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DURO
"ONE WORLD LOST
FOR THE GAIN OF A THOUSAND STARS."

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OVERVIEW​
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DURO IS ONE OF THE OLDEST CIVILIZED WORLDS IN KNOWN GALACTIC HISTORY, BORE A SPECIES THAT WERE AMONG THE FOREMOST PIONEERS OF GALACTIC EXPLORATION AND WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDING WORLDS OF THE GALACTIC REPUBLIC. IN SPITE OF ITS RICH HISTORY, EXTENDING BACK OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS, INCLUDING THE "FOUR AGES" OF THE MODERN GALACTIC ERA, VERY LITTLE ABOUT DURO IS KNOWN TO OUTSIDERS. A GREAT DEAL OF THIS HAS TO DO WITH THE DUROS THEMSELVES, WHO GIVE LITTLE REGARD TO THEIR OWN HOMEWORLD. NATURALLY DISPOSED AND CONDITIONED TO THE EXTRAPLANETARY CONDITIONS OF SPACE, DURO IS CURRENTLY LITTLE MORE THAN A TOXIC WASTELAND, WITH SEVERAL SIGNIFICANT RADIOACTIVE "HOT ZONE" REGIONS ACROSS THE PLANET'S SURFACE.

DURO WAS ONE OF THE FEW WORLDS THAT DEVELOPED HYPERSPACE TRAVEL INDEPENDENTLY, VYING WITH CORELLIA AND CORUSCANT. HOWEVER, THE DUROS EXCEEDED NEARLY ALL OF THEIR PEERS IN ADVANCEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY. IN A PERIOD KNOWN AS THE "DAWN AGE", THE DUROS MINED THEIR PLANET, RAPIDLY STRIPPING IT OF RESOURCES TO FUEL THEIR RAPID SPACEFARING PROJECTS. WITHIN ONLY A FEW GENERATIONS, THE DUROS HAD SUCCESSFULLY DEVELOPED INTERPLANETARY STARSHIPS, CAPABLE OF TAKING THEM TO OTHER WORLDS WITHIN THE DURO SYSTEM. FOLLOWING THEIR EARLY EXCURSIONS, IT WAS SOON REALIZED THAT THE DUROS' RAPID EXPANSION INTO SPACE HAD TAKEN A GRANDIOSE TOLL ON THEIR PLANET, WHICH WOULD HAVE SOON LEFT DUROS WITHERED AND DEAD WITHIN A FEW GENERATIONS.

IN RESPONSE, THE DUROS REDOUBLED THEIR EFFORTS AND SPACE PROJECTS, BEGINNING THE "EMPYREAN PROJECT". DEVOTING ALL OF THEIR EFFORTS IN INDEPENDENT HABITATION, RESOURCE RECYCLING AND LIFE SUPPORT PROJECTS, THE DUROS TAXED DURO TO THE LIMIT. THE EMPYREAN PROJECT PROVED ITSELF TO BE A SUCCESS. THE DUROS HAD CREATED HUNDREDS OF MASSIVE HABITAT SPACE STATIONS, MUCH LIKE INDEPENDENT CITIES, TO HOUSE THEIR POPULATIONS. IN TURN, DURO WAS LEFT A HUSK OF ITS FORMER SELF. TOXIC WASTE AND POLLUTED AIR SMOTHERED THE PLANET ALL THE WAY TO ITS EXOSPHERE. THE SOIL WAS DRAINED TO THE POINT THAT FOOD PROCESSING PLANTS HAD TO PRODUCE SYNTHETIC RATIONS FOR SUSTENANCE.

ALTHOUGH DURO HAS BECOME UNSUSTAINABLE FOR LIFE IN ANY PRACTICAL SENSE, THE DUROS NONETHELESS CARRY ON AN EXPRESSION THAT HAS COME TO DEFINE THEM; "ONE WORLD LOST FOR THE GAIN OF A THOUSAND STARS". FOR THE DUROS, THE SACRIFICE OF THEIR OWN HOMEWORLD WAS INCONSEQUENTIAL TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF GAINING ACCESS TO THOUSANDS MORE. EVEN WITH THE LOSS OF THEIR PLANET'S SURFACE, THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE DUROS STILL REMAINED IN ORBIT VIA THE ORBITAL HABITAT STATIONS. NONETHELESS, DURO BECAME A LOST LEGACY IN RETURN FOR ASCENSION INTO SPACE.

AND INDEED, THE INFLUENCE OF DURO EXPANDED, AS THE DUROS BECAME ONE OF THE FIRST WORLDS TO DEVELOP THE HYPERSPACE CANNON, THE MOST PRIMITIVE KNOWN FORM OF THE MODERN HYPERDRIVE ENGINE. THE DUROS QUICKLY BEGAN TO SPREAD ACROSS SPACE, BUILDING MORE HYPERSPACE CANNONS AS THEY EXPLORED MORE UNKNOWN SECTORS OF SPACE. IN TIME, THE DUROS CAME INTO CONTACT WITH CORELLIA, CORUSCANT, ALDERAAN, ESSELES, ALSAKAN, RENDILI AND OTHER WORLDS THAT WOULD ALL COLLECTIVELY COME TO BE KNOWN AS THE "CORE FOUNDERS", THE ORIGINAL WORLD AND SYSTEM-MEMBERS OF THE GALACTIC REPUBLIC.


HERITAGE​
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TO MOST SAPIENTS IN THE GALAXY, THE HERITAGE THAT THE DUROS LEFT BEHIND REGARDING THEIR HOMEWORLD WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF SHAME, EMBARRASSMENT OR REMORSE. IN CONTRAST WITH THAT OUTLOOK, MOST DUROS CONSIDER THE LEGACY OF THEIR HOMEWORLD AS ONE OF A PROUD TRIUMPH.

THE DUROS WERE ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND MOST ADVANCED SAPIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF GALACTIC SOCIETY, AND WERE AMONG THE FIRST TO ACHIEVE INTERSTELLAR SPACE TRAVEL. DUROS IN GENERAL VALUED THE CAPABILITY TO TRAVEL AND RESIDE WITHIN SPACE, AS OPPOSED TO RESIDING ON THEIR HOMEWORLD, TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT THEY STRIPPED THEIR PLANET OF VIRTUALLY ALL NATURAL RESOURCES, AND FORCEFULLY ACHIEVED THEIR ADVANCEMENT AT THE EXPENSE OF POLLUTING DURO TO THE DEGREE THAT ITS ATMOSPHERE HAD BECOME TOO TOXIC AND BLIGHTED TO HEALTHILY SUPPORT LIFE. AS A RESULT, THE DUROS ARE EXTREMELY INDUSTRIAL, EITHER PRODUCING OR TRADING CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT THEIR LIVING CONDITIONS.

BECAUSE DURO CAN NO LONGER SUPPORT LIFE, THE DUROS LIVE IN CITADELS. THE CITADELS WERE LARGE SPACE STATIONS THAT EMULATED THE HABITAT AND CONDITIONS OF DURO DURING ITS PRE-INDUSTRIALIZATION AGE, AND WERE PRODUCED AS PART OF THE DUROS' EMPYREAN PROJECT. HUNDREDS OF CITADELS ORBIT DURO, WITH EACH BEING SIMILAR TO A CITY, WHICH TOGETHER FORM A LARGER NATION. TRADE AND COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CITADELS ARE VERY COMMON, AND IS THE PRIMARY METHOD OF SHARING TECHNOLOGY AMONG THE DUROS. MUCH OF DURO'S COMMERCIAL AND ECONOMICAL STRENGTH CAME FROM THE LARGE SHIPYARDS AND SPACEDOCKS THAT WERE CONSTRUCTED IN THE PLANET'S ORBIT.

ALTHOUGH NO LONGER ABLE TO SUPPORT LIFE IN A HEALTHY MEASURE, WITH THE PROPER EQUIPMENT, IT IS POSSIBLE TO RESIDE ON DURO FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME. LESS THAN 1% OF THE DUROS POPULATION LIVE ON DURO, AND THOSE THAT DO ARE ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY CRIMINALS BANISHED FROM THE CITADELS. BECAUSE OF THE INHERENTLY LIMITED RESOURCES OF THE CITADELS, THOSE ACCUSED AND FOUND GUILTY OF CRIMINAL ACTION ARE BANISHED AND EXILED TO DURO'S SURFACE, EITHER PERMANENTLY OR FOR A LIMITED SENTENCE. THE DUROS THEMSELVES HAVE HAD MULTIPLE GOVERNMENTS SINCE THEIR AGE OF EXPANSION.

THE MOST PROMINENT AND WELL KNOWN HAS BEEN THE DURO MONARCHY, THE RANADAAST DYNASTY. QUEEN RANA MAS TREHALT WAS AN ALMOST LEGENDARY FIGURE AMONG THE DUROS, AND WAS HIGHLY RESPECTED ON OTHER REPUBLIC WORLDS AS WELL. IT WAS QUEEN RANA MAS TREHALT THAT BEGAN THE DUROS PROJECTS TO QUICKLY ATTAIN SPACE TRAVEL AND RESIDENCE, AS WELL AS TRADE AND DIPLOMACY WITH THE OTHER GALACTIC CIVILIZATIONS. THE QUEEN'S SON, PRINCE DASSID, CARRIED ON HIS MOTHER'S POLICIES AND IDEALS DURING HIS OWN REIGN AS KING. HOWEVER, THE RANADAAST DYNASTY EVENTUALLY DIED OUT, LEAVING THE DURO TO CREATE A RULING BODY FROM THEIR NEXT-MOST-INFLUENTIAL ENTITY; THE CORPORATE POWERS.

ORIGINALLY, IN THE WAKE OF THE POWER VACUUM CREATED BY THE RANADAAST DYNASTY, THE DUROS WERE LED BY A CONGLOMERATE OF CORPORATE LEADERS. THIS WAS KNOWN AS THE "MERCHANTS' COUNCIL", ALTHOUGH IT LED TO CHAOS AND POLITICAL TURMOIL DUE TO THE INFLUX OF CORRUPTION THAT QUICKLY STEMMED FROM IT. IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE INEVITABLE COLLAPSE OF THE MERCHANT'S COUNCIL, THE DUROS WERE THEN LED BY THE MUCH MORE STABLE "HIGH HOUSE OF DUROS", WHICH WAS LED BY A CHIEF REPRESENTATIVE OFFICER, AND HANDLED GOVERNMENTAL AND LEGISLATIVE MATTERS FOR THE DUROS POPULATIONS WITHIN THE CITADELS. THE DUROS GOVERNMENT FOUND ITSELF CONTINUALLY PITTED AGAINST CORPORATIONS AND BUSINESSES AFTER THE FALL OF THE SHORT LIVED MERCHANTS COUNCIL, SO A COMPROMISE WAS REACHED. CORPORATIONS COULD SPONSOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, AND IN EXCHANGE, SAID CORPORATIONS COULD MEET WITH THEIR SPONSORED OFFICIALS TO DISCUSS POLICIES AND OTHER POLITICAL DUTIES. MANY TIMES, THE SPONSORS RECEIVED SHARES AS PAYMENT, ALLOWING THE OFFICIALS TO ALSO CONVENE WITH CORPORATION HEADS TO DISCUSS BUSINESS AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES.


INFORMATION​
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COORDINATES: M-11

HYPERLANE: CORELLIAN TRADE SPINE, RIMMA TRADE ROUTE

CLIMATE: TEMPERATE

TERRAIN: POLLUTED WASTELAND (MODERN)
FORESTS AND JUNGLES (HISTORIC)

ROTATION: 33 STANDARD HOURS WITH A YEAR OF 420 DAYS

INHABITANTS: 9.1 BILLION (CITADELS)
12,000 (SURFACE ESTIMATE)

RESOURCES: MINERALS, ORES, METALS, STARSHIPS, TECHNOLOGY

GOVERNMENT: MONARCHY (DISSOLVED)
OLIGARCHY (HIGH HOUSE OF DUROS)

TECHNOLOGY: ADVANCED

SATELLITES: NONE (NATURAL)
HUNDREDS (ORBITAL HABITATION SPACE STATIONS)

INTENT: TO EXPAND ON DURO AS A CANON PLANET, AS WELL AS PROVIDE SOME BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE ON THE PLANET MY SENATOR IS REPRESENTING. IT ALSO SERVES AS THE HOMEWORLD FOR THE DSS.
 
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