Post by Salt on Dec 24, 2012 1:10:33 GMT -5
Anzat
(Most information pulled from Wookieepedia. Planetary data assumed or devised where Wookieepedia gave no information. My own creations are marked as "original contributions," and can be freely dismissed as moderators judge accordingly.)
ASTROLOGICAL
Region: Mid Rim; The Slice
Sector: Bryx sector
System: Anzat system
Sun: 1
Moons: 1
Rotation Period: 48 Coruscant Standard Hours
Orbital Period: 2 x Coruscant Standard Year
PHYSICAL
Diameter: Coruscant-Standard
Atmosphere: Type I
Climate: Terrestrial
Gravity: Coruscant-Standard
Primary Terrain: Mist-filled valleys; mountains
Surface Water: 60% of planet with H2O oceans, lakes, seas
HISTORY
Discovered during the Great Manifest Period of the Galactic Republic (20,000-17,018 BBY), the world was avoided as its inhabitants fed off the life-forces of other sentients. Early Anzati culture developed around the belief that the omnipresent aurora that flicked across the sky was the combined life forces of their ancestors. Eventually, the idea of the Silent Voices or "soup" evolved, as Force-sensitives would perceive a type of speechless voice when exposed to the aurora.
Until its discovery, Anzat's existence was mired in superstition and whispers. Its people were nomads and wanderers, mythical folk of legends and nightmares without a homeworld. Scientists, explorers and many others who attempted travel to its many purported locations never returned.
Since its discovery, the planet has remained a hazy, somewhat unnerving spot on the galactic consciousness. It is on the fringe due to the isolationist mentality of its Anzati people, as well as the facts and fictions surrounding their mysterious, vampiric tendencies in the minds of the galactic populous. Within the last few hundred years, Anzat has nonetheless attracted a small but established stream of traders, spacers and criminals.
As early as their alignment with the "Sith Empire" of Darth Revan during the Jedi Civil War, the Anzati built large floating spaceports to accommodate trade with offworlders. Discouraging non-Anzati from leaving the platforms, the spaceports were a breeding ground for crime and delinquency as smugglers and other low-lifes made their way through the system.
The Anzati, on the other hand, made their lives in the tall rocky spires that protruded from the mist-shrouded surface. Living in small stone enclosures, many Anzati left the world after their early martial training was complete, making a living in the galaxy as murderers and assassins.
UNIQUE FEATURES
Trade
Anzat lies nearby the Perlemian Trade Route.
Anzat Spaceport
Anzat Spaceport is a major spaceport on Anzat. It was a safe place for the offworlders who came to refuel their starships or for business issues. Maggot's Cantina was located in Anzat Spaceport.
Maggot's Cantina
Maggot's Cantina was a drinking and dining establishment on Anzat. The cantina is a gathering place for spacers and pilots who come to the Anzat Spaceport to refuel or for business issues.
The Silent Voices
The Silent Voices are luminescent bands of gases that glow in the Anzat atmosphere at night. Ancient Anzati believed that these were the life essences of their ancestors. Although such a possibility was not scientifically viable, it illustrates the level of importance that "soup" plays in Anzati culture, morals, and belief structures.
Tizan-Ekkei Temples Original Contribution[/i]
"Tizan" is the Anzat word for "soul" (which shares a root with the word "soup," incidentally). "Ekkei" is a word that can be translated as "honor," "sanctity," or even "blood." Because of the Anzati reverence for the "Sea of Memory," the fabled life-essences of their ancestors that hover above them in the sky, transcendent and eternal in the form of illuminated gases, many Anzati deeply value the glorification of their own life-essence by the absorbtion of the essences of others. Beyond food and sustenence for their strange and particular biology, the hunt for others' "soup" is a cultural mandate, a spiritual quest for the heights of ancestral and personal honor.
It is in the Tizan-Ekkei temples, isolated in the highest mountain cliffs and the deepest mist-covered vales and valley forests, where generations of Anzati have honed their skills in the arts of the Hunt. Trained by centuries-old assassin-priests, warriors learn the deadly arts of stealth and Force-like sensory detection of strong life-essences on which to feed; swift and efficient hand-to-hand and weapon combat; and the delicacies of seduction, intrigue and deception. In these sacred training grounds, the reverence for the Hunt and the sacred spirits of the ancestors is all-consuming.
SPECIES
Anzati
Sentient humanoids; 1.5-1.7 meters tall; grayish-hued skin; black, brown or white hair; average lifespan 800 years; hidden proboscises in cheek slots, used to feed; high regenerative capabilities; no pulse; sustained by life-force or "soup" drained from other sentients; somewhat violent tendencies; typically self-driven, single agents, loners; can become obsessed with quest for more "soup," particularly with age.
Hazzu Original Contribution[/i]
The hazzu is a 3-foot-long, nocturnal flying mammal native to Anzat. It hunts by sonar and scent-detection. When its prey is found, it hides nearby, emits scented pheromones to attract its prey to its location, and lunges on the creature and pulls it into the shadows. It hits the vital spots with a swift bite of its retractable fangs, hollow and vacuum-like teeth that strip the victim of vast quantities of lifeblood in seconds. It lives in packs but hunts alone, and is revered by young Anzati assassins-in-training for its nearly invisible, instantaneous kills.
Native Flora
Bamboo, and red-leaved trees.
TECHNOLOGY
Vatashi Blade Original Contribution[/i]
The average vatashi blade is a two-foot-long sword (including hilt) meant for concealment and clean evisceration of flesh. It is honed to incredible sharpness and durability through ancient techniques of smithing that involve folding the metallic material upon itself. It is two-edged, slightly curved and tapered, and commonly used in Tizan-Ekkei training rituals. Many are coated with chemicals found in the hazzu fangs that enable the teeth's rapid blood suction. This causes wounds to bleed profusely; it also causes the blades to absorb the blood of its victims in unique patterns that discolor the metal and give each Anzati assassin a sense of ownership with his blade over time and his career.
Honored Anzati, or those who show especially promising (or dangerous) Hunts, are gifted with cortosis-woven vatashi blades, and some even learn the arts of cortosis-weaving themselves through the course of their journeys. But the rarest of blades are said to be imbued with the life-essence energies from the galactic Sea of Memory itself (what Jedi would call the Force), and are only forged by the most legendary of Anzati swordsmiths.
(Most information pulled from Wookieepedia. Planetary data assumed or devised where Wookieepedia gave no information. My own creations are marked as "original contributions," and can be freely dismissed as moderators judge accordingly.)
ASTROLOGICAL
Region: Mid Rim; The Slice
Sector: Bryx sector
System: Anzat system
Sun: 1
Moons: 1
Rotation Period: 48 Coruscant Standard Hours
Orbital Period: 2 x Coruscant Standard Year
PHYSICAL
Diameter: Coruscant-Standard
Atmosphere: Type I
Climate: Terrestrial
Gravity: Coruscant-Standard
Primary Terrain: Mist-filled valleys; mountains
Surface Water: 60% of planet with H2O oceans, lakes, seas
HISTORY
Discovered during the Great Manifest Period of the Galactic Republic (20,000-17,018 BBY), the world was avoided as its inhabitants fed off the life-forces of other sentients. Early Anzati culture developed around the belief that the omnipresent aurora that flicked across the sky was the combined life forces of their ancestors. Eventually, the idea of the Silent Voices or "soup" evolved, as Force-sensitives would perceive a type of speechless voice when exposed to the aurora.
Until its discovery, Anzat's existence was mired in superstition and whispers. Its people were nomads and wanderers, mythical folk of legends and nightmares without a homeworld. Scientists, explorers and many others who attempted travel to its many purported locations never returned.
Since its discovery, the planet has remained a hazy, somewhat unnerving spot on the galactic consciousness. It is on the fringe due to the isolationist mentality of its Anzati people, as well as the facts and fictions surrounding their mysterious, vampiric tendencies in the minds of the galactic populous. Within the last few hundred years, Anzat has nonetheless attracted a small but established stream of traders, spacers and criminals.
As early as their alignment with the "Sith Empire" of Darth Revan during the Jedi Civil War, the Anzati built large floating spaceports to accommodate trade with offworlders. Discouraging non-Anzati from leaving the platforms, the spaceports were a breeding ground for crime and delinquency as smugglers and other low-lifes made their way through the system.
The Anzati, on the other hand, made their lives in the tall rocky spires that protruded from the mist-shrouded surface. Living in small stone enclosures, many Anzati left the world after their early martial training was complete, making a living in the galaxy as murderers and assassins.
UNIQUE FEATURES
Trade
Anzat lies nearby the Perlemian Trade Route.
Anzat Spaceport
Anzat Spaceport is a major spaceport on Anzat. It was a safe place for the offworlders who came to refuel their starships or for business issues. Maggot's Cantina was located in Anzat Spaceport.
Maggot's Cantina
Maggot's Cantina was a drinking and dining establishment on Anzat. The cantina is a gathering place for spacers and pilots who come to the Anzat Spaceport to refuel or for business issues.
The Silent Voices
The Silent Voices are luminescent bands of gases that glow in the Anzat atmosphere at night. Ancient Anzati believed that these were the life essences of their ancestors. Although such a possibility was not scientifically viable, it illustrates the level of importance that "soup" plays in Anzati culture, morals, and belief structures.
Tizan-Ekkei Temples Original Contribution[/i]
"Tizan" is the Anzat word for "soul" (which shares a root with the word "soup," incidentally). "Ekkei" is a word that can be translated as "honor," "sanctity," or even "blood." Because of the Anzati reverence for the "Sea of Memory," the fabled life-essences of their ancestors that hover above them in the sky, transcendent and eternal in the form of illuminated gases, many Anzati deeply value the glorification of their own life-essence by the absorbtion of the essences of others. Beyond food and sustenence for their strange and particular biology, the hunt for others' "soup" is a cultural mandate, a spiritual quest for the heights of ancestral and personal honor.
It is in the Tizan-Ekkei temples, isolated in the highest mountain cliffs and the deepest mist-covered vales and valley forests, where generations of Anzati have honed their skills in the arts of the Hunt. Trained by centuries-old assassin-priests, warriors learn the deadly arts of stealth and Force-like sensory detection of strong life-essences on which to feed; swift and efficient hand-to-hand and weapon combat; and the delicacies of seduction, intrigue and deception. In these sacred training grounds, the reverence for the Hunt and the sacred spirits of the ancestors is all-consuming.
SPECIES
Anzati
Sentient humanoids; 1.5-1.7 meters tall; grayish-hued skin; black, brown or white hair; average lifespan 800 years; hidden proboscises in cheek slots, used to feed; high regenerative capabilities; no pulse; sustained by life-force or "soup" drained from other sentients; somewhat violent tendencies; typically self-driven, single agents, loners; can become obsessed with quest for more "soup," particularly with age.
Hazzu Original Contribution[/i]
The hazzu is a 3-foot-long, nocturnal flying mammal native to Anzat. It hunts by sonar and scent-detection. When its prey is found, it hides nearby, emits scented pheromones to attract its prey to its location, and lunges on the creature and pulls it into the shadows. It hits the vital spots with a swift bite of its retractable fangs, hollow and vacuum-like teeth that strip the victim of vast quantities of lifeblood in seconds. It lives in packs but hunts alone, and is revered by young Anzati assassins-in-training for its nearly invisible, instantaneous kills.
Native Flora
Bamboo, and red-leaved trees.
TECHNOLOGY
Vatashi Blade Original Contribution[/i]
The average vatashi blade is a two-foot-long sword (including hilt) meant for concealment and clean evisceration of flesh. It is honed to incredible sharpness and durability through ancient techniques of smithing that involve folding the metallic material upon itself. It is two-edged, slightly curved and tapered, and commonly used in Tizan-Ekkei training rituals. Many are coated with chemicals found in the hazzu fangs that enable the teeth's rapid blood suction. This causes wounds to bleed profusely; it also causes the blades to absorb the blood of its victims in unique patterns that discolor the metal and give each Anzati assassin a sense of ownership with his blade over time and his career.
Honored Anzati, or those who show especially promising (or dangerous) Hunts, are gifted with cortosis-woven vatashi blades, and some even learn the arts of cortosis-weaving themselves through the course of their journeys. But the rarest of blades are said to be imbued with the life-essence energies from the galactic Sea of Memory itself (what Jedi would call the Force), and are only forged by the most legendary of Anzati swordsmiths.
