Jadd

The planet of fire and the sacred capital of the Jaddian Principalities, on whose soil none may tread without the express permission of the high prince.
- Tor Paulos, Empire of Silence

Primarachate: Perseus

Province: Unknown

Known Prefectures:

Unknown

Locations of Interest:

Alcaz du Badr: The Castle of the Moon. The grand, ringed palace complex of the High Prince of Jadd, set at the heart of twelve thousand acres of engineered gardens. At its center is the Tholo Orothano, a massive golden dome rising a hundred stories tall, from which the palace extends in petal-like arms. Its gardens are filled with singing flowers, sculpted topiaries, and vat-born fauna. Often the site of state functions, feasts, and political assemblies, in the Tower of Mirrors.

Court of Swans: MISSING DESCRIPTION

Fire School: MISSING DESCRIPTION

Geological Testing Station: MISSING DESCRIPTION

Grand Canal: MISSING DESCRIPTION

Il Casa du Burkan: The Volcano House. MISSING DESCRIPTION

Mount Hephaistos: MISSING DESCRIPTION

Paradi du Alkarshae: The UNKNOWN. MISSING DESCRIPTION

Scala Aspara: The Volcano House. MISSING DESCRIPTION

Shrine of the Atash Behram Jaddi: MISSING DESCRIPTION

Temple of the Eternal Fire: MISSING DESCRIPTION

White Square: MISSING DESCRIPTION

Varkanan Sea: MISSING DESCRIPTION

Governed by the Domagavani council.

Red Sun. Three moons.

History:

The Jaddian worlds were settled along a broad swath of the Perseus Arm near the outer rim of the galaxy during the eighth millennium. Due to the region’s remoteness, the palatine families there tended to intermarry rather than connect back to the broader Imperium, which—coupled with a shared Zoroastrian heritage dating back to the time of the Foundation War and the Exodus—created a racialized subculture among the region’s elites and led to the formation of a local identity separate from that of the broader Imperium.

This separation reached a turning point in the twelfth millennium, when the Imperial Prince Cyrus absconded with his Jaddian lover, Princess Amana di Jadi, scandalizing the Jaddian lords. The Jaddians maintain to this day that Amana was raped and kidnapped, while Imperial accounts attest to a romance between the pair. What is beyond dispute, however, is that Amana was recovered by the Jaddian Duke Katanes du Otranto, who recovered not only her, but the High College genetic codex tied to her, which contained the intelligence necessary to free the Jaddian palatines of Imperial control. Though Amana died and her house was destroyed in the wars, the eighty-one remaining palatine families took her name as their own, becoming Jaddians in ISD 11466, after the Battle of the Encircling Moons, when Duke Katanes bested the Imperial Legions with the first Jaddian mamluk clone army.

The eighty-one Jaddian families took the title shahdom, meaning prince, and have ever since elected one of their number to rule from the planet Jadd, formerly the home of Amana’s family. Katanes’s house, House du Otranto of Laran, have made up the majority of all High Princes in Jadd in the millennia since. Relations with the Empire—initially strained—relaxed in recent millennia, as the princes and the Emperor were forced into an uneasy alliance against the Commonwealth in the Persean Wars.