Boink
Boink is the adopted home planet of the Foozles, and the Delos.
History: Originally, it was simply known as World 319. The explorer who first discovered the planet found it to be a garden paradise, with plenty of animal and plant life, but no sentient indigenous lifeforms. A resort company known as Starlight Industries then purchased the planet, parcel by parcel, over several decades.
Eventually, they secured ownership of the entire planet, renamed it Xaria, and turned it into a resort world. Hotels, casinos, shopping plazas and swimming pools were constructed. Stretches of beach were turned into swimming areas. Terraforming was minimal.
The planet operated as a resort for nearly seventy years, becoming a popular destination for the rich and famous during its most active era.
But, eventually the galaxy settled into a recession, and reservations for luxury vacations began to dry up. With their resort world beginning to show its age, and quickly becoming a financial sinkhole, Starlight Industries, seeking to cut their losses, sold the planet on the open market. It was immediately snapped up by a consortium of Foozles.
These Foozles had been tasked with locating a potential Foozle homeworld, and were backed by a financial fund made up from donations supplied by Foozles scattered across the galaxy. After much discussion on the name, they settled on calling their new world "Boink," the name selected for being both cute, and sexual.
The Foozles then set about moving to and renovating their planet.
The Foozles would later welcome the Delos to their world, and the two races would combine to form the Libertine Union.
Culture: Boink's culture is relaxed, casual and openly sexual.
As is to be expected of a world populated by living sextoys, Public nudity and public sex are both legal. The culture however, is one of a relaxed eroticism. Without societal taboos against sexuality, the world has never developed the frantic "get it now!" obsession with sex that permeates the more prudish corners of galactic society. A popular local phrase used to explain this is "You're at a buffet. Don't hurry and fill up on one thing, slow down, try a little bit of it all, take your time and just enjoy it."
The planet is open to galactic travel, and before reaching one of the orbital platforms surrounding the world, visitors will pass by lighted, hovering signs declaring "Welcome To Boink, Home planet of the Libertine Union. Clothing optional beyond this point."
Design: When renovations of the aging resort buildings began a decision was made, so that rather than updating the design, they kept the outdated "groovy" deco of the existing constructions intact, and then adapted to it and built upon it with their own design language, giving the planet a decidedly classic, retro-futuristic feel, in an architecture style that mixes the relaxed casualness of midwest modernism, with the bold geometric shapes of brutalist design. The end result is somewhat akin to a late 1970's, early 1980's mall, featuring high ceilings, wood accents, carpeted walkways, patterned stone, tiled floors, large comfy furniture, fountains, steps and plants.
Where new construction was needed, it was designed to accent the environment without altering it, with some buildings including rooms where rockfaces intrude through walls and floors, where streambeds run through buildings, and where a system of subterranean caves have been turned into public, underground spaces.
Security: The planet is overseen by Boink Guard, who operate the orbital platforms, carry out visitor screening, maintain air traffic control, and perform planetary security duties.
