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Fey'dann
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Suns
Saanja'Illa
Saanja'Lendaai
Saanja'Nadaasi
Primary Terrain
Vast steppes and grassy plains, some forests
Points of Interest
Kidhaari City
- "There is a sadness in this place that weighs heavily on me. I sense great tragedy."
- ―Jedi Master Syo Nanx
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Terrain
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| The seemingly infinite plains of Fey'dann are known as the breadbasket of the Pride. The planet is temperate in almost all locations, and it's vast grasslands provide ample grazing for the billions upon billions of herd animals that Cizerack ranchers raise to feed the entire cluster. The planet is sparsely populated, with only a few cities across the massive continents. Most of the population are farmers or ranchers, and live in family-owned plantations and farmhouses, isolated from each other by many kilometers.
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Fauna
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| Much of the bio-diversity of Fey'dann 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 Fey'dann, 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.
Fey'dann, 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 Fey'dann, as well as the other colonies, has been manicured so that at least 80% of the fauna are desirably edible live food.
Fey'dann, above all other worlds in the Pride, is known for it's foodstock animals, and provides the overwhelming majority of such live food to the other colonies and Carshoulis Prime itself. Many of the agricultural techniques used by the ranchers on the planet were adopted from cloning techniques similar to the ones used by Kaminoans, although specialized for agricultural use. The demand placed upon Fey'dann effectively makes the entire biosphere one gigantic factory farm.
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Society
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| Another traditionally poor planet in the Cluster, Fey'dann relies almost entirely on an economy dominated by agriculture. Communities are usually only a few families that work the same herds together, or small towns that service the farmers. Many of the Cizerack who live here are Naala'in, and darker in skin tone than usual. The stigma of Fey'dann has so completely followed the Naala'in, that most are considered to be poor, simple country people, even those who have never lived on Fey'dann.
Socially conservative and ardently caste-adherent, Fey'dann was nearly torn apart by a small but terribly violent insurrection known as the Forgotten War. Egalitarianist rebels, seeking to usurp the matriarchal apartheid of Cizerack law, banded together in revolt of the matriarchists. The war pitted family against family, and even though the Matriarchists eventually crushed the revolt, deep-seeded fault lines in the society still exist. Families are known primarily by whether they were egalitarianists during the war, or whether they wer matriarchists, and nearly half a century after the fighting, sectarian violence still tragically occurs.
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Government
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| Fey'dann, 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.
In addition to the Governor's Board, a council of Martial Regents is assigned to Fey'dann, due to its special history of violence against the Pride Mother. Twenty divisions of the Mother's personal marines maintained a permanent garrison on the planet as a permanent reminder of the cost of treachery.
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History
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| There is some evidence of pre-Cizerack civilization prior to colonization in 2500 BBY. Extensive ruins in the southern hemisphere indicate some evidence of Mandalorian culture existed on Fey'dann, but no such evidence appears any later than 5000 BBY. Colonization of Fey'dann was one of the first priorities of the Cizerack nations, and it has been used as a provider of the Pride's needs for as long as it has been a colony world.
In 48 BBY, an insurrection began in Kidhaari City, instigated by a female Naala'in named Indhaarhi Yenagaaira, when she nailed a list of Intolerable Grievances to the door of the Governor's House. The list of Intolerable Grievances, deriving heavily from the charter of sentient rights of the Galactic Republic, laid out 127 crimes that Yenagaaira insisted the Cizerack state inflicted upon non-Cizerack life forms and males. With the posting of the Intolerable Grievances, the Forgotten War had begun. Yenagaaira, herself a priestess of Saanjarra, held influence with hundreds of families and houses on Fey'dann, and they quickly began a grass-roots revolt against the Pride Mother's authority to impose rules they considered tyrannical.
In secret, the Galactic Republic dispatched Caridan commandos and Jedi Knights to the planet to help protect the rebels. A senator from Naboo named Palpatine argued impassionately of the need to act on principles rather than to reiterate them in Senate sessions without the intent to back them up. Though the Senate ultimately did not ratify intervention officially, a small peacekeeping force was put into place to attempt to bolster the rebels without officially declaring a state of war. The Pride Mother, in turn, had no interest in seeing open warfare between the Republic, and refused to officially acknowledge the presence of Republic forces on Cizerack soil. Instead, she insisted that her marines were battling "determined guerrillas" and it was, and would always be an "internal matter".
The war cost millions of lives, and ultimately the efforts of the Jedi and the Caridan commandos was for nothing. They were not supported enough to win the peace, and ultimately withdrawn to leave the egalitarianist rebels to their sad fate. The Rebels were brutally put down and entire families were executed in the crackdown. Years later, when the Cizerack Pride signed the articles of secession to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the remnants of the egalitarianists again staged an uprising, hoping to at last work with the Republic outright to break the Pride's domination of the planet. The Republic overran Fey'dann in a brief offensive as part of the Outer Rim Sieges, but withdrew again following Order 66 to reorganize after the "defeat" of the Confederacy. Again, Fey'dann was abandoned to it's sad fate.
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