Plooma Dossier
Lore Overview
(Written by Darth Stjolkk)
Plooma: a world of lush jungles and dry deserts. The world is one of extremes. Where rain is near constant in the jungles and swamps, deserts see nary a drop across the dunes. Scattered throughout the world are primitive villages, remnants of the people whose planet was once dominated by the Rakatan Empire.
At the collapse of the Infinite Empire, the people of Plooma were abandoned and nearly wiped out. Despite millennia’s passing, the people of Plooma never sought to advance beyond a medieval technological level. Instead, the people developed a religious fear of advanced technology for fear of the aliens who once subjugated their people returning.
The same fear that suppressed advancement is that which keeps the Veragi base on Plooma safe: Rakatan ruins which dot the landscape inside the planet’s lush jungles and swamps. Nestled atop one of the jungle peaks, the Plooma Headquarters operates an extensive trade operation in illicit arms, substances, and information. It is a discrete multi-building complex that still houses thousands of operators in their tasks moving, selling, and trading such resources on a grand level.
The base is a secret to most and hidden from orbital observation thanks to the expansive canopy of the the jungle’s massive trees. Sith or Imperials on arrival will note the subtlety of the construction but also the cleanliness of the facilities and luxury in guest accommodation. Plooma Headquarters is a bastion of modern comforts, cleanliness, and professionalism amidst a planet of climate extremes and savagery.Geography
The Sky Sister: A mountain on the southern island from whom a natural spring runs that feeds a mineral rich lake.
The Sisters Fingers: a massive forest cloud-grazing trees made tall from the enriched water and soil from the Sky Sister’s mountain spring. Located on the Southern Island.
Heretic’s Rest: An abandoned settlement on the Northern island established by people fleeing religious persecution. The inhospitable island left the people starving and dying before a storm destroyed their ship and left them to die. Only their ruins remain.
The Blasted Peaks: A jet-black mountain range, the area is all that remains of a reactor that failed at the end of the Infinite Empire. The radiation led to a poisoning of the swamp around it in run off for years and mutated the wildlife that survived within. It is widely and wisely avoided by the natives and Imperials alike.
Localized Phenomena
The Blasted Peaks is home to a dark side nexus but is largely inaccessible. The central island is actively in formation and is still a bubbling pool of magma.
Fauna & Flora
The jungles are populated by massive mangrove trees and a variety of others that fill the continent. Deciduous forests are populated largely by oaks and maples. All have a wide variety of both tropical and non-tropical fruiting bushes.
The oceans are lush with a variety of fish large and small. Legendary is the leviathan deep in the oceans: a massive kraken believed to be descended from ancient Sithspawn and created by the Rakatans. On stormy nights, ships often go missing in the shadow of this creature.
The fauna of Plooma are similarly varied. A variety of large, hooved herbivores and predatory wild cats inhabit the wild jungles. In the swamps, massive insects feast on vermin and other small mammals that thrive in the murky underbrush.
The mountainous crags find themselves home to a variety of birds of prey, smaller birds, and rodents. In the desert, not much finds comfort to live aside from various cacti and smaller creatures that live inside and amongst the roots in fear of deadly adders that hunt in the sands.
Natural Resources
The planet is home to oil sands and reserves in the swamps, rare medicinal extracts from the jungle flora, and raw ore from the mountainous regions particularly the southern island.
History
In the time of the Infinite Empire, Plooma was a relatively average spacefaring people. As such, they were not prepared for the attack of the Rakatans. When the Empire attacked, the people surrendered quickly.
Centuries of subjugation ensued. The people suffered and many died. Their technology was destroyed. Their people were left uneducated and weak. Eventually, the Rakatan Empire collapsed and left them bereft of leadership or guidance.
Decades of primitive war left the planet sparsely populated and scattered, largely to where they gathered today on the main continent. The people were left to fend for themselves in their new enclaves. All they had now in common were their species and their hatred for technology like that which had enslaved them- and that which they once had.
The people of Endra’s Point, though, eventually had an ideological schism after some thousands of years in peace. A rebellion ensued and the heretical people lost to the superior force of the government. The people were loaded into two groups of ships and sent out to sea, expected to die.
Of the two groups, one landed to the north and indeed met a cruel fate. The second bore across the strait and survived, even thrived, and founded their own civilization without the tenets that held them back. They formed the city of Iconoclast’s Rest, but the people of the continent called them The Marauders for their tendency to steal away ships of fish from Endra’s Point. In indignation, the people instead decided to call themselves Marauders’s Point.
Now, in the modern day, the Sith Empire have established a base under Darth Stjolkk’s authority granted by Darth Cruciare. She made contact with none, by and large. Only recently had she established an embassy with the natives of Marauder’s Point.
The People of Plooma are largely hostile to outsiders. They are insular and dedicated to their religious doctrines above all else. Any outsider is regarded with suspicion or hatred.
Those of Marauder’s Point bear exception and live as part of an honor-based community. They are suspicious but friendly. Most strikingly different, they are exclusively atheist and have a distrust of any religious doctrine including that of the Force despite many of them being force-sensitive themselves.
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