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
Shamib
Desert World
2
Broez
Methane Swamp
1
Aburath
Rainforest World
2
Nabur
Terrestrial
5
Cloem
Ice World
4
Maruk
Gas Giant
12
Loep
Frigid Rock
1
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.