Barbie Barnabas
Pirate Queen from the Wild of Space
YAMO GO
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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION:
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POPULATION:
GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY:
Yamo Go is 1 of the 17 planets that orbit the star Empyria. It is also 1 of 6 that contain human life and colonies in the system.
Yamo Go has a twin planet (Aromag) that shares the same orbit. This sister planet was the last to be discovered as it sits 180 degrees from Yamo Go and it is on the opposite side of their shared star.
Yamo Go was said to be nearly 400 years ahead of Aromag in development concerning sciences, medicine, and astronomy. Upon the discovery of her sister planet on the opposite side of their star (as per early space exploratory) Yamo Go did not hesitate in sharing it's advanced steam-punch sciences/tech/rocketry with Aromag, who was centuries behind in such advancements. It was Yamo Go who brought Aromag advanced steam-punk tech by sharing it's tech and sciences.
Aromag embraced these sciences/advancements and in the next hundred years it used such given knowledge to build fleets of space faring vessels...most all military. It could be said that Aromag was in an arms race with itself, as Yamo Go had no interest in building up any military, seeing that it had not had an internal war for over a Millennium. Yamo Go had developed into a peaceful world and it had always hoped that Aromag would follow suit.
Well, that wasn't so.
A hundred years after Yamo Go first landed on Aromag, it was annexed into the newly formed Constantine Empire, which then encompassed the 6 habitable worlds in the Empyrian star system.
Aromag at the time of first contact, had just come out of their feudal like society (states) which were separated by continents. The greater state (Demos) with more resources were able to quickly develop space vessels which soon enabled that state to become Aromag's superpower and ruling state, 25 years after first contact. This planetary unity as Aromag calls it was the start of the Constantine Empire where Demos capital city was called. 75 years later with an amassed militarized space fleet, they annexed Yamo Go.
Yamo Go was for the most part defenseless as they had abandoned wars and conflict a thousand years prior. But not Aromag which had always been a feudal like society up to the point of first contact with Yamo Go. They quickly embraced and adopted the sciences and tech and built their future fleets that would soon rule their entire known system.
But Aromag was not all oppressive to Yamo Go as it were to the other 4 systems. True, there seemed to be a kind of different mind set/perspectives between Go Gos and Mags (as Aromags are called). But although Aromag had acquired advanced sciences from Yamo Go, they had difficulties in further advancing them on their own. Aromag had always been a very militaristic feudal society throughout it's development as compared to Yamo Go which had taken the course of freedom of expression and sciences.
It was argued by Aromag's Admiralty that to oppress Yamo Go would mean the slowing of more advance sciences which the Admiralty wished to continue, for the greater good of the Constantine Empire.
As thus, Yamo Go were given an almost equal status as that of Aromag. Many of the reforms since the initial hostile takeover of the 5 systems were influenced by Yamo Go.
While the hardness of oppressions has laxed since the centuries of initial marshal laws, all systems are still from having any form of independence or a possible future of self governing. Most of what little resistance if at all any significant resistance still resists, it is negligible in the scope of ever overthrowing the Constantine Empire.
In short, Yamo Go continues to be the forefront of all advanced development in the system. It had been influential in the past at the dawn of their space age and it continues to this day, despite the over bearing presence of the Constantine Empire bearing on them. But without Yamo Go's continued advancement, the entire system of planets would likely not continue to advance in both sciences, literature and tech. It should be surmised that Yamo Go would eventually develop hyperdrive technology that would push their ships to and beyond light speed.
In turn, if the known galaxy does not stumble upon this system before then, that they will emerge and discover that there's not only more advanced technological star systems out there but varied intelligent species besides humans also. But on their own, they are still many centuries if not a thousand years to attain hyper technology.
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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION:
- Intent: To create a backwater planet from where Barbie Barbie originated from. Her home world.
- Said system has yet to develop modern tech, such as interstellar vessels, as Yamo Go has yet to develop hyperdrive technology. It's ships/vessels travel only at sub-light. Hyperdrive tech is unknown to them. Yamo Go has yet to be discovered by the known galaxy.
- Image Credit: Portion of Galaxy map were taken from here. Solar system, my own making. Planet image
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Barbie Barbie, Star Lancer, Hyper Blaster
GENERAL INFORMATION:
- Planet Name: Yamo Go
7th planet in a system of 17 total orbiting their star.
- Demonym: Go Gos
- Region: Galaxy's Western Spiral (see above map), which is considered the Unknown Regions.
- System Name: Empyrean System, with Empyria being the system's star name.
- System Features: Empyeam System consists of 17 planets, 11 being terrestrial with 6 of these planets having sufficient water and atmosphere to sustain human life.
- The 6 outer planets are gas giants.
- Yamo Go is the 9th planet sharing it's orbit around the star Empyria with Aromag the 10th planet in the system. The 6th planet has an ecosystem, but it is sparsely uninhabited by the majority of humans due to it's extreme hot climate because of it's excessive green house gases. The 7th planet is a tropical paradise. The 8th planet is also sparsely inhabited due to it's cold climate and very long winters.
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd (the chthonic planet) and 4th planet are relatively too close to the system star making them too hot and uninhabitable for human life. Although the 5th planet does have microbial life forms which sustain primitive crustacean and sea life ecosystem, but is not inhabited.
- 11th planet to 17th planet are all gas planets.
- Yamo Go, along with it's twin sister Aromag orbit Empyria in 364 days.
- Yamo Go has one moon, called Luna that is not in a synchronous orbit around it, rotating on it's axis every 54 hours.
- Location: See above map and detail link. This system has not yet been discovered by the known and present galaxy. I've marked an X...or rather, a yellow star here on this section of your current galaxy map I came by on.
- Major Imports: Yamo Go was at one time, self sufficient before it made advancements in the development of conventional rocketry that enabled the 6 inhabited systems to meet face to face. Yamo Go was the first planet to visit another within it's own solar system and share (export) it's technology. After it's sister planet Aromag took to being the ruling system, due to military superiority, it began dictating and regulating all trade between annexed inhabited systems. This of course was due to Aromag having the only military might.
- Yamo Go today now imports as per trade agreements; metals, such as refined iron, copper, aluminum and what they consider precious metals such as titanium, chrome and aluminum.
- Minerals such as mica, fuel and agriculture from neighboring inhabited systems to keep the economy of the Constantine Empire balanced.
- Major Exports: Much art, literature, religion and scientific advancements and tech had originated from Yamo Go and it continues to this day. Being under Aromag's dictatorship, Yamo Go is pressed for new developments in technology, weapons and regulated art and literature. Yamo Go was once self sustaining but under said agreements, Yamo Go's natural resource which include the mining of ores, minerals, oil and lumber, would not be exploited by the Constantine Empire.
- Exports wines... wines and cognac from Yamo Go's fertile valleys are known to be the best in the system. basically pretty much all fine spirits from Yamo Go seem to be preferred.
- Exports Silks... seems silk in consistent volume can only come from Yamo Go. Attempts at establishing silk farms on other systems were short lived as the exported caterpillars didn't seem to prosper anywhere else but on Yamo Go.
- Exports Strawberries,...along with other berries which somehow are not sustainable on it's sister planets.. Nothing....nothing in the entire system of Empyreum are as sweet and flavorful as strawberries from Yamo Go. It's due to it's rich organic fields. For a time, way before it was exported off world, creeping strawberry vines, along with it's fruit were considered an invasive species that seemed to overtake everything. They crept all over the fields, yards, parks...even roadways, they grew so fast. Once planetary trade came about and the fruit was introduced to the other system planets, strawberries seemed to come under control. That is, there was a huge market that opened up for the juicy fruit that it became as major an export as the wines. In turn, seems all fruits from Yamo Go's fertile soil seem to prosper extraordinarily better. Yamo Go exports a lot of fruits.
- Exporting of Pets. Canine and feline human friendly animals...hook bills and so on. The term pets incidentally were derived off world and not on Yamo Go. On Yamo Go they were and are still known as companions. Such domesticated animal species were unheard of on the other 5 systems before Yamo Go established relations with them. Within 2 decades of introduction of these animal companions to the other five systems and the entire Empyrean system were hooked on them. Naturally, the best pets to this day are still from individual households on Yamo Go. Aromag along with the other 4 planets tried farms raised versions off world, but the quality of those poor animals that suffered was luckily short lived. Naturally born pets from Yamo Go household owners (as there doesn't exist the concept of neutering animals on Yamo Go) are carefully shipped off world, by Yamo Go's humane standards.
- Exports Intricate clockworks for control of mechanical tech and computing systems. This included pneumatic and fluidic controls, as development of solid state micro wafer circuitry has not been pursued. Yamo Go is and has been the main (leader) developer and mechanical tech manufacturer of the entire system.
- Unexploited Resources: What the greater and known galaxy deems exotic minerals and ore, it is not so within the Empyrean system. Since the Constantine Empire has yet to advance into hyperspace tech and plasma based laser weaponry, many exotic metals and crystals known throughout the galaxy have little commercial value on these backwater systems.
- Kyber crystals for example, are of no value or commercial use, other than decorative desk/book case curiosities. The 6 systems which includes Yamo Go has not technically advanced beyond sub-light propulsion. And there is no known commercial value for the crystal other than a conversation piece adorning a shelf or a coffee table. Incidentally, kyber crystals for a time (a fad) did make great bookends.
- Cortosis ore is another example: It is useless, as it is impossible to smelt, for it hardens with heat instead of melting. It is mostly used for rodent control as it is highly poisonous in it's raw ore state. Being highly toxic and odorless, it ideal for vermin control when mixed with bait.
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
- Gravity: Standard
- Climate: Temperate
- Primary Terrain: Grassland, Mountains, Oceans, Tundra, Forests...cities, mountain villas...etc.
- Atmosphere: Type I
LOCATION INFORMATION:
- Capital City: Ahlore
- Planetary Features: Cities, towns, homes and architecture are brick/mortar, iron and steel subframe with much exo-steel adornments like balconies, towers and bridges. There is much rail systems in operation which are driven by large steam engines. Such powerplant are fueled by fossil fuels, both in liquid and gaseous forms. There are quite a few preserved ancient sites throughout the planet, depicting it's earlier history.
- Major sea ports have retained their historical aesthetics of an era before powered flight. This is because most powered winged flight and space faring vessels can land on water.
- Major Locations: Capitol city of Ahlore is said to be the most beautiful, which includes many ancient castles aloft on high mountain tops, with waterfalls cascading down below to the crystal clear blue lake.
- Die Mahre along with many other major coastal cities that were once major ports before the age of flight and rocketry remain as untouched as they were before the planet were annexed into the Constantine Empire, by Yamo Go's sister world, Aromag.
POPULATION:
- Native Species: Humans only
- Immigrated Species: None to date
- Population: Moderate
- Demographics: Humans only...all races equal
- Primary Languages: Basic
- Culture: Go Go's, the natural inhabitants of Yamo Go are not at all as aggressive, militaristic, nor confrontational as the Constantine Empire's home world people of Aromag, which is said to be Yamo Go's twin, or 'Big Brother' world. Both worlds share the same orbit around Empyria (star), keeping their position 180 degree relevant of each other. Incidentally, each world cannot see the other as they are on opposite ends of their sun (Empyria), as it is always between them.
- It were only a Millennium past that Yamo Go, who was ahead in technology (primitive rocketry)) discovered it's sister planet, Aromag, after visiting it's other neighboring planets. Yamo Go and all of the existing inhabited planets were immediately taken over by Aromag aprox a hundred years following Yamo Go's sharing their technology with them. It is now a thousand years later, and Yamo Go, along with the other 5 inhabited planets are still under Constantine Empire's rule (Aromag).
- Yamo Go has for the better part of the Millennium following it's induction into the Constantine Empire been able to retain it's culture, and traditions, which encapsulate the arts, sciences and religion.
- Yamo Go's major religion surrounds the creation of the universe by their deity Berkana.
GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY:
- Government: Yamo Go became a State of the Constantine Empire once Aromag built up it's space fleet. Aprox 100 years following rocketry development which lead to building space fleets.
- Affiliation: Yamo Go is 1 of 6 inhabited planets that are part of The Constantine Empire. (Will submit Constantine Empire as a minor faction)
- Wealth: On the average; High. It is where the majority of tech (clockwork mechanical tech, flight, rocketry..etc), literature and art comes from. It is also given near equal status as Aromag, but the two inner cultures are quite different from one another. There is an effort of the Constantine Empire to keep Yamo Go productive in both the sciences and trade, as Yamo Go is essential in providing Aromag with tech, discoveries and art. (more on this below)
- Stability: Medium Yamo Go, unlike it's dominant sister world of Aromag has always maintained internal social stability throughout it's own providences. Wars on Yamo go became ancient history even before the age of gunpowder, a thousand years of peace and prosperity existed before it accomplished space exploration. This resulted in the discovery of their sister world Aromag which had laid hidden around their star. Aromag, a feudal society had yet to develop any tech past locomotion when Yamo Go's astronauts finally made landing. A hundred years later this sister world (Aromag) which had absorbed Yamo Go's technology rose up to become a superpower using it's military might. The creation of The Constantine Empire which was founded on Aromag emerged.
- Throughout it's pre-space faring day, Yamo Go was a metropolis rapidly advancing both in sciences, medicine, art and literature. Upon Aromag annexing Yamo Go into the Constantine Empire, much unrest ensued. But the military might of Aromag could not be debated as Yamo Go had never developed weapons and vessels of war...not for a thousand years.
- Resistant groups arose within Yamo Go and among the other 4 planets under the Constantine Empire's rule. Many resistance groups went out as quick as they came, for the might of the Empire seemed all encompassing.
- Yamo Go had been the first planet to fold as they had left war behind them for over a Millenia past. The rest of the 4 annexed planets fell one by one as they could not resist the military might of Aromag who had used Yamo Go's shared knowledge of sciences and tech to build an unstoppable regime.
- These on and off small resistance groups all eventually died out in three hundred years. Yamo Go for the past 700 years has accepted the fact that they are subjects of the Constantine Empire. Very few Go Go's enlist voluntarily in the Constantine's Empire military forces. What little remains of the resistance is sparse deep underground. Barbie Barbie's father (Lance Barnabas) was one such dissident, a scientist and top engineer who secretly developed sub-light tech beyond chemical rocketry, and constructed the Star Lancer which became the very first vessel that travelled outside it's solar system to escape the Constantine Empire.
- Yamo Go however is still where the major sciences, tech and art are developed to this day, but all apparently under scrutiny by their Empire.
- Freedom & Oppression: It has been a thousand years since Yamo Go was annexed into the Constantine Empire. One could say there was close to 300 years of small resistance followed by 700 years of compliance. During this latter 700 years, Yamo Go were allowed to keep developing as they had prior to pre-space exploration. Although Yamo Go never built up any military fleets in response to Aromag's arms race before it's take over, there is a decree for Yamo Go to never develop their own military, but to keep developing tech for the greater Empire. In turn, Yamo Go could continue to advance and develop it's sciences, medicines, art and literature to share with Aromag and the Greater Empire. Latter statement is due in cause of Aromag overseeing and keeping a close tab on all it develops.
- Military: Is it completely demilitarized. It is under The Constantine Empire's rule and occupation from Aromag (sister planet), which is the home planet of the Constantine Empire.
- It is said that Yamo Go is under Aromag's military occupation and being oppressed.
- Technology: Yamo Go, along with it's 5 neighboring planets are considered to be back water planets compared to the rest of the Galaxy. This system of 17 planets have no knowledge of other inhabited systems or of the known galaxy as it stands today.
- They are just on the verge of discovering atomic power. That is; Yamo Go scientists keeping the potential of atomic power a secret. This of course is due of the fact that the Constantine Empire would ill use it with catastrophic consequences.
- Yamo Go's solar system has yet to be discovered by the known Galaxy. It's tech on the whole remains combustion / compression based, using fossil fuels and basic chemical propelled rocketry. The only advanced vessel ever designed and built using newly developed (sub-light) ion drives and atmospheric jet engine detonation technology had been done secretly by Barbie B's father (Lance Barnabas), a prominent scientist of the time.
- One notable features of all six inhabited planets is the extensive use of air ships which are aloft both mechanically or by lighter than air gases, which include vacuum ships. Vacuum ships are similar in shape and function as lighter than air (helium) ships, only that they achieve higher altitudes and are more efficient and safer as they do not require any stored gas, which could become spent during flight. On the contrary, their lack of gas or air enables them to become lighter that helium gas ships, therefore achieving greater lift and altitudes. More on these technologies as more Empyrean planets and tech is submitted.
- Mechanical driven ships, air ships, vacuum ships, and their current space ships all operate on internal combustion principals with only recent advancements in the use of detonation technology that enables atmospheric crafts to achieve Mach-17 in the atmosphere, such as the prototype hybrid vessel Star Lancer. Many flying crafts are hybrids, which can land on water and operate submerged.
Yamo Go is 1 of the 17 planets that orbit the star Empyria. It is also 1 of 6 that contain human life and colonies in the system.
Yamo Go has a twin planet (Aromag) that shares the same orbit. This sister planet was the last to be discovered as it sits 180 degrees from Yamo Go and it is on the opposite side of their shared star.
Yamo Go was said to be nearly 400 years ahead of Aromag in development concerning sciences, medicine, and astronomy. Upon the discovery of her sister planet on the opposite side of their star (as per early space exploratory) Yamo Go did not hesitate in sharing it's advanced steam-punch sciences/tech/rocketry with Aromag, who was centuries behind in such advancements. It was Yamo Go who brought Aromag advanced steam-punk tech by sharing it's tech and sciences.
Aromag embraced these sciences/advancements and in the next hundred years it used such given knowledge to build fleets of space faring vessels...most all military. It could be said that Aromag was in an arms race with itself, as Yamo Go had no interest in building up any military, seeing that it had not had an internal war for over a Millennium. Yamo Go had developed into a peaceful world and it had always hoped that Aromag would follow suit.
Well, that wasn't so.
A hundred years after Yamo Go first landed on Aromag, it was annexed into the newly formed Constantine Empire, which then encompassed the 6 habitable worlds in the Empyrian star system.
Aromag at the time of first contact, had just come out of their feudal like society (states) which were separated by continents. The greater state (Demos) with more resources were able to quickly develop space vessels which soon enabled that state to become Aromag's superpower and ruling state, 25 years after first contact. This planetary unity as Aromag calls it was the start of the Constantine Empire where Demos capital city was called. 75 years later with an amassed militarized space fleet, they annexed Yamo Go.
Yamo Go was for the most part defenseless as they had abandoned wars and conflict a thousand years prior. But not Aromag which had always been a feudal like society up to the point of first contact with Yamo Go. They quickly embraced and adopted the sciences and tech and built their future fleets that would soon rule their entire known system.
But Aromag was not all oppressive to Yamo Go as it were to the other 4 systems. True, there seemed to be a kind of different mind set/perspectives between Go Gos and Mags (as Aromags are called). But although Aromag had acquired advanced sciences from Yamo Go, they had difficulties in further advancing them on their own. Aromag had always been a very militaristic feudal society throughout it's development as compared to Yamo Go which had taken the course of freedom of expression and sciences.
It was argued by Aromag's Admiralty that to oppress Yamo Go would mean the slowing of more advance sciences which the Admiralty wished to continue, for the greater good of the Constantine Empire.
As thus, Yamo Go were given an almost equal status as that of Aromag. Many of the reforms since the initial hostile takeover of the 5 systems were influenced by Yamo Go.
While the hardness of oppressions has laxed since the centuries of initial marshal laws, all systems are still from having any form of independence or a possible future of self governing. Most of what little resistance if at all any significant resistance still resists, it is negligible in the scope of ever overthrowing the Constantine Empire.
In short, Yamo Go continues to be the forefront of all advanced development in the system. It had been influential in the past at the dawn of their space age and it continues to this day, despite the over bearing presence of the Constantine Empire bearing on them. But without Yamo Go's continued advancement, the entire system of planets would likely not continue to advance in both sciences, literature and tech. It should be surmised that Yamo Go would eventually develop hyperdrive technology that would push their ships to and beyond light speed.
In turn, if the known galaxy does not stumble upon this system before then, that they will emerge and discover that there's not only more advanced technological star systems out there but varied intelligent species besides humans also. But on their own, they are still many centuries if not a thousand years to attain hyper technology.
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