Yuclawav

Yuclawav was a planet on the edge of the Romasi sector in the. It was the homeworld of the Peoly before they betrayed Rin Sakaros and were wiped out by the forces of the Golden Empire.

Geography
The land of Yuclawav was a single long, twisting continent. The planet's surface was primarily plains and grasslands, with scattered forests. Mountain ranges criss-crossed the continent and stretched across its length in two places. Aside from the vast ocean surrounding the continent, rivers stretched across its breadth, and a pair of rivers flowed from the two continent-spanning mountain ranges into a single inland sea.

Society and culture
Yuclawav's Peoly natives made the planet one of perpetual violence, although strong enough rulers usually managed to contain violence in their own kingdoms—except that administered by the state itself. Collective punishment was common, with offenders often having their families or whole native towns punished alongside them. Strength was prized, weakness abhorred, and social welfare unheard of.

Governments on Yuclawav were always dictatorial, although they varied from monarchies to oligarchies to actual dictatorships.

History
The Peoly evolved as Yuclawav's apex predators, preying on both other species through eating and one another through war (and occasionally eating). Agriculture developed as a means of supporting livestock, not the carnivorous Peoly themselves. The cities which grew up around farming settlements quickly took to warring with one another.

States fought one another over millennia before a single monarchy began to conquer the entire planet. With each conquest it gained in strength, and the war machine gradually swept the entire continent. The unified Yuclawav was beholden to its lord, the Hunt King, who attempted to maximize the use of resources to sustain the ever-growing Peoly population. As enforced peace cut down the casualties which had accompanied war, the Peoly began to strain their food sources.

A succession of Hunt Kings was unable to adequately solve the problem, and each was deposed by another in turn. Around the time of the, however, slavers from Quadia attacked Yuclawav, looking for slaves. The Peoly massacred the invaders, but studied their ship technology. Over the following decades, the Peoly managed to successfully copy both starship and technology. With his own fleet of invasion vehicles, the reigning Hunt King sent a scout force to the nearest planet: Oourb'Rest.

The Ousan of Oourb'Rest were not eager to become slaves to the Peoly and resisted. The Peoly discovered that Ousan blood had a effect on them, and the Ousan-Peoly War began. Ousan blood became the most expensive luxury commodity on Yuclawav, and more than one riot started over short supplies. This bloodlust also drove thousands upon thousands of Peoly to volunteer for military service, seeking both to conquer the Ousan and to feast on a few themselves in the process.

The war raged back and forth, but came to an abrupt end when the Golden Empire happened upon Oourb'Rest and put its substantially more powerful Armada between the warring parties. The Ousan joined the Empire and, faced with this new and insurmountable foe, the Peoly grudgingly did likewise. A peace treaty was signed between Yuclawav and Oourb'Rest, and both planets began to be integrated into the Empire.

However, the taste for Ousan blood had set in so deep, and the Peoly were so resentful of their appetites being curbed, that the peace could not last. The Hunt King led a rebellion, killing the Consul and launching another attack on Oourb'Rest. The Royal Navy thwarted the attack, and a crazed and vengeful Hunt King ordered an attack on Zorabos, too. Deciding the species was too violent and malevolent to be controlled, Queen Rin Sakaros resolved the issue permanently by ordering a against the Peoly.

With the Peoly exterminated, Yuclawav was left mostly deserted. Some companies moved in to mine its native minerals, and the Royal Army occasionally used it for training exercises and war games.