Omitaaru

**Kepler-22b**, or famously named ***Omitaaru***, is an abandoned gem colony exoplanet, with the former name "**Crystal System Colony Planet Kepler 22-B.** It was primarily used as secret hideout planet for Bowser, and the main location of Worlds Collide, and its animated series. This planet was used as an experiment colony planet, ruled by the diamonds, but was soon abandoned. The planet contains many native alien species, with the colossal landscapes and creatures.

## **Background**

One thousand and sixty years ago prior to the beginning of the series, Blue Diamond, with the help of Yellow Diamond, colonised the planet. The two rulers thought co-operatively colonising a planet would expand their empire rapidly. Under their leadership, Homeworld gems travelled there in Era Two colony ships. They began to build various structures all around the planet, such as castles, sea temples, ancient temples, pyramids, and other buildings.

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### **Notable locations**

#### Equator

The equator of this planet is home to widespread, lush tropical rainforests and jungles. Compared to Earth, these rainforests have canopies that expend to over a hundred metres tall (three hundred and eighty feet). The rainforests and jungles typically have the characteristics of the Mesozoic era, hinted by the cycads that were similar to the appearance of ferns and palm trees. Its emergent layers are usually misty. The jungles and rainforests are home to both alien dinosaurs and alien mammals, they all live in jungles separate from each other, but can clash due to migration instincts.

#### Northern hemisphere

The north of the planet is extremely diverse; as it is known for its fallen light forest, its glaciers, and redwood forests. The snowy glaciers are a vast mountainous region, with steep, jagged peaks, and alpine glaciers. Below the summit, there are snowy hills, with steep slopes that the team use for sled racing, which lead into alpine forests. The north is particularly known for its light forest; a valley of brightly-lit "stars" that crash landed, and mutilated the forest. The snow lands are also home to the biggest collection of kindergartens on the planet, the Omega Kindergarten in Facet Seven. Further down the hemisphere, there are much warmer redwood forests, typically known for its heavy rainfall, and abandoned gem woodchip factories.

#### Southern hemisphere

Off the coast of the rainforests, there are notable volcanic wastelands in the oceanic regions. A significant detail about these lands are an imprint of Bowser's face in one of the magma caverns, as a signature created by Kamek.

### **Facets and Kindergartens**

Homeworld Gems appear to have divided up the planet into different sections, labelling them as 'Facets'. Each Facet name is followed up with a number that differentiates the several Facets. One of the colony plans was to have a galaxy warp in each Facet, but in pre-production, all facets are accessed by light prism.

* Facet Eleven – The Alpha Kindergarten is located in Facet Eleven, also known as the "Crystallised Kindergarten". It is memorable for its rich and shiny minerals and alloys. This kindergarten was given the name "alpha", as it was predicted by gems that it would succeed greatly for its minerals and terrain, however, this kindergarten was a slight failure because of how fast the land recovered.
* Facet Three – The Sigma Kindergarten is currently in an unknown location.
* Facet Seven – The Omega Kindergarten is located in Facet Seven. It is the largest Kindergarten in the Northern Glaciers. This kindergarten was given "omega" as its name by gems before it's finished production, as they figured it would fail due to the planet's terrain, however this is quite on the contrary, this kindergarten ended up becoming the largest, and eventually leading into other large kindergartens.

## **Continents and islands**

The exoplanet has similar locations of landmass to Earth.

### Dásos

Dásos is the largest continent and takes inspiration of Africa and South America. The landform consists of vast and expansive jungles, rainforests, savannahs and deserts, as they all sit between the equator. The continent is the main location for the franchise, as this is where a light prism warp pad is located. It also contains the well-known areas: Jungle de Rio, The Sprouting Sands and The Savanna.

### Ifaísteio

Ifaísteio is a small continent surrounded by islands. Its ocean region consists of volcanic landforms and superheated rocks, specifically where the Boiling Mouth is located. The continent is located closely to Dásos.

### Chionódis

Chionódis is a continent located in the northern hemisphere of the planet, specifically where The Northern Glaciers is located in the north. The Valley of Fallen Stars is located in a subcontinent, which is west of Chionódis and the north of Dásos, with it being the hotspot for stars and comets to land there.

### Hoʻopā, Ka lani, Loa'a and Ke Kai

Hoʻopā, Ka lani, Loa'a and Ke Kai are islands located on the east coast of Dásos. It is where the Glistening Waters and Blubbering Bubble Lane is located. The four islands have a meaning behind them.

## **Trivia**

* Omitaaru was once a shared colony between Yellow and Blue Diamond, where Garnets and Quartzes were made.
* The planet was once a "dumping ground" for large ship debris and unused mechanics, which were all thrown in the temple in the mesa between Sprouting Sands and The Boiling Mouth.
* Warp pads are located on all continents but are only found in colonised parts of the planet, so untouched pieces of land do not have them. Some warp pads are prism-activated as gem elites were allowed to use them.
* The four islands translated to English mean: Touch *(Ho'opā)*, the sky *(Ka lani)*, find *(Loa'a),* the sea *(Ke Kai)*. Touch the sky, find the sea. This all means that you will always be guided by the sun and the other stars left in the sky, even while you're surrounded by the sea.
* The main language spoken on Kepler-22b is English, Hawaiian, Samoan, Tagalog, several other Polynesian languages and Gem-Glyph. English was inherited from gems when they colonised the planet, Hawaiian, Samoan, Tokelauan and Tagalog was spoken when the tribal Shy Guys and Yoshis were teleported to the planet after being transported from islands such as Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and others, and migrated thousands of years ago, and some animals inherited to the ability to write in Gem-Glyph.
* Animals on the planet were so genetically intelligent that they learned to mimic gems when they spoke English for thousands of years and developed being able to speak it whilst keeping their instinctual language. Some animals however aren't capable of doing this as their vocal cords cannot allow them to do so. Such as magnobirds, groundivores, amushhu, etc.
* Some animals do not know some newer or modern English words after gems fled the planet and left it to rot, which it failed to do.
* Fun Fact: Shy Guys and Yoshis are the only creature or being to ever walk on the face of the planet and be from a completely different universe at the same time.