The Pearls of The Chosen.
A series of smaller islands in the Pakora island chain, these islands have been claimed and settled by the remnants of The Chosen, mainly children and young adults. Kept in isolation from the rest of the House and the Clan, it is hoped that they would get a chance to flourish without drawing attention by the enemies of the House, also serving as a final permanent redoubt for the House in case there is an invasion.
HISTORY
During the events of the Tenth Great Jedi War, The Chosen were called upon to act in their traditional role as the House’s shock troops. However, the sheer brutality of the war convinced Liika, commanding officer of The Chosen, that this was a genocidal war, with their opponents looking to literally wipe them off the map.
Charging Lambow with the safety of the younglings of The Chosen, all the remaining adults threw themselves at the enemy forces to buy Lambow time to get off-planet with the younglings. Managing to escape with the fleeing Odan-Urr forces, they arrived with the rest of the Clan at the Kiast System.
Part of the Pokora island chain, these eight islands were until very, very recently mainly unexplored by the inhabitants of the island chain. Upon the arrival of the members of House Hoth to the planet Lambow, set out to find a decent settlement for the children and their guardians. The Wookiee arrived at Po’ta, inquiring as to information from the unsettled islands and finally encountering an old Quarren called Gyrn Ked with some knowledge of the islands. After greasing the palms a bit, the old Quarren gave the Wookiee a quick tour of the islands, pointing out items of interest. Finally arriving back at Po’ta the Wookiee thanked Ked and set off to immediately procure supplies and transport. Arranging a message to the House leadership, the Wookiee set off on a mapping expedition alone.
Emerging twenty eight days later, the Wookiee reported back to the House leadership with a full report of his findings, including tactical and strategic assets to the House, and a proposal to fortify them to simultaneously provide for protection for the children as well as a surprising proposal as a final fortification for the House in the case of an invasion. With the lessons from the War fresh in their minds, approval was given and construction commenced.
GEOGRAPHY
AVO
Immediately to the east of Li Anor by about twenty kilometers sits the island of Avo, with a size of about ten square kilometers. Easily the most rugged island, with a large rugged windward mountain range that shelters the island from most storms it’s home to The Remnants, as they’ve taken to calling themselves. With the main facility nestled into the mountain range surrounded on three sides by impassible volcanic rock, main power is provided via geothermic means, as digging down less than a hundred meters is a source of fresh water heated directly by underwater lava flows. There is enough geothermic power to supply the entire facility, all automated defenses, as well as multiple Star Destroyer grade shield generators. Earthquakes are common but tend to be smaller ones, and none recorded in recent history that were catastrophic. It is also theorized that the same underwater freshwater source is the source of a nearby waterfall that provides for enough freshwater for the facility. With the island being so rugged farming is almost impossible but enough wildlife exists to make hunting practical, with nearby Bersa being able to provide for farming.
Access to the facility is either via boat or a very small aircars, with something like a troop carrier being too constrained to land in the available space.
There is an interesting underwater rock formation that is full of caves that runs to Li Anor from this island.
BRERSA
To the south of Avo is a five and a half square kilometer island that, being on the leeward side of the island chain, has been battered mainly flat by storms. Mainly empty, with the largest concentration of any kind of animal is of a crustacean kind, it’s ideal for farming and has been set aside for such. Already a kilometer long field has been cleared and is being tended to by farming droids to provide a food source for the facility.
WESSON
Directly the east of Avo and actually connected to it by an underwater ridge about five kilometers long, the eight square kilometer island is not as rugged as Avo, but the extremely dense foliage and a particularly nasty insect hive that covers the island makes it one to avoid by almost all. The single interesting point is that the center of the island is a ridge that goes up nearly a kilometer, which droids have been air dropped into to build a long range automated sensor station.
LIIKA
A small three square kilometer island that sits between Wesson and Brersa, this island is home to a small colony of primates that quite possibly may someday become sentient, and as such has been declared as off limits to everyone and treated as hallowed ground. Given the name of Liika in honor of their fallen chief.
Lambow
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