Azule
Azule is a mostly ruraly system, mainly a pit stop from Mordana to deeper into Pacifica. Most of its population are scattered along the formal temples and abandoned civilazations that dot the surface.
The planet is resource poor, at least in the profitable resources. The ecodiversity and chemical compounds found on Azule are unlike anywhere else. Specifically, the ashegrove trees, that spiral thousands of meters into the air. They are unique, because they demonstrate the capacity to absorb and thrive off of the radiation that choked the planet. These trees absorbed it, producing nutrients and oxygen as a byproduct. The trees can also be harvested, producing a strong irradiated wood. These woods are known to craft some of the most dangerous weapons, protective armor, or other unique properties. Some believe Azule has a strong connection to the "Filament" of the galaxy, and the Be'Teu Order maintains a few monastaries here.
Life on Azule
Quiet Peace
Most of Azule's population lives in the southwest hemisphere of the planet, mostly around the equator. There are no more cities on Azule, instead most call the large town of Prospector's Bench home. It is a newer town, mostly spurned on by rumors of pre-silence artifacts being found. A majority of the planet is under a permenant exlusion zone. While the ashegrove trees and nature has come back, the forests are still filled the after effects of nuclear strikes and paracasual weapons. They are dangerous and toxic for most humans, especially the former cities. Further out, rural villages and towns hide in the jungles. These scattered settlements are usually way stations or communes. It's rumored the Pacifica Liberation Front has several training facilities on the planet, including their infamous psi-academy, Rook's Rest. Seerists have begun to re-populate the planet as well, re-building their temples.Monastaries of Science
The lifeweaver monastaries run by the Be'Teu are some of the most advanced in the known galaxy. The botanists that call these monastaries home create the most cutting edge technology when it comes to terraforming and atmosphere re-construction. It is said they work in conjunction with Union scientific institutes, who regularly exchange data and information. These temples are deep in the exclusion zones, protected by massive rad-shields and filament nets, and can house thousands of people. The biggest two facilities, on each pole, contain upwards of 15,000 people. These facilities are entirely self-sufficient, with everything from fire brigades to childcare providers. They tirelessly work in the overall pursuit of knowledge, trying to bring the dead planet back to life. These monastaries also serve as staging grounds for archeology teams that are slowly searching the ruins of Azule's city for data that wasn't corrupted during the Mechanicus Jihad. Since the planet was abandoned long before the Jihad, there is still great caches of data available that was not exposed to demon constructs.Hidden by Devestation
The remaining population on Azule consist of fringe radicals and extremists from the Cult of Chronos to the Plaguewalkers. All of these seek out ancient relics and lost pieces of technology or archaic paracasaul weapons. The Knights of the Stellar Flame operate a vault on Azule as a central data hub, where scribes keep records of the comings and goings of the various knightly wings. heli.OS believes that the data on Azule could explain the exact causes that led to the Mechanicus Jihad, and several operational groups operate within the urban exlusion zones on the planet.Geography
Most of the surface of Azule might be somewhat considered akin to Earth during the jurrasic period of its existance. The planet is coverd in thick jungles, with massive plants following the example of the ashegrove trees. Massive rivers wind throughout the planet, creating a natural network of pathways regularly utilized by the local human population.
Floods are regular during the monsoon season, so villages are built up high. Some are built along ashegrove gardens, or nested within a mountain. Some float along the rivers themselves, rising and falling with the seasons.
Climate
Azule is a wet, rainy, and humid world. Rainfalls regularly on the surface, a byproduct of the ashgrove trees and their slow repair of the atmosphere of Azule. Rainfall is regular throughout the planet. The planet's temprature is steadily warm, and the seasons mostly go between the monsoon season, or the dry season. During the dry season many of the locals hold festivals, emerging from their towns to harvest and celebrate.
History
Azule was once a greatly populated world, thriving as a trade hub during the Age of Exploration. It formed as an independent colony, formed under the exploration charter of the United Republic of Earth. It maintained a distant relationship with the Core Systems. Azule represented a constant thorn in the side of the forming Fourth Column, forming a coalition of power with the Tyrells and the senators from Europa Prime. Azule helped build up arms in the Mid-Rim, and joined the rebels in the first imperial civil war. They helped establish the Republican Remnant, and for decades they prospered as the gateway to Pacifica.
The first trade war saw Azule home to a proxy war being fought by the Musura Federation and the Colonial Earth Empire. Small scale skirmishes and fighting took place between the seerists augurs, nationalists, and republican security forces. For decades this small proxy war was mostly contained to the rural countrysides, away from the population centers. The end of the trade war saw this violence slow down, but never really disapear.
Decades later, when the Empire would acuse a seerist radical group for bombing a space elevator on Morgol, Azule would once again become a hotzone for conflict. The Empire would attempt to occupy the planet, facing fierce resistance by all manner of rebel groups for a year. When a ground-to-orbit missile strike destroyed the imperial carrier Oppressive Liberty, the empire would dramatically respond.
Nuclear warheads pummeled the surface of Azule, wiping out a majority of its population. When they were finished glassing the surface, the Imperial fleet retreated, as their response led to several planets in Free Space suddenly banding together their fleets while the Musura Federation would begin mustering their banner companies.
The population was left to squalor, on a planet choked with radiation. For decades, members of the Be'Teu Order quiet literally planted the seeds of regrowth on Azule. Scientists of the order helped cultivate and implement the very first ashegrove trees. The botanists were inspired by the massive trees found on Tu'Kor. These trees proliferiated, and after several hundred years, the radiation subsided greatly, and the atmosphere of the planet was restored.
Because of this, the Be'Teu order remains highly revered by the local populace. The Order was able to build up several complex and well funded research monastaries. These monastaries remain some of the oldest known temples of the Order, dating back from before even the Age of Silence.
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Medium Security
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