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Formerly known as Graek, Djaelervangak is the longest continually settled high population world in Deneb Sector. The world was settled around -1840 by Provence sector immigrants. The world's main continent underwent a major breakup only a few million years ago, and most of its dry land are within a few hundred miles of each other, seperated only by narrow, shallow seas teeming with life. The sea is the worlds main source for food and income, and shipbuilding is a time honored major industry.
The tropical climate and bountiful resources seems to have instilled paradise syndrome in the original colonists, who burned their ships and have been content with just the primitive beginnings of an industrial society. In contrast to the normal tumult of Vargr society, the world had enjoyed unusually stable government and social structures for most of its history. Early in its history it had established the custom of "sponsoring" disaffected younger Vargr for offworld education or career advancement. This not only eliminated troublesome dissidents and agitators, it created an offworld diaspora of more skilled Vargr that retained their homeworld ties, often sending money or resources that could not be obtained locally.
The Collapse altered this fine balance. The loss of offworld contact led to a social breakdown. The world's ancient elected monarchy was overthrown in a coup in 1148, and fighting between would be successors. A religious dictatorship, whose name replaced the world's antebellum one, arose in 1155, and have plunged the world into a nightmare. These Vargr are adherents of a crazy messianic cult that has terrorised its neighbors with often genocidal attacks. These Vargr are increasingly opposed and stymied by the naval forces and primitive aircraft of the Khankael League, which is organised around the remnants of the old Royal Bureaucracy, and whose invocation of the storied past and promises of restoring the order of the ancien regime has rallied a growing part of the local population to its banner. Most fighting is done at sea between coal-burning ironclads and cloth-covered propeller driven zeppelins and aircraft. Direct attacks by troops are eschewed for bombing with incendiaries, chemical gas canisters and primitive biological weaponry.