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RyiXy'an (Hyoton III)

Planets · Xi'an

RyiXy'an (Hyoton III) is the third planet from the sun of the Hyoton system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an), and is the homeworld of the Xi'an people. Once a lush world teeming with life, its atmosphere was accidentally tainted with poison by House Kl.ō during an assassination attempt…

Xi'an

Xi'an · Civilizations

The Xi'an are a spacefaring civilization that originated on the planet RyiXy'an (Hyoton III). They are capable of space flight, quantum travel, jump point navigation, and planetary terraformation. Their leader, Emperor Kr.ē, has reigned over the Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an) since SEY…

Lixāuu (T.āl IV)

Planets · Xi'an

Lixāuu (T.āl IV) is the fourth planet from the sun of the T.āl system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). Naturally habitable, the acid already-present in Lixāuu's atmosphere convinced officials to make it the home of processing facilities, refineries, and other pollution-causing…

Xōl'uu (R.il'a IV)

Planets · Xi'an

Xōl'uu (R.il'a IV) is the fourth planet from the sun of the R.il'a system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). Originally terraformed and developed as a planet to train military ground forces and build weapons, it was reclassified as an industrial world by the Xi'an government at the…

Xi'an Calendar

Xi'an · Culture

The Xi'an calendar (Modern Xi'an Year, r.aiXy'an) is measured by the celestial mechanics of their former homeworld, RyiXy'an (Hyoton III). It differs from the Human calendar in a number of significant ways; for example, each Xi'an year is equivalent to 1.28 Human years, is…

Ui'r.a'ang (Kai'pua I)

Planets · Xi'an

Ui'r.a'ang (Kai'pua I) is the first planet from the sun of the Kai'pua system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). Composed mainly of carbon, it is a terrestrial planet with black, brown, and red hued atmosphere. The temperatures and pressure in the planet's interior may have caused the…

Kuā'li (Yā'mon I)

Planets · Xi'an

Kuā'li (Yā'mon I) is the first planet from the sun of the Yā'mon system, Xi'an Empire. Tidally locked to its star, one of its sides is in permanent daylight, and the other in permanent night. During the Xi'an-Human Cold War, Human military intelligence identified a facility…

Ko'li (Ē'aluth III)

Planets · Xi'an

Ko'li (Ē'aluth III) is the third planet from the sun of the Ē'aluth system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). Soon after it was discovered, the Xi'an government elected to terraform Ko'li and use it as a nature preserve for all known plant and animal species in Xi'an space. It contains a…

Ryōl (T.āl V)

Planets · Xi'an

Ryōl (T.āl V) is the fifth planet from the sun of the T.āl system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). All buildings on the planet sport orange accents, giving them a fiery appearance in correct lighting conditions. A center of product manufacturing, its most prominent economic activity is…

Xi (R.il'a V)

Planets · Xi'an

Xi (R.il'a V) is the fifth planet from the sun of the R.il'a system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). Classified by the Xi'an government as a habitation world, it was extensively developed and meticulously organized in order to support a vast populace. Like neighboring planet Xōl'uu…

R.aip'uāng (Kai'pua II)

Planets · Xi'an

R.aip'uāng (Kai'pua II) is the second planet from the sun of the Kai'pua system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). One day on R.aip'uāng is equal in length to 100 Modern Xi'an Years (MXY), a coincidence with enough significance for it to have been turned into the spiritual center of…

Ka'ua (Hyoton IV)

Planets · Xi'an

Ka'ua (Hyoton IV) is the fourth planet from the sun of the Hyoton system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). The heart of the Xi'an government, it is the home of the Emperor and the Imperial House's Council of Three, and is the nerve center of the Civil Service. Originally uninhabitable,…

Yengchuai (La'uo II)

Planets · Xi'an

Yengchuai (La'uo II) is the second planet from the sun of the La'uo system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). Partially covered with an ocean of lava, Yengchuai's surface is profoundly geologically active, and is thought to have survived a collision with a massive celestial body in the…

Pi'tua (La'uo I)

Planets · Xi'an

Pi'tua (La'uo I) is the first planet from the sun of the La'uo system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). A chthonic planet, it was the core of a hot Jupiter until the surface of the red giant it orbits expanded. Most of its atmosphere has evaporated, and what little remains continues to…

K.yuk'o (Kai'pua IV)

Planets · Xi'an

K.yuk'o (Kai'pua IV) is the fourth planet from the sun of the Kai'pua system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an), and is a gas dwarf. Since its rocky core and diffuse atmosphere have nearly identical properties to those of neighboring planet Kyu'kyu (Kai'pua III), some astronomers…

Kyu'ām (La'uo III)

Planets · Xi'an

Kyu'ām (La'uo III) is the third planet from the sun of the La'uo system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). A smog planet, it is enveloped in layers of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and sulfur dioxide. In the distant past, its surface was too dangerous to land a ship on due to the…

Kyu'kyu (Kai'pua III)

Planets · Xi'an

Kyu'kyu (Kai'pua III) is the third planet from the sun of the Kai'pua system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). A gas dwarf, it has a thick but low-density hydrogen and helium atmosphere that surrounds a rocky core. There is an ocean of liquid water under the clouds, leading researchers…

S.ap'uāng (La'uo IV)

Planets · Xi'an

S.ap'uāng (La'uo IV) is the fourth planet from the sun of the La'uo system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). A gas giant with an orange, white, and brown-belted atmosphere it is the brightest natural object in the La'uo system. Violent storms rage along the borders of its latitudinal…

Puaangkiil (Ē'aluth V)

Planets · Xi'an

Puaangkiil (Ē'aluth V) is the fifth and final planet from the sun of the Ē'aluth system, Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). A gas giant with a pale red and white atmosphere, it is the sole source of unprocessed hydrogen in the system. Although most mining is prohibited in Ē'aluth in order…

Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an)

Xi'an · Government

The Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an) is a multi-system government headed by the Xi'an Emperor and inhabited by the Xi'an. Its capital system, Hyoton, is the location of the former Xi'an homeworld RyiXy'an (Hyoton III) and Ka'ua (Hyoton IV), the current home of the Emperor. It is made up…

Xi'an House (Yii'ua)

Xi'an · Government · Culture

A Xi'an House (Yii'ua), or Line is a complex social and familial body in the Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an) made up of members of a single family. Houses serve the functions of states and corporations within the framework of the Xi'an government. Each House is allowed by the Emperor to…

Xi'an Service (Pō't.ōngp.ū)

Government · Xi'an

The Xi'an Service (Pō't.ōngp.ū), or Imperial Bureaucracy is a bureaucratic and military body made up of Xi'an aged 40 to 70. The backbone of the reigning Imperial House (Yii'uaTao"), the Service is compulsory for all Xi'an. It was created in the wake of the Xi'an Civil War…

The Great Divide (Xi'an Civil War)

Xi'an · History · Military

The Great Divide (the Xi'an Civil War) took place from 20044 to 19770 BCE. The outcome of millennia of inter-House conflicts and complex webs of enmity and allyship, it began when the last daughter of House Kl.ō attempted defection to House Uai'i. Hostilities between the Houses…

Human-Xi'an Trade Initiative (HuXa)

Human · Xi'an · Government · Commerce

The Human-Xi'an Trade Initiative (HuXa) is a 2947 trade agreement between the United Empire of Earth (UEE) and the Xi'an Empire (SaoXy'an). Spearheaded by ImperatorKelos Costigan(b:2855 - present), it loosened restrictions on the export and import of goods between the two…