Talonis prime

## Talonis

A world known for its darkness and deep rich culture and colors. Made up of three major continents: Talmora, Tickiama and Sioberia. Named for the people who inhabit it, the Talons; often mistakenly called Talonis prime, which is the name of its sun. The planet has a radius of 6,478 km and a circumference of 40,702.4 km.

## Continents and islands

### Continents

#### Talmora

The largest and most populated continent on Talonis, though its shape has made it difficult to traverse and its peoples were never united its power was never questioned as the central point of Talonis. It has four major mountain ranges: Kripra, North Frimo barrier, Shimira and Swima. Its center is made up of the great lake known as the Sea of Sipico named for the nation that sprang up around its eastern banks. Its south east is filled up by the great destert of the Fiimo wastes.

#### Tickiama

The smallest continent on Talonis Tickiama sits to the far west in the shape of a crescent. It has a wealth of natural resources and in 432 BDoS it pursued a path of isolationism, sealing themselves away from the troubles of the world till they were forced upon them in the great awakening in 319 BDoS when they were invaded by nations from Talmora. The major features of it are the Nolocon mountain range and the Trickiama bay which is over half as large as the continent itself. A majority of the population is found in the southern regions such as the Timit lands.

#### Sioberia

The second largest continent on Talonis Sioberia has more traversable landmass, however its northern frozen planes are unusable throughout most of its year leaving the central regions as the most populated area. The major populated regions are the Richama lowlands and the Centeral Sioberia valley lands located between the Caparia mountain range and the Ficria mountain range. The most major feature of Siobeira is its own inner sea Lake Rushom. Notably the most southern region of Sioberia, the Efra Frima, is isolated by the eastern regions of the Frimo wastes that stretches from Talmora. This has lead to Efra Frima having a much different culture then that of the rest of the land.

### Islands

#### Estima

Located south of Efra Frima at the edge of the isle between Talmora and Siobeira known as the Frimo divide. An extension of the Efra Frima nation that claimed this island in 601 BDoS as a fishing island to help feed the mainland.

#### Falician

Located in the north mouth of Talmora bay this long thin island has a small native population on its south end. It is largely unpopulated due to the cold environment being inhospitable to the Talons.

#### Fimiland

Located just the the west and south of Estima this island was also claimed by Efra Frima soon after Estima in the same year. The islands most notable features is its shape being similar to a hammer.

#### Shimira major

Located south of Vandora land on the continent of Talmora, this island and its smaller sister island would end up being the sight of a major naval engagement between Talmora forces and Trickiama forces.

#### Shimira minor

The former sight of a Trickiama naval base until the major naval engagement that decided the control of the Dathoma sea and Thilmia sea.

#### Ubionia

Located in the center of the Talmora bay, this island was used for numerous fishing groups and saw the outbreak of the most powerful nations on Talmora going to war over fishing rights over the area.

#### Weisson

Located south of Tickiama the island sits so far off the coast of the Timit lands that for a time it acted as its own nation, until the great awakening where Trickiama woke up to the outside world and vastly began to militarize, first seizing this island as an act of expansion.

## Unique features

Talonis features an almost entirely night cycle. Due to its very thick atmosphere the light from its star is very dim, but this same atmosphere traps in the heat keeping the planet warm with how far away it sits from its star.

## Major conflicts occurring on Talnois

### The fishmongers war (374 BDoS - 321 BDoS)

Starting with a dispute over who had fishing rights over the islands of Ubionia in the Talmora bay this small conflict spiraled out of control and saw the nation of Sipico gaining control of 90% of Talmora. Over the course of the 53 years of war the nation of Sabawara was completely eliminated and brought under Sipico as well as the Breachlands in the west and Vandora land in the south west. The only lands that didn't fall under Sipico was the Frimo wastes.

### The great awakening (319 BDoS - 314 BDoS)

Following the Fishmonger war Sipico found itself with a massive amount of groups that were raid and armed and perhaps interested in going against the Sipico heads that had conquered their home lands. Sipico's king had a plan that would let them keep their power well also perhaps expanding their sphere of influence: attacking Tickiama. The isolationists were an easy target due to their inferior technology and defenses. However it was irrelevant if Talmoran forces won or not. It was simply an act to get rid of the most aggressive of the new super nation. The poorly supported Talmoran forces had several early victories that saw the potential for them to win and claim all of Tickiama. However as the Talmoran forces stretched their supply lines the Tickiama gathered forces from their southern lands and equipment lost by the Talmoran and began to make a counter offensive. Pushing the Talmoran forces off Tickiama in a brutal series of victories along the north eastern side of the Nolocon mountains. The Talmoran's defeat was nothing to the Sipico rulers but it meant everything to Tickiama.

### Sioberia's great war (255 BDoS - 246 BDoS)

On July 8th 255 BDoS the sons of king Shikomia were killed when their boat sank on tour of Lake Rushom. The king of the nation that held the important region of the central Sioberia valley land declared war on the nation of the Richam lowlands. The resulting clash saw the nations batter each other for years. However it wasn't until September of 251 BDoS that saw a great mistake be made. King Shikomia had died and his council had taken over and decided to move forces to attack the Richma lowlands via going around Efra Frima through to the great inner sea. This however angered Ffra Frima who blockaded Frima bay. A misfire caused a conflict between the Central Siobeira nation and Efra Frima. With a new front open on the south Centeral Sioberia was squeezed on both sides until they were forced to surrender. This pushed Efra Frima to distance themselves away from the events of the rest of Sioberia well Richman bathed in the new glory of major influence over Siobeira.

### The great inner sea war (173 BDoS - 121 BDoS)

Well not a major war there were several major battles occurred over the course of nearly five decades from the gulf of Sipico to the Frimo divide. These were largely blamed on piracy these were largely backed by Talmora and Siobeira to trip the other up.

### The war of the spear (120 BDoS - 99 BDoS)

Following the dozens and dozens of naval conflicts on the great inner sea Talmora and Siobeira made their excuses and went to war. Siobeira chose to move forces across the Richman corridor to the south of the Swima mountain range. This was to close to the Sipico inner power for the rulers to be comfortable with. This saw the great forces of Talmora focus all their forces to counter them there. However Tickiama took advantage of the situation and invaded the Breachlands and Vandora lands splitting Talmora into two fronts of which they couldn't win. in October of 99 BDoS Talmora was forced to surrender and seeded all lands east of the Swima mountain range to Siobeira and the Breachlands and Vandora lands to Tickama.

### The war of Talon (61 BDoS - 55 BDoS)

Following the war of the spear the Vandora lands were able to break away from Tickiama and established themselves as an independent power. This put them at odds with Tickiama and Sipico who wished to bring them back under their control. This came to a head in the sinking of the VSS Nomra in the Cashra bay. This became known as the Nomra crisis. Vandora deeply upset at the sinking of one of their warships in the bay began to threaten war. Seeing this as an opertunity to expand their influence Richma allied with Vandora. Events quickly spiraled out of war and saw a conflict rise that had all nations pulled into the most devastating conflict in Talnois history. Finally ending when the Efra Frima fleet crushed the Tickiama and Sipico fleets at the battle of Shimira major. This had been the last ditch effort by those powers who were so in debt by the war that they could not replace the fleet. In the resulting chaotic end of the war Efra Frima established the council of Talonis to avoid future conflicts like this.

### Operation Grand Stand (Serpent War) (April 22nd 377 DoS - )

During the Serpent war of 377 DoS Talnois was the first Mass Alliance territory to be invaded, and the first home world of any species sized. The Mass Alliance Grand Navy's (MAGN) strategy to retake Talonis was Operation Grand Stand which navy engagement was handled by a massive combined fleet under the 9th's banner and lead by Grand Admiral Mara Endula. The battle of Talonis is largely known for its naval engagement which saw a Mass Alliance victory, but a rather costly one that put a pause on all other major offensives in the war for some time as the MAGN reconsidered its tactics. Lesser talked about is the ground war that occurred on Talonis.

Under the command of General Wicker Wisemen a combined effort by the Mass Alliance Grand Navy and the Mass Alliance Armed Forces (MAAF) made their major landing in the Thimira lands and began a press north towards South Sipra. Other major landing sights were in Siobeira (just north of the east Frimo wastes), Sabawara planes, Vandora lands and south east Tickiama. The front at South Sipra became brutal as Serpent set up three major lines of defense. Two major lines from the Kripra mountains along the major rivers managed to hold off the MAGN's forces, supplemented by a large division of MAAF, for two weeks. This bogged down the effort and the MAGF forces that landed in Vandora land had to divert in order to attack the back of these defensive lines.

The landing at Tickiama wasn't met with much resistance and pushed north and eliminated the Serpent presence on the continent with little resistance as Serpent became stretched. They were forced to divert to help the effort in the Breachalnds, crossing the Car-olocn corridor, as the heart of the Serpent forces located in the Breachlands completely annihilated a division from the MAAF.

The two major successful battles of the war for Talonis saw the landings in Sabawara of one division of MAGN and two MAAF forces worked in tandem, the MAAF forcing Serpent's attention on them as the MAGN used their mobility to move between the divided lines and hit them from the rear putting the squeeze on the lines till they collapsed and then moved to fight what was assumed to be the head of Serpent's forces on the west side of the Sea of Sipico.

The battle of Siobeira was a major victory for the Mass Alliance. Serpent's forces decided to play aggressive and made a charge south from their position in the east side of the Ficria mountain range to meet the Mass Alliance landing zone. They also moved a division east around the Caparia mountain range in an attempt to flank the MAGN forces. However this failed as the MAGN rushed to dig in and prevent them from taking their foothold. The MAAF force took major advantage of these missteps as a group that had been on the planet prior to the MAGN's arrival slipped behind the main forces line and cut off their supply line leaving them as easy prey for the MAGN marines and tank divisions. A MAAF force that was mustered on the north end of Lake Rushom moved south to attack the Serpent base from the north and was met by a weak response that was easily crushed and they took the base.

After the major victories at Tickiama, Siobeira and north Talmora the Mass Alliance consolidated their forces and began picking away at the Serpent bases at the Breachlands and the west end of the Sea of Sipico. Serpent fought to the bitter end and prolonged their defeat long after General Wicker Wisemen was recalled to help with different war efforts that had opened up during the battle for Talonis.