Kulthis
=====Kulthis=====//Currently owned by: the New Order//
====Canon background====
//From CUSWE//
Kulthis was a planet in the Belderone system that was the site of a Rebel Alliance base.
Belderone and Kulthis both had Stenax colonies. The reason the Stenaxes colonized these planets is unknown. They remained isolated from the other inhabitants. Thankfully, they did not participate in the Stenax Massacres.
====TRF History====
Kulthis was forgotten during the majority of TRF's history, existing peaceibly on the border of what would become the Black Dragon Empire. Kulthis was blasted back into the spotlight after a daring and ultimately futile rebellion organized between rebel groups on that world, and its sister planet of Belderone.
Sparing no time, Grand Moff Bhindi Drayson dispatched the vaunted Black Fleet to Kulthis with the intention of teaching its citizens the cost of betrayal: Kulthis became the first planet in years to be subject to the devastating effects of the Orbital Nightcloak. The siege weapon effectively destroyed Kulthis, paving the way for it to become a major dedicated Imperial base in the system, rivalling Yaga Minor for its impenetrability.
**//Excerpt from [[http://therebelfaction.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5854&highlight=kulthis The living and the dead]], TNO takeover of Kulthis:**
(One may also wish to read [[http://therebelfaction.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5728&highlight=kulthis The dead, and those that go to join them]], as it relates to these events)
By the second week, Kulthis belonged to the Empire. Snowtroopers had been landed, their first deployment of any mangnitude since Hoth, and bases established for the eventual day that Kulthis would return to normalcy. The perpetual darkness was a hinderance, to be sure, but it was solved by burning vast ammounts of debris from towns and even cities destroyed by the Empire.
By the end of the third week, the people of Kulthis were placing urgent communications to the Imperial base begging for an end to the ice age. The plants had died long ago, and with them the animals had perished. Food was scarce, and what little there was remaining had been snatched up by the rebel leaders, who demanded extraordinary sums for it.
It had escaped them, it seemed, they no matter what ammounts they offered to the Empire their lives were forfeit.
One month to the day of the Night Cloak being put into effect, the last communications ceased. According to official reports, the people of Kulthis, faced with a slow agonizing death by starvation, sabatoged their power facilities. The cold, nearing -100 degrees, quickly killed those who had so far survived.
In orbit, scans by the Imperial Fleet revealed no life whatsoever left on Kulthis. With due haste the blockade was lifted, the Nightcloak pulled back and the planet reopened visitors.
The Imperial bases remained, regular soldiers taking the place of the Snowtroopers as temperatures returned to normal and stabalized. Flooding on a massive scale changed the landscape of the planet, destroying entire cities and wiping out whatever evidence of previous civilization might have been there.
It was not widely reported, and those that did pick up on called it a natural phenomenon, which the Imperial Fleet had bravely tried (and, unfortutely, failed) to prevent. Kulthis was, for all intents and purposes, destroyed. Those that were fortunate enough to be off planet at the time returned to find little that reminded them of home, the ice age and ensuing floods having changed the very terrain of the world.
The natives were encouraged by the Empire not to return, given compenstation on planets loyal to the Empire. Kulthis became a centre of Imperial military strength in the sector. With no inhabitants other than the Imperial Fleet and Army, and vast and largely untapped natural resources, the world was ripe for an Imperial production facility.
The once blue skies of Kulthis were replaced by the fogs of industry. Cloning centres were erected, arms factories established and testing grounds built on the most amazing of geological locations.
Kulthis was a world like no other: completely and utterly Imperial, a fortress in its own right, its entire existance to arm and supply the Imperial fleet in the 'Border Regions'. No other planet in the Empire could claim total and complete loyalty to the Empire.
In the event that the New Order should fall, Kulthis was one planet that would retain its allegiance to the standard of the New Order until it was taken from them by force or destroyed utterly, as Alderaan had been.//
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