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Sith-I-5 Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 11/10/05 8:19am Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe. NEW TOPIC 11/9: Find a Home for the Rebels
	Which one of your OC Systems would make a good location for the Rebs to set up shop and why? Well, paint me yellow and call me Custard, I was lamenting that I hadn't written much in the way of Rebel base stories, instead of concentrating on Imperial ones, but just remembered, my ISB agents did come across a secret Rebel maintenance facility once, in ISB Chronicles: Tokapi Overload. To: General Dodonna, Alliance High Command From: Sith-I-5, Base Construction Sir, we would like to advise you of the our plans for the planet Tokapi. We are preparing this world as a site for a remote starship maintenance outpost, rather than a fully fledged headquarters base. The system is unremarkable, so much so, that we cannot recall right now what it is called. The planet itself had a vast low-lying desert of reddish rock, with a mountain range at one edge, and the plateau of this cliff-face is lush with greenery, fresh water supplies, and small harmless fauna We aim to use beamdrills to excavate a cylindrical hole at the valley. We already have a pre-constructed installation to be buried there. Based on a four floor ring design, the outer ring will contain workshops, offices, laboratories, refectory and sleeping quarters for resident staff and visiting pilots and crew. The central torus wil be hollow, and feature a hydraulic ramp at the bottom level. This rises up to receive new ships or dispense repaired ones, or if a pilot feels brave enough, they can descend the cylinder to land. In case of accident, an internal deflector shield will separate the living areas from the central torus. Defence-wise, this base relies more on concealment that heavy weaponry to protect itself from contact with the Empire. When the structure is in place, or perhaps before, a mile-long tunnel will be created to evacuate staff to a separate cavern containing an escape ship. Sir, I look forward to hearing your comments. Your servant in the Force Sith-I-5 -----signature----- Crowning Moment of Awesome – THE MASTER. Summoning six billion robotic beach balls Of Doom to decimate the Earth, blowing a good-bye kiss to the Doctor, all the while dancing to "Voodoo Child". EPIC. EVIL. WIN. 007 Family - DVC's twin bro'.
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JediMindTrick000 Registered: Dec '04	Date Posted: 11/11/05 4:42am Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe. NEW TOPIC 11/9: Find a Home for the Rebels
	Friggin awesome, Sith-I-5. Beautifully written, and it sounds like a fantastic idea as well. I would actually like to see that installation visually. Sounds perfect for the SWU. Great job! -----signature----- World Builder Society - New Challenge 2/26! http://boards.theforce.net/fan_fiction_resource/b10304/22112407/ My latest attempt at literary excellence... Delusions of Grandeur - http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/28113194/
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oqidaun Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 11/11/05 9:56am Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe NEW TOPIC 11/9: Find a Home for the Rebels *PLEASE Come in and take a lo - Date Edited: 5/27/07 3:01pm (2 edits total) Edited By: oqidaun
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JediMindTrick000 Registered: Dec '04	Date Posted: 11/14/05 2:49am Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe NEW TOPIC 11/9: Find a Home for the Rebels *PLEASE Come in and take a lo
	Ah, oqi - ya never let me down. I wish I had time to elaborate further right now, but as always, it's time for work. Thank you so much for taking the time to drop by, and also thanks so much for giving this thread a plug in your own thread. It's much appreciated. I'll give you a better reply when time permits! -----signature----- World Builder Society - New Challenge 2/26! http://boards.theforce.net/fan_fiction_resource/b10304/22112407/ My latest attempt at literary excellence... Delusions of Grandeur - http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/28113194/
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Sith-I-5 Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 11/14/05 3:05am Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe NEW TOPIC 11/9: Find a Home for the Rebels *PLEASE Come in and take a lo - Date Edited: 11/14/05 3:13am (1 edits total) Edited By: Sith-I-5
	You created a SECTOR!!! OMG. And JediMindTrick000, thank you for the consistent encouragement to my postings. They are appreciated, especially as world-building was never a major element of my story-writing past. -----signature----- Crowning Moment of Awesome – THE MASTER. Summoning six billion robotic beach balls Of Doom to decimate the Earth, blowing a good-bye kiss to the Doctor, all the while dancing to "Voodoo Child". EPIC. EVIL. WIN. 007 Family - DVC's twin bro'.
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oqidaun Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 11/14/05 8:48pm Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe NEW TOPIC 11/9: Find a Home for the Rebels *PLEASE Come in and take a lo
	I have a bit of a god-complex. Sometimes you need planets. Sometimes you need systems. I tend to need sectors. -----signature----- . . . . I'm so bad, I banned myself.
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JediMindTrick000 Registered: Dec '04	Date Posted: 11/16/05 5:50pm Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe NEW TOPIC 11/9: Find a Home for the Rebels *PLEASE Come in and take a lo
	Sith-I-5 - you're quite welcome! I just speak the truth. oqi - All great minds have god-complexes, that's what makes us so fun. Now how 'bout you use your divine influence, and get us some readers here! -----signature----- World Builder Society - New Challenge 2/26! http://boards.theforce.net/fan_fiction_resource/b10304/22112407/ My latest attempt at literary excellence... Delusions of Grandeur - http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/28113194/
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oqidaun Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 11/16/05 9:25pm Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe NEW TOPIC 11/9: Find a Home for the Rebels *PLEASE Come in and take a lo
	I don't know why this place is a ghost town. It's a great idea. Perhaps, if we set out a bantha trap by the front door... -----signature----- . . . . I'm so bad, I banned myself.
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JediMindTrick000 Registered: Dec '04	Date Posted: 11/16/05 9:54pm Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe NEW TOPIC 11/9: Find a Home for the Rebels *PLEASE Come in and take a lo
	I think it's a ghost town because I'm pretty sure I'm a tf.n outcast. Ah well... "Ti-i--i-ime is on my side." -----signature----- World Builder Society - New Challenge 2/26! http://boards.theforce.net/fan_fiction_resource/b10304/22112407/ My latest attempt at literary excellence... Delusions of Grandeur - http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/28113194/
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JediMindTrick000 Registered: Dec '04	Date Posted: 11/17/05 6:01pm Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe New Topic 11/17: Satisfying oqidaun's god-complex! - Date Edited: 11/17/05 6:05pm (2 edits total) Edited By: JediMindTrick000
	NEW TOPIC 11/17 I have a bit of a god-complex. -- oqidaun You are the Force, and you are about to create a new planet that meets your every expectation about how a perfect planet should be. What are the most important details you take into consideration when you create a new planet? Additionally, describe in however much detail you choose your perfect planet, including as many details as you see fit to bring it to life. We're trying to satisfy a very large god-complex here, so make it good! (Hopefully oqi doesn't mind me using her name for this one - viva la OC revolucion!) And just as a reminder, you can always drop by whenever you want to add new planets and systems (or in some cases, sectors) to the database. And since I have to pay royalties just to use...her name, if you are the one person who has not yet visited this thread, I highly recommend you do so ASAP! You'll thank me. -----signature----- World Builder Society - New Challenge 2/26! http://boards.theforce.net/fan_fiction_resource/b10304/22112407/ My latest attempt at literary excellence... Delusions of Grandeur - http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/28113194/
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Meredith_Kenobi Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 11/17/05 6:30pm Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe New Topic 11/17: Satisfying oqidaun's god-complex!
	Wow, all of you put so much thought onto your planets! I applaud you. cool thread, JediMindTrick000! -----signature----- Proud to be ZaraValinor's Padawan Delighted to be brodiew's Master
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oqidaun Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jul '05	Date Posted: 11/17/05 7:06pm Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe New Topic 11/17: Satisfying oqidaun's god-complex!
	This is the greatest title I have ever seen!!! Use my name all you want. Meanwhile I have some mountains to move into place. -----signature----- . . . . I'm so bad, I banned myself.
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Lady_Cora Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 1/2/06 5:50am Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe New Topic 11/17: Satisfying oqidaun's god-complex!
	Just stepped into the thread and I'm already loving it. Since I'm a maniac for saga-length stories, I sometimes need to create playgrounds of my own, in which to play undisturbed. Planet: Cyliis VII System: Faerys Location: The Faerys Star-System is located very close to the Sanctuary Pipeline, facing toward the Outer Rim. The closest inhabited planet is Riflor, located almost seven parsecs away from the System's edge. Details: As its name suggests, Cyliis VII is the seventh and last planet in the Faerys System. It is the only inhabited one, seeing as the others are home to a variety of extreme climats and the first three, who are closest to the sun, are constantly bombarded with radiation, emanating from the very active pulsar star. Climate: Cyliis VII has a very arid, dry climate. While it is not a desert planet, in the truest sense of the word, large sections of it are nothing than flat, salty, dry dustbeds. It has a two distinct seasons, a wet one and a dry one. (the wet one lasting a quarter of a revolution around the sun and the dry one, three quarters of a revolution) Population: The planet has a very small number of inhabitants (around a figure 120.000 souls), most of them living in the clustered capital city of Tasuuan, which was built between two rocky mesas, for protection against the raging winds. A few brave people have built small mining outposts, across the planet, but they depend on Tasuuan for their survival, as the capital has the only existibg space-port. Main Industry: In the Mid-Rim, there is a running joke that the only thing you can find in the Faerys System are bare rocks. That is true, to a certain extent, Cyliis VII's main (and only) industry being the mining of iron ore, which is shipped to Nubia or Coruscant, in order to be refined. Context in which the planet appears: Thousands of years after the collapse of the Galactic Empire, the New Republic's historians are in a frezy to unearth all of the details that were permanently buried during that harrowing time. Their biggest dilemma remains the existance of the Jedi-Emperor, an unnamed monarch who ruled the Galaxy, during the Empire's most glorious days. As a consequence, Andrra Wrenn, one of the Republic's most succesful prospectors, along with her husband, Quar Wrenn, and Nisadora Renuo, the daughter of a friend, set out for Cyliis VII, where the trail of the mysterious Emperor appears to end, not knowing the tragedy that would unfold on the planet's dry surface... Planet: Seterria System: Seterr Location: The Seterr System is located in the Expansion region, between the Inner and Mid Rims, five parsecs from the Brak Sector, toward the Core. Details: Seterria is the only planet in the Setter System. Due to its proximity to the Corellian Run, the planet has been inhabited since the discovery of hyperspace travel. Climate: Seterria is a temperate world, with some extreme tendencies (the winters are usually very cold, while the summers tend to get very hot). Population: as stated above, Seterria has been populated ever since the birth of the Republic. Still, it is not very crowded, due to the sometimes extreme temperature changes. Most of the population is made of humans (78%), while the other 22% are Grans, Duros and Weekways. Main Industry: Setteria, just like Nubia and Corellia, has invested a great deal in the manufacture of spaceships. However, the models are less reliable than their Corellian counterparts, so they were only marketed in the Mid and Outer Rims. Context in which the planet appears: even though its sships are not on par with the Core and Inner Rim ones, Seterria was targeted by the Separatists, during the Clone Wars. A large showdown, between the Republic and the Confederacy took place in the System, with the republic as the victor. During the batlle, general Obi-Wan Kenobi was gravely wounded and had to be rushed to a med-center on the planet, leaving the task force under the Command of his Padawan and Lieutenant. This was Anakin Skywalker's first importand command mission in the war... which ended in disaster, as a hidden Separatist task force, lying in wait behind the system's sun, destroied the Republic flagship, The Praetor, in a stunning attack. His failure as a Commander and the death of The Praetor's crew would haunt Skywalker for years to come. -----signature----- Beatus vir qui suffert tentationem Quoniam cum probatus fuerit accipiet coronam vitae
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ophelia Title: Ex-Mod Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 1/3/06 2:58pm Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe New Topic 11/17: Satisfying oqidaun's god-complex!
	Cool idea for a topic. Also, I'm stealing Lady_Cora's writeup format. Planet: Angharad System: Uhh . . . it doesn't have a name. TARKIN: You would prefer another target? A military target? Then name the system! ME: I told you, it doesn't have a name! Freaking slipper-wearing psycho!! TARKIN: ::flings slipper:: ME: Aiiigh!! Um . . . yeah. Actually, the Republic probably calls it by a number. Anghara civilization is about 95% pre-spaceflight, so they just think of it as "home." It doesn't need a name. Location: Waaaay out on the Outer Rim, or even more "far, far away" than usual. Details: Angharad was probably colonized by a generation ship millenia ago, before the invention of hyperspace travel. Its indigenous residents are all human, and are most likely all descended from the same 100 or so people who landed ages ago. They have not been eager to jump back into outer space again, and have lived as an essentially pre-spaceflight culture until relatively recent contact with the Republic. The planet has two moons, one larger and white, and the other smaller and red. Neither is nearly as big as Earth's moon. The larger one looks about as big as a pencil eraser when it's full. The smaller one looks like a really nice, bright Earth-view of Mars. Climate: Variable. Much of Angharad's major continent is tropical or sub-tropical, and it has a dry season and a monsoon season. Tropical lowlands ring the seashore, but these give way to grassland-like foothills as you move further north. The majority of Angharad's population lives in small cities and villages along the many rivers that run through the foothills. Most of these rivers become tributaries to the mighty Omolac River, which winds Amazon-like through the southern rain forest and empties out into the Bay of Basham. Angharad's capitol, Kohana, is located in the Omolac river delta. North of the foothills, the Akitlán Mountains--a series of massive, Himalaya-like peaks--cut the continent in two. The lower slopes of the mountains are lush cloud forest, called "the Spirit Country" by residents, who consider the land holy. Above the treeline there is only low scrub, and then nothing but bare rock and ice. During the monsoon season, warm, moist air comes north from the Bay of Basham, but the icy air of the Akitlán peaks wrings all the water vapor out before any moisture can reach the north face of the range. As a result, the northern part of the continent is desert--an unusual montaine desert called the Honovi. This desert flattens out into barren plains across the planet's temperate zones, and then freezes into rocky tundra near the polar region. The sharp climate change along the line of the mountains is visible from space, and is quite striking. Population: There are fewer than a billion native Anghara on the planet. Most live in the warm, southern area of the main continent, especially in and around Kohana, but there are people who live high in the mountains, people who live in the northern wastes of the Honovi, people in various archipelagos stretching out into the ocean, and people who live in nomadic boat communities on the sea. For the last 99 years, there have also been workers from the Coridani Mineral Company (CMC) mining stretches of the Honovi for irridium, a semi-organic compound used in starships' heat shielding. Main Industry: See above. CMC has traditionally paid the government in Kohana for the right to mine its land. Once the company's 99-year exclusive charter ends, this could change, however . . . Other than mining and an increasing amount of offworld trade, Angharad generally has an industrial/service economy in the large urban areas, and an agricultural one--mostly subsistance farming--elsewhere on the planet. Context in which the planet appears: Angharad is the site of an ugly power grab by the Trade Federation in the years leading up to the Clone Wars. The planet is self-governing and has only treaty connections with the Republic, so it does not have the protection of the Republic's laws or peacekeeping forces. CMC, with Trade Federation backing, essentially decided just to steal the planet by wiping its residents out rather than allow their cherished trade monopoly to lapse. ******** Planet: Ix (rhymes with "sticks"--not a Roman Numeral 9.) System: The . . . Ix System? ::Ducks Tarkin's other slipper:: Location: Also on the Outer Rim, about a 45-degree counter-clockwise turn from Angharad. Its sun is made invisible to most of the galaxy by the dense dust cloud of the Serpent's Head Nebula. Details: My original notes on this planet simply say, "Ix sucks." It is basically a great big truck stop--a place for people using commercial hyperspace lanes to rest for a night or two in inexpensive squalor. At one time, before patterns in hyperspace travel shifted, Ix had a more upscale class of visitor as well. Those days are long gone, but the gutted shells of once-grand hotels near the capitol's spaceport act as a reminder of the next-best-thing-to-glory that once was Ix. The planet's capitol is called "Great Wassow," and its name--belied by its singular lack of greatness--is explained by the fact that the Great Wassow, a massive, almost lake-like river, flows nearby. There is, in fact, a Lesser Wassow to the north and east which is a tributary to this river. "Lesser Wassow" would have been a better name for the capitol, but alas, the city and the smaller river are separated by several hundred kilometers. Climate: It rains a lot. Like Angharad, Ix has open, river-crossed grassland and barren desert country, but somehow Ix manages to be less attractive by about a factor of ten. Irrepsonsible waste management by Great Wassow's city trustees hasn't helped; raw sewage and poorly-treated reactor outflow are dumped straight into the city's namesake river. Population: Rather dismally low--only around 10 million permanent residents on the entire planet, almost all of whom live in and around Great Wassow. Since the planet is a galactic truck stop, beings of all species and types live there. Main Industry: Services provided to travelers. Also, ripping off travelers. Various Invisible Market industries flourish here too, as does plain old ordinary poverty and unemployment. Context in which the planet appears: Sixteen-year-old Anakin Skywalker was forced to land here in a desperate flight from Angharad. Obi-Wan Kenobi had been gravely wounded by the CMC's hired army and its low-tech Jedi-neutralization techniques, and he'd sent Anakin offworld in a last-resort attempt to get help. Unfortunately, the CMC mercenary navy had shot up the boy's ship, and he was unable to travel as far as Coruscant. He ended up on Ix instead, among blaster-packing bar bouncers, comms pirates, and the occasional murderous flying Sith Lord. -----signature----- In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps with your mom
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sabarte Registered: Sep '05	Date Posted: 1/8/06 7:36pm Subject: RE: Our Star Wars Universe New Topic 11/17: Satisfying oqidaun's god-complex!
	Does fleshing out planets for which we only have a name 'count'?
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