Eniam

Eniam was the second planet in the Wem Dalane system, and the homeworld of three species: the Dren, the Keegs, and the Eniamos. A temperate, moonless world, it had vast oceans boarding continents of grasslands and forests. Its insides were similar to Naboo in the fact that it had a porous crust, but Eniam did have a small molten core. The vast network of caves was where the Dren dwelled, and they eventually expanded the caves to accommodate a growing population.

Eniam was quite obscure and distant from Coruscant, but was rich in resources, pristine, and populated by three prosperous species. This made it little known, but a target when discovered. It was attacked and plundered twice because of this, but before that, it was left in relative peace for millenia.

Regions
Eniam was usually divided into four areas:

Poles
The icy poles of the planet were often overlooked inhabited by few animals, such as the polar boar and the polar mammoth. Eniamos and Keegs sometimes set up research camps in the extremes of their planet, but could not make normal, comfortable homes in such low temperatures. Both the poles had land under most of the ice, but with large shelves sticking out over liquid water.

Oceans
The planet's oceans covered approximately 81% of its surface and was home to many aquatic creatures, fish and mammals alike. The planet's caves go under the ocean floor, but some channels lead into deep underground water pockets. The Dren, Keegs, and Eniamos dislike the water and barely headed towards developing aquatic ships.

Forests
The forests of Eniam covered approximately 7% of its surface and were composed of many diverse plants and fungi, notably the Dirquwn tree. The leaves of the trees were in a formation that allowed significant light to shine on the forest floors, which had few large animals. The largest forest area, the Kego region, covered 3% of Eniam's surface.



Plains
Approximately 11% of the surface was covered by the plains, which varied from steppes to prairies to savannas. The Eniamos lived in this area, and they built adobe structures in the area. The plains were mostly covered in 1.75 meter-tall grass and the occaisional tree. The savannah also had the most predators. The Eniamos were skilled and hiding from and fighting large animals, such as plains clawcats.

Caves
The conglomeratal nature of the planet's crust gave it many caves. The strength and solidity of the caves was highly supported by the high iron and carbon content of the caves. The Dren were well suited to their environment. The caves were mostly below savannah level, but the cave entrances and the mountains some of the higher caves were in only took up about 1% of the planet's surface. The caves only had less animals than to the other areas, including several varities of bat, cave cats, and cave bears. However two creatures thrived in the lowest level of Eniam's crust, the mantle lizard and the mantle snail.

Early Life
For many years, the species mostly worked only with their own kind. They were primitive compared to other species who wandered the Galaxy, but individually each race was quite clever, passing through eras and ages quite quickly. The Dren advanced quite quickly without any help. The Keegs were more primitive because they had little access to required resources. The Eniamos' technology was in the middle, based on their access to resources.

Each race was also more or less united throught the whole planet. Dren instinctually considered all of their species their family, Eniamos developed several feudal systems before deciding to merge into one, and the Keegs, the most solitary, formed a very loose government, but nevertheless rarely fought wars amongst themselves.

Because they lived in the open, the Eniamos considered the two other species too primitive for rights or even non-sentient. The Dren were shy among other races, and the Keegs were uncomfortable away from their simple treehouses, so the sentient societies deliberately avoided each other for centuries.

This eventually changed. Some courageous and tolerant members of each joined together. The Dren befriended the Keegs to form the Dren-Keeg Alliance, and they convinced the Eniamos to reform the planet's government. In 1138 BBY, or 1103 before the Great ReSynchronization, Dren-Keeg-Eniamo Alliance replaced the Eniam Federation. The new government invited, obviously, all three races and considered each equal, and also attempted to merge each species's culture, methods, and morals.

Union
The merging of societies and cultures went quite well in time. Not to say sentient life on Eniam was perfect, they had their fair share of despots and attempted secessions. However, actual war was rare, and planetary war was unheard of. The speciesism and shyness of the past became almost forgotten in casual life.

The planet's technology soared soon after the races united. Not only did they collaborate with what they had on their own planet, but in 1081 BBY, the New Sith Wars came to the Wem Dalane system. The resulting battle did not cause much damage to the planet, but left several examples of intersystem technology. The three species examined the wreckages of fallen ships and got a technology boost.

They soon managed to create their own sublight drives, repulsorlifts, durasteel, and other starship technologies. Scouts and diplomats were sent to greet the Galactic civilizations, but soon discovered war and devastation everywhere. Eniam went into isolation for centuries.

The greater Galaxy
In 23 BBY, they tried to join the Galactic Republic, but were largely ignored. Many planets were leaving the Republic, and in the midst of the crisis of mass secession, Eniam's requests were nearly literally left at the bottom of the Republic's files.

When the the Clone Wars did begin, Eniam once again tried to isolate themselves. Fortunately for them, the war did not touch their planet, but dark times were catching them. Republic scouts in the Tarabba Sector and office workers in the Senate district rediscovered and remembered Eniam's request. The Empire that was shaped from the remains of the Republic would only exploit them.

Many Dren, Keegs, and Eniamos were taken, but not without a battle of a scale unseen by almost all Eniam natives, nevermind on Eniam itself. This battle was minor for the new Empire, which was nevertheless surprised by the native's tenaciousity and sacrifice for their planet.

The majorly depopulated planet was put under Imperial control. The Empire began to plunder its resources and pollute, but the natives had been good to the environment, and the occupation did not spoil the world. A few natives escaped. Some stayed hidden on Eniam and some wandered the Galaxy. Some of those who left Eniam in freedom joined the Rebel Alliance.

The population was soon restored after fall of the Empire in 4 ABY, from escaped slaves and those who had stayed hidden. The garrison had been greatly reduced, and the natives had slowly tricked back under the bored faces of the Imperial blockade. Suddenly a large group of reinforcements, including those from the rest of the Alliance of Free Planets, arrived. The meager occupation was taken by surpise and quickly overwhelmed.

In a few months, Eniam government was restored. It was customary on Eniam for things to be restored to the way it was before being ruined, if it was not at significant fault. Civil affairs and laws were changed little, but the army was greatly increased in size.

Tumultuous polictics
The Wem Dalane system soon gained represtentation in the New Republic. Unfortunately, the world was still recovering from the disaster of several years ago, and many wondered if Galactic society was more harm than help. Eniam and the rest of the Tarabba Sector recovered rapidly and began to prosper again, but much delibaration and negotiation as to Eniam's contact with the greater Galaxy rendered it idle in the Senate.

After years of playing little part outside its sector, those in favor of secession were approved in 11 ABY. The natives of Eniam decided they could do without integration with the rest of the Galaxy, and retired to only their own planet.

Their isolation would not last long. When the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the Galaxy, Eniam was targeted once again. In a fierce battle, the natives fought alongside Republic reinforcements, but lost their homeworld. The results were worse than before. Eniam life was enslaved, resources plundered, technological art smashed, its nature twisted.

When the Yuuzhan Vong were defeated, they withdrew from Eniam. It began to recover once again, this time with more help from the Galactic Alliance.

About a century later, the restored Eniam was nearly torn by the Sith-Imperial War. Its people wanted a strong government but opposed invaders. They supported the help of the Alliance but many were quick to blame the Yuuzhan Vong. However, the reformed Dren-Keeg-Eniamo Alliance kept the planet officially neutral.

When the new Empire finally won, most of them supported it, due to their political optimism and belief that dictatorships could often be benevolent. They believed that the Imperial leaders in the war had been greedy and corrupt, unlike Emperor Roan Fel. It was a different Empire.

While generally in opposition to Sith, and usurpers and invaders in general, Eniam did not publically oppose Darth Krayt's takeover. They remembered what the Jedi did for them, but feared being attacked again. At the time, there had been several great Dren, Keeg, and Eniamo Jedi. Names like Skywalker, Nathaniel, Aiddat, Kyle Katarn, Suri-lux, Horn, Dargos, and Solo were well known as belonging to great Jedi. Many natives wished to help...

Behind the Story
The whole Dren, Keeg, and Eniamo stuff was serious, but started as a minor in-joke. I put in an extra thing for 1138 BBY. I thought it's Star Warsy, for Star Wars nerds and geeks. So I mentioned "Dren and Keegs" getting rights. I reversed the name of my state, Maine, for the planet, and modified that for stuff related to the Eniamos. You will probably notice a few more things if you reverse them.

Eventually I got hooked into it, it sounded like an easy topic, developing a whole planet which was pretty much free for stories. I'm still expanding it all. &mdash; Aiddat (Holonet) (Contribs Log)