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Bespin

Name

Bespin

Region

Outer Rim Territories
Ison Corridor
Grid K-18

Sector

Greater Javin Sector
Formerly: Anoat Sector

Star System

Bespin System

Satellites

2+: H'gaard, Drudonna

Government

Baron Administrator
Parliament of Guilds

Inhabitants

Population: 6 million
Humans, Ugnaughts, Lutrillians
Airsquids, Beldons, Rawwks, Tibannucks, Velkers

Locations

Capital: Cloud City
Tibannopolis, Ugnorgrad
Administrator's Palace, BesGas Three, Change Zone, Dead Eye, Jedi Enclave (Bespin), Life Zone, Port Town, Rethin Sea, Squeeze Zone, Ugnaught Surface

Affiliation

Galactic Republic
Briefly: Separatists
Galactic Empire

Bespin is a gas giant in the Bespin System of the Greater Javin Sector, and is the location of Cloud City.

A remote mining outpost and luxury resort for most of it's existence, recent political changes have transformed Bespin into an up and coming hub for corporate and industrial activity, at the heart of what is being called "the new Corporate Sector". What was once a hotbed for rebel and underworld activity is becoming gentrified, and the Imperial presence - as well as Imperial investment - is very much on the increase.

Bespin is a significant roleplay setting on theholo.net, and has it's own forum - Bespin: Cloud City - among the Star Wars Homeworlds.

History

Bespin was first charted by explorers from the Hyperspace Navigator's Guild prior to the Mandalorian Wars. Small colonies and tibanna gas refineries were first established in 1989 BBY by worlds such as Empress Teta, but these were destroyed by the Mandalorians during the Wars. During the Republic's Dark Age, the planet was occupied by the Brotherhood of Darkness.

The planet wasn't intensively colonised until 400 BBY, when the construction of Cloud City was commissioned by Ecclessis Figg. The Ugnaught Surface was built shortly after, and was settled by the Ugnaught workforce that had helped to construct Cloud City, and Tibannopolis was built some centuries later.

During the Clone Wars, fear of attack by the Confederacy of Independent Systems caused many citizens of Tibannopolis and Cloud City to flee from such an enticing strategic target. Those who remained were later evacuated by the Grand Army of the Republic, and the planet was briefly occupied by the Separatist Army. Following the Clone Wars, residents returned to Cloud City, but in smaller numbers; Tibannopolis meanwhile was left abandoned, and Bespin's tibanna production never quite recovered to it's pre-war levels.

At the time of the Galactic Civil War, Bespin was under the control of Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian, a rebel sympathiser. Shortly after the Battle of Hoth, Cloud City was garrisoned and returned to Imperial control, though not without resistance from the Rebellion. After the Battle of Endor this was largely quelled, but Bespin and Cloud City in particular remained something of a disreputable, seedy place for many years.

Following the coronation of Empress Miranda Tarkin, her Minister of Propoganda, Sanya Tagge, was appointed Baroness Administrator of Cloud City; and Ceto Rübezahl was made Moff of the Greater Javin Sector. After the Alliance-Imperial Treaty disconnected the Corporate Sector from Imperial space, Rübezahl and Tagge set about creating a new Corporate Sector in the Greater Javin, bringing considerable investment and interest into Bespin's economy.

Geography

Bespin is a gas giant. Due to reactions in the chemical composition of the planet's gas clouds, a region in the upper atmosphere known as the Life Zone is breathable, and capable of sustaining humanoid life. Settlements such as Cloud City, Tibannopolis, and the Ugnaught Surface are located in this band of livable air.

Beneath the Life Zone is the Change Zone, where the chemical composition of the atmosphere becomes more toxic, and weather patterns become more complex and dangerous. Some extremophile species are capable of surviving in the Change Zone, but it is generally avoided. Below that is the Squeeze Zone, where atmospheric pressure begins to increase dramatically, to levels generally not survivable for craft that are not specifically designed to withstand them. The Squeeze Zone extends all the way down to the Rethin Sea: the planet's metallic core.

One region of the upper atmosphere known as the Dead Eye is the location of a powerful wind storm that has been raging constantly for thousands of years.

Organisations

Parliament of Guilds

A federal branch of the Bespin government, consisting of members from Bespin's various guilds and trade unions such as the Cloud City Miner's Guild and the Bespin Mechanics Union. The Parliament holds the Baron or Baroness Administrator to account, and oversees taxation, law enforcement, health and safety, and gambling regulation. The Parliament is based on the Administrator's Palace on Cloud City.

Bespin Wing Guard

The largest branch of Cloud City Control, the Wing Guard is the law enforcement and de facto militia of Cloud City and Bespin, operating air traffic control and air defense on behalf of the Parliament of Guilds.

Figg & Associates

Founded by Ecclessis Figg, the man who first colonised Bespin, Figg & Associates is a conglomerate of various businesses and enterprises that are traditionally owned and operated by the Baron or Baroness Administrator. This includes all companies involved in public services, as well as other more profitable establishments.

Characters

• Residents of Cloud City
• Residents of Tibannopolis
• Residents of Ugnorgrad