Avegacia

**Avegacia**, called **Aven Giaas** by natives, was a cold, terrestrial planet in the Cassiopeia Galaxy, covered with plains and coniferous forestry. It was the homeworld of the native Avegacians. Avegacia was incorporated into the United Cassiopeian Republic as a colony sometime during the 6th millennium ASA.

## Description

Avegacia was one of several planets in the Avegacian System, a planetary system located in the Central Expanse region of the galaxy. The planets of the system, including Avegacia, orbited a white subgiant star. Avegacia had two natural satellites: the rainforest moon of Junthos and the uninhabitable moon of Marthos.

Avegacia was a cold world, home to grasslands, coniferous forests, tundras, snowy plains, and cold rivers. The foliage and flora of the planet was notably colored blue, matching the skin tones of the planet's natives.

### Government

The **Avegacian Parliament** served as the planetary government for Avegacia. This Parliament operated under the jurisdiction of the United Cassiopeian Republic. By the year 5957 ASA, a man named Angelo Gwahanol Graves served as the Prime Minister of Avegacia.

Before Republic colonization, Avegacia had no centralized government, with different chieftains watching over their own respective tribes.

## History

The native Avegacians of the planet, who called their homeworld Aven Giaas, lived relatively in harmony and in small numbers before foreign intervention. The Avegacians lived in scattered tribes for most of their early history.

### Colonization

In 5827 ASA, a human explorer by the name of Gaetano Vega led an expedition to Aven Giaas to explore the previously undiscovered yet small planetary system. Vega came to the planet on behalf of the United Cassiopeian Republic in an attempt to bring more previously uncharted planets into its territory. Vega and the expedition team discovered native Avegacian tribes and made a deal with them: their territory for Republic protection, medical advancements, and state-of-the-art technology. Seeing no other options, the Avegacians accepted this deal, making Aven Giaas a UCR colony.

Upon colonization, the planet was renamed Avegacia. Though tensions between the Republic colonists and the native Avegacians were strong at first, the groups slowly began to coexist with one another as time went on, although tensions persisted in a more subtle form.

### The First Sentinel Avegacia

   Early in the year 5957 ASA, a baby boy named Cano Marchesi was born as the son of an Avegacian father and a human mother. Cano was the millionth citizen of Avegacia, which marked a special occasion: the granting of Avegacia's very first Sentinel.

The Herald descended from the heavens and made his announcement a festive, exciting event. He granted the powers to pacify others to a young Avegacian-Human woman named Ximena Nudo. The Prime Minister of Avegacia at the time, Angelo Gwahanol Graves, asked the Herald for his suggestions regarding the Sentinel's position in the planetary government. The Herald responded by saying the matter didn't concern him, and that his only job was to grant someone power and leave.

Without another word, the Herald returned from wherever he came from, leaving Avegacia to deal with their very first Sentinel.

## Inhabitants

For much of Avegacia's history, the native Avegacian tribesmen were the only inhabitants of the planet. After UCR colonization, humans and various other sentient humanoid species made homes for themselves on the tundra planet.

### Sentinels

Sentinel Avegacia was gifted with the ability to pacify others and calm crowds of people down through the use divine magic.

### Notable Figures

* **Angelo Gwahanol Graves** - the Prime Minister of Avegacia during the mid-60th century ASA.
* **Cano Marchesi** - the millionth citizen of Avegacia, born with Human and Avegacian ancestry.

## Locations

### Gaetano City

**Gaetano City** was the capital city of Avegacia, established by the United Cassiopeian Republic upon colonizing the planet. The city was named after Gaetano Vega, the man who originally led the expedition to Avegacia for the Republic. As the capital of the planet, the Avegacian Parliament operated in Gaetano City.