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Inokh (lit. "Not-Ice") is a planet and member world of the Pentarchy, named for its unusual, largely ice-free composition despite its outer system location (it is thought to have migrated outward from the inner system millions of years ago).

History

Inokh was originally colonized in ZY 2609 as a corporate mining colony of the Nolnek Imperium. A miners' revolt in ZY 2828 led to the end of corporate authority and the creation of a tight-knit confederation of autonomous communes. Fearing retribution by the Nolneks, Inokh welcomed the establishment of the Pentarchate at the Congress of Anjara, and became one of its founding members. In recent years, however, with the decline and subsequent collapse of the Nolneks and the economic difficulties created by the Pentarchic government's imposition of certain elements of a market economy, many have come to question the supposed economic and security benefits offered by the Pentarchate as it currently exists, and it is this discontent which has thrown Premier Nokmal and their government into crisis.

People and Culture

The vast majority of the 72 million Inokhis reside in a mixture of naturally occurring caverns and lava tubes and centuries worth of mining tunnels beneath the surface of Inokh, as the planet's thin, unbreathable atmosphere and weak magnetic field are insufficient to protect its inhabitants from cosmic radiation on their own. Most of these tunnels are heated and pressurized, with the exception of those inhabited by the planet's original mining robots and their descendents.

Traditional Inokhi culture practices sequential hermaphroditism for quasi-religious reasons, despite the fact that a majority of the sapient species resident on the planet, including its original settlers, do not experience it naturally and must induce it through genetic modification or other artificial means. Approximately 84% of the population engage in this practice nonetheless, with the remainder consisting of immigrants, religious minorities, or those who abstain from the practice for medical or other personal reasons. Despite popular belief, this remainder does not include the mining robots, who do indeed engage in the practice on a largely symbolic level.

Academician Khalnik (talk) 20:08, 28 December 2018 (PST

Plumb Eldritch Depths (talk) 21:32, 28 December 2018 (CST) "Robots"? You're really going for that? Rounding off Inokh's whole rich autonomous community to a bunch of faceless machine-slaves? You should be ashamed. The art, literature, and bauplan-craft that emerges from those selfmade who embrace and experiment with what it means to have gender as a nonbiological clade is unique and inspiring. "on a largely symbolic level" utterly fails to capture it.