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Names
: Nilrebmah XIII, Nilrebmah, Mindor, Taspan I, Mobus, Indix, the Nameless World, the Dread Planet, the World of Eternal Night
Region
: Unknown Regions; Perann Nebula; Nihil Retreat, formerly Expansion Region, others (planet is mobile)
System
: Gunninga system, formerly Nilrebmah system, others
Suns
: Gunninga Gap (black hole), formerly Primus Nilreb, others
Orbital position
: 2 (formerly 13, others)
Moons
: None
Rotation period
: 66 standard hours
Orbital period: 882 local days

Class
: Terrestrial
Diameter
: 7,000 km
Atmosphere
: Type II (breath mask suggested), formerly Type I
Climate
: Frigid and dry, formerly temperate to tropical
Gravity
: Heavy (1.4 standard), formerly standard
Primary terrain
: Barren wasteland, gorges, frozen mountains, plateaus, ice plains, toxic cloudsea, tombs, ruins, formerly jungle, forest, fern plains, wilderness, ocean
Points of interest
: The Monolith, Tomb of Ku'ar Danar, Valley of Extinction, the Underdark, Bottomless Pits, Lakes of Fire, the Spires, Abaddon Mountains, the Dread City
Fauna
: Dinosaurs, pterodactyls, terror-cranes, entelodonts, hydras, Monoliths, Sith zombies
Immigrated species
: Humans, Massassi, Rakghouls, Tuk'ata, Terentatek, Melters
Primary language(s)
: Galactic Basic Standard, formerly Sith
Government
: Theocratic dictatorship
Population
: >1 million (slaves)
Demonym
: Nilrebman
Major cities
: Indix (capital)
Major imports
: Slaves
Major exports
: Sith artifacts
Affiliation
: True Sith, Eternal Empire

History

The jungle of Nilrebmah XIII, 13,000 BBY

Nilrebmah XIII was the thirteenth planet of the Nilrebmah system, and a binary planet with the larger Nilrebmah XII, orbiting each other while orbiting the system's star, the red dwarf Primus Nilreb. The Nilrebmah system was rich with evolved life, and Nilrebmah XIII was no exception, dominated by gargantuan forests, grassy plains, arid wilderness and a large ocean, teeming with large reptillians and birds. Circa 13,000 BBY, Nilrebmah XIII was colonised by an interplanetary civilisation that had arisen on the moons of Nilrebmah II after a vast sleeper ship crashed on its surface, spawning a medieval human society which flourished and slowly advanced over thousands of years. In one of the forest towns, in the duchy of Nilrebora, Ku'ar Danar was born to a peasant woman.

The Valley of Nilrebora, 7,050 BBY.

Ku'ar Danar, having left the world in a visiting Jal Shey ship, returned as the Sith Lord Darth Dreadwar circa 7,000 BBY and conquered the inhabited worlds of the Nilrebmah system. Transplanting the vast population of Nilrebmah II and its colonies to Nilrebmah XIII, Dreadwar bade his enslaved subjects build a vast Monolith using a silicon-based hive-mind of Force-sensitive stones from Nilrebmah X, known as Nihil smokestone, or Meltmassif. Upon completing the Monolith, Darth Dreadwar performed a radical ritual of his own devising.

Draining the entire planet of life, Dreadwar shed his physical form and became an entity of deific power, and with the Force alone, moved Nilrebmah XIII. Yet his intent, to become a free spirit connected to a mobile world with all its life a wellspring to his power, failed him thanks to the intervention of the Jedi armies besieging Nilrebmah, and Dreadwar was bound and entrapped to his Monolith. Nilrebmah, shifted from its orbit, became a moon of Nilrebmah XII, and its jungle grew tall as if fleeing the mineralised surface and its toxic energy, forming a shell around the entire world. The Force itself was ripped from Nilrebmah, leaving an insanity-inducing void known as a wound in the Force.

In 3,997 BBY, the Sith Lord Ulic Qel-Droma, corrupted Jedi Dace Vinagar and a band of adventurers from the future met in a confluence of fate on Nilrebmah XIII, freeing Darth Dreadwar from spiritual imprisonment. Cursing Dreadwar as the ancient Sith Lord began to devour him, Vinagar's anger fed the rite which freed the Sith god, the arcane technology of the Monolith transforming Vinagar into a hydra of pure energy. Dreadwar's interrupted ritual resuming, the planet began to collapse as it fell towards Nilrebmah XII. As the planets collided in a glancing blow, Dreadwar's ritual completed in full, casting Nilrebmah XIII into hyperspace and flinging it over four thousand years into the future, at the expense of triggering a supernova which destroyed the entire system.

Gaping wounds torn in the crust by the collision, Nilrebmah was left a dead, shattered world of unnatural gravity and alien geometry, its forests stripped away in favour of a surface of blasted black sands ravaged by howling cosmic winds, marked by deep rifts, gorges, floating mountains and asteroids, and covered in mountains of crumbled ruins. Its oceans were boiled away, Nilrebmah's continents becoming like icy plateaus sprouting from a cloudsea of toxic gases and utter darkness.

Tornadic storms ravage the eternally dark surface of Nilrebmah XIII.

Attaching planetary hyperdrives to the world, Dreadwar settled Nilrebmah first within the Taspan system of the Mid Rim, before moving it again to the Klasse Ephemora system in orbit of the gas giant Mobus, deep within the Unknown Regions, where the world was repopulated by millions of refugees from Relus and the Byss system following the destruction of Byss, lured to Nilrebmah by Dreadwar for the purpose of fueling his power. During this time, Nilrebmah was known variously as Indix or Mobus.

After Nilrebmah was discovered and attacked by the Acolytes of Darkness in the Battle of Mobus of 145 ABY, Dreadwar relocated the world to the Nihil Retreat, the twelve interstellar clusters ruled by the Sorcerers of Rhand veiled by the scarlet energy of the Perann Nebula, in orbit of the black hole known as the Gunninga Gap. It was here that Dreadwar had begun projects of cosmic engineering, using the Star Forge leashed to the singularity to create space habitats including Worldcraft and skyhooks around Nilrebmah.

The Gunninga Gap, as visible from the blasted surface of Nilrebmah.

Fauna

The eternal night of Nilrebmah is prowled by several reptillian and avian species, including dinosaurs, pterodactyls and large terrestrial birds called terror-cranes, which, through Sith alchemy, have adapted to the eternal cold and darkness. However, the planet is otherwise barren and lifeless, its native fauna and flora scoured clean. A silicon-based species of Force-sensitive stone, known variously as Meltmassif or Nihil smokestone, is interlaced throughout the planet's surface.

Sithspawn have also been imported to the world, including Tuk'ata, which roam in great numbers on the icy plateau that were previously Nilrebmah's continents. Terentatek have burrowed into the depths of the planet's caverns, escaping the freezing surface to seek warmth from subterranean magma chambers. The Underdark is roamed by packs of Rakghouls and Sith zombies, the remnants of the system's population which were sacrificed to Dreadwar's ritual, now reanimated with a hunger for the flesh of the living.

The Upper World

The Upper World refers to the vast, cracked plateaus that were previously Nilrebmah's continents. They are dark from Nilrebmah's perpetual night, but receive starlight due to the thin atmosphere. Far from the volcanic rifts that still provide the barest warmth to the dead planet, the Upper World is frozen, covered in feet of snow and ice, and blasted by howling, bitter winds that carry the mournful whispers of the dead. Mountain ranges, valleys and spires of obsidian dominate the plains of the Upper World.