TI-789k

TI-789k as seen by OROW-Dragon

TI-789k-3

Mors Zona

## Description

### Physical Description

TI-789k is a rogue, silicon-based, extragalactic planet roughly 70,000 light years from the Galactic Core. 5166km in radius, and roughly half the mass of Coruscant. It has a complex ring system with various large asteroids acting as Shepard moons.

It has an extraordinary amount of valuable mineral deposits used in all things within the galaxy. The mantle of the planet contains large amounts of fuel used in nearly every ship the universe has to offer, in the crust you can find many many deposits of Neutronium, and the rings contain many asteroids with large quantities of Lommite and Carvanium.

The Largest of it's Shepard moons are numbered TI-789k-1 through 3 none reach more than 0.0076% of their parents mass. TI-789k-2 is a Major Source of Carvanium in the systems rings.

There are large cavernous sections of the Planet going up to 30 Kilometers into the planets crust, these house much of the population. On the surface of the planet the tallest mountains reach about 22 kilometers above the local relief, but mountains are rare to come upon, and ranges even more so. More common are ravines, caves, canyons, and other negative height landforms that can extend down for upwards of 34 kilometers.

TI-789k has a thin atmosphere on the surface, about a third the thickness of Coruscant's atmosphere at datum, though it gets noticeably thicker as you get deeper into natural landforms.

### Biosphere Description

TI-789k has little in the way of life outside of the humans. The crust contains at least 2 Exogorths, and the belt many more. All life forms are silicon-based, as there's no natural water for carbon-based life forms to evolve. Most plant-like, staying still for nearly their entire life, seemingly absorbing the little in the way of energy the always night sky gives off. Unfortunately they can't be called flora, as attempts to approach these beings have found it hides tentacles in the ground, and will grab anything that moves close enough in an attempt to eat it.

Everything else burrows through the crust and seemingly gets sustenance from the rocks that they eat, this involves multiple Millipede like species.

Human colonists have created vast farms of food to feed themselves, these are all artificial and imported just as well as the UV light they feed on and water they're given. No animals are farmed on the planet of TI-789k.

### Cultural Description

#### The Alti

The civilization on TI-789k is surprisingly developed considering the planet they live on. They mainly power their systems through burning the fuel found in the Mantle. And keep warm through being buried deep in the crust. Those who live underground are called and call themselves the Alti. There is multiple layers of caverns on top of each other. The deeper you go the more expensive the housing, and the more high-class it population is. The largest of these caverns is Gigan, the deepest and most wealthy city, it has a 4 kilometer wide borehole leading straight to the surface for 28 Kilometers. Though It's shielded half way up the bore hole, and only about 7 people per standard year leaves for the surface.

#### The Ficem

Speaking of, a small portion of the population chooses to live on the surface, perpetually dark they lose many of the luxuries of the crust. Those who live on the crust are called Ficem, and survive either in large camps or completely alone. The Most notable camp on the surface, with a population of 3,000 is Point Summum a camp that lies 2.3 kilometers away from Gigan's Borehole, they gain their power by sapping off Gigan's power grid. The surface has a thin atmosphere, and strenuous physical exercise was near impossible unassisted, many chose to wear masks and suits containing compressors and breath masks to help increase the density of air they breathe. Strangely enough people have had many generations live on the surface are incredibly like to have gone albino, losing all pigment. Those who haven't had this genetic quirk appear, are pale overall as there is no source of UV light. This can be seen to an extent in the underground though there are minor attempts to improve this through the use of strong UV-Lights on the ceilings of caverns, but overall they are almost nearly as pale.

Life on the surface is rough but it has it's perks, Ficem can hunt down the silicon-based life, and eat actual meat, it's certainly an acquired taste, but it's one that cost those in the crust top dollar. A common source of employment for Ficem is through the deconstruction and selling of a few massive crashed ships on the surface.

#### Mors Zona

These 4 ships lie in an area called Mors Zona, while 3 of the ships haven't been seen intact since as far as records go, the fourth, a ship called the Orchius, is untouched, both by nature and scrappers. The 3 Damaged ships Malphas, Haagenti, and Bael have been reduced to a frame work surrounding a reactor and a massive weapons system. Meanwhile Orchius is claimed to be cursed, at least that's what the scrappers call it, men of science on the other hand call it highly irradiated, presumably from a damaged hyperdrive. At the same time the soil around Orchius, *(gotten via purchase from someone calling it curse powder)* has signs of explosive residue, and ashes.

While these ships have yet to be accurately measured we have the information and claims of scrappers to go on their size. Mors Zona is around 500 square kilometers, while all the ships are presumed to be of the same class only Orchius is undamaged enough to be measured, roughly 4 Kilometers across, 3 kilometers tall, and 2 kilometers long. Each ship has wide wings, 3 central spires, and many many massive guns across it's width.

## History

### 12,000-10,000 BrS

A simple estimation of when TI-789k was settled with an unknown original amount of colonists, it's high mineral content was either unknown, or not cared about. As there is no evidence suggesting it's purpose was to be a mining colony.

### 10,000-9,000 BrS

TI-789k lost contact with the Republic, this guess is based off of a singular corrupted data log describing a formal report of Colony status being sent to Coruscant, it is unknown if the message ever made it.

### 7:09:05 GrS

Outer Rim Oreworks Exploratory Branch ship OROW-Dragon, found TI-789k through the ship's lieutenant convincing the Captain to follow the lead of an extremely minor gravitational anomaly. They found the mineral rich planet and landed a team to do further research into the composition of the planet. The team consisting of 34 scientists, and 9 armed guards we attacked 3 hours after landing by a militia set up by the Alti. Their two landing craft were stolen and with some difficulty the OROW-Dragon was boarded. The boarding action that followed resulted in 78 deaths on Oreworks's side and 29 deaths on the Miltias side. The skirmish turned into a stalemate and the Captain was injured, and Lieutenant Keron began locking bulkheads to impede the movement of the boarders. Finally as a distress call had been sent out Republic Judiciary Forces arrived and forced a white peace. Aboard the vessel K-Aroyoi a peace was brokered between Militia leader Acerbus Vandred, Aroyoi's Captain Jeni Konklav, and OROW-Dragon's Acting Captain Keron.

A peace was settled when TI-789k was promised to begin undergoing the process of entering the Republic, and Outer Rim Oreworks promised exclusive mining rights under a Republic contract. A few months after this emigration and immigration to the planet TI-789k was permitted.

### 18:4:06 GrS

TI-789k's local government has begun sending demands to the Imperial Government on Coruscant of a place on the Senate, as the Empire had continued to work with Oreworks on an exclusive contract meaning they had taken the place of the Republic within the terms of their agreement. Thus it had been over a decade and they have yet to officially be represented in Galactic Politics in anyway shape or form.