Akana Ris - Revision history

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Vital Statistics (At a Glance)

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	* '''Type:''' ''Unaffiliated World''		* '''Type:''' ''Unaffiliated World''
	* '''Population:''' ''[some small number]''		* '''Population:''' ''[some small number]''
	* '''Gravity:''' ~~''Somewhat High''~~		* '''Gravity:''' [[Mediger Scale\|Mediger 4]]
	* '''Native Language:''' ''Universal''		* '''Native Language:''' ''Universal''
	* '''Settled:''' ''Prior to the Rapprochement, by the Chatcaava''		* '''Settled:''' ''Prior to the Rapprochement, by the Chatcaava''

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	''"Stay out of my business and I’ll stay out of yours."''		[[File:Illo-PrimeAkanaRis.jpg\|250px\|thumb\|right\|Geography, Prime]]''"Stay out of my business and I’ll stay out of yours."''

	A planet on the border between the Chatcaavan Empire and the [[Alliance]], known for its lawlessness. Has (at least one?) major orbital station. Lots of criminals, thieves, pirates and outlaws stage through this world.		A planet on the border between the Chatcaavan Empire and the [[Alliance]], known for its lawlessness. Has (at least one?) major orbital station. Lots of criminals, thieves, pirates and outlaws stage through this world.
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	==Geography and Landmarks==		==Geography and Landmarks==
	===Prime===		===Prime===
	~~[[File:Illo-PrimeAkanaRis.jpg\|250px\|thumb\|right\|Geography, Prime]]~~
	Prime is the location of the original Chatcaavan worldlord's settlement, a mansion at the tip of an unusual rock formation amid a forest of quartzite-sandstone pillars. A cliff that leads upward into the mountains forms a hemispherical cut, with a centered "tongue" that juts out in the center, down which a river flows. The palace is built over the river just before where it becomes a waterfall. The town, small and existing mostly to support the lord's needs, stretched back toward the cliff. Vassals of sufficient status were allowed to make their homes in the cliff walls; flying and hunting were both good among the pillars, and down in the forest at their feet. The Chatcaava liked this area particularly because the semicircular cliff with its outstretched tongue, looked like a flying Chatcaavan; the pillars facing the bowl formed by that cut were called 'The Enemies' and it was considered fine sport to fly dangerously on the complex winds funneled between them.		Prime is the location of the original Chatcaavan worldlord's settlement, a mansion at the tip of an unusual rock formation amid a forest of quartzite-sandstone pillars. A cliff that leads upward into the mountains forms a hemispherical cut, with a centered "tongue" that juts out in the center, down which a river flows. The palace is built over the river just before where it becomes a waterfall. The town, small and existing mostly to support the lord's needs, stretched back toward the cliff. Vassals of sufficient status were allowed to make their homes in the cliff walls; flying and hunting were both good among the pillars, and down in the forest at their feet. The Chatcaava liked this area particularly because the semicircular cliff with its outstretched tongue, looked like a flying Chatcaavan; the pillars facing the bowl formed by that cut were called 'The Enemies' and it was considered fine sport to fly dangerously on the complex winds funneled between them.

Madamebadger: Fixed links.

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	==FIA Oversight==		==FIA Oversight==
	* [[Hold 9]] - Mirror's hold was the Akana Ris oversight in 175 BA.		* [[Hold#Hold 9\|Hold 9]] - Mirror's hold was the Akana Ris oversight in 175 BA.
	* Hold 11 - Replaced Hold 9 when Mirror's group retired from their watch around [[Akana Ris]] in 200 BA. Hold 11 was a rare "revolving door" Hold, and remained as Akana Ris's oversight until 283 BA, when it was replaced by Hold 12.		* [[Hold#Hold 11 and 12\|Hold 11]] - Replaced Hold 9 when Mirror's group retired from their watch around [[Akana Ris]] in 200 BA. Hold 11 was a rare "revolving door" Hold, and remained as Akana Ris's oversight until 283 BA, when it was replaced by Hold 12.
	* Hold 12 - Was oversight for the quadrant containing Akana Ris (not just the planet) from 283 BA until 317 BA, when the posting was retired completely.		* [[Hold#Hold 11 and 12\|Hold 12]] - Was oversight for the quadrant containing Akana Ris (not just the planet) from 283 BA until 317 BA, when the posting was retired completely.

	==Visits==		==Visits==
	* Akana Ris is the site of first contact between the Alliance and the [[Faulfenza]], when pirates shot down [[Zafiil]]'s exploratory vessel in the outer system in (roughly?) 175 BA.		* Akana Ris is the site of first contact between the Alliance and the [[Faulfenza]], when pirates shot down [[Zafiil]]'s exploratory vessel in the outer system in (roughly?) 175 BA.
	* [[Laniis Baker \|Laniis]] and [[Hold 22]] are hunting for clues on Akana Ris at the beginning of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) \| Amulet Rampant]]'', where Laniis is masquerading as "Carol," a down-on-her-luck woman looking for a new job. The city she's in is Sec.		* [[Laniis Baker \|Laniis]] and [[Hold#Hold 22\|Hold 22]] are hunting for clues on Akana Ris at the beginning of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) \| Amulet Rampant]]'', where Laniis is masquerading as "Carol," a down-on-her-luck woman looking for a new job. The city she's in is Sec.

	==Quotes==		==Quotes==

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	===Interregnum===		===Interregnum===
	In 159 BA, the Pelted met the Chatcaava in the neutral space coreward of the Alliance border during one of their missions to watch their backtrail for human encroachment. The [[Rapprochement]] had happened some twenty years previously, but the Pelted fear of humanity was so entrenched that for nearly a century afterwards, they remained vigilant against the possibility that the newest members of the Alliance would launch an initiative against them. This first contact between Alliance and Empire occurred in [[Sector Ecose Epto]], where Akana Ris’s solar system was sited. The treaty itself was negotiated elsewhere, but to express their peaceful intentions, and to ‘celebrate’ their first contact, the Chatcaava offered the Alliance Akana Ris and its solar system to the Alliance. This symbolic gesture was considered an act of great generosity, since it included all the existing infrastructure, and the Alliance accepted. They wanted to set up forward listening posts along the possible paths to the Alliance from Earth, and Akana Ris was well-situated to serve that purpose.		In 159 BA, the Pelted met the Chatcaava in the neutral space coreward of the Alliance border during one of their missions to watch their backtrail for human encroachment. The [[Rapprochement]] had happened some twenty years previously, but the Pelted fear of humanity was so entrenched that for nearly a century afterwards, they remained vigilant against the possibility that the newest members of the Alliance would launch an initiative against them. This first contact between Alliance and Empire occurred in Sector Ecose Epto, where Akana Ris’s solar system was sited. The treaty itself was negotiated elsewhere, but to express their peaceful intentions, and to ‘celebrate’ their first contact, the Chatcaava offered the Alliance Akana Ris and its solar system to the Alliance. This symbolic gesture was considered an act of great generosity, since it included all the existing infrastructure, and the Alliance accepted. They wanted to set up forward listening posts along the possible paths to the Alliance from Earth, and Akana Ris was well-situated to serve that purpose.

	Humans, still new to the Alliance, and suffering greatly from their status as impoverished and backwards parents to their technologically rich offspring, made a few noises during this period, suggesting that more investigation of the Chatcaava might not be a bad thing, that accepting gifts without examination wasn’t a good thing, and expressing, carefully, their frustration that they were still considered threatening enough to require supervision while this entirely new alien species was welcomed with open arms. The more apologetic among the Pelted assured them that a listening post in that sector would serve just as well to keep an eye on any new aliens that might come along that vector (or even on the Chatcaava themselves), but it was a fractious issue; so soon after humanity’s rediscovery, it stressed the already deep rifts between the cultures and would lead, eventually, to some of the same attitudes and historical precedents that would cause the Alliance to consider the human attitude toward the Chatcaava alarmist, even in response to the Empire’s constant depredations.		Humans, still new to the Alliance, and suffering greatly from their status as impoverished and backwards parents to their technologically rich offspring, made a few noises during this period, suggesting that more investigation of the Chatcaava might not be a bad thing, that accepting gifts without examination wasn’t a good thing, and expressing, carefully, their frustration that they were still considered threatening enough to require supervision while this entirely new alien species was welcomed with open arms. The more apologetic among the Pelted assured them that a listening post in that sector would serve just as well to keep an eye on any new aliens that might come along that vector (or even on the Chatcaava themselves), but it was a fractious issue; so soon after humanity’s rediscovery, it stressed the already deep rifts between the cultures and would lead, eventually, to some of the same attitudes and historical precedents that would cause the Alliance to consider the human attitude toward the Chatcaava alarmist, even in response to the Empire’s constant depredations.

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	* there's apparently a cafe with the best hot chocolate <ref name="ar-ch05">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) \|Amulet Rampant]]'', chapter 5</ref>		* there's apparently a cafe with the best hot chocolate <ref name="ar-ch05">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) \|Amulet Rampant]]'', chapter 5</ref>

			==FIA Oversight==
			* [[Hold 9]] - Mirror's hold was the Akana Ris oversight in 175 BA.
			* Hold 11 - Replaced Hold 9 when Mirror's group retired from their watch around [[Akana Ris]] in 200 BA. Hold 11 was a rare "revolving door" Hold, and remained as Akana Ris's oversight until 283 BA, when it was replaced by Hold 12.
			* Hold 12 - Was oversight for the quadrant containing Akana Ris (not just the planet) from 283 BA until 317 BA, when the posting was retired completely.

	==Visits==		==Visits==

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	[[Category:Planets]]		[[Category:Planets]] [[Category:Colony Worlds]]

Jaguar: /* Geography and Landmarks */

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Geography and Landmarks

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	==Geography and Landmarks==		==Geography and Landmarks==
	===Prime===		===Prime===
			[[File:Illo-PrimeAkanaRis.jpg\|250px\|thumb\|right\|Geography, Prime]]
	Prime is the location of the original Chatcaavan worldlord's settlement, a mansion at the tip of an unusual rock formation amid a forest of quartzite-sandstone pillars. A cliff that leads upward into the mountains forms a hemispherical cut, with a centered "tongue" that juts out in the center, down which a river flows. The palace is built over the river just before where it becomes a waterfall. The town, small and existing mostly to support the lord's needs, stretched back toward the cliff. Vassals of sufficient status were allowed to make their homes in the cliff walls; flying and hunting were both good among the pillars, and down in the forest at their feet. The Chatcaava liked this area particularly because the semicircular cliff with its outstretched tongue, looked like a flying Chatcaavan; the pillars facing the bowl formed by that cut were called 'The Enemies' and it was considered fine sport to fly dangerously on the complex winds funneled between them.		Prime is the location of the original Chatcaavan worldlord's settlement, a mansion at the tip of an unusual rock formation amid a forest of quartzite-sandstone pillars. A cliff that leads upward into the mountains forms a hemispherical cut, with a centered "tongue" that juts out in the center, down which a river flows. The palace is built over the river just before where it becomes a waterfall. The town, small and existing mostly to support the lord's needs, stretched back toward the cliff. Vassals of sufficient status were allowed to make their homes in the cliff walls; flying and hunting were both good among the pillars, and down in the forest at their feet. The Chatcaava liked this area particularly because the semicircular cliff with its outstretched tongue, looked like a flying Chatcaavan; the pillars facing the bowl formed by that cut were called 'The Enemies' and it was considered fine sport to fly dangerously on the complex winds funneled between them.

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	==Visits==		==Visits==
			* Akana Ris is the site of first contact between the Alliance and the [[Faulfenza]], when pirates shot down [[Zafiil]]'s exploratory vessel in the outer system in (roughly?) 175 BA.
	* [[Laniis Baker \|Laniis]] and [[Hold 22]] are hunting for clues on Akana Ris at the beginning of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) \| Amulet Rampant]]'', where Laniis is masquerading as "Carol," a down-on-her-luck woman looking for a new job. The city she's in is Sec.		* [[Laniis Baker \|Laniis]] and [[Hold 22]] are hunting for clues on Akana Ris at the beginning of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) \| Amulet Rampant]]'', where Laniis is masquerading as "Carol," a down-on-her-luck woman looking for a new job. The city she's in is Sec.

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Prime

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	==Geography and Landmarks==		==Geography and Landmarks==
	===Prime===		===Prime===
	Prime is the location of the original Chatcaavan worldlord's settlement, a mansion at the tip of an unusual rock formation amid a forest of quartzite-sandstone pillars. A cliff that leads upward into the mountains forms a hemispherical cut, with a centered "tongue" that juts out in the center, down which a river flows. The palace is built over the river just before where it becomes a waterfall. The town, small and existing mostly to support the lord's needs, stretched back toward the cliff. Vassals of sufficient status were allowed to make their homes in the cliff walls; flying and hunting were both good among the pillars, and down in the forest at their feet.		Prime is the location of the original Chatcaavan worldlord's settlement, a mansion at the tip of an unusual rock formation amid a forest of quartzite-sandstone pillars. A cliff that leads upward into the mountains forms a hemispherical cut, with a centered "tongue" that juts out in the center, down which a river flows. The palace is built over the river just before where it becomes a waterfall. The town, small and existing mostly to support the lord's needs, stretched back toward the cliff. Vassals of sufficient status were allowed to make their homes in the cliff walls; flying and hunting were both good among the pillars, and down in the forest at their feet. The Chatcaava liked this area particularly because the semicircular cliff with its outstretched tongue, looked like a flying Chatcaavan; the pillars facing the bowl formed by that cut were called 'The Enemies' and it was considered fine sport to fly dangerously on the complex winds funneled between them.

	After the Chatcaavan departure, Prime became the site of Akana Ris's first city. The cliff dwellings used by the vassals were abandoned, but the cliff edges filled in with homesteads. While it grew to respectable size it was never as large a city as the one that replaced it as Akana Ris's unofficial capital, because of the variability of the landscape; it was difficult to site a spaceport large enough to serve the world from Prime (which was, in fact, one of the reasons the original worldlord chose it: not only good hunting, and good flying, but hard to attack.) A small spaceport was eventually built there, but it was never up to the task.		After the Chatcaavan departure, Prime became the site of Akana Ris's first city. The cliff dwellings used by the vassals were abandoned, but the cliff edges filled in with homesteads. While it grew to respectable size it was never as large a city as the one that replaced it as Akana Ris's unofficial capital, because of the variability of the landscape; it was difficult to site a spaceport large enough to serve the world from Prime (which was, in fact, one of the reasons the original worldlord chose it: not only good hunting, and good flying, but hard to attack.) A small spaceport was eventually built there, but it was never up to the task.

			The modern city of Prime is subdivided into the following areas:

			* The Lookout (what was once the Chatcaavan Worldlord's palace and estate grounds) - no longer used as a seat of governance, this has now become the location of the hospital, university, and in the main house itself, situated over the river, a large hall used for gatherings, most of them unplanned.
			* Old Town (what was once the area where Chatcaavan workers lived) - this area was previous and is still home to the lowest order of housing.
			* Sunbank and Fallbank (the areas along the river on the tongue, closer to the cliffs; the names are remnants of the original Chatcaavan nomenclature, which characterized each side of the river based on navigational cues seen from the sky. Sunbank caught the light during morning flights, the ones deemed most enjoyable, and Fallbank was good because the cliff is nearly vertical, and safer to dive past).
			* Uptown (the area around the lip of the cliff) - this area was intended as a fancy part of town, but never realized that intention.

	==="Sec" (Secundus)===		==="Sec" (Secundus)===

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	==Visits==		==Visits==
	* [[Laniis Baker \|Laniis]] and [[Hold 22]] are hunting for clues on Akana Ris at the beginning of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) \| Amulet Rampant]]'', where Laniis is masquerading as "Carol," a down-on-her-luck woman looking for a new job.		* [[Laniis Baker \|Laniis]] and [[Hold 22]] are hunting for clues on Akana Ris at the beginning of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) \| Amulet Rampant]]'', where Laniis is masquerading as "Carol," a down-on-her-luck woman looking for a new job. The city she's in is Sec.

	==Quotes==		==Quotes==