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Keppaa Brens
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Suns
Saanja'Illa
Saanja'Lendaai
Saanja'Nadaasi
Moons
Nomaani'Eduu, Nomaani'Orro, Nomaani'Kraaka, Nomaani'Wuusha
Primary Terrain
Mountainous
Points of Interest
Foundry "cities" for Baktoid Armor Workshop, Hai'laa Spaceworks, and other military contractors
- "There's a lot of debris out there, and behind all that, there could be a lot of vulture droids. Slow our approach, I suggest caution."
- ―Zemil Vymes, Jedi Knight
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Terrain
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| Mineral rich mountains combined with mineral rich orbital detritus and asteroids made Keppaa Brens the primary foundry world in the Cizerack Pride. For centuries, companies like Hai'laa Spaceworks have used the rich mining on the planet to supply their spaceports. More recently, the Cizerack Pride allowed other major industries to also set up facilities on the world, so that by the time of the Clone Wars, a large number of droid foundries were also to be found there. Most of the settlements on Keppaa Brens support the mining and armory industries, and "company towns" are common.
The high orbit of Keppaa Brens is highly saturated with moons, asteroids, debris, wreckage, and other floatsam, making navigating to and from the surface nearly impossible. To solve this problem, Cizerack engineers created a pair of shield rings in orbit that link together to form a shield tunnel, providing a safe passage in or out of Keppaa Brens. Both shield rings have to be manned to maintain the tunnel, which is wide enough for most capital starships to pass through single file.
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Fauna
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| Much of the bio-diversity of Keppaa Brens actually comes from transplant species from Carshoulis Prime. Though originally a habitable planet, very little in the way of life forms inhabited the world until Cizerack settlers brought it with them.
The land-based fauna include the taaika, a popular game deer. The Kaatho bison is far larger and more robust, and was historically used by ancient Cizerack as beasts of burden. Modern Kaatho bison are eaten on festivals, where they are slaughtered in public and portioned off to the lower classes. Nyaakii are a poisonous bird native to the tropic zones, but their unhatched chicks are sometimes eaten as a delicacy and aphrodesiac.
Sajoi, ever-popular food rodents aren't native to Keppaa Brens, but have been imported and encouraged to reproduce at a prodigious rate, to the point where they're a sustainable food item, even given the felinoids' voluminous taste for the animals. Similarly, other popular food creatures in the galaxy such as thimiarr from planet Shili, nala tree frogs, and gorgs have been imported, and thrive as introduced species.
Keppaa Brens, like all Cizerack worlds, have no apex predators. These were hunted into extinction by the Cizerack, who viewed any large predator not as a threat to themselves, but as unneeded competition for food sources. The ecosystem of Keppaa Brens, as well as the other colonies, has been manicured so that at least 80% of the fauna are desirably edible live food.
Possibly due to the higher than normal levels of pollution and industrial activity on the planet, the amount of fauna found on Keppaa Brens is somewhat limited to outlying areas. As a consequence of this, Keppaa Brens is dependent on importing most of it's food.
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Society
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| Keppaa Brens is nearly a closed world, dominated by either the military industrial complex or by the Pride government itself. Those that live there are either corporate agents, servants of the state, or low-paid menial labor. A growing "foreign sector" is present on Keppaa Brens that caters to forrda from outside of the Cluster. In the days of the Clone Wars, Keppaa Brens held a large community of Neimoidians, Muuns, Geonosians, and other representative races of the Confederacy. After the end of the Clone Wars, the cosmopolitan corporate nature of the planet remained, though the faces often changed. One thing remained constant - it remained a world that required connections to gain access to.
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Government
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| Keppaa Brens, like all colony worlds, elects a Governor's Board of corporate magnates to determine policy and the application of local laws. One member of the board is appointed to report directly to the Pride Mother. Individual cities and townships have an appointed Matriarch to apply law on an even more local level, including but not limited to the raising of constables for law enforcement, taxation, and other municipal duties.
During the Clone Wars, the Confederacy assigned special overriding governance to Keppaa Brens, primarily due to the high amount of non-Cizerack assets in play on the planet. A Cizerack Viceroy was appointed, but the Viceroy and her entourage of other alien leaders on the planet, reported directly to Count Dooku, instead of to the Pride Mother. This duality of authority caused some amount of trouble during the Siege of Carshoulis.
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History
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| There is some evidence of pre-Cizerack civilization prior to colonization in 2500 BBY. Space wreckage in Keppaa Brens' atmosphere points to attempts to inhabit the planet around that time, and point to Mandalorian involvement. No significant finds on the surface have been discovered, and it is assumed that any exploitation of the planet was done primarily to strip valuable materials from the orbiting asteroids only. The Cizerack were the first to make confirmed colonization, but only after a dozen frustrating attempts to make planetfall and to supply colonies past the asteroid field. 750 years BBY, Hai'laa Spaceworks devised the shield ring tunnel system, providing at last a safe and reliable passage to the planet. After that, industry began to explode on the mineral-rich planet.
Prior to the outbreak of the Clone Wars, the Cizerack opened access to Keppaa Brens to a select few companies connected with their trade allies. By and large, the companies were affiliated with the Trade Federation, and they brought their anti-Republic sentiments with them, which the Cizerack were agreeable to. By the time that the Cizerack Pride signed the Articles of Secession, they were already deeply financially vested with their favored trade partners, and were cooperating fully in the rearmament program for the Trade Federation, as well as many other lucrative contracts to arm the Intergalactic Banking Clan.
During the war, Keppaa Brens was an important source of arms for the Confederacy, supplying all points of Confederate strongholds and augmenting their immense stocks of battle droids, armor, and other war platforms. This became a convincing casus belli for the Republic to plan an attack in the Carshoulis Cluster itself, hoping to draw the Confederacy into defending their valuable foundries and opening even more valuable targets for assault, such as Felucia, Mygeeto, Saleucami, Geonosis, and Boz Pity.
The Republic siege of the Carshoulis Cluster began the Outer Rim Sieges in the mid-to-late stages of the Clone Wars, and though the combined efforts of the Grand Army of the Republic and Jedi Knights produced mixed results tactically, it was a strategic success, drawing a large amount of Confederate military power to the cluster, and away from the Confederacy's hinterland worlds.
As of Order 66 and the end of the Clone Wars, the siege of Keppaa Brens and of the Carshoulis Cluster itself was still being contested. As one of the few leaders of the Confederacy not killed by Darth Vader on Mustafar, the Pride Mother was able to negotiate terms (albeit harsh terms) with the Emperor of the new Galactic Empire, which resulted in considerable disarmament of the Pride, the dismantling of almost all foundries on Keppaa Brens, and the reduction of Cizerack forces to a size sufficient only for self defense or trade escort. Sensing that it would be more costly to conquer the Cizerack than to dominate them with soft power, Emperor Palpatine gave them limited autonomy, and thanks to efforts from vassal states like the Corporate Sector Authority, kept the Cizerack influence on the economy of the Hydian way to a minimum amount. The economy of Keppaa Brens, and it's foundries never quite recovered. Though still producing hardware for civilian and military use, it is now a shadow of its former self. This, however may soon be changing, as a new alliance is being forged between the Cizerack Pride and like-minded worlds under Imperial subjugation.
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