Chion Prime (Taon V)

## History

### Pre-Commonwealth History

Chion Prime is the home planet of the Chioni Collective and orbits the star known as *"Taon's Eye".* As Chioni mythology involved a great deistic leviathan that in his despair of not having anything he could relate to, eventually began to break as a god, his body crumbling into thousands of shards to form the Chioni. Satisfied that he was not alone anymore, all he could do was rest, since all that remained was his head, which was to be the sun.

Despite its location near the Xen'Trist Prime, Chion Prime has remained relatively untouched in galactic events, being a safe haven for the peace-loving Chion as they explored space during the early 1400's.

Chion Prime has also been a home to several unique varieties of space-born cetaceans which the Chioni used to harness as a form of transport through the stars, building entire colonies on the backs of such massive creatures and remaining closely attuned to them.

### United Commonwealth of Planets Capital

In 2419, Chion Prime became an important world in the United Commonwealth of Planets when the U.S.S. Callisto rendered medical assistance to one such cetacean found to be near-death in space due to attacks from Nox-Veredian rebels.

This proved Starfleet's peaceful intentions to the Chioni, creating a mutually beneficial alliance between the two civilisations. Ever since then the Chioni have been an important part of the Commonwealth, serving as an emergency temporary base when Nocturne Station was destroyed in 2419.

In 2420, Akko Kratz, former Chioni ambassador to the Commonwealth was elected President of the United Commonwealth of Planets and Chioni Prime was made capital world of the Commonwealth as well as Nocturne Maintenance Yards built in orbit.

Chion Prime was attacked in July 2420 by the Church of Undying Effulgence.

Chion Prime was raided in 2420 by a mysterious species from the Lambda Quadrant known as the Gol Anocracy. A large fleet of Gol Arban Class vessels managed to overwhelm Chion defenses and land on the planet, retreating after being fought off by the *Commonwealth Special Air Service*. However the attack left many Chioni dead and without homes.

During the incursion by The Pryde of Ma'lkon in December 2420, the Pryde Worldship was destroyed and its ruins now reside in the Taon System.

After Akko Kratz's election defeat in early 2421, Bajora Prime (Sentinel V) become the de-facto capital of the United Commonwealth of Planets as per election rules under President Bol Nevin.

### Umojan Occupation

In February 2421, Chion Prime was annexed by the Umojan Empire in a suprise attack, causing the destruction of the Commonwealth High Guard Fleet and forcing Sky Marshal Leogryn Romeli to order an evacuation, abandoning the planet.

In March 2421, Chion Prime suffered terribly under the Umojan occupation, with several Chioni forming an underground resistance movement to repel them. To this end, the Umojan freed Rannis Kratz from Redemption Prison Colony and appointed him as *Prime Minister* of Chion Prime, serving as an Umojan puppet ruler. However this did nothing to quell the acts of sabotage and the Umojan began to consider purging the Chioni from the planet, placing many of them into work camps.

Later that month, Rannis Kratz and *Baron Yaj'reth Morphos* of the Umojan Empire instigated the *Culling of Aoca'metu*, in which the Chioni capital city of *Aoca'metu* was almost completely destroyed from Umojan orbital bombardment following waves of Chioni industrial sabotage at multiple Umojan garrisons on the planet. This resulted in the deaths of almost 8 million Chioni men, woman and children, the single greatest loss ever know by the Chioni people.

As a result of this resistance, Rannis convinced Morphos to leave the management of the planet to him, constructing a giant mechanical city within the *Barrens* region of Chion Prime, using the carbon collected from the dense forests of Chion Prime to fuel his new machine, destroying much of the planet's natural redwood forests in the process.

The Chioni camps were now greatly expanded, with Rannis selecting individuals to be brought to *Kratz'annar,* his new capital city, where they were subjected to horrific experiments in order to attempt to convert their organic bodies into mechanical ones which Rannis decreed as *"Ridding them of the Curse of Flesh"*.

Unfortunately, due to this process, many of the surviving Chioni were left lobotomised, with no sense of free will and became nothing more then mindless automatons.

During Operation: "Taon's Sword", Chion Prime was finally libertated from the Umojan Empire and Rannis Kratz, but not before over 5 million Chioni were killed during the occupation and over half of Chion's dense forests had been completely destroyed. The United Commonwealth of Planets immediately set about with the Chioni Collective to create projects to restore the former glory of Chion Prime and Rannis Kratz was officially assassinated by agents of General Sylveris Lunamonde during the battle to retake the planet.

As a result of this conflict, Akko Kratz, pressured by Chioni opinion, forced the Commonwealth to leave the planet, removing their bases from the decimated Chion Prime in order for the healing process to begin following the Umojan occupation, with many Chioni feeling that their involvement of the Commonwealth had directly caused the invasion.

To that end, the Commonwealth was forced to relocate its Fleet Headquarters to the newly terraformed planet of Commonwealth (Commonwealth I).

### Post-Commonwealth Chion

By 2452, the Chioni Collective had grown distrustful of outsiders following the Chioni massacre during The Worthless War and isolated themselves from the rest of the Black Eye Galaxy. Chion Prime rejected entry into The Shadow Commonwealth, not wanting to make their planet a target again.

## Environmental

Chion Prime has a natural ring system known as *"Taon's Spine"*. The rings compose of mainly chunks of rock and ice and may be the remains of secondary moon that collided with the planet millions of years ago.

The landmasses on Chion Prime are mostly densely-covered redwood forests with thick trees which can sometimes reach for hundreds of kilometres high.

## Government and Society

Most of the Chioni Collective reside inside large suspended villages built around colossal trees, with interconnecting wooden bridges. It has been theorised that the Chioni have adapted to life in trees due to the presence of a large type of walking bird on the surface which appears to be similar to the *Phorusrhacidae* or *"Terror Bird"* of primeval Earth. These large flightless bird regularly patrol the surface of Chion Prime and can easily chase down and eat an adult Chioni.

Regardless of this, the Chioni's superior intelligence has led them to become the most dominant species on the planet, possessing energy conversion technology that is superior to even that of the Federation. Chioni plasma conduit technology was even fitted on the U.S.S. Callisto in 2419.

The capital city on Chion Prime is Aoca'metu, an impressive suspended city embedded in some of the largest Redwood trees ever witnessed in the known universe.

Chioni technology also includes an extremely powerful shield array, one that can potentially powered infinitely due to the impressive energy conversion technology. The Chioni have built large "spires" in critical parts of the planet to serve as both solar collectors and shield generators. This large planetary shield is impervious to most traditional ship mounted weapon as well as providing coverage to protect the ecology of the whole planet.

The Commonwealth Headquarters of Harmony's Crossing is built into the pillar nearest Aoca'metu.