Mluki
Species Data
Attribute Dice: 12D (+6D for PC)
DEXTERITY: 2D/4D
PERCEPTION: 2D/4D
STRENGTH: 3D/5D
KNOWLEDGE: 1D/3D
MECHANICAL: 1D/3D
TECHNICAL: 1D/3D
Size: 1.65 - 2.05 meters
Move: 9/11
Homeworld: Belsavis
Description:
The Mluki are sapient primates indigenous to Belsavis. They grow to adolescensce at the age of seven and are considered old at
the age of thirty. Jevax was a Mluki.
Special Skills:
Brawling Combat: During character creation only, when 1D is placed in this skill it gets
2D added to it.
Belsavis
Belsavis is a planet in the Ninth Quadrant. Ice-covered, its average temperature is in the -50s. It is located on the Belsavis
Run.
History:
It entered an ice age around 5,000 BBY. Its inhabitants dwelt in three volcanic jungle rifts. One of these, Plett's Well, was
settled 88 BBY by Jedi Master Plett, and came to be called simply Plawal. The main Republic colonization of the planet occurred
20 BBY, with many plants and animals being imported from Ithor.
In 19 BBY, Plett hid a number of Jedi younglings in Plett's Well from the Great Jedi Purge, but the Galactic Empire sent the Eye
of Palpatine to bombard Plawal. Fortunately, Jedi Knights Callista Ming and Geith sabotaged the Eye, but Plett and the Jedi
younglings were forced to flee the planet regardless. Some of the younglings, such as Roganda Ismaren, were captured by the
Inquisitorius.
Around 6 BBY, the Imperial Governor stationed a few tariff police on the world to deal with an upshoot in smuggler activity.
Around 0 BBY, Brathflen Corporation and other fruit-companies established domes around the world. At the time of the Battle of
Hoth, Mara Jade visited to the world to investigate the rumors of the Jedi fugitives.
Located in the Ninth Quadrant near the Senex sector, Belsavis (an independent ally of the New Republic) is a world of volcanic
rift valleys separated by miles of icy glaciers. The inhabited, steam-filled rifts are heated by the planet's core, which feeds
mud pots and hot springs on the surface. The cities within the rifts, some of them covered by light-amplification domes, include
Wutz, Bot-Un, Mithipsin, and Plawal (formerly called Pletwell). The enormous rift-covering domes, buoyed by antigrav units in
their apices, support a vast network of hanging gardens and moveable growing beds. The vine-coffee and vine-silk grown in these
beds account for thirty percent of Belsavis' total economy and require a temperature shift of thirty degrees or more. The domes
also protect against the periodic cold storms that formerly swept into the rifts from the surrounding glaciers. The gangly,
short-lived Mluki species are representatives of Belsavis' original population.
The rift valleys were largely jungle until the Brathflen Corporation, Galactic Exotics, and Imperial Exports arrived and began
cultivating cash crops such as vine-coffee and vine-silk in the hanging beds, shalaman and podon orchards, brandifert, lipana,
bowvine fruit, and slochan. The quiet, humid community of Plawal lies between steep cliffs of red-black rock and is run by Jevax,
a Mluki who is Chief Person of Plawal. Rock "benches" leading up to the cliff walls provide a narrow foundation for homes and
orchards. Most buildings are constructed from prefabricated units, and crammed together on small lots due to the rift's enclosed
area. Residences in the old city were constructed directly over warm springs. A thick, sulfur-smelling mist permeates the valley,
and can restrict visibility to just a few meters.
Plawal's main docking silos are connected by tunnels to the Port Offices and to the rest of the city, including the canneries,
the Brathflen Medcenter, Old Orchard Street, the seven main silk-packing plants, the MuniCenter, an import/export business on
Pando wirtin Lane, and the Bubbling Mud cafe off Brandifert Court. Madame Lota's House of Flowers (a brothel) and seedy bars such
as the Smoking Jets and the Jungle Lust line Spaceport Row. A house on Painted Door Street opens onto Plawal's vast network of
subterranean crypts. These crypts, which contain xylen chips and gold wiring from the abandoned laboratories of Jedi Master
Plett, were guarded by forgotten, mind-controlled smugglers under the Force influence of Irek Ismaren. Flora in the Plawal rift
includes starblossoms, sweetberry vines, aphor trees, orchids, hanging moss, spider plants, shalaman trees, ferns, and
Wookiee-beard. Fauna includes mooklas, salamanders, phosphor bugs, frogs, pittins, pellata birds, manolliums (brought from
Ithor), watch-critters, and the insectile kretch that infest Plawal's tunnels.
The storm-lashed, ionized atmosphere of Belsavis makes sensor probes and ship landings extremely difficult. Only one spot, called
the Corridor, in the planet's southern hemisphere is atmospherically stable each day-- smugglers making the "Belsavis Run" come
in at the Corridor and skim the ice to one of the unofficial landing pads on the glaciers. Almost one hundred years ago, the Jedi
master Plett built a house and laboratory in the Plawal rift that served as a safe haven for the Jedi and their families.
Eighteen years before the Battle of Yavin, the Emperor commissioned the battlemoon Eye of Palpatine to wipe out the Jedi enclave
but the ship never arrived. The Emperor's small backup force of interceptors bombed Plawal but were wiped out by Belsavis'
Y-wings, and the Jedi departed for places unknown-- after erasing all knowledge of their presence from the inhabitants of the
city. After their departure, Brathflen, Galactic, and Imperial/Republic arrived to dome the valley and cultivate vine-coffee and
silk.
Nubblyk the Slyte began blasting landing pads on the glaciers around this time.
System: Belsavis
Sector/Region: Outer Rim, Senex Sector
Species: Mluki (short lived, tall)
Language: Mluki, Basic
Commodity: Silk and vine-coffee
Climate: extremes hot & cold
Volcanic planet, deep rifts, tundra surface, hot springs in bottom of rifts, tunnels
Flora:
Starblossoms
Sweetberry vines
Aphor trees
Orchids
Hanging moss
Spider plants
Shalaman trees
Ferns
Wookiee-beards
Fauna:
Mooklas
Salamanders
Phosphor bugs
Frogs
Pittins
Pellata birds
Manolliums--(brought from Ithor)
Watch-critters
Kretch insects
