the emperor or begin to spread foreign ideologies and religions on the planet. There is little oppression within the City of Grand Kaizong, as the Imperial Court knows that it is major economic city and the trade lords can govern the city as they see fit, as long as they ultimately swear loyalty to the Imperial Government at Zongmen City. The Capital City does have some oppressions to it, although that is mainly to keep order and provide the other provinces and their settlements with an idea of how things should be run, by giving citizens some freedoms but not to much freedom that they spawn a rebellion against the Imperial Dragon Throne.
- Military:
- Lóng Xīngzuò is a fortress world complete with heavy artificial defenses such as AA Batteries and artillery and natural defenses such as giant rivers and large mountain ranges that can be made into defensive positions in the event of an invasion by an outside force. Citizens are trained in various forms of martial arts and weaponry to make the backbone of the Imperial Provincial Forces which back up the more heavily armored and more trained, Grand Imperial Army which is directly underneath the command of the Heavenly Emperor. This Grand Army is trained and specialized in various martial arts, and have advanced training in the use of a variety of different weapons that they might come across when engaged in battle with a superior technological force. Since the entire planet can be mobilized into a defensive and effective fighting force to some extent, there are many true citizens that cannot fight, as that would be children and the elderly. This minimizes the relocation effort because it is easier to transport them into safe locations.
- Technology:
- The Planet is slightly superior when compared to Galactic Standard due to the massive buildup and fortification policy underneath the Heavenly Emperor that had added defensive walls and various fortifications around the planet that will hold an invader for a while before they break through it. With various expeditions into the vast oceans and caverns of the planet and discovering lost technology within those locations that can be reforged and remade will be added to the Emperor's Arsenal. Although in terms of advanced technology, they still are galactic standard due to not having enough technical skills to reverse engineer various items to make them conform to the organization of the army. The City of Zongmen is the most technologically advanced city on the planet, with the City of Grand Kaizong coming close behind to the influx of traders and craftsman that journey to the so called "Merchant Road" of the galaxy.
The World of Lóng Xīngzuò was once a world that had no settlements or general population, being the home of various animals and beast that ruled over the unexplored lands. These beasts ruled by the strong with only the strongest becoming big enough to not be challenged by other predators.
Although this started to change with the first colonist being brought to the world from the Heaven System which was close by and was no more than a lightspeed jump away. Touching down on the untamed and wild world, the settlers from the Heaven System would begin to introduce various levels of technology to the world. Forming into small communities across the vast landscape, they would form into separate kingdoms after the Heaven-Earth Corporation left the colonists for some reason to develop on their own without interference. Developing a distinctive culture after a while due to the old ways being forgotten, they would pool their resources together into establishing petty alliances with each other in the hopes that they could outdo their rivals and come out on top. These alliances eventually formed into 3 seperate empires, and started to reform the planet from a wild and untamed world to an orderly and beautiful world that while technologically advanced for the time period, but while 2 empires built and made industry, the 3rd empire become aggressive because it was starting to run out of resources. This eventually lead to a war between the 3 seperate empires, starting the "War of the Three Emperors" Period which is remembered by the current populace and through ancient records as an unstable and destructive time where entire cities were burned to the ground and families put to the sword. With the war ravaging the landscape and the planet, the entire system collapsed and the 3 empires along with it. Leaving many ruins and technology from advanced civilization on the world.
With the world in chaos, the survivors of the War of the Three Emperors would begin to rebuild what was lost to them. The process was slow and painful and it took many decades for the planet to return to some form of stability, as such the populace grew suspicious of each other, recalling hidden thoughts and feelings of the 3 different empires. It threatened to erupt the entire planet back into civil war over small differences between them. This fate was avoided with the arrival of the first heavenly emperors, exalted storm dragons with immense power, and seeing that the planet was doomed to fail once again. These storm dragons pretended to be the dragon gods of the planet, and unite the planet underneath their iron but fair rule. The rebuilding process from the war was still in its early stages and many burned settlements were not restored to their former glory. But with the help from the heavenly emperors who had access to some of the galaxy's advanced technology for the time due to taking it as they traveled through the stars, they reformed the broken but effective system into a united system underneath the worship of the exalted storm dragons as popular religion was thought to be the only way to unite a large and diverse populace.
The Reign of the Heavenly Emperors wasn't to last, as the exalted storm dragons went back into their mountain lairs to let the population develop without them directly interfering. The fake gods disappearance would spark war among the population, and was split into 7 separate kingdoms spread out over the transformed landscape. Each kingdom worshipping a god and waging war in their name, this period was known as the "War of the Seven Kingdoms" and was violent and bloody until the storm dragon re- emerged from their mountain lairs and united the 7 kingdoms into one massive empire underneath their control through an absolute monarchy lead by the wisest and most powerful of their race. Knowing that the populace needed something to work towards and redirect their energy away from fighting with each other gave rise to a policy of public works projects, putting the populace into steady jobs that provided for their families and replacing their heavenly emperor worship with worship to their ancestors and death, controlling the populace through religion was the overall goal of the first heavenly emperor at that time and his rule is known as the "Period of Great Stability" and brought the planet closer to galactic standards in terms of technology, through the establishment of the City of Grand Kaizong where outsiders could reside and trade with the established aristocracy of the city, the Trade Lords. Commerce and trade would soon flow, with many businesses and industries springing up all over the planet. The period is also when the Grand Imperial Army was mobilized out of the provinces militias that they had been using for decades during the War of the Seven Kingdoms.
The Current Reign of the 80th Heavenly Emperor, has risen the wealth of the planet considerably with mining operations and fortifying the planet from invasion. The Grand Imperial Army has also went modernization to an extend to match up with the technology of the galaxy, and the establishment of the Grand Imperial Navy to provide both air support with atmospheric fighters and military airships and by establishing dockyards within the system, to produce a navy that while not the most powerful in the galaxy could certainly hold back a superior technological force for some time, giving the planet an opportunity to rally the masses in defense of the Heavenly Emperor. Both economic prosperity and cultural prosperity are very important because they keep the populace in line and prevent major rebellions from forming against the Imperial State altogether. Although the planet is looking bright and has a bright future ahead, only time will tell if the 80th Heavenly Emperor can uphold his absolute power over the world without being interfered with either by actors within the state or by foreigners looking to take the planet for themselves.
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