Saani Kenow
Retanasian Smuggler Queen
"Renatasia: Unbowed, Unforgotten, Unafraid."
[SIZE=14.6667px]Criminal Organization Name: [/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px]Renatasian Confederation[/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px]Type:[/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px] Smuggling Organization[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Affiliation:[/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px] The Underworld[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Alignment:[/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px] Chaotic Neutral[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Operations:[/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px] Smuggling (Guns, Spice, Stolen Goods)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Structure:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Captains: [/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px]Saani Kenow[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Lieutenants: [/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px]NPCs[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Associates: [/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px]NPCs[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Description:[/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px] The Renatasian Confederation is a smuggling network composed mostly of people of Renatasian descent. Created to keep the cultural identities of the nation-states of Renatasia alive by any means necessary, it engages in gunrunning, fencing, and the spice trade in order to earn the credits it needs to support the far-flung refugees of its former home system.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Despite this culturally-exclusive goal, the Confederation is perfectly willing to hire and work with non-Renatasians. It has often traded extensively with the Hutts across the “Kessel Hop” route, and freely establishes ties with other underworld organizations. Due to their negative history with the Centrality and the Galactic Empire, however, the Confederation never trades with or supports authoritarian powers, and its terrorist past sometimes rears up if confronted with such enemies.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Steeped in thousands of years of rich and diverse traditions, the Confederation highly values the members known as “Heritage Bearers”. These men and women, always of direct Renatasian descent, are responsible for preserving the cultures of the nation-states of their ancestors. Covered in tattoos in the all-but-lost languages of their forefathers, they maintain a deep knowledge of the ways of their ancestors, and pass that knowledge on to their descendants.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Due to the diversity of the Renatasians, heritage bearers represent dozens of different lost nations. The death of a heritage-bearer before his or her knowledge is passed on is seen as a deep and irreversible tragedy, and the Confederation has suffered it far too many times.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]The Renatasians generally conduct their operations undetected, avoiding violence, but when threatened they are capable fighters. Trained by centuries of guerilla warfare and childhoods spent in rough and tumble youth gangs, they are extremely adept at urban combat, and among their ranks are many capable pilots and no small number of talented scouts and survivalists. They are masters of the hit and run, striking quickly and withdrawing without a trace.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Due to their presence on the backwater worlds of the Centrality, including the Zebitrope system, the Renatasians have a virtual monopoly on the trade of Lesai Spice, infamous for its ability to allow users to go without sleep (and the rumors that it shapes its addicts into amoral sociopaths). This forms the backbone of their smuggling trade, financing their purchases of blasters and stolen goods that allow them to multiply their profits.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]History:[/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px] Approximately five thousand years ago, the monarchical planet of Grizmallt was a major sponsor of rimward exploration. When a violent revolution broke out on the planet, huge numbers of refugees fled aboard colony ships, seeking peaceful lives on unspoiled worlds far from the war at home. One such group settled in the Renatasia System, far to the Galactic East. Declining to notify their homeworld of the new colony, they faded from the galactic scene for millennia.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]During that time, rich cultures grew and developed in the system. Diverse nation-states appeared on cosmopolitan Renatasia IV and among the rolling hills of the agriworld of Renatasia III, creating unique languages, art, and technology grounded in their common origins but distinguished by their individualistic pride. Had the Republic rediscovered the Renatasia System, xenosociologists would have celebrated the opportunity to study the development of these complex societies.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Unfortunately, in 13 BBY the system was instead rediscovered by the Centrality, an authoritarian power ruling over an area of space the Galactic Empire did not consider worth directly controlling. Its leader Rokur Gepta immediately set his sights on conquering the planets. Imperial agents infiltrated the Renatasian nations, helped them form a unified government, and then promptly turned over all data on their capabilities and vulnerabilities to the Empire’s military forces.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Still, the Empire underestimated the fractious Renatasians, who had a great deal of practice fighting one another. Despite Imperial technological superiority, the first wave of occupying forces was slaughtered nearly to a man. Their reinforcements did not fare much better. The brutal conflict quickly became a black hole of Imperial manpower, with hardened soldiers horrified by the utter savagery of the guerrilla war. Still, against the Empire there could be only one outcome.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]The Imperial Fleet finally launched a totally devastating response, killing some two thirds of the Renatasian population. Many of the survivors were displaced into labor camps under Imperial penal edicts that were slavery in all but name. The Empire hushed up how much damage had been done to its forces and largely withdrew from the Centrality, where they had lost so much for so very little gain. Few Renatasians remained to mourn or celebrate.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Those who did remain moved immediately to take revenge. A practical people, the Renatasians systematically hunted down the Imperial agents who had set up “The Betrayal” and killed them all. Traveling across the galaxy, they liberated their kin wherever they could. No small number joined the Rebel Alliance. Still, their proud nations lay in utter ruin. They were a dispersed people, scattered and without a home to return to. Their cultures began to be lost.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]While the Empire fell, the Centrality did not, and oppression of the surviving Renatasians likewise did not come to an end. The Renatasian Confederation, the group which had banded together to hunt down the Imperial agents, turned to terrorism in order to fight the Centrality’s policies. Their attacks culminated in the destruction of the monorail system on the Centrality’s capital world of Erilnar, an attack that killed over a million people. A climate of fear ensued, but little real change.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, the Centrality was flooded with refugees. Its backwater worlds became overpopulated and crime-ridden, and its richer worlds closed their borders and refused to provide any aid. Suddenly, sympathy for the Renatasians soared. The governing authority of the Centrality was seen as corrupt and uncaring, and many of the refugees quietly supported the Confederation’s resistance. Slowly, the organization began to switch gears.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]In the absence of effective policing by the Centrality on the overcrowded planets, the Renatasian Confederation became a de facto legal authority. It resolved disputes and did its best to protect the population. In order to finance these operations, the organization became heavily involved in the Lesai Spice trade across the “Kessel Hop” illegal trade route, forming strong business ties with a number of Hutt Kajidics. Their livelihood became based around smuggling.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]When the Gulag Plague brought about the 800-year Darkness, the Hutts and the Centrality both became ruthlessly isolationist, shooting down refugee ships out of fear of infection. This was not the Confederation’s policy, but their compassion had terrible consequences: huge swaths of the population on the Centrality’s backwater worlds were wiped out by the plague.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]But the Renatasians had dealt with massive death tolls before, and they were determined to keep their culture alive. Desperate deals, secret trade routes, and ruthless practicality kept the organization intact through the long dark, still carrying the memories of the nation-states that represented their past. When the darkness ended, the organization began to slowly expand, cautiously maneuvering around the emerging galactic powers.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]With the collapse of the Republic and the One Sith alike in 849 ABY, the Renatasians sensed an opportunity to expand as the galactic underworld took advantage of the chaos. They prepared to move out of the Centrality’s backwater systems and establish their smuggling operations even on its most prominent worlds - and beyond.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Territory:[/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px] Presently N/A[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Other: [/SIZE][SIZE=14.6667px]Presently N/A[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14.6667px]Members:[/SIZE]
- Saani Kenow
