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Expansion Region
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Rybanloth System
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Rybanloth
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None
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32 standard hours
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470 standard days
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Terran
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12,369km
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Type I
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Frozen
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1.2G
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- Ice caves
- Tundras
- Frozen plains
- Mountain ranges
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100% (Ice)
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- Spaceport
- Force Nexus
- Prison
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- Wampas
- Pantran whitefangs
- Tauntauns
- Various rodents
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- Sentients (Taldryan Affiliation)
- Ancient Sith (formerly)
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- x% indigenous
- x% indigenous
- x% indigenous
- 1% Taldryan Jedi
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Whatever Tal is?
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None
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Taldryan
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Kalus is a habitable world located in the Rybanloth System. Kalus is the final planet in the Rybanloth System, but also the most habitable. Its atmosphere contains nearly equal parts oxygen and nitrogen and contains trace amounts of various harmless gases. The planet is 12,369m wide and has a gravitational pull of 1.2g due to a dense inner core. One Kalus day is nearly 32 hours and it completes a full rotation of the Star in 470 days. Kalus’s surface is all kinds of frozen, making navigation and exploration of it’s surface a difficult task. It’s earliest known history saw the planet put to use as a prison world for the Sith Empire of the Old Republic Era. Millenia later Kalus would fall under Taldryan's rule.
Description
Kalus is a barren, ice-encrusted rock with little economic value, all attempts to mine its resources have proven fruitless. It’s proximity to the Subterrel sector, and thus the Rimma Trade Route and the Hydian Way offers a meager tactical value.
Volcanic steam freezes instantly and forms massive spires
The planet’s surface is entirely covered by a frozen ocean, except where volcanic fissures open up steam vents, depositing rock and minerals in darker patches on the glacier plains. A few mountain ranges pierce the permanent ice shelves, some being geologically active. Massive oceanic currents beneath the hemispheres cause regular seismic activity, resulting in a constantly shifting landscape of caves and tunnels as well as causing fissures in the ice-layers, sending jets of ocean water into the freezing Kalus air. The intense cold freezes these jets into spires of ice, suspending primitive ocean algae within these tall columns and glaciers.
Its orbit and axial tilt result in consistently icy weather patterns. Daytime temperatures reach levels unbearable to most species and rarely rose above freezing, even in the planet's relatively mild equatorial regions. The gale force winds and intense snowstorms that regularly wrack the windswept surface magnify the extreme cold of Kalus.
The only region of Kalus capable of supporting life exists along its equatorial region. Volcanic fissures vent warmth, vapor, and rich topsoil to the surface, providing limited protection from freezing winds. lichen and fungus give nourishment to smell herds of tauntauns and icetrompers, which in turn become meals for Kalus’ bestial predators.
Due to the Sith Empire’s former presence on the planet, vast empty complexes were left behind beneath Kalus’ forbidding surface. These cavernous shelters offer temporary safe havens from the biting cold and subterranean construction sites.
Kalus sports a wide variety of dangerous terrains. Certain regions, like the desolate Shiverpeaks (name pending), hold great strategic value due to their natural formations and geographic location.
The frigid biosphere includes a minimal food chain: the predatory wampas and pantran whitefangs, the omnivorous tauntauns, the herbivorous icetrompers a few rodent species, including snowmice, ice scrabblers, iceworms, and lichen
History
Keep adding things till the next section is clear of the image.
Old Republic Era
Blurb
Former Imperial Prison World, expand - a lot
New Republic Era
Training center for Palpatine's Dark Acolytes during the height of the Galactic empire
Stuff happens here, maybe?
Dark Brotherhood Era
Taldryan somehow wins this thing, sets up camp and does sexy stuff here.
Points of Interest
Possibly add a third image of one of the POIs
Taldryan spaceport
Taldryan apparently has a small spaceport which doubles as an outpost on this ice rock, but you didn't hear it from me.
Force Nexus
It's so sexy, and darkity dark. We actually let journeymen play around here.
Prison
Best place for journeymen hide and seek competitions yo!
Behind the Scenes
Originally created by Raken for Rite of Supremacy - Second Darkness