Zoph

## Pre-Campaign History

Long ago, Zoph was one of the primary locations where Jedi would journey to seek out their kyber crystals, but as Ilum became a more prominent place to go, visits to the planet waned to the point that it became all but forgotten.

Zoph is a planet that is such a nexus of the force that most of the habitable land is floating at varying levels of elevation, which has made flight an absolute necessity. For years, the Zophians have developed a force imbued relationship with the Maa'kaa a bird with a special anti-ion mucus.

During the Clone Wars, Zoph was a target of a Separatist invasion. A group of separatists came down to the planet and promised the Zophians the wonder and majesty of space travel and the technology necessary in return for their anti-ion goo.

The inhabitants of Zoph were split. Their leader and a large contingent of the people, wanted to keep to themselves, but a small group spoke out for letting the CIS have a few Maa'kaa for their war in order to see the galaxy beyond.

The Zoph people decided to rebuke the Separatist's offer and in response a full scale invasion was put in place, but due to the strange seasonal ion storms on Zoph, it was a massive failure as the ships and the droids within were now non functional.

In response, Wii'zhen, the leader of the Zophian people, banished those who previously wished to invite the Separatists in, including his own brother Yamaro, calling them the Outlanders. Over the years he began a campaign to double down on the isolationism and villifying the Outlanders to his people.

The Outlanders began to create a scavenged utopia of technology and dreamed of taking to the stars as they had previously hoped to.

## Campaign History

Over the years, the Zophians of both groups took the new scrap found from the Separatists' failed invasion and made it their own. The non Outlander Zophians used a hollowed out C-9979 as the main structure of their city, and droid parts were used to decorate armor and all parts of their culture.

In 21 ABY, Archaeologist Luca Cresh was able to dig up info on the once lost planet, and asked Knight Phinffi Pol and a contigent of Jedi to join her.

They met with Wii'zhen the Wizened, Metal Speaker of the Zophian People. A political and religious leader for the Zophian people, he was telling a story to the younger Zophians.

From Knight Phinffi's Records on Zoph:

> *A long time ago, much like now, we lived in peace. The Zoph were a whole people. In a time of the Great Unmakings, huge metal beasts filled the sky blocking out the sun. They fell like rain from above. We took these Great Beasts, fallen and dead, as gifts from the Ancient Ones. We built our homes within their bodies, we adorn ourselves with their bones, use them for tools, for protection.*
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Wii'zhen promised the Jedi the location of ancient ruins (likely of the Jedi) if they dealt with the local menace, the Outlanders.
The Jedi were gifted the opportunity to ride their own Maa'kaa to the base of the Outlanders. While taking a tour of the sights of Zoph they found themselves at the Outlanders' 'base'

> *You find that within the inner section of these ruins the Maa'kaa begin to slow down.*
> *You begin to spot, in rather unconcealed locations, Zophians. But these Zophians look different. They aren’t so heavily adorned and they’re staring, but largely going about their business: Farming across hanging gardens. They have a surprising amount of tech compared to their counterparts in the other camp. Instead of adorning themselves with the chassis of droids like animal carcasses, the Outlanders appear to have repurposed the droids they’ve scrapped. A tall and lanky Zophians on a similar looking Maa'kaa to yours pulls up beside you and guides you all to a large building ruin. You all dismount from your birds and proceed through. This place looks like some sort of decently sized hall of commerce. As you walk past bustling stalls and tables, you come to a casual-looking area full of long benches and tables. At one of these is an older, somewhat gaunt looking Zophians.*
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Yamaro, leader of the Outlanders explained the actual history of his people, they accepted the Separatists' offer of space and technology and paid for their naiveté with the attempted invasion of the planet. They were kicked out and branded a menace to the mainlander Zophians.

As the Jedi sought to solve this old feud with diplomacy, Yamaro let them know that the ruins they sought were known to all Zophians as The Rookery, where all Maa'kaa are hatched. It is a holy place for both factions, and neutral territory.

All three groups met at The Rookery and with the Jedi as mediators were able to work out a deal.

* Outlanders who wished to leave were able to do so, but they were not allowed to say where they were from or direct anyone on how to get there.
* The Mainlanders were to be left alone and any mainlanders who wished to join the outlanders were free to do so.
* One Mainlander (Chelto Uh'wanii) and one Outlander (Owada De'Kaan) would join the Jedi in a cultural exchange program to enrich Zophian culture.

Since this, the Outlanders have retrofitted an old CIS G9 Rigger, coated in a layer of Anti-Ion Maa'kaa mucus and set out to explore the greater galaxy.

1. ↑ Star Wars RPG: Rise of the Separatists by Fantasy Flight Games Pg 64