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MARIANA
HISTORY
DESCRIPTION
Located in the Mehdias System, Itarian Scribes dated Mariana’s formation between 300000-150000 BTLS(Before the Long Sleep). Pacifica Moon was formed shortly after and stood at a whopping 1/3 of Mariana’s size.
Mariana was a planet of climate extremes. The north and south poles were massive stretches of desert that act as bookends to massive oceans. In its early cycles, the polls were massive mountains of ice that bordered a temperate valley in the equator. Most sapient life settled and built entire civilizations on the narrow strip of warmth. At some point, the planet’s inhabitants triggered a runaway greenhouse effect that melted their polar ice caps.
This buried massive swaths of civilization underwater. The hyper-evolutionary effects of the Spear Energy throughout the fabric of the universe sped up the adaptive processes of the beings on the planet. This created a deep-sea race known as “Trenchians”.
MARIANA
LENGTH OF DAY
20 hours
LENGTH OF YEAR
400 local days
POPULATION
3.5 billion
SUN
Mehdias JX7
MOONS
Pacifica
SYSTEM
Mehdias system
COMMON LANGUGES
Itarian
PIRATE RULE
During the expansion of the Itarian empire, Mariana held no advantage for the Itarians since there were no visible beings to conquer. Fully colonizing the planet for resources would cost too much so the Itarians left it alone.
Pirates, however, found that it made an excellent hiding spot. Over time, they established ports and hideouts on the backwater planet. As they expanded on the planet’s ocean surface, they were noticed by the Trenchians of the deep. While first contact was violent, with the early pirates hunting the Trenchians to sell their skins, the diverse nature of the subspace underworld allowed cooler heads to prevail in the subsequent cycles.
Trenchians would eventually* make up about 5% of the Old Universe pirate population.
UNDER THE ALL FATHER
Under the command of The All Father, his Black Palace soldiers reclaimed many planets in his name. The once-independent planet fell under Black Palace rule. Unlike the Itarians, when the Black Palace arrived, the pirates had done the work of colonizing the planet for them. The Black Palace immediately put the colonies to work by fishing for resources and drilling oil from the core of the planet.