Akari (Galian Planet)

The planet of Akari Prime (Colloquially just Akari) is an Imperial Core-World located in the Akari System. The most populous, and economically important world in the Empire, Akari has earned a place among the largest, and most important centers of human development. Akari is a rapidly growing and immensely populous world which often finds itself listed among the crowning jewels of human development of space, and is viewed as a potential rival for Terra as a center of commerce and trade.

## History

Akari was the first world settled in the Akari system in the year 2315, when it was discovered by pre-warp scouts originating from Terra. The early Colony on Akari, primarily consisting of Japanese nationals led by Commander Akari Inoue (For whom the world was named) served as the main beach head for the further colonization of the systems in what is now known as the Galian Core belt (Specifically Akari, Aosect, Galia, Hela-Sator, and Kasatrix). Akari’s hospitable climate proved a major boon for the early colonists, and the world quickly exploded, first growing from its initial 50,000 colonists to 1,000,000 by mid-century. By the 2500’s Akari had grown to become a major regional center, and one of the largest settlements in the region (rivaled only by Leona, in the Galia system). The residents of Akari chose to follow in the footsteps of their
Galian neighbors, and established their own independent government, named the Akari Directorate.

Under the Directorate Akari’s influence only further grew, as the planet became not only the defacto capital of its own system, but even as
neighboring systems fall into its sphere of influence. Systems like Kasatrix, Aden, and Machinum quickly found themselves working extensively with the government out of Akari, whose only rival in the territory came in the form of the rapidly rising Galian Systems Alliance. In the year 2688 the GSA and Directorate came into an agreement, wherein Akari would enter into the GSA along with its closest ally Kasatrix, in exchange for equal representation to Galia and its vassals in the GSA’s senate. Through this agreement the GSA became the defacto power of the region, and rapidly expanded to include many more rural and developing systems in its periphery.

Akari continued to grow under the GSA, but saw its expansion explode following the fall of the GSA, and its ensuing civil-war. Established as an Arch-Duchy, the highest title of the new Galian Empire, Akari quickly became a prominent governmental capital, as substantial portions of the newly established Imperial Bureaucracy saw their headquarters established on the planet. Along with the growing class of bureaucrats, a substantial number of nobles, ranging from lowly Lords, to titles as high as Count, or even Duke arrived to the planet, seeking to base the operation of their holdings in the largest and most prominent city outside of Terra or Centauri. Today the planet has become famous both within and beyond Galia, as one of the most developed, wealthy, populous, and important worlds for all humanity. Both as one of the Empire’s defacto centers of government (With the Imperial Chancellery effectively becoming the main governing apparatus since the current Emperor fell into a coma), and as home to the Galian Stock Exchange, the largest stock market outside of Terra.

## Geography

Akari is classified as an Urban Earth-sized world, though
formerly the planet held the classification of Temperate Terrestrial, with the vast majority of its surface consisting of vast, warm, rolling plains. When first settled Akari mostly consisted of open prairies and plains reminiscent of the American Great Plains, and covering over 70% of the planets land surface. Today that number has reduced to 50%, and now more than 20% of the planet has been converted to urban areas, including around 3% which has been converted to an Urban Superstructure much like those currently found on Terra. Akari has officially begun the process of conversion to an Ecumenopolis – a enormous megacity which will, upon completion, cover the entire land surface of the world.

### Urban

Much of Akari’s surface has been covered by a growing web of
cities and urban centers, which are home to nearly all of its enormous 178 Billion population. Despite this there is still a notable population of around
one billion employed in agriculture and ecological work, though these are predominantly from the feudal-slave class of Villein. Akari’s cities themselves are towering, with massive steel Art-Deco skyscrapers soaring above the streets below and casting them into darkness. The population of these cities are served by a sprawling and intricate network of subways, trains, and air transit crossing the planets many cities, and linking with its many dozen major space ports.

Beyond the regular urban sprawl of the city, however, grows an increasingly large and complicated region of Megacity, where the city is slowly being developed into a planetary ecumenopolis, an enormous city rising miles
into the sky, and spanning across the world. Despite the planetary government’s massive efforts, and equally staggering spending, only 3% of the planets surface has been as of yet converted.