Aburath


Type: Rainforest World
Function: Undeveloped
Region: Border Regions
Trade Route: Breakneck Run
Sector: Yaeger Sector
Strategic Location: At the edge of the Sector, outside of all areas controlled by governmental authorities
Temperature: 119% standard
Atmosphere: Thick, with larger than average percentages of oxygen and water vapor
Hydrosphere: 81% of the surface of Aburath is covered in water, of which 90% has a salinity between 4% and 6%
Gravity: 87% standard
Terrain: A single large continent, and several major archipelagoes. The mountain range at the center of the one continent is very large and high, and several of the volcanic islands reach impressive heights. Otherwise the planet is divided between often steep hill regions, and broad, flat valley regions
Mineral Resources: Gold, silver and starstone group gems can be found in some small quantities in the mountain regions and on the ocean floor, and some reserves of those substances are very concentrated, though few are easily accessible
Length of Day: 25 standard hours
Length of Year: 310 local days
Sapient Species: The avian Bantru, and the aquatic Mil and Oerbrae are the known native sentients, and it is possible that there are other intelligent races among the secretive dwellers of the deep rainforest
Capital City: The only major city on the planet is the Ehbling village of Authim
Other Cities: None. The Bantru live in small family units, the Mil travel in nomadic pods, and the Oerbrae are solitary
Starport: None. Authim is located near a small bay, and is only accessible to ships capable of making a water landing, or are capable of touching down on one of the rivers leading into the bay, the usual choice of Ehbling pilots
Population (within +/- 1%): 219 Ehbling, 1,209,300 Bantru, 31,941,100 Mil, and 94,800 Oerbrae
Government: Peaceful anarchy
Tech Level: Medium to high space among the Ehbling, stone-age among the Bantru, and pre-stone age for the Mil and Oerbrae
Major Exports: Precious minerals, rare plants and creatures
Major Imports: Durasteel, plasteel, and industrial products

System: Glidorian
Star: Glidor
Name Planet Type Moons
ShamibDesert World2
BroezMethane Swamp1
AburathRainforest World2
NaburTerrestrial5
CloemIce World4
MarukGas Giant12
LoepFrigid Rock1

System Capsule:

Shamib: This desiccated world is home to several extremely hardy forms of pre-sentient life.
Broez: A steamy world with a deadly atmosphere, Broez is a likely quantazine mining prospect.
Aburath: See below.
Nabur: This large and cold world is home to a world spanning early industrial age civilization of native sentients.
Cloem: A frigid world, Cloem is the only home of Cloembian redmoss, a powerful narcotic that has yet to be exported.
Maruk: Relatively small for a gas world, one of Maruk's worlds support life.
Loep: Tiny and isolated, Loep is the site of some unexplored Noldor ruins.

Planetary Capsule:

Flora and fauna: As with most rainforest worlds, Aburath is home to an exceedingly rich variety of life. Hundreds of millions of species of virtually every species and kingdom type can be found in it's cathedral like forests, from the migratory slime molds to the tree kangaroos to the death's head hawks. Some of the most significant species of the forests include the felinoid Laru, a clouded white creature that is the primary predator over most of the continent, and the deadly poisonous Golden Marten, an aggressive creature that is one of the most common hazards of travel in the jungle.

The seas of Aburath are filled with an equally wide variety of life, with prodigious reef growths surrounding the major continent, and virtually every island. The Liveurn is the most common form of life in these oceans, a relatively large and meaty form of jellyfish which acts as the bottom of a large and complex food web. Redstripe Sharks and Diru Octopi are the largest and the most significant of the predators that feed off of the Liveurn, but there are any number of other species in these waters, both malignant and benign.

Sentient Species: Roosting in secluded perches in the central mountain range, the large avian Bantru dominate the skies and canopies of Aburath, leaving the lower stories of the forest to the bloodthirsty Death's Head Hawks.

The friendly Eelike Mil travel in large familial pods, migrating from reef to reef, joining together for mutual defence against predator, and eating Liveurns and other smaller creatures.

The deep oceans are home to the massive Oerbrae, deadly predators who regularly feed on Diru Octopi, and incisive thinkers who succeeded in deducing a relatively accurate cosmological system despite their lack of tool use, mass communication, and the ability to see anything over the surface.

History: Aburath has not had much of a history. It's native races are not empire builders, and little has changed for them since they developed sentience. The Ehbling are extremely low impact occupants, and while the Ehbling colony on Aburath has been existent for several hundred years, the have added little to the world, aside from their native wood and prefab buildings, and the wreckage of the occasional crashed Lianna transport.

Ehbling explorers have journeyed deep into the rainforests on voyages of discovery, and to gather enough gems or curiosities to pay for the components of a Lianna transport, either for themselves or for their offspring. If the Imperium would be able to dedicate resources to the large scale conquest of unheld systems, Aburath would probably be soon claimed, but the constant Yaeger and New Republic pressure, and Rulduk's desire to appear peaceable have thus far kept it out of Imperial hands.
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