Setting Summary: City of Gold

This is the main Jincari City in my "Colliding Worlds" series (Still subject to change; still don't like that name).

The Making Of
The Vard were the original founders of this city, intended to be, as a whole, a monument to all the Vard could accomplish. To the Vard, it was a testament to the glory of their nation, spanning across the entire solar system. To the other races, it is a city built from the blood and anguish of their ancestors.  The Vard designed the city, but ordered labour from millions of slaves to construct it. It is uncertain how many slaves died in the production of the city, but it is estimated that the average lifespan of a slave working on its production was about 21 days. Known to be the largest city in the solar system, the City of Gold can hold almost two billion citizens, and is now the capital city of the Jincari Empire. The city features stunning scenery and landscapes, extravagant golden buildings which touch and even surpass the clouds, and is home to 97% of the Jincari elite, and roughly 55% of the entire Jincari race. At the very centre of the city lies the Imperial Palace in which the royal Jincari family lives. It is, undeniably, the most spectacularly designed building in the entire city. Among the numerous balcony gardens in the palace, it features a many secret passageways, along with the solar system's most extensive library. Of the Jincari empire, the only bloodline to serve as emperor is the Vos family. The current Emperor is Mallian Vos II, age one hundred and ten.

The Uprising
(This is a favourite tale among the Jincar, and many renditions of the story have been created. The most historically accurate rendition is as follows)
The final job for the slaves in the City of Gold was to construct a massive Colosseum from which the Vardic citizens could watch as slaves would be forced to fight a plethora or fearsome creatures until they were killed. About halfway through the construction process, Sala Vos, a young Jincari slave working on the Colosseum (before her eventual ascension to the throne as the first Jincari ruler in over 3 centuries), saw a unique opportunity to give herself and her fellow slaves a chance to resist their masters and fight back. Many unwary Vard overseers watching over the production of the Colosseum would forget or leave their weapons laying about the construction site after the day was over. Sala eventually stole enough of these weapons to distribute to most of the slaves working on the Colosseum. One morning, the unsuspecting Vard overseers had their weapons turned against them by their own slaves. The battle, planned out by Sala,  lasted less than one hour. This took the Vard by such surprise, that the city leaders did not find out until after the entire sector was under the control of the slaves. After such a decisive victory, Sala took it upon herself to lead a liberation of the entire city. In the many years that followed, the rebels retained their grasp of the arena sector, using the Vard's secret passages and reluctance to destroy their own city against them. During the day, the former slaves would defend the walls of the sector. At night, they would use their knowledge of the city's numerous secret passageways to carry out elaborate hit-and-run surprise attacks throughout various other city sectors. Seven years later marked the death of the Vardic empress after a successful ambush staged by the rebels on palace grounds. Three months later, the leaderless and disoriented Vard were forced to retreat entirely from their city, and Sala was hailed as a hero among the Jincar.