Iaawe

**Iaawe** was a terrestiral planet in the Cassiopeia Galaxy, covered in deserts, forests, and wetlands. The planet was the home of a cultural group called the Iaawans.

## Description

Situated at the edge of the western Central Expanse region of the galaxy, Iaawe was far away from the more populated worlds of the Inner and Outer Core regions. It was one of several planets in its planetary system.

While a planetwide ocean colored roughly half of Iaawe's surface, the other half was covered in a varied landscape of vast arid deserts, temperate forests and plains, dense rainforests, and foggy wetlands. Huge deserts took up most of the land of the continental interior, but forests, jungles, and wetlands were still able to thrive thanks to regularly-occurring rainfall.

### Government

As a smaller world, Iaawe housed many different polities throughout its history, with no single centralized government that oversaw the entirety of the planet. Some existing factions were:

* The **Berium Compact**, a constitutional republic comprised of many cities and settlements allied under one nation. Powered by advanced machinery nearly on par with that of the United Cassiopeian Republic, the leader of the republic was an elected official titled the High Speaker. The state religion of the Compact was the Countenance.
* **Dabandio**, a hostile federation of cities powered by supremacist thinking and viewed the subjugation of others under slavery as honorable, situated throughout Iaawe's forests. The leader of the federation was titled the Divine Templar. The state religion of Dabandio was High Victorism.
* The **Nosa Covenant**, a confederation of tribes spread throughout the deserts and forests of Iaawe. Some tribes under the confederation were more hostile than others. The leader of this chiefdom was titled the First Chief. The state religious body of the Covenant was the Sinners of the Tusk.
* The **Owls of Plunder**, a loose confederation of pirate gangs that operated outside of the three major planetary polities. The Owls sustained themselves through thievery and ruthlessness. The leader of the Owls was simply called the Warlord.

## Inhabitants

The main inhabitants of Iaawe called themselves Iaawans. This population was composed of Humans and various other sentient species found throughout Cassiopeia.

### Notable Figures

* **Aika Nina Tears** - a former citizen of Dabandio who came to live in Kaleido Alcove.
* **Braca Black** - a former tribesman of the Nosa Covenant who came to live in Kaleido Alcove.
* **Diana Wade** - a former pirate of the Owls of Plunder confederation who came to live in Kaleido Alcove.

## Locations

### Kaleido Alcove

**Kaleido Alcove** was a settlement founded by missionaries of the Children of the Origin Star. True to its name, the town was built within the grassy recess of the mountainside.

The founders of Kaleido Alcove were Alabas Jenian, Hotaru Bowers, Chyrune Vaughn, and Ziria Kadis. Kaleido Alcove served as the base of operations for their denomination on Iaawe.

## Trivia

* Iaawe is based off of a randomly-generated planet from the sandbox video game *RimWorld*.
* The name Iaawe is derived from a nonsensical name suggestion given to Naps by a friend.