Tycho Amnen
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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: to give flavor to Haruun Kal and provide linkable context to several of my posts.
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Canon: the first Summertime War ended around the time of The Clone Wars(X)
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Event Name: Summertime War
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Location: Haruun Kal[X]
Galactic Standard Year: 825-858
Participants: Korunai(X), Balawai(X) Tycho Amnen[X]
Brief Overview: there are competing accounts why the war started in 825. Some say the armed theft of food and water rations from one side was the first blow struck, while others claim that was the work of bandits and it was the rash and awful retaliation that really kicked off the war when an orphanage caught fire claiming 26 lives. As stated one side claimed this to be retaliation while the accused claimed innocence and blamed a lightning strike.
33 summers of violence and ever increasing atrocities occurred after that.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION:
Tensions between the native dark-skinned, Force Sensitive, nomadic population of Haruun Kal, known as the Korunai, and the immigrated population, called–somewhat pervasively by the Korun population–The Balawai have existed for over 800 years. Three decades before the galactic separatist movement–subsequently known as The Clone Wars–those tensions boiled over into full civil war that began each year after the snows of winter subsided and lasted until the autumn rains began, gaining its name as the "summertime" war.
This cyclical war lasted for 33 summers until a peace agreement was reached, brokered by famed Korun Jedi Master Mace Windu. The war ended but the tension merely slumbered, never fully dissipating.
The Gulag plague was a catalyst for those tensions to once again bubble to the surface as the nomadic and less technologically advanced–and less populace – Korun population was devastated by the virus. The Korun resented what they perceived as a lack of aide from The Balawai and The Balawai in return, ignorantly blamed the Korun and their nomadic ways for the spread of the sickness. Due however to the massive toll the plague took on both populations– though it is true the Korunai suffered the worst of it– war was avoided.
Rebuilding took decades if not centuries but there was no healing the rift between the natives and those considered to be off-worlders. From that point the world was ripe with factionalism, political strife, bigotry, mistrust, and hatred for anyone who was on the other side.
I'm the centuries between the plague and the events being detailed here, There were of course flare ups in tension and anger. there was violence as well. famously the riot of Pelek Baw in 745. a Balawai rodian couple who had been accused of poisoning the precious and almost sacredly revered Grassers that belonged to one of the Kourn tribes was found not guilty in what the Korunai saw as a miscarriage of Justice. Four days of rioting took place after that, leaving over half a hundred beings dead and more than three times that number significantly injured, with property damages numbering in the millions.
The year 825 is where this history is most concerned. After a brutal sweltering summer the autumn rains did not fall. A drought had come to the uplands of Haruun Kal and once again the Korunai people suffered the worst for it. Relief was provided in some measure by donated food and water rations stored in a semi central location for the nomadic tribes to be able to make their way and take their portions, however beings armed with blasters and armored speeders came and took the rations for themselves. Many blamed the Balawai for this because of the technology involved and because of the past but there were Korunai who sat on the governmental council that warned against blaming the Balawai with no proof. For their own part the Balawai government denied any involvement, blaming the theft on raiders.
Three weeks later in Oran Mas an orphanage caught fire. 26 lives were lost including 16 children, 4 live-in caretakers and 6 beings who rushed into the flames to help. This was of course seen as a retaliatory act perpetrated by the Korun, who denied any involvement with something so heinous. The world was still dry from the drought, dry heat and lightning were to blame they said but the downfolk remained unconvinced. These two events were the spark needed to reignite the Summertime War, which began in the fall of 825.
It was only a few weeks later that the rains began to fall and only a short time after that the snows came and so for a time bloodshed ceased but hunger remained to stoke the fires of hate and ensure the following summer would be one of the bloodiest in the planet's history.
In that first true summer half a million native Korun died in the fighting along with half so many lowlanders. Three quarters of a million lives lost in a single season was unheard of. Pressed by a lack of numbers and a lack of technology when compared to their adversaries, the Korun started recruiting soldiers as soon as they were young enough to hold a weapon, using sometimes children as young as 8 or 9.
After a decade of fighting and losing the native Korun received aid from an unknown foreign interest in the form of a Mandalorian mercenary troop. These mercenaries provided new weapons and training to certain parts of the Korun war effort establishing the Korunai Special Forces or KSF. Side by side with the mysterious Mandalorian Mercs, the KSF waged a bloody counter attack taking back much of the territory that had been lost in the previous summers. There was no mercy shown to their enemies with it even being indicated that the KSF would slaughter entire clans of their own people if they were suspected of harboring any Balawai– military or civilians.
The introduction of the KSF turned the tide of the war in so much that what was looking like a defeat for the native populace now stood as a decades long stalemate where more and more lives were lost with each passing summer but resolution never came any closer.
In the autumn the rains fell to water the crops that had already drowned in summer blood. In the year 856 the war changed for good. From the stars came a stranger, a stranger that proclaimed themselves a son of Korun and a Jedi besides, it was a repeat of the first Summertime war nearly a millennium before only this man was no Mace Windu and there would be no peace. This man Tycho Amnen had once been a Jedi Knight before falling to corruption. He took his skill in The Force and added new training to select members of the KSF for all Korun people have a connection to The Force. He created a select few Force talented black ops and with these special operatives and his own training in The Force, Tycho Amnen ended the war and installed himself as ruler of Haruun Kal.
Intent: to give flavor to Haruun Kal and provide linkable context to several of my posts.
Image Credit: N/A
Canon: the first Summertime War ended around the time of The Clone Wars(X)
Permissions: N/A
Links: N/A
GENERAL INFORMATION
Event Name: Summertime War
Event Specific Links: N/A
Location: Haruun Kal[X]
Galactic Standard Year: 825-858
Participants: Korunai(X), Balawai(X) Tycho Amnen[X]
Brief Overview: there are competing accounts why the war started in 825. Some say the armed theft of food and water rations from one side was the first blow struck, while others claim that was the work of bandits and it was the rash and awful retaliation that really kicked off the war when an orphanage caught fire claiming 26 lives. As stated one side claimed this to be retaliation while the accused claimed innocence and blamed a lightning strike.
33 summers of violence and ever increasing atrocities occurred after that.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION:
Tensions between the native dark-skinned, Force Sensitive, nomadic population of Haruun Kal, known as the Korunai, and the immigrated population, called–somewhat pervasively by the Korun population–The Balawai have existed for over 800 years. Three decades before the galactic separatist movement–subsequently known as The Clone Wars–those tensions boiled over into full civil war that began each year after the snows of winter subsided and lasted until the autumn rains began, gaining its name as the "summertime" war.
This cyclical war lasted for 33 summers until a peace agreement was reached, brokered by famed Korun Jedi Master Mace Windu. The war ended but the tension merely slumbered, never fully dissipating.
The Gulag plague was a catalyst for those tensions to once again bubble to the surface as the nomadic and less technologically advanced–and less populace – Korun population was devastated by the virus. The Korun resented what they perceived as a lack of aide from The Balawai and The Balawai in return, ignorantly blamed the Korun and their nomadic ways for the spread of the sickness. Due however to the massive toll the plague took on both populations– though it is true the Korunai suffered the worst of it– war was avoided.
Rebuilding took decades if not centuries but there was no healing the rift between the natives and those considered to be off-worlders. From that point the world was ripe with factionalism, political strife, bigotry, mistrust, and hatred for anyone who was on the other side.
I'm the centuries between the plague and the events being detailed here, There were of course flare ups in tension and anger. there was violence as well. famously the riot of Pelek Baw in 745. a Balawai rodian couple who had been accused of poisoning the precious and almost sacredly revered Grassers that belonged to one of the Kourn tribes was found not guilty in what the Korunai saw as a miscarriage of Justice. Four days of rioting took place after that, leaving over half a hundred beings dead and more than three times that number significantly injured, with property damages numbering in the millions.
The year 825 is where this history is most concerned. After a brutal sweltering summer the autumn rains did not fall. A drought had come to the uplands of Haruun Kal and once again the Korunai people suffered the worst for it. Relief was provided in some measure by donated food and water rations stored in a semi central location for the nomadic tribes to be able to make their way and take their portions, however beings armed with blasters and armored speeders came and took the rations for themselves. Many blamed the Balawai for this because of the technology involved and because of the past but there were Korunai who sat on the governmental council that warned against blaming the Balawai with no proof. For their own part the Balawai government denied any involvement, blaming the theft on raiders.
Three weeks later in Oran Mas an orphanage caught fire. 26 lives were lost including 16 children, 4 live-in caretakers and 6 beings who rushed into the flames to help. This was of course seen as a retaliatory act perpetrated by the Korun, who denied any involvement with something so heinous. The world was still dry from the drought, dry heat and lightning were to blame they said but the downfolk remained unconvinced. These two events were the spark needed to reignite the Summertime War, which began in the fall of 825.
It was only a few weeks later that the rains began to fall and only a short time after that the snows came and so for a time bloodshed ceased but hunger remained to stoke the fires of hate and ensure the following summer would be one of the bloodiest in the planet's history.
In that first true summer half a million native Korun died in the fighting along with half so many lowlanders. Three quarters of a million lives lost in a single season was unheard of. Pressed by a lack of numbers and a lack of technology when compared to their adversaries, the Korun started recruiting soldiers as soon as they were young enough to hold a weapon, using sometimes children as young as 8 or 9.
After a decade of fighting and losing the native Korun received aid from an unknown foreign interest in the form of a Mandalorian mercenary troop. These mercenaries provided new weapons and training to certain parts of the Korun war effort establishing the Korunai Special Forces or KSF. Side by side with the mysterious Mandalorian Mercs, the KSF waged a bloody counter attack taking back much of the territory that had been lost in the previous summers. There was no mercy shown to their enemies with it even being indicated that the KSF would slaughter entire clans of their own people if they were suspected of harboring any Balawai– military or civilians.
The introduction of the KSF turned the tide of the war in so much that what was looking like a defeat for the native populace now stood as a decades long stalemate where more and more lives were lost with each passing summer but resolution never came any closer.
In the autumn the rains fell to water the crops that had already drowned in summer blood. In the year 856 the war changed for good. From the stars came a stranger, a stranger that proclaimed themselves a son of Korun and a Jedi besides, it was a repeat of the first Summertime war nearly a millennium before only this man was no Mace Windu and there would be no peace. This man Tycho Amnen had once been a Jedi Knight before falling to corruption. He took his skill in The Force and added new training to select members of the KSF for all Korun people have a connection to The Force. He created a select few Force talented black ops and with these special operatives and his own training in The Force, Tycho Amnen ended the war and installed himself as ruler of Haruun Kal.
