Star Wars: Occupation of Dagros Discussion

Hmm. Well there should be some water and local flora if there's to be a stable ecosystem... Unless everything, including the water, is introduced and imported.

I imagine rain would be a big, celebrated event on the planet.

Kodra got her shotos from her master. Because, you know, family.

Well, water is rare and deep underground for the most part, so the flora tends to soak it up (huge = huge roots, so yeah [ooh im a true sciencey man]) and the locals pierce open the plant's 'veins' to obtain water. Settlements eventually build sort of pipe systems to bring water up or take it from the huge flora. Settlements are also commonly built around a large (soon-to-be-named) flora.

And yeah. Rain is celebrated.

If water is so rare and hard to obtain, the rebel safehouse should probably have a. A nearby plant and b. A very good water recycling system, yeah?

I do like me some good, solid science-y stuff, my friend. And yeah, reliance on underground water and huge root systems sounds good. I imagine a lot of households are partially or completely underground as well - to keep cool/insulated from the heat. Similar to Coober pedy in Australia. probably a lot of burrowing, nocturnal fauna as well.

Makes sense, for both of those suggestions. Of course, plants would also attract the fauna, so careful! (Fauna still unknown for a short time)

I'm into the history of the Alliance and I'm thinking that maybe the Rebels on Dragros are a small but rather effective cell made up mainly of locals and outside mercenaries. I'm thinking maybe a few local land barons or large farmers got mad at the Empire's taking over so started gathering their families/farmhands/friends into the alliance and gradually spread word of the Rebellion to other locals. Maybe the Dragros cell has been in contact with Bail Organa and friends but isn't quite large enough to field a fleet or do much offplanet yet.

Also, I've seen some RP's where the world building stuff was kept in another thread on the site or edited into the first post of the discussion thread. Just something to throw out there.

Lizards! Lizards and snakes! Lots of lizards and snakes!

For the rebel suggestion, that does make sense. I would also guess that some of the previous govt's officials who were replaced by Imperials would also be unhappy and gather their followers. But yeah, not too large.

1st fauna -

Flatheads / Ysaki - So named because of their mostly flat bodies, they also have six fin-like, flat claws with three talons and slither/'swim' across the surface of the sand. They themselves blend into the sand almost perfectly, making their movements seem miragelike until they're too close. They have three eyes and possess a needlelike mouth they use to pierce into plants and unfortunate victims.

1st flora -

Dudorra tree - A rigidly hard, tree like plant with a strange white bark. Its sap has hallucinogenic properties if consumed in large quantities. Their height often exceeds the native buildings by multiples of dozens. It has bright green leaves, but tends to have very few. It reproduces via seeds that grow at the base of the tree, which are carried by Flathead hosts.

I'm no biologist, but I tried. I'll probably make a seperate thread at some point, but for now just toss 'em here.

edited 10th Jun '17 7:59:00 PM by Kepler-7

Both the flora and fauna ideas are good, Kepler! Admittedly I'm a bio/chemist and not a biologist but still.

Snakes and lizards? Add some spiders and marsupials and it's basically Perth, The Planet.

Dagross is just Space!Australia

Plot twist: The local flora and fauna defeats both the Rebel and Imperial force single handedly.

Heck maybe Dragros started out as a penal colony like Australia and gradually formed a collective identity from eking out an existence on an inhospitable world

Well, if they base their economy on mining and sheep it basically is

Remember in Ebotz's backstory, there was that smuggling outpost that got attacked by a horde of Imperial-controlled Ranat?

Since that was a while ago, perhaps the local rebels have moved in there, and it's not so much their safehouse as it is a place they're sharing with the smugglers who were already established there, who treat them like annoying squatters. :V

I like that. I feel as though the reason they coexist is because if the smugglers ratted them out, then the Empire would destroy their safehouse too so they just kind of grumpily live together. Cue sitcom music.

I demand wacky hijinks and Yakety Sax themed chases.

I'm pretty peeved nobody felt the effects of the repulsor attack.

edited 10th Jun '17 9:25:18 PM by StygianEmperor

I got the sense that it was more like a mild discomfort - like air blwoing down on them and a loud sound that made their ears ring but altogether wasn't that disorienting?

...I didn't really understand it...

Sorry!

EDIT: She has now cringed.

edited 10th Jun '17 9:54:19 PM by Faramir

It was supposed to be like a flash-bang. Its the reason he jumped over you in the first place.

...um... shit. If it's a flash-bang, she may fall off the landspeeder.

edited 10th Jun '17 9:55:02 PM by Faramir

Usually repulsorlifts are just for keeping things off the ground (e.g. landspeeders, swoop bikes, etc.) and aren't really gonna cause a flashbang effect? Though you did say they were modified so...

I mean you really didn't mention flash bang like repulsorlifts of that power in your signup sheet...

Whatever.