Tsaski

Tsaski is a human-habitable world. the first extrasolar planet seeded as part of the Human Stellar Initiative's StarSeed Program, and seat of the Chel Rann [Tsaskori Dominion.] The StarSeed Program was set in motion by the HSI to enforce Human and Human-analogue dominance over the galaxies of the universe after the discovery of wormholing, allowing Humans to chart and colonize habitable planets at a rate far superseding that of other exotic space-faring races.
== Astrography ==
Tsaski is situated just above the freezing zone of Echartums - HSI Nicolet, the fourth planet orbiting the star. A significant niche of naturally evolved creatures on the world are airborne, following the sub-12 hour daylight cycle in perpetual gliding migrations, snapping fauna from treetops and open ocean as they descend and rise over the near-frigid surface.
== Natural Ecology ==
Discovered via wormhole pre-resonance, Tsaski was already a habitable world prior to Human colonization, requiring minimal ecological intervention to be an optimal home for it's adapted StarSeed colony.
Natural Tsaskori fauna typically feature a low-mass and low-density body plan with a potassium-based skeletal structure. Despite abundant liquid water, such creatures osmose a unique form of hydration through a type of nasal cavity, processing water into the body in a way that circumvents an energy catastrophe where water might interact with their potassium-based internal physiology. The specialized mucous membrane facilitating this idiosyncrasy is a lucrative export of the Tsaskori, with incredibly economic applications in handcrafted stellar engine mechanics such as Wormhole Drives and Atmospheric Gyroscomps.
== Surface Geology ==
In spite of average temperatures ten degrees above freezing, Tsaski sports an unusually small amount of surface snow, and no polar icecaps. Instead, ice is deposited along the seafloors and within vast subterranean caverns as waste product of a uniquely exotic form of bacteria. This bacteria processes Tsaski's 120o greenhouse gas emissions in a yet-to-be understood reversal process that converts heat into freezing cold, creating near freezing temperatures and encouraging Tsaski's cold, sand-desert geology.
In locations where subterranean bacterial colonies have broken Tsaski's surface, country-sized icefields erupt and produce increased geologic pressure, accelerating the formation of common and precious gemstones which fuel the Tsaskori economy locally and on a galactic scale.
=== Planetary Regions ===
Pej Wiwamn - Trans. Veawm Land-Chain (Archipelago,) translit. Paige Veawm
* The Veawm Archipelago is the beating heart of Tsaski and the planet's fertile crescent, roughly analogous to the position of central Europe and the Middle East in the early Human Middle Ages. The vast majority of Tsaskori civilizations emerged on this massive archipelago, building insular nations and funding industrial colonies elsewhere on the world. The relative difficulties of continual habitation outside the Archipelago has encouraged Tsaskori development to stay centered in this region right until the species' mastery of spaceflight. The continent is named for Wakyaw' Wiwamn, founder of the first inter-isle empire on Tsaski.
Pet Nyislu - Trans. Icefield/Tundra Seven, translit. Payit Nyislu
* One of several microbiological icefields dotting the surface of Tsaski. Historically, these regions of the planet have been exploited and colonized for as long as could be tolerated by the populations made to toil there. Even if brief, however, these periods offered more than enough accelerated harvesting of exceedingly precious materials to allow the Tsaskori speed of technological development far outpacing their progenitors for a time. As an intergalactic species, the Tsaskori are able to inhabit these icefields and exploit their resources full time in spite of any prior ecological hurdles. The region is named clinically, being the 7th current active icefield on Tsaski.
E Tay Jilult - Trans. Badlands, translit. E Tej Yelult
* A result of microbiological activity progressively locking liquid and gaseous water into subterranean and seafloor ice, the western hemisphere of Tsaski has, throughout the planet's geologic history, been progressively dried into a cold, arid desert. This region, comprising almost half of Tsaski's surface by land, is entirely unlivable even by the Tsaskori as a spacefaring race, producing seldom even the icefields that drive forward the planets economy. Finding out how to reverse this spread and unlock Tsaski's frozen water is the current critical issue in the Tsaskori scientific community.
== StarSeed Ecology ==
Pre-resonance discovery of Tsaski allowed the HSI to foresee the world's high gravity and cold temperatures, and engineered their first Human-analogue to match what they had interpreted the environment.The resulting Tsaskori have a robust and formidable musculoskeletal structure that is intertwined in many places, a truly alien biology among local fauna which combats the high gravity of Tsaski with a lighter-than-water body plan.
Additionally, HSI scientists theorized a high degree of redshifted radiation would permeate the atmosphere of Tsaski and thus engineered the Tsaskori StarSeed with blue-pigmented skin and a unique active heating mechanism in the body that would convert absorbed radiation into body heat and manage fat cells. No such radiation currently permeates to the surface of Tsaski, and so this feat of genetic engineering exists among the Tsaskori merely as a perceived evolutionary oddity, something vestigial from a time outgrown.
=== Cultures and Languages ===
Surk - One of three major powers who rose out of the Tsaskori Middle Ages, originating in Southern Wiwamn. A martial culture that steeps their advanced military practices in ancient words and fables of Tsaskori mysticism. In the modern age, Surk Tsaskori often serve as bodyguards, mercenaries, diplomats, poets, and musicians.
Lame - Another of three major Tsaskori powers tracing its lineage back to ancient times, the various city-state level organizations of the Lame Confederation would come together in modern times to form the industrial arm of a globalized Tsaski. The Lame States originate in Western Wiwamn, capitalizing on their proximity to the tundras developing at the time on the fringes of E Tay Jilult. In modern times, tundra formation in this region has slowed vastly, and Lame Tsaskori often offer their services as financial consultants, site overseers, independent contractors, and ship Habitability-Efficiency specialists.
Lekwu - The third ancient Tsaskori civilation, the Lekwu originated their inhabitance within the central isles of the Wiwamn Archipelago, travelling nomadically and establishing communes en force in their wake. These colonies were rural by design, with Lekwu religion asserting a Tsaskori need to colonize, witness, preserve, and document the world through art. Thus ancient Lekwu colonies lived in subsistence, documenting their poetry and crude artistry as offerings to their religions. As they developed into modern times, Lekwu Tsaskori proved to be adept conservationists, visual artists, career politicians, and frequently dedicate themselves to public service.
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