"The planet Shasu, homeworld of Devra and Darrian Bloodaxe, was long the unconquerable world. It's history goes back almost 10,000 years to when the first wave of settlers took root on the unspoiled scrub world.
Their descendants form the planets indigenous population, the Tarungtusa (or as colonists call them, the "wilderfolk," nomadic clans who have maintained their traditional lifestyle (which heavily features crazy sci-fi technology, such as computerized, self-erecting "tents").
Several hundred years before the events of REBEL MOON came the first wave of offworld colonists, colloquially known as the "city-dwellers" who have by now largely adopted much of Tarungtusa culture.
And ~fifty years before the events of the movie, Shasu was at last subdued by KOSEBA THE CONQUEROR, Devra and Darrian's grandfather. A Motherworlder, birth name Fidel, Koseba was a low-ranking officer until he took command during the Diggers' Uprising and saved an outpost.
For a reward, he was granted the title to Feodom Shasu, which mostly entitled him to sit in the Assembly and collect trade revenue. It was pretty much a nominal title since the planet was "unconquerable." So he set out to conquer it.
Fidel did the impossible: built a coalition, married into one of the most powerful clans, changed his name to Koseba, and adopted the ways and manner of the Tarungtusa. Alongside his wife Hiraat, he was able to bring a kind of Pax Koseba to the divided planet.
Now his son -- Devra and Darrian's father -- sits in power as Lord Shasu, but he is not Koseba. He's not even close.
He's 3/4 Tarungtusa but he was raised in the Citadel and educated on Motherworld. His exposure to his mother's people is limited, and his reign would never have survived without the active diplomacy of his Tarungtusa wife, Amirami. But Amirami is dead. Who will protect him from his people now?"
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