Nation Name: The dead drift
Government Form:
Monarchy/Anarchy (abberians) Parliamentary democracy (humans)
Demographics:
Humans 5% Abberians 95%
Abberian description: The bodies of the abberians have uniquely evolved to function in a world with no light. They've adapted to the environment by no longer relying on sight, and are almost entirely nocturnal. They have a fear of light and they usually shy from it. Their skin is pale, and their eyes are completely useless. They are also strong and durable enough to put up a fight against armies of humans even as individuals. Their real power, however, is in their sheer numbers; they attack in massive herds that include thousands of them, enough to take down almost any creature there is. They breed twice yearly and have two children per each breeding pair, and with a sixty year lifespan they quickly filled their home planet. The abberians reach adulthood at age 9. They are highly aggressive, although they have a queen who can calm them down and order them to do things.
Link to my pictures:
docs.google.com/document/d/1tgSjKwsJy…Population:
Human 5 thousand, Abberians 3 million
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Planet Name and Description:
Name: Crandon
Description: The planet's surface is inhospitable, made of sharp black stone that can puncture almost any space suit if you try to walk on it. The stone is near impossible to mine, but once below it you reach an area made of black soil, which is quite easy to dig through, even using your bare hands although there are some sharp shards of the black glassy rocks above. The planet has three layers, a solid core, molten mantle, and rocky crust. Like mars the planet has no tectonic plates, allowing mountains to be hundreds of miles high. This is also due to the extremely low gravity, which would do nothing if a person where to jump, just send them into the void of space very slowly. There is little to no light, with the closest sun being a hazy red dot on the horizon, this should also means the surface of the planet is very cold, but as you near lava geysers it can get to 1000+ degrees.
History:
10yrs: After ten years of circling the planet the first humans set foot onto the surface. Three die of overheating, two of punctured space suits, and four of problems adjusting to the gravity.
20yrs: The cap of the massive mountain Othrys celsior, is blown off revealing the soil down bellow. Tunnel construction starts.
50yrs: First baby born on planet, one tunnel system is finished Othrys subterraneis. Experiments begin to make an injection that adapts people to the planet.
75yrs: It is confirmed there will be no more communication with earth (although nothing had been arriving through the gateway for a while no one on the planet was sure.) And so starts the government of the planet, known as the head parliament. With new mining technology another tunnel system (which are now named legions) is founded, Apatriatio.
100yrs: The first highest sovereign is elected from the head parliament.
145yrs: Three new legions Novatio, Subterrabyssi, Morugis. First test of the injection fails, seeing results it is named the SFEI (speculative future evolutionary injection)
150yrs: One new legion (Multisaepe-coloniis) and six new sub-legions. SFEI is used on livestock and other earth animals, creating new species, although the future wrens escaped now they fly around the tunnels, replicating human speech.
175yrs: SFEI animals all slaughtered after learning they could infect people with the SFEV (speculative future evolution virus). Wrens couldn't be contained. Tunnel building is started and stopped many times due to wren infestations.
180yrs: SFEV vaccine made safe for humans, although the effects long-term were still unknown. Tunnel building starts again after builders are given the vaccine.
200yrs: Villa-discipulus and Tutelanvirum legions finished. First child from to vaccinated parents born, pale but mostly normal looking.
210yrs: The child is now fully grown, to the concern of many. Domi-natorum legion built.
235yrs: SFEV outbreak. Thousands infected from the child. A select few are immune. Construction starts on a safe haven for the immune as the infected begin to turn savage.
250yrs: Tutum-infectis legion finished. Infected now called abberians. Those living in Tutum-infectis have little to no technology, but enough to be able to stay safe. Tutum-infectis is sealed off from the rest of the tunnels.
275yrs: Tutum-infectis advances into more like they were before, creating a currency, as well as creating their own air and water systems separate from the abberians. First queen abberian is born, she begins leading her people on orders to kill any humans in their tunnels.
290yrs: Unknown to civilians on both side the queen and the highest sovereign are able to communicate, and are trying to usher in peace to both peoples.
300yrs: Peace has still failed. A few human scholars have noticed the rift as opened up. This leads to "the brigade" being formed. Now sixteen engineers of both abberians and humans are starting to create rockets, hopefully being able to achieve space travel and get another culture to help them in their mission for peace.
Culture and Society:
Humans: Their culture is much as it is on earth, save for the amount of recycling they do, almost everything they own is made from something else. They often get in political arguments, but overall they don't like fighting each other. They celebrate three holidays, Geyser day (in which the ground shakes from geysers) Adult day (on April 29th (the start of a new year) all people who are turning 20 are now considered adults.) And birthdays, which are self explanatory. At age 75 you can go into retirement.
Abberians: Abberians are also very much like earthlings. They often get into fights for no reason as entertainment. Children are taught how to do their birth role starting at age 6, and by age 9 they should know how to do it very well. When they are done with their shift they wander the tunnels, and talk to their friends and mate. Every so often there will be a game of tunnel roll, in which a team made of two guards and four hunters try to get a ball to their team's tunnel. There are no rules except for you may not involve people who aren't playing in your game. They celebrate no holidays, but do get extra shifts off in mating season. They have one mate for life who they breed with every breeding season. If you are alive at age sixty you will be able to go into retirement.
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Governance and Politics:
Humans: Humans have a parliamentary democracy which is led by the highest sovereign, elected by the 15 parlimentals (the correct term was never used.) There are three political parties (libertas omnium (all people should be able to function without the highest sovereign although they are still in control) salutem omnibus (all people should work for the future of human kind, and the health of the people) and quia pax omnis (humans should not fight each other, nor should they fight abberians, but both should work together.)
Abberians: Abberians have a Anarchist Monarchy. All abberians must listen to the queens rules but other then that they can do whatever they want. Here are the queen's five rules: No abberian my steal food from another abberian. No humans should be allowed deep into abberian tunnels (it wasn't meant for all abberians to attack humans, but guard abberians are highly aggressive.) No abberian should attack the sealed doors. (both to keep the humans safe in Tutum-infectis, and to make sure no one breaks the entry door, which would be impossible to repair by abberians.) No abberian may eat other abberians (there was a time where wren population was very low, so the abberians turned on each other without their main source of food.) No abberian may switch birth roles (abberians are all born differently, some are bulldozer sized and heavily muscled they would be assigned guard at birth, some are monkey sized and fast so they would be assigned hunter.)
Technology Overview: They have very advanced mining tech, although it's not often needed. Humans have invented a form of "stun gun" in which they can take down abberians without killing them, if need be. Abberians have forgotten a lot of technology, as most of them have no use for it, although scholars and engineers are still learning the basics, they are good at what they do. They have one ship, in which the brigade, 10 human soldiers, 10 retired abberian guards, along with 3 parlimentals and 3 abberian scholars will ride through the rift with.
Military Overview: Humans have nothing save for stun guns, and a few fire-arms. Abberians have only created advanced spears, slingshots, and bows. Abberian guards can, however crush a human to death with a few blows, and most abberians are great fighters.
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Addition info:
1. It is called the dead drift because the planet is slowly drifting away from the sun, it is also called that because of the danger on the surface.
2. The human-abberian alliance colors are orange and light blue
3. 34 spaceships failed before the brigade thought one could launch into the rift
4. The only area with power in the whole of the planet is Tutum-infectis, as the abberians were never able to create new power, nor fix the power when it went out.
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