Huune (Huune III)

## General Overview

**Huune** is the third planet of the **Huune Star System**, situated in the **Magistrix Sector** of the **Pridwen Galaxy**. The planet is a **Class-O** planet and the home planet of the **Hune Empire**. The planet is almost completely surface water, with only a few small landmasses scattered throughout the planet like small chains or archipelago. The planet is home to a huge variety of different aquatic lifeforms with the Hune evolving to be able to breath underwater.

The Hune Empire capital of **Astravoda** is situated underwater, a magnificent underwater city perched on an underwater shelf suspended over the **Vodis-Vana Trench**, a huge trench that is recorded as being **40,000 Feet** deep. The city is positioned as a bridge, hanging over the underwater trench, with the **Imperial Palace** situated in the middle of the city, access to various sub-aquatic suburbs and farms exist in the vicinity around the city.

The city itself is an impressive array of architectural marvels and dazzling city lights, with a bustling internal economy and providing homes for nearly **8.4 Million Hune**, with trade routes via underwater roads both in and out the city. The two massive struts that the city is built on are called **The Twins**, representing **Nu** and **Yo**, the two twin deities of **Hune Folklore** on which, as the myth goes, all Hune society is built on.

Underneath the city, built into the bedrock of the Vodis-Vana Trench are two large **Geothermal Power Facilities**, which provide power to **Astravoda** without damaging the ocean, however carbon dioxide levels in the water have been slowly rising as the Hune population increases. To that end, the Emperor commissioned a large spire, built under the city, supported by the twins, this contained a **Water Reoxygenation Matrix**, to prevent further degradation of Huune's oceans by rising populations. These facilities have been set up at many of the minor underwater cities in other places on Huune.

Historically, their position under the waters of Huune have protected much of their population from **Orbital Bombardment** in the past, such as during the **Huune Civil War**, when several Huune colonies attempted to seize independence from the home colonies, before the rise of the **Primordial Emperor** and his forcible reunification efforts under his own banner. Despite this however, several large craters exist close to Astravoda, where **Depth Charges** were deployed against the capital. During this conflict, many Hune vessels stood watch over the capital, dragging incoming munitions away with tractor beams and then letting them explode far enough way to make sure the resulting explosion did not hit the city.

The Huune have been exceedingly careful regarding the extraction and refinement of raw materials, maintaining a consistent ecological balance to ensure that the ocean stays unpolluted. This has led to the construction of many **Antimatter Waste Storage Facilities** on the surface of Huune's islands. While not an ideal solution and one that some Huune have complained about, before being executed for treason, many of the islands on the planet have become polluted by **Antimatter Radiation** as a result of this relocation. However recently the **Technomages** of Huune have been providing **"Portals"** to dump the antimatter and other commercial waste into **Void Space**.