Bethlamore

The second planet from the star Baphomet in the Baphomet System, Bethlamore is the headquarters of the Assembly of the Force. Bethlamore is also the charge of the Allegiance Battle Group, a Rebel Squadrons task force made responsible for guarding the Baphomet System, which is part of a backdoor Hyperspace route into the Greeop System.

History

Bethlamore has a long and troubled past, having been: discovered and lost multiple times over, through three major wars, and terraformed twice.

Prehistory

Bethlamore's history of inhabitation dates back to roughly 32,000 BBY, when the Infinite Empire of the Rakata stumbled across the barren, lifeless planet and begin to terraform it. Once habitable, they colonized Bethlamore and began growing great jungles They abandoned it in 25,200 BBY, the era in which the Infinite Empire collapsed due to a plague and civil war. The plague and the war left Bethlamore scarred, destroying the majority of the worlds jungles.

For the next twenty millenia, life on the world struggled on, untouched by sentient beings.

Timeline of Bethlamore

• c. 32,000 BBY:
  • The Rakata stumble across Bethlamore, a lifeless world with large, oxygen-rich seas. They jumpstart the processes of life, and begin terraforming Bethlamore into a florishing jungle world.
• c. 30,000 BBY:
  • Theories commonly hold that during this time period the Infinite Empire of the Rakata built an experimental gate connecting Carrackoon, a world on the opposite side of the galaxy, with Bethlamore.
• c. 25,200 BBY:
  • Bethlamore is abandoned during the plague and civil war which rips through the Infinite Empire, but not before the Rakata, as well as the flora and fauna of Bethlamore, are infected. The planet and it's jungles survive, but barely. Life struggles onward, untampered, for the next twenty millenia.
• c. 5,500 BBY:
  • It is theorized that, around this time, the ancient Sith species stumbles across Bethlamore by accident, using a gate built by an ancient race which links the Sith world of Carrackoon with Bethlamore. The two worlds are on opposite sides of the galaxy. They build a shrine around the gate, which would later become the location of a Sith temple.
  • The Sith colonize Bethlamore, tending to the jungles for a time before the harsh life on Bethlamore wipes out the Sith colony.
• 3,914 BBY:
  • The Ithorians stumble across Bethlamore and begin to seed the jungle and tend to it. Under the Ithorians the struggling jungle florishes as they introduce or genetically engineer new species of flora and fauna.
• c. 3,800 BBY:
  • The first non-Ithorians since the Sith stumble across Bethlamore and begin to settle at the northern end of the valley in a community that would prove to be the precursor to the Ayrid Hai Spaceport.
• 3,478 BBY:
  • The Ithorians, after observing the planet of Bethlamore for over 400 years, embed a specially constructed herdship into the Ayrid Hai Valley. They use this herd ship to introduce some native flora and fauna from Ithor, as well as some genetically engineered flora and fauna they had created for Bethlamore.
• c. 2,000 BBY:
  • On Bethlamore a flourishing city, known by the Ithorians as Sytas, exists in what is now modern-day Ayrid Hai Spaceport.

Meanwhile, a dark sider gathers together a group of Humans and Zabraks and disappears into the jungle with them.

• c. 1,500 BBY:
  • Three Sith, hunted by Jedi, flee to Bethlamore with their slaves. Their transports crash into the surface, but they adapt and begin carving out an empire there. Essentially cut off of the rest of the galaxy by it's obscurity, these Sith lords fall into infighting. Each lord founds their own kingdom and declares war on his rivals.
• 1,483 BBY:
  • Sytas, the city at the foot of Mountain Ayrid, is conquered by the Sith of Bethlamore. The city is demolished and its people are killed or enslaved by the Sith.
• c. 1,480 BBY:
  • The Ithorians of Bethlamore are enslaved and their terraforming program becomes defunct. For the next 500 years, life on Bethlamore grows and evolves unchecked...
• c. 1,025 BBY:
  • The Sith warlord, Herite, conquers the entirely of the Ayrid Hai River Valley, and unites all of Bethlamore's Sith under one banner. He orders construction of the Black Temple of Herite (A.K.A. the Temple of the Shadow Vines), on the location of an even more ancient dark side shrine.
    
• 1,005 BBY:
  • The planet Bethlamore is captured from the forces of the local Sith lords by the Jedi Order's Army of Light. They raze the jungles and most of the Sith temples, making their residence in the Great Temple of Adhe Zion. The Jedi begin to set up an academy of the Force in the Great Temple of Adhe Zion.
• 1,004 BBY:
  • The cities of Ayrid Hai and Adiemus are founded by the freed slaves of the Sith. The large majority of the slaves go to Adiemus, but the ones that found Ayrid Hai on the site of Sytas go on to build Bethlamore's first spaceport.
• c. 1,000 BBY:
  • The Ithorians and the Jedi begin working together to cleanse Bethlamore's environment of the taint caused by the Sith. The terraforming process is not resumed, but the Ithorians and the Jedi attempt to 'weed' the garden that is Bethlamore.
  • A golden age begins on Bethlamore, with Ithorian scientists and Jedi healers making great discoveries about the medicinal properties of Bethlamore's flora and fauna.
• 952 BBY:
  • The Republic colony of Bethlamore replaces its Ithorian-dominated colonial government with a democratically elected (though still Ithorian-dominated) government, the Federation of Bethlamorian States. The first President is Ithorian scientist Tyri Endire.
• 813 BBY:
  • The city of Takoi'edo is founded on the shores of the Sea of Takoi by human settlers. It would grow to become one of the largest metropolitan areas on Bethlamore, though not the largest single city.
• 491 BBY:
  • The Jedi Order removes all of it's Jedi, save one, from the Bethlamore Temple. That one Jedi takes an apprentice and passes stewardship of temple to her when he dies. This tradition continues and the Temple of Adhe Zion remains a Jedi possession for another 200 years.
• 412 BBY:
  • The first non-Ithorian Prime Minister of Bethlamore is elected; Ghon Miclan, a Zabrak female, is the winning candidate.
• c. 290 BBY:
  • The Jedi Order withdraws the last Jedi from Bethlamore, leaving the temple abandoned.

Information

Bethlamorian History 101: A work-in-progress, a basic overview of Bethlamore's troubled history.