Eternal Father
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION- Intent: Flesh out the new capital of Ession
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- Canon: N/A
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The Cleansing of Ession
SETTING INFORMATION
- City Name: Pax Imperialis
- Classification: Industrial Metropolis
- Location: Ession
- Affiliation: The Sith Empire
- Demographics: With the entirety of Ession's civilian population having either been outright liquidated or enslaved for nefarious experiments, most of the planet is devoid of organic sentients. In their place is a vast army of robotic constructors and assembly-line drones that are programmed to endlessly harvest the planet's remaining aboveground and belowground resources and build machines of war for the Sith Empire. The nobles of Ession who defected to the Sith Empire before the battle were allocated their own minor continent to rule as they saw fit, while a small population of Gormak from Voss was relocated to Ession to oversee the city-sized factories and improve upon the Imperial designs being manufactured.
0.02% Zygerrian - 1.98% Human
- 3% Gormak
- 95% Robotic Workers
[*]Wealth: Low
- Due to the nature of Pax Imperialis' purpose, there is hardly any tangible wealth flowing through the city's non-existent economy, as everything of value had been either plundered by the Sith Empire or reconstituted into the city-wide superstructure. The one exception is Elysium.
[*]Stability: High
- Because the entire civilian population of Ession was eradicated during the cleansing, there are no elements that could formulate a rebellion against the Imperial occupation of the planet. Only an incalculable number of robotic workers and a small miniscule population of organic overseers dominate the world now.
[*]Description: Once a populated and booming economic powerhouse of the Corporate Sector, the planet of Ession was renowned for its impressive industrial yards and republican idealism that encouraged political activism and anti-Imperialist sentiment for centuries. However, its ties to various resistance organizations would eventually bring about its downfall as the New Sith Empire sought to quash all forms of opposition to its totalitarian government.
After the cataclysmic Cleansing of Ession, the planet was rendered devoid of a population as all civilians planet-side had either been ruthlessly exterminated or harvested to serve as test subjects in Sith experiments elsewhere. The Sith Empire demolished all residential and administrative districts in every city, widening the relatively un-damaged industrial yards to span the now empty urban areas.
The Empire accomplished this rapid construction through the use of its mobile factories, massive five-kilometer long starships that utilized powerful tractor beam technology to tear apart the ground and convert soil and stone into new materials via molecular furnaces. Those materials were then used to build the new capital of Ession, a city-spanning factory the Empire called Pax Imperialis.
The Imperial Peace.
POINTS OF INTEREST
- Elysium: An elitist paradise, the sector of Elysium is the size of a small continent separated from the rest of the polluted planet by a moat-like sea connected only by massive bridges that can be raised or lowered at the nobility's discretion. The environment of Elysium is one of sublime tranquility, with a vast preserve of wildlife game for the sporting elite to track and hunt for pleasure, and vast estates where the rich indulge in their desires of food, flesh, and anything else their vast riches can afford them. A small enclave of Zygerrians has been established to facilitate easy slave trade between the surviving nobles of Ession and the slavers of not-so-distant Zygerria.
- City-Factories: Vast labyrinths of assembly lines, forges, junkyards, and run-off sludge lakes comprise the majority of Ession's surface. Ever since the Sith Empire cleansed the planet of its population, they converted all residential areas into massive factories further divided into sectors that prioritize different technologies or parameters of war. Lakes and rivers were drained to make way for cesspool runoffs and mile-long assembly lines surrounded by automated machines. Only droids inhabit the lowest levels of these grime-ridden slums, with the beastial Gormak serving as the rulers of this durasteel hellscape.
- Orbital Dockyards: When the Empire took Ession over, they resolved to convert the planet into a new system of production to resupply their ever-expanding war machine. Old satellites and outdated defense platforms were scrapped and the construction of large-scale dockyards was put into action. The primary output of these yards were the droid starfighters the Sith Empire often utilized in its swarming tactics.
- Rating: High
- Defensive Emplacements:
Automated Anti-Infantry Turrets - Automated Anti-Vehicle Turrets
- Automated Anti-Aircraft Turrets
- Internal Ray Shielding
[*]Orbital Emplacements:
[*]Combat Forces:
- Gormak Legionnaires
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Sith Empire's territory changed routinely, growing ever larger with every passing rotation as more and more systems either acquiesced to Imperial authority or were made to kneel through military prowess. The rise of such a government was considered unacceptable by many who had once lived under the security of the Silver Jedi Order, and a multitude of ad hoc organizations formed to combat its expanse.
Out of the myriad of rebellions beyond the frontier of the Empire, two had achieved a status that made them an immediate threat to the Emperor's regime. The strongest was the League of Voss, an organized and highly radical rebel insurgency dedicated to bringing down the Sith Empire by any means necessary. Their terroristic attacks had spread panic and hysteria across the Empire's border worlds, but their efforts were ultimately rendered futile after their capital Voss was attacked and occupied by the Sith.
The second group was the Rebel Alliance, led by the notorious terrorist Grayson family. They held no tangible territory, electing to make use of an abundance of converted yachts and cruise liners to harry the Empire's trade routes and launch daring raids into the Empire's heartland. However, the Sith Emperor knew that Grayson had an exploitable weakness, one that was revealed to him by the Lady of Secrets herself.
He was deeply patriotic.
Perhaps to a fault.
Plans were drawn and resources were diverted into a war fleet with enough strength to overpower any defensive emplacements over the planet of Ession, the rebel leader's world of birth. This was to be no campaign of conquest, the Emperor sought to make an example of any boy king that would dare challenge his Imperial providence.
What transpired next could only be described as an extermination.
Entire corps of Legionnaires descended upon Ession, the defense fleet broken and scattered by the Emperor's dreadnought, with one true objective in mind: to eradicate all civilian life on the planet, leave no stone unturned, no house left standing, and no child left wailing.
All would burn.
And burn they did.
By the time the Empire had its full of carnage, Ession was left an empty world. The fetid wind howled across prairies of bone, cities of shelled out skyscrapers serving as tombstones to a culture that had been sentenced to oblivion. Only after the last vestiges of conflict fell silent upon the world did the Sith unveil their true purpose, one formulated of the Emperor's own design.
Everything urban, save for the planet's industrial parks, was destroyed and flattened to be replaced by a new factory skyline. Massive warehouses, manufacturing complexes, energy refineries, mile-long assembly lines, and churning incinerators were erected practically overnight, the ruin of Ession converted into industrial splendor as the Emperor's hand clenched the planet in its iron grip.
However, not all was rendered machine or left to rot in pollution.
Before the fated battle a number of Ession nobles had willingly surrendered themselves to the Sith, bringing with them all of the information on the planet's military, infrastructure, and population censuses they could get their greedy hands on. In exchange for this information, they only ask that once Ession had been swept clean that they are given their own paradise to rule. Grant them this pact, and they would not stand in the Empire's way.
The bargain was struck and, in the aftermath, an entire continent was set aside for their personal use. Unspoiled woodlands, fields of ripe fruit and vegetables, and sparkling streams and lakes of crystal blue water dominated this new paradise. The noble families that had sold their planet to the Empire were allowed to build vast estates dedicated to their opulence and depravity, while a shield was then erected around the continent to protect them from the lethal pollution that loomed beyond their shores.
With Ession utterly pacified, the Emperor decreed that it would serve as a new production hub for the Empire's war machine. Tanks, walkers, and starfighters began to pour out of city-sized factories on an unprecedented scale in preparation for even grander campaigns elsewhere in the galaxy.
