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[K-N] Keer History
Published on Year 10 Day 349.

Ten thousand and ten years ago, Corellia was in the middle of a golden age, and it wasn’t only due to the fact that the planet was one of the most prestigious, well-developed, well-known, and heavily populated planets in the Core Worlds of the galaxy. Corellians had been living proud of themselves for being the responsible ones of reinventing the hyperdrive through reverse engineering the technology of the Rakata, establishing the Republic as part of the Core Founders, having the most prolific starship manufacturer in the galaxy with Corellian Engineering Corporation and the mapping of the Corellian Run (a major hyperspace route running through the galaxy), among other achievements. No doubt Corellians were among the first and foremost hyperspace explorers.

It was this spirit of exploration that kept them scouting and discovering new things for their benefit. The discovery of New Plympto as a temperate terrestrial world in the Core Worlds region that was populated by Nosaurians and that could hit the galactic market with the exportation of rikknit eggs, contributed to their thirst of exploration. Nineteen years after New Plympto’s discovery, rumours were spread about what they could find in the outer regions of the galaxy and excitement grew among them as their will to explore it. It was due to this that a fair group of experts was chosen to take said dangerous and exciting trip.

The group of experts consisted of about five hundred Corellian men and women, and one thousand men and women from a system that is lost in history, the only known info about this stock of humans was that they were very pale of skin and hair, due to their system having a dying sun. To this day a large portion of the humans within the Keer society are pale of skin and hair. This group immediately parted and began their journey. The senior staff was conformed by Thaddeus Magus and Drake Magus, Lady Calius Jeroun, Talek Majere (master engineer) a man by the name of Malice (thought to be a former pirate but not looked into because he was a great captain), Forrester Wolfrunner, Daleous Mo`cartus (a giant of a man who spoke slow and came across dumb, to those that thought that it meant their demise, he specialized in agriculture and hobbyed in black smithy, he could build anything from a horse shoe to a blaster given enough time and the right tools), Killian Darkstar a private investor into a new life (he was born a billionaire and then tripled it about ten times) and Dala Naise (a lady that looks out of place on the construction site, 6,1” 140 lbs blonde hair and pale green eyes, but her knowledge of all things in that area has been proven time and time again).

And so, the expedition fleet parted from Corellia with the promise of new and important discoveries for the Corellian society. The fleet set for the deepest regions of unknown space, even further than what is now known as the outer regions of today. But during the flight, the explorers found themselves bombarded by a meteoroid shower that damaged their fleet. Communications were broken, the hull of the ships suffered great damage and hope was lost. In a poor attempt for survival, Toumoku Nemuri ordered the four ships to land in the first planet on sight , hoping to be able to make the reparations that were needed and perhaps, to continue their journey, or in the worst case scenario, to go back to Corellia empty handed. The landing wasn’t soft, and the ships suffered continuous damage. Against all odds, half of them achieved it.

Nemuri was devastated due to the accident. The Pathfinder and The Voyager were lost in their attempt to land along with eight hundred members of the crew; the spirits of the expedition were low: lost, without hope, without communications, without knowledge of the planet they were in and with only a fair amount of supplies. The senior staff of the expedition decided that it was best for them if half the survivors where to settle a basic infrastructure for them to live in while the other half focused on fixing the technology they had left. And so they did, they settled in Tokmia, a cold, harsh planet in a system by the same name.

Unfortunately, a year after they had settled in, disaster struck in the form of many tectonic plates under the planet’s crust shifting horrifically and letting a nearby ocean flood the plains where they had set-up their city. Only a few hundred people (1200 rough survivors) survived it and very little of the technology that they had when they landed on the planet. Anger, depression and quick tempers started to divide people here and there. Within a few years even the technology that did survive such as blaster and some small droids, soon ran out of the essential power they needed to keep operating, they were for the most part discarded and soon forgotten.

Due to the system’s lack of significant natural resources and its distance from the core in an age where space travel was much slower and dangerous, the no longer expedition eventually lost all contact with the galaxy, and due to the planet’s harsh living conditions the human settlers eventually degraded to an almost primitive lifestyle. Science and technology were eventually covered by myth and religion, and for some reason they seemed to believe that Toumoku Nemuri and his descendants (for the original explorers had continued with their full lives in the harsh planet) were a royal family chosen to rule them.

The separation between them was now imminent as their interests, beliefs and superstitions varied; and since Tokmia offered little shelter, food and materials they soon started to fight amongst themselves. They called themselves “Keer”, a word that means both “family and loyalty”. Due to the fights among them, they formed their own families that they called “Clans”, and those clans were led by need.

Over the next thousand years the people quickly fell back into a barbaric lifestyle, forgetting where they came from and what knowledge they used to possess. The clans often fought each other for territories, food, animals, honor and mostly because their gods demanded it. This developed to the point that war became a tradition itself, and Keer tribes all had a principal War God which, through the wishes of its War Priests would command them to attack a certain tribe for no other reason than to please his wishes. During centuries the Keer fought among each other, venerating their gods in a perpetual war, which saw no victorious sides. Soon, the main belief was to train warriors since birth to be able to defeat the other clans. Some clans still remained where they settled at first in Tokmia, but some clans where dead, lost or forgotten through thousands of years.

It was around this time that King Ketsujo, direct descendant of Toumoku Nemuri, having a revelation that led him to believe that perhaps their gods didn't exist.

For the past two thousand years the Krath Dynasty watched the Tokmia and its native species. They thought of the Keer as a “barely sentient” species due to their culture and behavior, and they named them Oku. The Krath Dynasty, watched with glee as these barbaric people slaughtered each other over the smallest injustice, sometimes something as small as one man's word to another would start a war. As the Keer culture slowly advanced through technological levels the Krath Dynasty continued to study them, often indulging in the bloodthirsty barbarian’s code of honor and the anarchy it often caused throughout the years. It was when the Keer started to get into one on one duels with each other instead of all out war that the Krath got really interested in them, as well as the planets in the Tokmia system, because they had found deposits deep in the planets’ surface that the Keer's ancestors older equipment wouldn't have found due to the damaged it suffered.

It was after some years had passed that the Krath Dynasty decided to intervene because it was evident that the Keer had just shed their belief in false gods. About thirty five years prior to the current galactic calendar, Some clans still remained where they settled at first in Tokmia, but some where lost. the Krath Dynasty sent a lone woman to the planet Tokmia to usurp the beliefs of the Keer as they had just finished with false gods.

The woman descended from the skies above into their territory; unknown to King Ketsujo and the Keer was the way she arrived on their soil, otherwise many might have believed she was a goddess herself. Even worse, they didn't know that King Ketsujo was her target on the planet. As this woman slowly integrated herself into the Keer society, she learned the true history: that many thousands of years ago a lost Corellian expedition crash landed in Tokmia when their small fleet had been hit by a random meteoroid shower as they were flying through deep space, and that they settled in the planet with the belief that they would someday return to space and their dear Corellia. But times had changed, and the wishes of the Keer were different now.

Quickly, this woman called Tecus LightBender seduced her way into King Ketsujo's bed and soon after that, they started to unite them in one culture above all else. This wasn’t easy for King Ketsujo, and usually he had to do it by overcoming them in battle. She always told the common people that god Rashack told her that King Ketsujo should keep moving forward to conquer the world like so many people before him had tried, but what she didn't say was that no god talked to her, she had no visions, or not a vision like the priests of other clans claimed to have; her vision, if any, was one where the Keer were freed from following the whims of the priests and the Gods that they claimed told them to have them battle each other, for no reason other than the gods deemed it.

Eventually, Ketsujo’s family began to overcome all other clans, the remaining clans where gathered upon one nation led by him, one that would improve their lives and society: Keer Nation.

Ketsujo, although a great warrior, was also a cunning leader and philosopher, and by seeing how different tribes treated their priests ended up realizing that the Keer were being manipulated by the priests into following the whims of gods that never talked to them. Disillusioned with the idea that the gods had forsaken the Keer, leaving the priests to stir them into war to keep them in power, Ketsujo expelled the priests from their temples within his land and declared that the War Gods would no longer rule over the Keer. But this did not stop them by training excellent warriors, for now Keer, united in one society, was their own race; a race of fierce warriors, for warriors had become their profession and lifestyle.

Ketsujo admired the new nation, but he knew that these were not the only Keer clans in existence, for his family had accurate record keeping beliefs. And he knew that other clans were out there in space, waiting to be found and reunited, but he did not know where and how. Nevetheless, Ketsujo’s work led to the creation of "Keer's Belief's", which stated that Keer Nation should decide what to do based on what was best for their people, instead of following others’ words. And so, the Keer society grew in strength. Ketsujo wrote a set of ten principles which all Keer should follow to ensure their people were pleased, and named each after one of the War Gods of old, declaring that these should now dictate the people’s actions, instead of the gods’ wills. Thus, the Keer Code was born, and became a major part of the Keer way.

As King Ketsujo brought about this social change, strange flying creatures dropped from the skies and spit out strange humanoid creatures. These humans slowly helped improve the Keer way of life, with the help of a small company called Saikutsu that was hired by what the Keer later found out was the Krath Dynasty. The people from this ship told them that they had been waiting until the Keer overcame certain dangerous things within their nature, although the Krath personnel never said exactly what it was that they had needed to overcome before they were contacted. They were told that they were in another government’s territory and that the Krath Dynasty shouldn't even be there, how they had found them long ago and had been monitoring them for many many years. A few years went by as Saikutsu helped build the Tokmia planet into a modern day civilization.

The Krath diplomats visited often over the next ten years, each time bringing things that improved the Keer's way of life, culture and homes. Showing them how to use these things and eventually becoming a foster parent to the whole culture, a development that went pretty quickly, for as what Keer lacked of knowledge they didn’t like in intelligence.

When King Ketsujo lied dying in bed, Keer Nation was torn. He had no heirs, for he was the last living descendant of Toumoku Nemuri and fear began to spread with no one to lead the nation. But Ketsujo knew what had to be done, and so he called Trace Magus upon his dying bed. He instructed him in every possible thing he could from the accurate genealogy record to the creation of a Conclave, a body formed by the heads of the leaders of each clan that would govern Keer Nation; and he appointed him as Lord Keer, rather than king, his successor. He also explained that he was of the noble house of Keer and that he had been sent away years ago to learn of the galaxy from an outsiders point of view and that Saikutsu's coming here wasn't an accident.

The Krath announced that they had overthrown the rulers of this sector of space and that they were free to do as they wish. Tokmia developed into a united and successful planet with the help of Krath Dinasty. And Keer Nation learned everything they had to know about the galaxy under their teaching. Eventually, and due to trade with other species, the Keer were able to go out of Tokmia and set settlements in other planets in the system. King Ketsujo died, and the sadness that overcame the nation was nothing compared to the joy Ketsujo had brought to them by reunifying them.

Trying to exploit the resources in the system to fuel the Keer Nation’s expansion to other planets, the Keer relied heavily upon the mining company Saikutsu, and developed a strong allegiance with its founder. With Saikutsu’s aid they were able to become a strong force, and acquired the technology to achieve the same level of civilization as the rest of the galaxy. By this time most of the Keer had gotten used to the fact that all the gods were false, or at least all their gods were, it was about this time in their history that rumors started to spread about one true goddess. It all started a few months after King Ketsujo's death and a few weeks before Tecus LightBender departed the system. She left on a ship from the Krath Dynasty her parting words were: “I have helped unite you, brought you out of your own inner turmoil, shown you your gods for what they are, false! I say this to you now there is one true god, she is mad, she is coming, she is Krath!"

A plan was put into action at that time, the Keer decided that they shouldn't all be in one place as it would be too easy for any government to try to swallow them into their fold. First they acquired a planet on the far side of the galaxy known as Galgorn. Lord Keer decided that the time had come for the Keer to expand past their single planet and develop other colonies on the planets within their home system as well as colonies in other system in the galaxy. Most humans looked at the planet as a death trap .....