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Player > Setting > Planets > Azlanti Star Empire
Starfinder Core Rulebook p.463
Diameter: ×2/3
Mass: ×1/3
Gravity: ×3/4
Location: The Vast
Atmosphere: Normal
Day: 18-1/2 hours; Year: 1-1/3 years
Thousands of years ago, adventurers and scholars from
Azlant, humanity’s first great empire on Golarion, began
tentatively exploring planets beyond their own. Most of these
undertakings ended in disaster, and Azlant itself was destroyed in
a planet-shaking cataclysm, but one outpost survived on a distant
world called New Thespera. Cut off from their original home
world by the failure of their magical portals, Azlanti colonists
used their mastery of magic and high technology to
settle their new planet and its neighbors over the
course of millennia, until the discovery of the
Drift enabled them to conquer nearby star
systems and their inhabitants, giving rise
to the Azlanti Star Empire.
The Azlanti Star Empire now claims a
dozen star systems under its hegemony, from
the lush inhabited worlds of Thenekral to the
lifeless but resource-rich planetoids of Irdinang.
All are subject to the Star Empire’s laws and
dominance, and all must offer to the Aeon Throne
their tribute—tribute that the empire greedily consumes
as it expands. Likewise, every one of the empire’s 17
officially designated “sentient alien species,†from the
arboreal Neskinti of Gjor III to the trilateral Vilderaro
of oceanic Oyojii, are second-class citizens, subordinate
to the pureblood humans descended from the original
Azlanti pioneers who form the empire’s aristocracy.
Slavery is a venerable and established institution in the
Star Empire, and androids, who are considered neither
citizens nor truly sentient, comprise the majority of the
empire’s vast enslaved underclass.
The Star Empire’s throne world is the
original Azlanti colony of New Thespera,
orbiting the star Aristia. It is the seat
of the Star Imperator—a title that is
currently shared by twin scions of
the Ixomander dynasty, which is
believed to have ruled the Star
Empire for nearly 2,000 years.
The cities of New Thespera
provide shining examples of
high Azlanti architecture,
culture, and learning, but they
are also symbols of the empire’s oppression, with
the plundered relics of those worlds and cultures
annexed by the Star Empire on display.
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