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| Ku`Bakai | |
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| Astrographical Information | |
| Sector | Calaron |
| Galactic Coordinates | (412, 111) |
| Suns | Ku`Bakai |
| Orbits | 10 Planets
2 Moons |
| Asteroid Fields | 1 Asteroid Field |
| Space Stations | 124 |
| Societal Information | |
| Affiliation | Tresario Star Kingdom |
| Astrographic Entry | Ku`Bakai System |
The Ku`Bakai System is located in the Calaron Sector controlled by Tresario Star Kingdom.
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History
Politics
Economy
Planets
Ku`Bakai I
Astrographic entry: Ku`Bakai I
This is the first planet of the Ku`Bakai system. Dangerously close to its star, the planet many eons ago lost any atmosphere which it might have possessed. In addition, the surface over the millennia has been bombarded time and again by stellar mass-ejections from the volatile blue giant, Ku`Bakai. The core of the world has remained molten and the planet is volcanically active, being twisted as it is by the gravitation of its star. This has created a region of vulcanization upon the planet. This region of vulcanism is also the region that is tidally locked to the star. The rest of the surface of this world is barren rock, so irradiated that nothing could survive unprotected for any amount of time. In the waning days of the Old Republic, there had been plans to erect a scientific outpost on the planet to study the star more carefully. However, with that august body collapsing under its own weight, nothing came of the project.
Ku`Bakai II
Astrographic entry: Ku`Bakai II
The second planet of the volatile Ku`Bakai system. During the years, this world has taken a beating from its host star, and at some point in the distant past, it suffered a direct hit from a stellar mass-ejection. The effects of this were the complete annihilation of life on the planet and it became a barren and lifeless world.
The planet though shows signs of an active mantle with a large mountain range springing up and running from the southwest to the northeast. Along this mountain chain, there are frequent earthquakes and tremors making it a treacherous landscape.
The rest of the surface is no less forlorn. A bleak set of hot black rocks cover the plain as far as the eye can see. The temperature during the day rises to levels which rival arid worlds like Tatooine, Klatooine, or Ryloth. The temperature at night would be comparable to the frozen tundra of Hoth.
The world is a foreboding place. Without assistance to supply air, pressure, and other life support, nothing could survive on this world for more than a scant few moments.
Ku`Bakai III
Astrographic entry: Ku`Bakai III
The third planet in the Ku`Bakai system is another dead world. If it had an atmosphere in the past, it was long ago burned away by a stellar ejection from the star, Ku`Bakai, leaving the world exposed to the vacuum of space.
The surface is mostly rock. Any soft elements on the surface were blown away in the same ejection that took its once-promising atmosphere. What isn't rock on the surface are volcanic rivers of magma that move continuously over the surface, helping to cover up any impacts from nearby Kubindi objects.
The large amount of land available might provide an enterprising faction with an opportunity if they can find a way to overcome the absence of an atmosphere on this broiling rock.
Likewise, if someone possessing important mining techniques from Mustafar or another similar world, they might find this planet enticing as it is rich in various metals trapped by the heat of the world.
Ku`Bakai IV
Astrographic entry: Ku`Bakai IV
Ku`Bakai IV is a blasted world. From space, it looks like a black sphere with pockmarks of gray that occasionally break it up. Like the first three planets of the system, Ku`Bakai IV has suffered from a stellar mass-ejection emanating from Ku`Bakai. The ejection that struck Ku`Bakai IV was particularly powerful, turning the surface of the world into molten slag which burned away anything that was not rock. As it cooled over, the planet’s crust became black with a glossy appearance. Since that time, the planet has suffered several impacts from asteroids and meteors which have broken up the blackness with splotches of gray from the material beneath the glass-like crust. Ku`Bakai IV is a dead world geologically and biologically speaking. There is little of interest here for any intrepid adventurer. If you could overcome the lack of an atmosphere, it is possible the planet could be surveyed and mined.
Ku`Bakai VII
Astrographic entry: Ku`Bakai VII
Ku`Bakai VII is like a ruby in space. Its reddish hued clouds swirl in dazzling array in storms the size of Kubindi. The gas giant has a series of rings that enhance its beauty even more. Kubaz scientists have speculated that the rings are composed of what may once have been Ku`Bakai VII's moons, shattered in impacts with one another during the formation of the solar system. Not a single shard remains that is bigger than a Kubaz fist. In the last days of the Old Republic, there was talk of attempting to transplant some of the creatures that inhabit Bespin to this world. However, with the collapse of that body such efforts where abandoned as the rising empires chose to funnel money into other matters rather than just scientific curiosity.
Ku`Bakai VIII
Astrographic entry: Ku`Bakai VIII
Many Kubaz were overjoyed that their initial space exploration led them to Ku`Bakai VI, which was farther from the sun than their homeworld of Kubindi yet still in the same system. But, while some rushed to settle that new world, others speculated: what if there is something better out there? These hives put together another group of exploration vessels and headed even further from Ku`Bakai so that they might find new, safer homes. One of these vessels was piloted by Ku`Nekai Zel. Ku`Nekai had decided to stay out longer than most of this wave in the hopes of finding the ideal world for his people. His rations were nearly depleted when he picked up Ku`Bakai VIII on his sensors -- it had been hidden behind Ku`Bakai VII for a good deal of his trip. Immediately, he set a course for the blue-green world and he later wrote that, as he approached, his heart stopped until he saw the hazy skies which meant the planet had an atmosphere. In his journals, Ku`Nekai chronicled his exploration of Ku`Bakai VIII in great detail.
Ku`Bakai IX
Astrographic entry: Ku`Bakai IX
Ku`Bakai IX is the ninth planet that orbits the blue giant, Ku`Bakai. It appears to be a bluish world with occasional patches of white. It has an atmosphere that is about 83% hydrogen, 15% helium, and 2% methane. It is the presence of the methane in such an amount that gives the planet a bluish color since it absorbs light in the redshift. Below the bluish methane layer, it is speculated that the world also may possess multicolored bands similar to those on Ku`Bakai X. However unlike Ku`Bakai X, there is no rocky core at the center. There are bands of minerals that are in the lower atmosphere of Ku`Bakai IX which seem uniformly distributed throughout the world. Ku`Bakai IX is also running with its south pole facing Ku`Bakai since the planet's axis is nearly parallel to the plane of the ecliptic.
Ku`Bakai X
Astrographic entry: Ku`Bakai X
Ku`Bakai X is the largest of the three gas giants that circle the blue giant Ku`Bakai. It is also unusual in that it has a retrograde orbit rather than a standard one. Some Kubaz scientists have speculated that the retrograde orbit of such a large world may have some influence on Ku`Bakai itself, that perhaps the turbulent blue giant might be so violent due to this gas giant’s unusual orbit. The atmosphere of Ku`Bakai X is composed of 90% hydrogen and 10% helium. There are also trace amounts of methane, water, ammonia, and minerals in the swirling clouds of the upper atmosphere. The core of Ku`Bakai X is a rocky orb with about ten times the mass of Kubindi. Kubaz scientists have found that above this core is the main bulk of the planet, consisting of a layer of liquid metallic hydrogen. The temperature and pressure keep the hydrogen liquid at this layer. The outer layer is the clouds we are familiar with seeing. They are orange, red, blue, and white most often, depending on the mixture of trace minerals present.
Ku`Bakai XI
Astrographic entry: Ku`Bakai XI
Settled for the first time by Kubaz colonists several centuries after the Hive Wars, Ku`Bakai XI seemed for some like a paradise. It was the farthest planet from the star which had reached out and slapped their homeworld of Kubindi. Surely this place would be the safest of all the worlds in their system from the giant’s wrath. The world of course is cold with polar caps dominating both the north and south poles. However, the planet is large and heavy in metals which have allowed it to retain an atmosphere. The ground near the equator even has fertile grasslands which provide a modest living for those that live here. The frozen tundra to the north and south of the fertile grasslands are only occasionally broken up by volcanic activity which shows that the core of the world is still very active. The planet also supports a large magnetic field which is about twice as strong as that exhibited by the Kubaz homeworld of Kubindi. This field might protect Ku`Bakai XI from an event similar to the stellar mass-ejection that struck Kubindi and led to the deadly Hive Wars.
Kubindi
Astrographic entry: Kubindi
Kubindi is the homeworld of the Kubaz and it was upon its now desolate surface that these beings arose to sentience. Once a world of oceans, swamps, forests, and jungles, all that changed in the opening moments of what would become known as the Hive Wars.
On that day all the Kubaz looked to the sky to see what appeared to be Ku`Bakai himself reaching across the firmament to touch their world. The sun's grasp quickly burned away the azure oceans, leaving only a few trickling rivers to remind the people of what once had been. Kubindi's ecosystem was desolated. Marine life was the first to go, but soon the lush greenery wilted away until virtually all plant life had died. The deserts which rose next were so irradiated that nothing could survive in them for long, except for insects feeding off the decaying ruins of what once was. It was a harsh time for the Kubaz. However, they are a hardy people, and well equipped to overcome a hardship which might have destroyed lesser races.
Following the catastrophe, the Kubaz turned to insects for their survival as well as their livelihood. In the early days, they harvested insects wherever they were found, but soon fights broke out over who owned the rights to what bugs -- it wasn't long before the Hive Wars were in full swing. The conflict might never have ended, save for the advancements in bioengineering that allowed the insects to be bred with certain qualities, such as a particular color or pattern, that could identify it to one clan or another.
However, even with newfound peace, the Kubaz were not satisfied with their world. They had seen the great power of Ku`Bakai and had been fortunate enough to have survived his touch -- the first time. So, once the Hive Wars had ended, they had a great desire to develop the technology necessary to venture into the surrounding system. Many ships were sent from Kubindi and some eventually found other worlds that were farther from Ku`Bakai. It was the distance from the devastating sun which made the Kubaz feel safer on these foreign soils.
Once the great exodus began, only the poorest of the poor remained upon Kubindi. The wealthier clans were the first to have sent ships to find new planets, where they soon relocated all of their members. Within the first decades of colonization, a steep economic divide developed between the destitute citizens of Kubindi and the wealthier colonial Kubaz. In addition, there was a lingering animosity between hives from the days of the War. Both of these divisions led to friction and impeded trade so that, despite the additional land and resources, the Kubaz as a race stagnated. Explorers from the Old Republic discovered the Ku`Bakai system in what might have been the Kubaz's waning days following offworld colonization. It was the promise of foreign opportunities that led many of the Kubaz to other systems, just as it had led them to other planets.
In legends, it is said that somewhere in Kubindi's high the mountains there is a force nexus called the Silver Forest of Dreams. While many expeditions have sought to locate the "forest", none have succeeded and many have died in the attempt. The planet's perilous surface is mostly to blame, but it is not helped by the quixotic nature of its weather due to Ku`Bakai's continued, unpredictable caress.
Three moons hang in Kubindi's night sky. While they were suitable destinations for test runs of the race's once fledgling space program, their proximity to the system's sun made them unacceptable locales for colonization. However, with resources to be pulled from their surfaces, each moon was claimed by the first hives to land on their surfaces. The planetoids were subsequently named after the res
Moons
Kubindi A
Astrographic entry: Kubindi A
Another of Kubindi's three moons, Kubindi A is thought to have formed in a similar manner as Kubindi B. It is likely that some of the material from a planetary impact formed Kubindi A, while the remnants formed Kubindi B. Like Kubindi B, this moon is lacking in many of the heavier elements such as iron, which is thought to have been reabsorbed by Kubindi after the impact which ejected the material that formed the two principal moons. Kubindi A has also suffered a major impact at some point in the past, as seen by the large crater visible from space. This particular impact might have been large enough for an extinction-level event, had it struck Kubindi instead of the moon. Like Kubindi B, Kubindi A was a mining site in the early history of Kubaz space travel. Kubindi A was mined primarily for its Helium-3 isotopes which helped provide fuel for the early fusion engines used by Kubaz explorers.
Kubindi B
Astrographic entry: Kubindi B
The largest of Kubindi's moons, Kubindi B, is also roughly half the size of Kubindi. Some Kubaz scientists have considered it really a companion planet of Kubindi although the moon clearly cannot support life. It has been speculated by numerous Kubaz scientists that Kubindi B was formed after Kubindi itself suffered a massive strike from another body. This impact occurred while Kubindi was still forming and mostly molten, thus any evidence of the impact was erased within the first year or two after the strike. At the same time, the majority of the material ejected by the impact formed this moon. The lack of iron and other heavier metals in the moon has been explained that they settled back down onto Kubindi itself, leaving only the lighter materials in Kubindi B. After they achieved spaceflight, the Kubaz set up a mining colony on the surface of Kubindi B. The remnants of this colony can still be seen by the large crater the strip mining left as a testament to the project.
Asteroid Fields
Kubindi C
Astrographic entry: Kubindi C
A cluster of rocky debris charted long ago by interstellar navigators. Research teams have not yet collected any substantial data concerning the origin and composition of these objects. Pilots are urged to use extra caution.
