Jintip Prime

Jintip Prime (often called simply Prime by natives) was a planet in the, either the only or one of three planets in the Soleechee system, depending on how one counted. It was a member world of the Golden Empire and the homeworld of the Therati.

Geography
Jintip Prime was astronomically atypical in two ways. The Soleechee system was defined by two stars, much too far apart to be a binary system but remaining in stable orbits relative to one another. Jintip Prime was between the two, perfectly suspended so as to orbit neither. It continued to rotate on its own polar axis, leading to rotations which were composed of day-dusk-day-dusk in a single rotation. The Therati were unable to agree on names for their two suns; the Simyastos simply referred to them by coordinates, while the Golden Empire settled on "Jintip Rimward" and "Jintip Coreward".

Jintip Prime did experience something closer to true night, due to the movements of two closer bodies, Jintip Secondary and Jintip Inferior. Some astronomers considered them both moons of Jintip Prime, while others classified the entire trio as a. Secondary and Inferior revolved around Prime, but also occasionally around one another, and they also shifted Prime's position back and forth with gravitational pull.

Prime's surface had a wide variety of terrain; most of it was habitable for the native Therati and other s, though there were large stretches of desert along the equator, and one continent had so many volcanoes that it often overflowed with lava. Because it had only sporadic periods of "night", Prime was hotter than many other habitable worlds.

Jintip Prime's surface water was divided among oceans, seas, and wide rivers. The planet had no ice caps.

Society and culture
The Therati had over a hundred extant, independent nations when Jintip Prime was acquired by the Zarban Hegemony. Efforts to integrate them into a cohesive whole failed spectacularly, so they were merely grouped into administrative regions. Under the Golden Empire, the planetary government under the Consul allowed the independent areas to continue to function so long as they did not impede Royal governance, and consequently, culture across Jintip Prime varied greatly. The most common religion on Jintip Prime was tritheistic, although others existed in noteworthy numbers.

Jintip Prime was often contrasted against Karzabrog, homeworld of the militant Horzyx. Jintip Prime had many more alien residents, both permanent and temporary, and was considered more welcoming of tourists. On the other hand, local insurgent and terrorist groups (often consisting of both Therati and Horzyx) were almost always headquartered on Prime rather than Karzabrog.

History
Astronomers accepted that the two Jintip stars had caught one another in shared gravity before any celestial bodies formed in the system. They further agreed that a single, large planet had existed between the two stars, and suffered a meteor collision billions of years before the. There, however, consensus ended. One faction believed the impact had created Prime, Secondary, and Inferior, while another believed the impact had created only Prime and one of the smaller planetoids, with the third arriving in-system and being caught by the gravity of the stars and the other planetoids. The second camp was further divided on whether the impact created Prime and Secondary or Prime and Inferior.

The close proximity of its satellites/co-planets meant occasionally horrific tides and unpredictable night cycles for Prime, which consequently underwent a number of ecological catastrophes in its history. Entire groups of species went extinct during each, leading to unique evolutionary patterns and survivor species whose ancestors had lived through a wide variety of global conditions. The nearest ancestors of the Therati, in the million years before the Hegemony found the planet, lived through at least two catastrophes themselves.

The sentient Therati spread over Prime, inhabiting all the areas easily conducive to life and eking out existences in some more challenging locations. A few truly hardy souls sought to establish colonies in the littoral regions of the volcanic continent with mixed success. Most Therati treated the continent merely as a source of minerals and metals, and competition over these resources became ferocious after the industrial era began.

The Therati had progressed to rudimentary laser weaponry in addition to solid projectiles by 33 ABY, when the Zarban Hegemony reached Jintip Prime. Unique among already-occupied planets acquired by the Hegemony, Jintip Prime fought back, though the Therati were ultimately defeated by the Simyastos. They continued to plague their new Simyasto governors with periodic revolts and rebellions. Most of Jintip Prime fell in line with the Hegemony against the Horzyx during the Shield War, though a minority of Therati sympathized and some even defected. Prime was attached and Secondary briefly captured during the war; a rare moment of total support for the Hegemony saw a force of Simyastos and Therati retake Secondary in a brutal, costly battle.

After the war, Jintip Prime was still in the process of fully recovering when the Golden Empire absorbed the Hegemony. Prime initially considered referenda on planetary independence, but the Ministry of Diplomacy persuaded enough Therati leaders to support joining the Empire instead.

Before alien control, the Therati had often feuded over interests in and control over Secondary and Inferior. Under both the Hegemony and the Empire, the two planetoids were placed under the regulation and control of the planetary government on Prime. The Empire assigned only a single Consul for all three.