Lothos
- Type: Agricultural Backwater (Black Serpent Home).
- Region: Border Regions.
- Trade Route: Yaeger Central Path, Long Path.
- Sector: Yaeger Sector.
- Strategic Location: Lothos is located well within the
Ien Yaeger Sphere of influence.
- Temperature: Temperate.
- Atmosphere: Type I (breathable).
- Hydrosphere: 42% of the surface is water, of which 74%
is of salinity 5.4% or greater.
- Gravity: Standard.
- Terrain: Plains, Forested Mountains.
- Mineral Resources: Limited. Lothos has some Durrid and
Meth deposits, but the ores are of poor quality and little use.
Some crystalline quartzes are found in Lothos in fairly large
numbers, and ornamental Vinnar Stones are also somewhat common.
- Length of Day: 23 hours.
- Length of Year: 400 days.
- Sapient Species: Humans, Gysher.
- Capital City: Lothos City (Black Mountain).
- Other Cities: Emior, Redcliff, Thone are the other
major cities (Elmalai, Mount Nevo, and Sentoth are the other Black
Serpent centers).
- Starport: Landing Strip (Concealed Galaxy).
- Population (within ñ 1%): 4,541,900 humans, 48,000
Gyshers, 16,000 Other.
- Planet Function: Agricultural Production (Black Serpent
home).
- Government: Democracy (Shadow
Dragons rule over almost every aspect of Lothos's everyday
life).
- Tech Level: Low Space.
- Major Exports: Turvik Grain, Tur Spirits, Ornamental
stones (Trained assassins).
- Major Imports: Technical and Medical supplies (liquid
capital, Black Serpent and Shadow Dragon recruits).
- System: Almorad
- Star: Almor (small yellow)
Name |
Planet Type |
Moons |
Lilor | Molten Rock | 0 |
Umarin | Tropical Forest | 2 |
Nissor | Water World | 3 |
Lothos | Terrestrial | 1 |
Mil | Gas Giant | 6 |
Luman | Frozen Ice Ball | 2 |
System Capsule:
- Lilor: Small, near the sun. Lilor 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 the Black Serpents to
Almorad, 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 floodwater for around three quarters of
the year. The mountains were always covered with dense 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 Kuthkujal 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 Hydozene, 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 nutritious
milk.
The Kuthkujal has a far larger variety of lifeforms than the
plains region does. The Kuthkujal 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 Kuthkujal, 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 its 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 forced
to play around those individuals when they stop by.
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