Qwertum

== Planetary Characteristics ==
Qwertum is a planet that exists 5 million light years away from Earth, in the galaxy NGC 55. Its a rocky planet roughly 1.02 times the size of Earth, with a similar gravity and internal composition. It has oceans of liquid water on its surface, courtesy of its K3.7V type sun. Qwertum also has an ozone layer, a strong magnetic field, and an age of 8.8 billion years - all the ingredients perfect for life. Its many biomes and continents provide a range of habitats for complex plants and animals to have evolved over 700 million years.
Lush rainforests full of alien trees hosts millions of animals; strange creatures with many eyes and appendages, but many look very similar to Earth's fauna. Farther into the continents lie interesting biomes not found here on Earth, like huge mushroom-like flora that cover the sky completely and leave the ground in total darkness. There are places that may look like grasslands - but are actually flat lands covered in one giant flat cell that stretches miles across. The innermost part holds deserts with sparse vegetation and even rarer animals; but at night, powerful lean monsters come out to stalk herbivores as prey.
== Intelligent Species ==
Interestingly, Qwertum is home to multiple species of sapient creatures - all of them are different species of ape. Separate societies of chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans all live on different parts of the world. But how did these earth creatures end up here?
It's possible that some super-advanced alien civilization could've gone to Earth and grabbed some species with them, then put them on another habitable planet as a sort of experiment. They had genetically modified the animals' lungs to breathe carbon dioxide instead of oxygen. Its likely that many animals died due to Qwertum's native viruses and different environmental conditions, leaving only the more intelligent species to survive and evolve into civilizations like the great apes.
The great apes are not as intelligent as humans, but it would be foolish to assume that they were entirely primitive. They built great cities and empires with complicated histories and cultures, and expanding their reach across much of the abundant land. Different societies focus on different things; orangutans lean towards gaining spiritual wisdom and knowledge, chimps more towards science and progress; gorillas around unity and tradition.
File:Chimp.jpg|A chimp leader in a city. Despite being apes, these guys have democratically elected leaders!
File:Gorilla.jpg|Gorillas are heavy on defense, armor is cultural tradition.
File:Orang.jpg|Orangutan civilization focuses more on wisdom than luxury, so they built simple establishments connected to nature.
== Images ==
File:Qwertum surface.png|Surface map of the planet.
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