Roas

Roas

### Interesting Fact

The human name "Oris" comes from the phrase "ors roas", or "the world", meaning the human name for Roas literally translates to "the".

**Roas** (Also known as Oris) is the 3rd planet in the Kaio System. The planet is located within Kaio's habitable zone, and is of roughly equal mass, temperature, and orbital period as Earth. With a mass of 0.98 Earths, an average temperature temperature of 18 degrees Celsius, and an orbital period of around 396.3 Earth days. Roas has one natural satellite, named Nell. Roas is the homeworld of the Roasian civilization, as well as the Iya civilization, both of which naturally evolved on the world. Roas is one of two naturally inhabitable planets in the Kaio system, with the other being Panaea, an eyeball planet tidally locked to the brown dwarf Ol'um. Roas made first contact with Earth in 2138, which led to the First Solar Wars, and the Roasian invasions of Earth, before a tenuous peace treaty was signed between the two races. Following the First Solar War, and the Callisto Incident, some freedom of movement has been opened between the two worlds, resulting in an influx of human immigration. Especially to its equator, where many humans set up banana republics over the local Iya population. As of 2150, it has roughly 11 billion inhabitants.

## Civilizations

Roas is home to two native civilizations, the Roasians and the Iya. The Roasians are a sapient, intelligent race that somewhat resemble bipedal horses back on Earth, with humanoid arms, tentacle like hands, and horse-like legs. They were said to have developed around an inland freshwater lake known as "The Great Eye", which is an important religious site for members of the Irisian faith. Archeological evidence does back this up, with the earliest Roasian fossils being found in the vast steppes just south of "the Great Eye".

The Roasians began developing their civilization several hundred years before humanity did, but technological progress slowed down when they went through their equivalent of the Renaissance, where they chose to repress liberal ideas, and ultimately chose hierarchy and stability over equality and liberty. As such, human civilization was able to catch up to the Roasians technologically by the year 2150, with Roasian civilization still being marginally ahead of human civilization at the date of first contact.

The Iya are a sapient race that resemble both pterodactyls and birds back on Earth. They have large, feathery wings like a bird, but also flexible hands which can manipulate their surroundings. The Iya developed considerably later than the Roasians, still being in the tribal stage of their development when the Roasians made first contact. It is unknown how and why both species developed so incredibly temporally close to one another. The technological differences between the Roasians and the Iya led to a long history of enslavement, repression and subjugation until automation and the advent of the industrial revolution finally rendered slavery and subjugation uneconomical. The Iyan war of independence was fought by playing rival Roasian powers off each other, and the major support of the Quiro Federation, a new capitalist great power in the far West who sympathized with the Iya.

Presently, the Iya, while having gained their independence, continue to be treated as 2nd class citizens within the greater Roasian hierarchy. Their nations centered around the equator generally being poor and underdeveloped compared to the Roasian superpowers. The recent influx of humans to the Roasian equator has brought with it its own struggles, as human capitalists set up banana republics, and exploited the population as a captive market, though also introducing many new human technologies to the region, unknowingly tipping the balance of power between the Iya and the Roasians. The Roasians would have their own psychic awakening sometime in the late 22nd century, in contrast to humanity's psychic awakening in 2063.

## Religion

Roasian spirituality, like Terran spirituality is split up into many different beliefs and religions. The three most dominant are the Irisian Church in the East, and Tyren Darwinianism in the West. The Irisian Church is a polytheistic semi-animist religion centered around the holy site of the Great Eye, with it incorporating many different gods and myths which are commonly unique to a local area. It's pantheon is large and diverse, though many different variants exist. There is the polytheistic "Osirim" or "universal faith", which act similarly to the Greek Pantheon. There is the Holy Irisian Theocracy, which selects the largest and most powerful gods, and forms a strict religious code around them.

Finally is Ashire Irisianism, which developed a much more legalistic approach, and focuses more on social harmony and the societal benefits of religion. This has even branched out to secular Irisianism, which is solely a ideology of social harmony and orderly hierarchy holding a society together, similar to Confucianism. Secular Irisianism has even converted several humans, primarily secular conservatives who have adopted the faith to their own ends.

Tyren Darwinism is a semi-monotheistic religion that seeks to appease a force known as "Heaven", which is less a concrete place, and more a metaphor for the correct and natural order of things, presided over by the all-knowing "Sky Emperor". It ultimately states that God is impersonal and somewhat uncaring, but rewards those who prove themselves to be strong. Therefore encouraging an extreme culture of self-discipline, self perfection, and self-improvement. Tyren Darwinism is also fairly secular, with its primary focus being in the self-improvement and life in the physical world rather than the spiritual. Finally there are various others, such as the sea-faring mythology of the people of the far south, the native indigenous traditions of the Iya, and finally the rise of the Syntheticist movement, which have some religious aspects to it who worship ODEM as a god, and the coming Nirvana to be the promised paradise. Human immigration has brought human religion to Oris. Particularly Protestant and Catholic missionaries have had a great deal of success converting a large portion of the Iya, who find the idea of a forgiving, all loving God appealing, and churches have popped up in various communities. Islam has also made some inroads, attracting small Roasian and Iya communities in the presence of Islamic settlers from Earth.