Karbakul


Type: Underdeveloped Fragment World.
Region: Border Regions.
Trade Route: 1 month off the Long Path, Secret Imperium Route.
Sector: Yaeger Sector.
Strategic Location: Toward the outer edge of the Yaeger Imperium's Sphere of influence, as the fragment it is in extends into the Imperium's sphere at this point.
Temperature: 118% standard.
Atmosphere: Breathable, though somewhat thick. Depressurization required before exposure to ordinary atmosphere.
Hydrosphere: 76% of the surface of Karbakul.
Gravity: 155% standard.
Terrain: A large number of igneous upthrusts, creating vast broken highland regions. These regions are heavily forested, and split apart by rivers, canyons, and sinkholes.
Mineral Resources: Some reserves of diamonds and other precious stones, as well as deposits of crystal atterium, heronium A20, and other mineral reserves. These reserves have not been developed at all, and some of them are located quite close to the surface, making them ideal targets for mining.
Length of Day: 22 standard hours.
Length of Year: 428 local days.
Sapient Species: The Karaban Swarm creatures are semi-intelligent.
Capital City: The Imperial fragment in control of Karbakul, the Trent Systems, has a small compound on the planet, attached to a garrison and TIE launching field. In addition, the planet is monitored by seven rather outdated surveillance satellites, and an IR-3F patrol craft in constant orbit.
Other Cities: None.
Starport: The Trent Systems outpost has a planetary class port.
Population (within +/- 1%): 35,000 Trent System's personnel attached to the outpost and TIE field, 9,445,273,000 Karaban Swarm creatures.
Government: Trent Systems outpost under the control of Base Commander Tovar Gir, who holds the rank of Lt. General in the Trent Systems armed forces.
Tech Level: Imperial base, space. Karaban swarm creatures, none.
Major Exports: None.
Major Imports: Base personnel and supplies.
System: Sheiran
Star: Sheir
Name Planet Type Moons
EstemierDesert World1
KarbakulTerrestrial2
IstirkaFrigid Rock0

System Capsule:

Estemier: A scalding hot world, Estemier is home to a variety of sand shark that is even deadlier than the Karaban swarm creatures.
Karbakul: See below
Istirka: Far from the center of the system, Istirka's caustic atmosphere makes construction on this world a tentative business at best.

Planetary Capsule:

Flora and fauna: Karbakul is covered with a thick layer of twining scrublike forest. This growth is exceedingly tenacious, and has regrown after the Trent Systems attempted use of Imperial defoliants, firebombs, and groundwater contamination. The scrub forest is inhabited by a wide variety of life forms, from the silver ringed skysnakes, to the Esquilian Renders. This forest covers the entire planet, making some adjustment for the colder regions. The oceans of the planet contain large amount of various impurities, making it uninhabitable, and the sea water is the only limiting factor in the forests growth.

Sentient Species: The semi-sentient Karaban swarm creatures are the only intelligent native life. Coccooned by day in chitinous shells, the insectoid swarm creatures hunt by night, denuding the forest of all warm blooded life. Their numbers are kept in check only by the abilities of the local wildlife to hide during the nighttime hours.

History: One of the outlying worlds of the Empire's holdings in the Sector under Doran, Karbakul fell under the control of Rear Admiral Fallon Trent, the commander of a flotilla of four Star Destroyers stationed far from the front lines. Trent assumed control of six systems, which the now self styled Grand Moff named the Trent Systems, in a burst of creativity. Trent proved to be a competent, if not particularly brilliant leader, and managed to retain control of his fleet and his empire during the splintering of the Imperial sphere after the battle of Oth'Lenar, and when the Imperium rose, Trent has fought to maintain control through diplomatic methods, allowing Rulduk to take control of two of the systems he claimed, and reducing his territory to a tongue extending into Imperium space.

Trent has friends among the other unincorporated Imperial fragments, and Rulduk does not want to move against them just yet, so he has held off a military take over of the Trent systems. In addition, the Trent systems are located far to the Imperium's rear, and he would have to pull ships away from the front, in order to move in.

Despite the hostility of the local wildlife, Karbakul is the least hostile planet of the Sheiran system, and thus became the logical site for the Trent System base. Furthermore, the swarm creatures would discourage ground assaults, though an assault by the Imperium would probably involve a space attack that would overwhelm the local defenses without resorting to a ground attack. In order to ward off the swarm creatures, the garrison is protected by a larger than average minefield, and a large defoliated area protected by gun emplacements, highly alkaline soil, and massive floodlights, which keep most of the swarm creatures away, or dead.
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