Bat Prima

**Bat Prima** was a major city on the drell homeworld of Rakhana from before its industrial period up until the final years before the evacuation of many drell people by the hanar.

## Description

First established in the early 7th century, Bat Prima began as little more than a convenient trading hub for a circle of surrounding villages. As the drell population grew, though, Bat Prima grew with it, and in just a few short decades the small trade post began its transformation into the booming industrial heart of the entire region. Bat Prima's trade district soon came to rival that of the planet's capital, with an entire quarter of the city dedicated solely to housing shops and businesses in large, wide streets designed to fit the ever-changing rows of vendors. It was often said that there was always something in Bat Prima that you wouldn't find anywhere else, and much to the chagrin of the other major cities, it was true.

As money poured into Bat Prima, its leaders took the opportunity to expand and establish a renowned medical district as well, with the Kahtack K'morh Science & Research Institute built at its center. While impressive, Bat Prima's main point of interest was still the markets - though the comparative lack of attention allowed scientists and doctors in the area to conduct more unique practices and pursue research that other cities may have deemed...unorthodox.

The rest of Bat Prima consisted of towering residential complexes to contain its ever-growing population, and an industrial quarter, where most of the production occurred and most of the city's revenue was generated.

Geographically, Bat Prima was broken down into three areas. The lowest was a flat, expansive swathe of land that stretched from Samkante Summit all the way to the Erusa River, and was where the bulk of the industrial quarter was built. Above that was a sloping cliff leading to the top of the aforementioned mountaintop, into which most of Bat Prima’s residences were built; the further down the building, the poorer its denizens, in most cases. Close to the top was where the upper-middle class resided, but it was only the truly wealthy that could afford to live in the final section of the city, the lofty plateau where Bat Prima’s world-famous trade district was established. At the top of Samkante Summit, one could see the entire city and - if facing the estuaries to the east - an uninterrupted view of Rakhana’s beautiful landscape for miles.

As the drell industrial revolution that had initially driven their species so far began to destroy them, little by little, Bat Prima began its decline as well in the mid-15th century. After nearly eight centuries, everything that had once kept the city alive began to vanish. Its industries died - almost overnight, it seemed, and the bitter class divide that had already been causing tensions for centuries finally escalated to an all-out war. Bat Prima began to tear itself apart from the inside out, and as wars waged on the streets, scavengers and thieves took advantage of the chaos and picked the city apart. In less than a century, Bat Prima was in ruins; nothing remained of the once-famous metropolis that had been heralded across the globe, and there was no-one left to care. When the hanar began evacuating the few drell they could in the 1980’s and 90’s, Bat Prima was a city of ghosts, and it would stay that way for the rest of time.