System: Almorad
Star: Almor (small yellow)
Name Planet Type Moons
Lilor Molten Rock 0
Umarin Tropical Forest 2
Nissor Water World 3
Lothos Agricultural 1
Mil Gas Giant 6
Luman Frozen Ice Ball 2
System Capsule:
Lilor: Small, near the sun. Has some fairly large deposits
of gold, kilmis, and iron, but the surface temperatures make
mining impractical.
Umarin: The Black Serpents have set up a small base on this
uninhabited world. If someone tracks a group to this system,
they will be lead to believe that this is the extent of the Black
Serpent presence in the system.
Nissor: Covered by a single ocean with a mean average depth
of 7 Km, Nissor is home to a pair of intelligent species, the
huge Mirmin, and the predatory Hathton
Mil: Some of the gasses of Mil are used in the agriculture
of Lothos, and there is a steady traffic of heavy freighters from
one planet to the other.
Luman: Luman is uninhabited and ignored, without any great
resources.
Planetary Capsule:
Flora and fauna:
Lothos has two major ecosystems, the plains and the
mountains. Before the planet was colonized, the plains were
covered with floodwaters for around three quarters of the year.
The mountains were always covered with thick thicket like forests
known as the Kuthkujal. The seasonal growth of the plain was
quickly supplanted by hybrid grains and fruit orchards of various
types that thrived on the newly exposed highly fertile soils.
However, the Kuthjikal proved remarkably resistant to taming, and
in fact, it is responsible for the high nutrient water supply
that makes Lothos fertile. So, now Lothos is remarkably
segmented, with the rural plains and wild, forest covered
mountains.
The plains are now fairly monopolized by Turvisium, a grain
variety that has been specially adapted to the soil of Lothos,
and several forms of fruit and fodder. The livestock raised are
some forms of beef Bantha, ursine creatures known as Gujuk, and a
monoped species, the Rutum, that are raised for their highly
nutritious milk.
The Kuthjikal has a far larger variety of lifeforms than the
plains region does. The Kuthjikal is defined by the Timkoe Bobea
plants, whose thin and twisting trunks bind together to form the
solid wall of plant matter that is the most important feature of
those montane forests. Many other varieties of plant life are
found there, including the flowering Promone, the towering Elgon
Fig, and the bright opal vine.
The Fauna of the region is equally varied, featuring such
unusual creatures as the luminescent Hugiy, the deadly Rubiecent
Hunting Mat, and the omnipresent Rllkukun, a small jumping rodent
like creature. In addition to these, the Mskill, a ferocious
hunting creature also roams the Kuthjikal, often in the company
of their Gysher masters. The Mskill and the Gysher are both even
deadlier in reputation than they are in actuality, and fear of
those creatures keep most of the inhabitants of Lothos away from
the Mountain regions.
Sentient Species:
Humans are the primary inhabitants of Lothos, with a fair
sized population living in the plains region, and a rather large
number of Black Serpents and Shadow Dragons dwelling in their
concealed bases in the mountains. The original intelligent
inhabitants of the planet were the Gysher, a heavily furred race
of carnivores with two legs and four arms, whose primary forms of
locomotion are brachiation and tunneling. As the Gysher are not
particularly aggressive, the Black Serpents have been introducing
populations of alien creatures into the forests, hoping to find a
creature that will stay in those regions and be aggressive enough
to keep all others out. The success that they have had are
fairly limited, but Lothos now has small native populations of
primitive Durgur, Thill, and
Mridone, and a number of experimental
populations of various other races.
History:
Due to the great fertility of Lothos's plain regions, it
quickly became an agricultural center of some importance after it
was discovered. However, the original population used
sophisticated methods to prevent the floods that usually covered
the plains, preventing the flood of nutrients from the mountains
that had created that great fertility. Lothos gradually receded
in importance, becoming somewhat of a backwater. Despite the
fact that farmers on Lothos now use flood control to channel the
floods onto their lands for specific periods of time, the planet
has never regained it's earlier importance, as most of the
foodstuff of the Yaeger region is now produced in fungi mines on
Gugimar and Kimij.
After their failure to rule from Yaeger Prime, and the
destruction of their temple of Jilkaroth, the Black Serpents
decided to rebuild the organization somewhere it could not be
found, and they chose the backwater world of Lothos for it's low
importance, it's large unexplored and largely uninteresting
mountain region, and it's central location in the Yaeger sphere
of influence. Since that time, the Black Serpent operations on
the planet have become more and more extensive, and they would
probably be forced to virtually rebuild their operation from the
start if they were ever forced to leave Lothos. Because of that
fact, they have taken over the politics, police, and military of
the planet, and they do their best to eliminate overly
inquisitive visitors. Of course, they realize that eliminating
government agents could cause them serious trouble, and are
carefull to work around those individuals when they visit.
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