Taanruk (Tahn-rook)
What is this place? There is a great hunger here, a sense of hollowness, that perpetually gnaws at the soul. A deep emptiness, born out of fear, that leads to a desperate need for control. Nothing is ever enough to fill the void and nothing ever will be. This is a place of chaos, lacking the balance and coherence that comes from the heart. A place of restlessness, always searching for something more, for something better. Something that can never be found out there without first being found within.
History
The history of Taanruk is generally broken into four ages:- The Age of Chaos - the period of global turmoil when warring factions competed for resources and power.
- The Age of Guilds - the period of the rise of the United Association of Guilds which began as an economic alliance of the six guilds overseeing the production of consumer goods on the planet. As their wealth and power grew, they began to influence governments eventually took over entire countries and consolidated their power into a global corporatocracy.
- The Age of Expansion - the period when the UAG expanded out into the stars in search of new markets for their goods as well as resources and the workforce to manufacture them.
- The Age of Acquisition - the current period that began with the destruction of the Bane'ile home world and the withdrawal of the Singers of Songs, which created a vacuum in the balance of power, and the UAG gradually took over the trade routes and colonized several strategic planets. One of their most ambitious projects during this time was the manufacturing of Kataan, a mostly barren world that the UAG acquired and remade to suit their needs. Workers were brought in from Taanruk to colonize Kataan, and for generations now, it has been supplying the UAG with goods to be distributed across Kantostara. The people who live there don't think of themselves as colonists anymore. They have their own culture and language, and they think of Kataan as their home.
Type
Planet
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