Iskander


Type: Imperial Fragment Capital.
Region: Border Regions.
Trade Route: Feeder to the Yaeger Central Path.
Sector: Yaeger Sector.
Strategic Location: Between the Yaeger and Imperium spheres of influence.
Temperature: 93% Standard
Atmosphere: Standard
Hydrosphere: 74% of the surface of Iskander is covered by water, 94% of which has a salinity of 5%-9%
Gravity: 102% Standard
Terrain: Iskander is a relatively mountainous world, with numerous massive granitic upthrusts remaining from a relatively volatile early planetary history. As Iskander has a large amount of water, and as it's temperatures tend to average somewhat lower than the galactic standard, these mountains are usually covered with large amounts of snow and ice. Aside from the mountain ranges, Iskander's land masses have been thoroughly smoothed by the passage of numerous glaciers, producing large shallow lakes and icewater swamps.
Mineral Resources: Iskander has large reserves of iron, duridium, gold, and silver, and these resources have been exploited by Imperial miners.
Length of Day: 27 standard hours
Length of Year: 388 local days
Sapient Species: The Almar and the Gildaan were native sentient species, and both have been eradicated by disease and New Federation bounties.
Capital City: New Corruscant is Iskander's official capital, but all of the actual functions of government are conducted at Grand Moff Gathor's personal retreat, Overlord Bunker.
Other Cities: Markira, the mining center, and Orbiok, the industrial and residential center, are the two largest other cities. In addition to these, there are a number of other smaller cities, and a large military training and indoctrination facility, the Federation Future.
Starport: New Corruscant has a partially completed galaxy class port that has been bombed repeatedly by the Yaeger, preventing any traffic. Other than that, many of the cities have planetary class ports, usually concealed and often inoperative.
Population (within +/- 1%): 7,450,987,200.
Government: A rigid dictatorship, with Grand Moff Gathor at it's head. This dictatorship also governs four other systems, with a system governor ruling below Gathor. The governor of Iskander is Governor Iis Ballel, but he has much less authority than the governors of the other systems.
Tech Level: High Space. While the New Federation can no longer manufacture the high quality goods that are the standard for the empire, they are still supplied such goods by Rulduk's Imperium, which uses the New Federation to keep the Yaeger away from their own systems.
Major Exports: None.
Major Imports: High Technology, military goods, food supplies.
System: Ukoth
Star: Uko
Name Planet Type Moons
GitkiirJungle World1
ElmbarJungle World2
AchrinTerrestrial Warm2
IskanderTerrestrial Cold3
GherosFrigid Desert2
OlkasGas Giant12
IncormGas Giant10

System Capsule:

Gitkiir and Elmbar: These two jungle planets are planetary twins, sharing opposite sides of the same orbital plane. They are both quite fertile, and had been the sites of New Federation fruit and livestock farms before Yaeger raiders made those farms uneconomical to maintain.
Achrin: The site of the original Yaeger settlement in the system, Achrin has been subjected to intense bombardment, and while the Yaeger pulled back, it is no longer suitable for Imperial habitation, at least not until some vegetation grows back.
Iskander: See above.
Gheros: The site of some remarkably rich Irridium deposits, the refined Irrid shipments from Gheros to Iskander are a traditional target of Yaeger raiding parties.
Olkas: The largest planet of the system, The moons of Olkas were the initial staging point of the Imperial invasion of the system, and are now virtually entirely under Yaeger control.
Incorm: This planet's moons are currently the site of concealed Yaeger Fighter ports and military bases. The Federation fleet has repeatedly attempted to blast the Yaeger off these worlds, but the ships are too well concealed, and the planetary mounted cannons are powerful enough to take out capital ships. After losing one of their few remaining Star Destroyers in the last attempt, the New Federation has virtually written off Incorm, and has not made any further attacks.

Planetary Capsule:

Flora and fauna: The primary forest type of Iskander are the icewater swamps. A product of the numerous shallow and frigid lakes of Iskander, the icewater swamps are primarily built around the exceedingly well insulated Klabmies trees, who put down their roots in these lakes, which invariably freeze nearly solid during the winter. After a stand of Klabmies has built up, Kyijuaas vines, Miraus seaweeds, and other related plants move in. Fish Eagles, snowsnakes, and brachiating sloths soon move in, producing the unique and beautiful icewater swamp. These swamps are illuminated by the shockingly crimson snow orchids, which bloom year round. None of the plants of the icewater swamps shed their leaves, despite the fact that they are all broad leaved, but most only reproduce during the short summers.

Sentient Species: The Almaar and the Gildan were a pair of closely related heavily furred native species. Both were around a meter and a half to two meters in height, with four legs and a pair of overdeveloped arms. They were quite physically powerful and aggressive, and highly territorial. The Empire considered them to be nothing more than a nuisance, and ignored them unless they came too close to settlements. The New Federation was somewhat different, having an ideological hatred of aliens, and placed substantial bounties for the scalps of Almaar and Gildan, and introduced diseases carried by genetic near relatives. The races were soon wiped out, and while this has resulted in population imbalances among the native species, it is regarded as a victory by the New Federation.

History: Originally an outpost system of the Yaeger, the Ukoth system fell to the Empire in their first attack on the Yaeger. Iskander was settled as an Imperial world, under the control of the then planetary governor Ethan Gathor. When Moff Doran was killed at Oth'Lenar, Governor Gathor delayed pledging loyalty to Moff Kent, and formed a loose coalition with four neighboring governors, termed the Imperial Federation. Moff Kent ended this coalition with a show of force, and Gathor bowed to the inevitable. Before Kent could have Gathor killed, General Tigrif declared himself Moff, and Moff Kent was forced to abandon his campaign of unification. The Federation was immediately recreated, and the various governors pooled their resources to defend against the resurgent Yaeger.

Gathor was made Admiral of the Federation's fleet, but that was not all that he was interested in. Alir Ghran, An ex-ISB colonel, fleeing the core worlds after Endor, wound up in Federation territory when his ships hyperdrive burned out, and Gathor found him the tool that he had been looking for. Colonel Ghran organized Gathor's fledgling security forces into a remarkably effective group, which quickly disposed of the other ex- governors. Seeing that the formerly confused and frightened Ghran was regaining confidence and skills, Gathor feared for his life, and had Ghran killed and most of his organization destroyed, though enough agents escaped that Gathor must constantly guard against their attempts at his life.

To further complicate matters, Rulduk's Imperium was on the rise, and self appointed Grand Moff Gathor did not want to give up his powers, assuming that Rulduk would eventually have him killed. Still, he could not ignore Rulduk entirely, and he met the young Moff over holo-vid. Gathor's paralyzing fear of Rulduk's might kept him from learning anything from that meeting, but Rulduk saw a use for the craven and petty Gathor, and began funneling weapons and goods into the New Federation's coffers.

Moff Gathor believes that these goods are coming from anonymous core world sympathizers, and with his new found power he has taken a quite hard line against Rulduk's Imperium. However, he is directly between the Yaeger and the Imperium, and it is the Yaeger that he must concentrate on. Unfortunately for the New Federation, Gathor is not precisely a military genius, and the Yaeger have been gaining steadily, reducing the once fourteen system Federation to five systems, and they have footholds on three of them, including the Ukoth capital.

Saboteurs take down the planetary shields on an almost regular basis, and Yaeger Rangers have several temporary camps in the depths of the vast icewater swamps. In addition, several light ORBSATs that were left in orbit of Achrin have been placed in orbit around Iskander, and while the planetary shields deflect the shots, their ominous flashes do a great deal to discomfit the population. The Federation has sufficient military might to repel these attacks and push the Yaeger out of their system, having fourteen Victory Class Destroyers and three Imperial class ships, but Moff Gathor is so afraid of losing any of these ships that he will not press an engagement. Iskander will probably fall to the Yaeger soon, as will the rest of the Federation, and Gathor will probably attempt to escape with his Star Destroyers.
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