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Homebrew Reference Book: Coruscant and the Core Worlds
See also: Galactic Gazetteer
N'zoth is the homeworld of the Yevetha, a Species known for its xenophobia. The Yevetha aren't just the dominant Species on the planet- they're the only Species. Exclusionary attitudes preclude other Species from ever settling there. The N'zoth System is in the Koornacht Cluster, a fact the ancient Yevetha never suspected. The suns burn so brightly in the N'zoth sky that all other stars are blotted out. This astronomical anomaly encouraged the Yevetha to believe throughout their ancient history that they were alone in the galaxy.
From space, N'zoth appears as a gray-green planet with yellow clouds. Seasons on N'zoth are unremarkable and boring, thanks to a smaller than normal axial tilt. A dry world orbiting a yellow sun, N'zoth has three moons: Pa'aal, Pa'rak, and Pa'red. Summers are hot and dry, while winters are warm and dry. The Siringana, a vicious predator native to N'zoth, is a perfect example of how even nature is harsh and inhospitable on the world.
N'zoth Statistics[]
Region: The Core
Climate: Arid
Gravity: Standard
Moons: 3
Length of Day: 28 Standard Hours
Length of Year: 354 Standard Days
Sapient Species: 100% Yevetha (Native)
Government: The Duskhan League
Capital: Giat Nor
Major Exports: None
Major Imports: None
History[]
Thanks to the obscuring power of the Koornacht Cluster's bright suns, the ancient Yevetha never knew there were other stars in the galaxy. Consequently, they thought they were the only intelligent Species in the universe. The Yevetha perfected space travel and eventually colonized eleven nearby planets. On all these planets, the most intelligent lifeforms Yevethan explorers found were animals, thus preventing the idea that the Yevetha indeed were the only significant Species in the universe.
This belief went unchallenged for millennia until Imperial forces invaded N'zoth in the early years of the Empire. Yevethan arrogance was no match for Imperial firepower, and the world quickly fell. The Empire built a shipyard codenamed Black 15 and established a garrison on the planet. An Imperial government enslaved the Yevetha, putting them to work in the shipyards as maintenance and technical personnel.
With amazing speed, the Yevetha mastered shipbuilding and weapons technology. Eight months after Imperial forces were defeated in the Battle of Endor, the Empire decided to withdraw from several systems and consolidate their forces. N'zoth was one of those systems. During the early stages of the withdrawal, a charismatic Yevetha named Nil Spaar launched an attack to liberate the world using highly trained Yevethan commandos. Since the Empire was already cutting its losses, reinforcements never arrived to defend the targets of this ambush. Swiftly, the Yevetha seized control of the shipyards and nine Star Destroyers, including the Super Star Destroyer Intimidator. Spaar then trained The Intimidator's turbolasers on Imperial citizens, killing twenty thousand of them.
Once the Black Fleet and the Black 15 shipyard were claimed for The Duskhan League, Nil Spaar took over as viceroy after the death of the former viceroy, Kiv Truun. The Black 15 yards were moved out of N'zoth orbit to a secret location. The surface yards took up the slack, churning out new spherical thrustships built by the Nazfar Metalworkers' Guild.
Twelve years after the Battle of Endor, Nil Spaar launched the Great Purge, a campaign of extermination aimed at all foreign settlements in the Koornacht Cluster. With typical Yevethan cruelty, the attacks were launched while Nil Spaar went through the motions of negotiations with Leia Organa Solo on Coruscant. At the end of the campaign, Nil Spaar, in his flagship Aramadia, returned to N'zoth to a hero's welcome. It seemed that the Yevetha were unstoppable.
Finally, a New Republic fleet met the Black Fleet and Yevethan thrustships in the Battle of N'zoth. During this furious action, Imperial slaves forced to crew the captured Star Destroyers rebelled. By activating a series of hidden slave circuits, the Imperial citizens hijacked all nine ships of the Black Fleet and leaped into The Deep Core, taking Nil Spaar with them. With the guns of the Black Fleet gone, The New Republic easily defeated the Yevethan thrustships, and the day was won.
Nil Spaar's flagship The Aramadia was eventually recovered in The Deep Core, but no trace of Nil Spaar himself has ever been found.
Even during The New Jedi Order Era, The New Republic keeps a watchful eye on N'zoth in case the Yevetha are tempted to cause more trouble.
People[]
The skeletal, crested Yevetha are one of the most xenophobic Species in the galaxy. Female Yevetha are called marasi and males are called nitakka. Their young are birthed in separate chambers- birth-casts called mara-nas.
Their society is stratified into castes. A Yevetha can never advance to a higher caste. In some rare situations, a member of a higher caste may be downgraded to a lower caste. The only fate worse than being a lower-caste member on N'zoth is being an alien. A lower-caste member is part of society, albeit in the dregs of it. Non-Yevetha are treated as the scum beneath Yevethan feet.
Yevetha consider a killing to be murder only if the killer was a lower-caste member and the victim of a higher caste. Naturally, killing lower-castes or aliens is not murder.
"Dominance killing" is a common occurrence among the higher castes. Lower-caste nitakka are often slain so that their blood can nourish the birth-casks of the higher castes' children.
Although Yevetha are extremely arrogant, narrow-minded, and harsh, they do possess an uncanny knack for learning new technology. Naturally, this fact isn't lost on them, since it gives the Yevetha yet another reason to think highly of themselves. Yevetha are so xenophobic that even learning Basic is a repulsive concept. As a rule, lower-caste members are forced by their superiors to learn Basic so they can serve as translators. A cadre of extremely high-caste Yevetha has deigned to learn Basic simply because they believe that some things should not be heard by lower-caste ears.
Locations[]
To the average Yevetha, even the humblest part of N'zoth is better than the best location on an alien world. Here are some of the more prominent locales.
Giat Nor[]
N'zoth's capital city, Giat Nor, is home to one million of the planet's seven hundred million Yevetha. Giat Nor hosts the royal palace, the caste meeting halls, and an elaborate monument to Nil Spaar. Outsiders are forbidden to enter Giat Nor; even so, some daring souls have managed to disguise themselves and enter. Any aliens discovered in Giat Nor are summarily slaughtered.
The royal palace is still much as Nil Spaar left it. It boasts a private breedery with sixteen alcoves for birth-casks, as well as a grated floor for blood sacrifices. There is currently no viceroy or royal ruler. Many Yevetha hold on to the hope that someday Nil Spaar will return.
Hariz[]
Hariz is located 150 kilometers southwest of Giat Nor. This smaller city boasts a spaceport called Hariz Downside. A section of the spaceport has been cordoned off for Nil Spaar's flagship, The Aramadia. The Super Star Destroyer is preserved there as an inspiration for generations of Yevetha to come. Aliens are allowed in Hariz, but they are watched closely and treated with sullen hostility. Yevetha want little to do with aliens or their goods. "Tougher than importing to N'zoth" is a common traders' saying to indicate the impossibility of a task.
Hariz is connected to Giat Nor by a hover-train system. Any aliens who attempt to board the train are harshly rebuffed. A second attempt at boarding usually results in the shooting of the offender. Hariz's open-air marketplace is quite well stocked, but the only goods anyone is interested in buying or selling are those of Yevethan manufacture.
Valley of Rejection[]
The desolate valley 300 kilometers west of Giat Nor is a gash in the earth some 220 kilometers long. There is very little shade here, and the formations trap heat. Disgraced Yevetha are often exiled here, as are aliens on whom the Yevetha wish to bestow an especially dire punishment. The valley has a settlement of particularly study and clever offworlders, who manage to eke out an existence despite the unforgiving land.
When a Yevetha is exiled to the Valley of Rejection, the banishment is done with much ceremony and ritual. When an offworlder is sent here, the landspeeder barely slows down before the victim is unceremoniously tossed out.
Adventure Hooks[]
See also: Habbala Brupt, Zorbazat Xong
How many adventures can heroes possibly have on a world where aliens are despised, distrusted, and forbidden from accessing selected parts of the planet? Plenty, if the heroes have the guts!
Extreme Breaking and Entering[]
When Nil Spaar embarked on his Great Purge in his flagship, he took a few trophies from his victims. Those trophies were put on display when The Aramadia was decommissioned and turned into a museum. One of the ship's cargo bays was remodeled and turned into the trophy room. The more remarkable trophies include a pair of Jedi Lightsabers and a large green gem known as the Eye of Deth. Although some legends in Basic hint that the proper name of the artifact is the "Eye of Death," it is actually named for Deth Korakill, a mercantile warlord slain by Nil Spaar during the Great Purge.
The heroes hear about the contents of The Aramadia's trophy room courtesy of an old soldier in a bar, who swears he survived the Great Purge and saw those items loaded onto the flagship. (Force-using heroes may have reason to recover the Lightsabers, while mercenary types would suspect the value of the Eye of Deth.) Breaking into and entering The Aramadia is no easy task. Aside from the usual alarms and sensors, Attack Droids and sensor probes patrol the ship's corridors. Several squads of elite Yevetha guards are stationed in barracks a mere 5 minutes from the ship's permanent berth.
Painful Rejection[]
Possibly as a result of breaking the law or violating a taboo- such as entering The Aramadia to loot the trophy room- the heroes are dumped into the middle of the Valley of Death and left to die. In the valley, the heroes encounter extreme heat, no water, and vicious Siringana. All hope is not lost, however. As obscure legends suggest, there is an alien settlement in the valley. Consisting of twenty-three Humans, five Rodians, five Sullustans, and a Twi'lek, the settlement is called Werstilhere ("We're Still Here"). It's a testament to the exiles' guts and ingenuity.
Naturally, the heroes won't be content to spend the rest of their lives in Werstilhere. After gaining the acceptance of the settlers, the heroes can attempt to salvage some old wrecks and arrange some sort of transportation that will get them back to Hariz. Once there, the heroes must get their ship back from the impounding forces and leave N'zoth with all due haste.
Of course, no Yevetha live in the settlement. Even an exiled Yevetha would rather die in the hot, barren wastes than become an ally of some alien refuse. On the aliens' side, they'd rather just as soon kill a Yevetha exile as look at one. Adversity has made for strange alliances- and allowed an Imperial spy in the settlement to keep his political loyalties secret.
Habbala Brupt, a particularly traitorous Sullustan, was captured and exiled by the Yevetha for breaking a minor taboo. Fortunately for the Sullustan, the natives never discovered his true nature. The spy will do everything he can to get out of the settlement. If he manages to get free, he will report the heroes to The Galactic Empire (or the Imperial Remnant) and arrange for them to be hunted down.
Claws of N'zoth[]
The New Republic learns that The Duskhan League has captured a Yuuzhan Vong spy on N'zoth. In an unusual show of diplomacy, the Yevetha have agreed to hand over the spy to New Republic agents once they have concluded their own interrogation.
Minister Zorbazat Xong meets the heroes as they arrive on N'zoth and escorts them to a nearby detention center, where Yevethan security coldly demonstrates how the Yuuzhan Vong should be dealt with. While the heroes look on, Xong oversees a brutal interrogation that ends with the spy's death. He then gives the heroes the corpse "to take back to your vile masters." A series of successful Persuasion checks convinces Zorbazat Xong not to kill the spy. The Yevetha attack and imprison heroes who try to bully them.