High Commander of the Lilaste Order
MISSION OVERVIEW
There are dead worlds in the galaxyruins, husks, and relics of wars long passed. But Kiev’ara is something else. It was not lost to time, or consumed by conquest. It was severed violently and absolutely cast into the dark like a forgotten god’s wound. Once, Kiev’ara was a radiant jewel in the Unknown Regions. It was the sacred home of the Kiev’arian Dragons, an ancient people born not just attuned to the Force, but woven into its very fabric. Each Kiev’arian lived in relative harmony with thier world. shaped by sacred trials and bound in reverence to the twin gods: Dra’ko, deity of life and creation, and Saurav’ix, god of death and war. Their civilization thrived through honor, unity, and a connection to the Living Force so pure it made their world sing.Then came the Rakatan Infinite Empire. In 30,000 BBY, the Rakata descended with chains instead of ambassadors, intent on harvesting Kiev’ara’s people as living batteries for their dark technology. But the Kiev’arians refused to be broken. And so, the Rakata chose annihilation. They turned the Star Forge upon the system and consumed Kiev’ara’s sun. The world died in an instant. Its atmosphere was stripped away. Forests froze mid-bloom. Oceans cracked and lifted into the void. Cities collapsed under the pressure of silence. The Force itself recoiled.
Kiev’ara didn’t just perish—it vanished from the galactic memory. A Force-dead scar, drifting unmoored through the cold. For thousands of years, no one saw it. No one named it. No one knew it remained. Except Laphisto. He did not find Kiev’ara. It found him. He awoke from sleep with no dream and no voice, just an aching silence that sat heavy in his chest. A stillness he hadn’t felt in millennia. And then, a pressure. Not pain but recognition. The echo of something ancient stirring in his bones.
He saw a sky swallowed by ash. A capital frozen in place. Halls without breath, but not without presence. And deep within that cold vision, he knew—without being told—what he was seeing. It wasn’t a vision from the Force. It was older. Deeper It was Kiev’ara. He remembered it not as a place, but as a part of himself As if its name had been carved into his marrow from birth.
No sensors detected the rogue planet drifting near the Atrivis Fringe. No records matched its trajectory. But Laphisto spoke its name before any scan confirmed it. The Diarchy has since authorized a limited deployment under his command—to assess the anomaly, recover what can be found, and investigate the strange readings emanating from the ruins. But this is not conquest It is not even salvage. This is a return Kiev’ara is not a corpse. It is not silent. It is waiting. And it may not welcome the living. After receiving permission from



Objective IA – Forward Echo: Establishing the Ice Line
Overview:
The expedition's first task is clear: establish a secure Forward Operating Base (FOB) on the surface of Kiev’ara. The chosen location lies on the outskirts of the ancient capital, Elda’mir, a once-glorious city of marble spires, elemental crystal towers, and carved mountainsides that spoke with light and song. Today, the city is still but not buried.Its upper structures remain partially exposed, jutting from the frost like the skeletal remains of a great beast. Towering statues, cracked domes, and stone causeways are blanketed in ash and frozen soot, remnants of the moment the world died. The wind carries no sound. The snow does not fall. The silence is complete but not comforting.
The terrain is broken and uneven. Ancient buildings tilt at unnatural angles, twisted by time and shifting gravitational anomalies. Black ice clings to staircases and plazas. Burned banners ripple in windless air. Between these structures, lying as if frozen mid-flight or mid-charge, are the bodies of Kiev’arian warriors and civilians preserved perfectly in death, flash-frozen in the instant the atmosphere was stripped away.
Each corpse bears a Fire Tear embedded in the chest cavity, just beneath the sternum a brilliant soul-crystal, glowing faintly even after thousands of years. No two shine alike. No two are cracked from the same stone. They pulse like they are still alive. The FOB will be built among them. as its the safest and closest place to the Capital
Mission Objectives:
- Establish the Perimeter: Deploy modular shield barriers and environmental shelters. The terrain must be cleared of debris, unstable ice, and loose ash before foundations can hold. Motion detectors must be placed to compensate for the lack of atmospheric movement.
- Excavation & Mapping: Identify structurally sound ruins to repurpose as storage, medical, or research facilities. Unearth possible stairwells, tunnels, or forge conduits leading beneath the city. Engineers must determine what’s safe to approach—some statues and buildings are humming with residual energy.
- Relay Setup & Uplink Calibration: Because the planet’s interference disrupts standard communication, deploy three hardline relays at pre-marked grid points. Atmospheric scans suggest a window of stable transmission every 72 minutes—timing is critical.
- Fire Tear Documentation: A specialized team is tasked with scanning the Kiev’arian remains. Do not remove the Fire Tears. Doing so has already triggered strange static feedback through relay uplinks. One engineer reported “hearing” a voice when standing near a particularly intact warrior—despite the planet’s lack of atmosphere
Environmental Threats & Anomalies:
- Gravitational Ripples: Elda’mir’s outer district has minor but unpredictable gravity distortion zones. Equipment may misfire or go dead. Some dropships have reported drifting mid-hover during descent. Ground teams are advised to keep magnetic tethers engaged at all times.
- Frozen Guardians: Some preserved Kiev’arians appear posed defensively—swords half-raised, jaws open in a final war cry. Despite the age of the bodies, almost like frozen stone. Some soldiers believe the bodies shift between patrols—but sensors say otherwise.
- Crystal Resonance Pulses: At irregular intervals, the Fire Tears across the field pulse in unison. It’s brief—less than two seconds—but measurable. Each time it happens, machinery resets. Static bleeds into comms. Some report “ghost diagnostics” activating strange text on inactive screens.
- Whispers in the Ash: Ash sometimes lifts without breeze. Sensor readings drop briefly. Audio feedback has included unknown chants, low harmonics, and what might be heartbeat rhythms synced with the Fire Tears.
- Cut off from the force: the planet seems to silence the force of anyone who stands directly on its surface, but strangely, the moment you step onto a starship or into a building, the force returns. Exposure to the Planet's surface for too long has adverse effects

Objective II – Fixing the Void: Charting the Hyperspace Spine
“A forgotten world is only as useful as the road that leads to it.”Overview:
Kiev’ara is a rogue planet—dislodged from its original orbit after its sun was consumed, left adrift in deep space for over thirty thousand years. Without a central star or gravitational anchor, it moves unpredictably along a cold and silent trajectory in the Atrivis Fringe, far from any major trade lane. Its sudden reappearance following the Planeshipt Event has made it accessible—but not reliably so.Currently, all access to the planet is dependent on short-range manual jumps, escorted by pathfinder vessels using real-time drift corrections. These are dangerous, fuel-intensive, and unsustainable. A long-term presence on Kiev’ara cannot be maintained unless a dedicated hyperspace route can be established and stabilized.
That process begins now.
Primary Objectives:
- Establish Orbital Navigational Relays: Satellites must be deployed in high orbit around Kiev’ara to act as synchronized beacons. These relays will allow for precise triangulation of the planet’s drift trajectory and future jump-point predictions.
- Anchor a Gravitational Stabilizer Array: Without a host star, Kiev’ara’s gravitational signature is erratic. Engineering crews must assemble a stabilizer network to broadcast artificial mass-shadow readings, tricking navicomputers into recognizing it as a “fixed” system.
- Recover Ancient Star Charts (Optional): Fragments of pre-cataclysmic Kiev’arian stellar maps may exist within the Hollow Spire, an ancient observatory buried beneath ice. These maps may contain forgotten hyperlanes or original system alignment data that can assist in routing.
- Calibrate Jump Coordinates: Once the relay grid is functional, teams must test hyperspace entry and exit with a series of drone jumps, followed by manned runs. Each success brings Kiev’ara one step closer to true accessibility.
Environmental & Technical Challenges:
- Interference from Local Anomalies: Gravity pockets near the planet’s outer shell distort beacon alignment. Multiple calibration passes will be required to keep nav-data stable.
- Residual Static from the Force-Dead Zone: Kiev’ara’s unnatural severance from the Force emits low-grade electromagnetic pulses that can interfere with jump calculations. Standard hyperspace navigation software may require modification.
- Frozen Debris Fields: As the planet drifts, it pulls fragments of destroyed satellites, rock, and starship wreckage behind it like a shadow. Navigating through this debris will require precision and coordination between spotters and navigators.
- Temporal Drift: Early test jumps have returned inconsistent timestamp data, suggesting a minor temporal dilation effect when approaching Kiev’ara at high speed. Long-term exposure risks are unknown.
Disclaimer - dont worry about turn order. this thread will be free flowing with a GM/ main response coming every 3 days, those on seperate/ solo objectives are free to reply when a GM response is given
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