Planet Erebus

## Planet Details:

Name: Erebus

Location: Uncharted space, D-9 The unknown regions.

Sun: 1 (Baldur) \*Dying\*

Moons: 1 (Nyx)

Grid coordinates: D-9

Orbital period: 1384,947 days

Diameter: aprox 10,200 kilometers

Hours in a day: 29 galactic standard hours.

Atmosphere Type: I (breathable)

Climate: Cold to Temperate

Primary terrain: dead jungles, mostly barren wastelands, black lakes and deep underground caverns.

Inhabitants: The Ch'ittocasi, The Rot'sim'i, Hexxus

## Description:

Originally discovered and settled in the year 2429 BBY by a colonisation transport of Chiss and their workforce of human slaves in the unknown regions, this small planet once was lush and teeming with life. A dream come true for its new inhabitants due the fact that the traditional seasons did not seem to occur on Erebus because of the planet's unusually slow orbital rotation of its only sun, Baldur. Every day was perfectly mild with only the usual regular rain patterns strongly encouraging rapid flora and fauna growth. The small planet quickly became the sought after foothold that could act as a staging ground for further Chiss expansion into the unknown regions.

About 470 galactic standard years after first being settled, a black hole was discovered on the other side of its sun Baldur, who had also now begun to die. The Chiss Ascendancy, realising that one day the planet and most likely Baldur itself would likely be swallowed entirely by the black hole, decided to evacuate their newly found paradise and leave Erebus, and it’s only moon, Nyx, to their fates. Many left… but somewhat surprisingly, also some Chiss and many humans, mainly the descendants of the original colonies, stubbornly refused to leave their eden and denying the orders to return to space, remained by their own choice refusing to let the problems of future generations force them back into nomadic space travel.

And so they remained, cut off from the greater Chiss ascendancy and in isolation on their beautiful and evergreen homeworld.

Over the following seven hundred years, the planet Erebus slowly followed its orbital path around Baldur and began to move behind the light consuming black hole. The planet's orbital rotation of Baldur slowly separated itself from its only external light and heat source. Slowly, but inevitably the shadow of the black hole gradually covered the tropical surface in constant darkness. Some of the Chiss inhabitants retreated underground to live in the extensive cavernous systems, warmed by the planet's magma core; they believed a hidden subterranean paradise existed underground, one that mirrored the planets original beauty. These people would come to be known as The Ch'ittocasi.

Others, now believing the dying light of Baldur due to the growing black hole as a battle of the gods, decided to migrate across the planet keeping their mobile cities in the light of the ever shrinking Baldur as they fed off the planet's remaining resources. They were known as The Rot'sim'i.

In the year 1380 BBY planet Erebus was visited by an unknown dark entity known as Hexxus who became a god of the Rot’simi and fed off the growing darkness and decay of the planets fauna and flaura. The dark entity was worshiped by the Rot'sim'i as the embodiment of the dark sky god who had defeated the dreaded light eons ago and the Rot'sim'i would blind their children in a ritual known as ‘true sight” to please him.

By the year 1259 BBY, some 1170 standard galactic years after Eribus was first settled, ROAR-1 was ejected out into close proximity to the planet by an unnatural tear in space and time during a future battle of Tython in 162 ABY. The anomaly was created by a powerful and unique explosion. An explosion caused by arcane sith magics and dark matter combining violently and opening a wormhole that sucked in the small craft. Randomly transporting it across both time and space.

By this stage, Eribus had completely been hidden behind the shadow of the black hole for hundreds of years and occupied by the dark entity known as Hexxus. The dying star Baldur, now totally eclipsed by the black hole positioned between it and the planet, covering the once green and thriving Erebus into a planet of endless night. Turning the paradise into a planet of darkness, death and decay which fed Hexuss’s power.

## Inhabitants:

The two groups who inhabit the planet are The Ch'ittocasi vucum which translates to “people of the Dark” in Cheunh, the native tongue of the Chiss. And The Rot'sim'i vucum which loosely translates to “Surface people”.

**The Ch'ittocasi vacum:** The Ch’ittocasi we’re a large group of mostly Chiss descendants who split from the rest of the surface dwelling inhabitants almost 500 years ago, a decade before the very last of the main planetary settlements were overtaken by the shadow of the Eclipse. Unable to convince many others to follow their beliefs that the underground caverns which existed below them long before the planet was colonised, was in actuality an entrance into a subterranean utopia warmed by the small planet's natural magma core.

And so the Ch’ittocasi left, making their way in droves into the caverns below ground and disappearing into the darkness, unseen again for nearly five hundred years.

Over time, the Ch’ittocasi mutated and devolved into savage, aggressive beasts.. barely a shell of their ancestors.. a dozen generations in the darkness of Erebus’s underground caverns turned their blue skin pale and hairless, and their trademark red eyes small, and devoid of all humanity.

**The Rot'sim'i vacum:** The Rot'sim'i are a group of Chiss and Human descendants who instead of retreating unground like the Ch'ittocasi people, chose to remain above ground and moved across Erebus keeping to the light of Baldur as long as possible and living off its remaining resources.

As the Rot’sim’i followed the last light of Baldur over hundreds of years they began to believe that the Black hole and Baldur were two gods fighting for control of the sky, the Planet Erebus and even the loyalty of its people. With the eventual total Eclipse of the Sun, the Rot’sim’i returned to their original ancestral settlements and began to worship the darkness as the planet's rightful god and ruler. Soon after in 1380 BBY the dark entity known as Hexxus arrived and was quickly hailed as the god of darkness itself. Eventually, many of the Rot’sim’i adopted the belief that living life in absolute darkness was what the dark god Hexxus wanted for its people.

It was soon after that they began to introduce the barbaric ritual known as the “true sight” in which the Rot’sim’i would blind themselves and their children to prove their loyalty to the god Hexxus. Their already heightened other senses amplified even more so in their ultimate connection to the darkness.

Those Rot’sim’i that did not wish to preform the “true sight” ritual were exiled, driven into the dying wilderness of Erebus, their suffering and slow death a sacrifice to their dark god Hexxus.