Ārentos

**Arentos** was the homeworld of the Nagiruge and the Arentosians, the ancestors of the Ontemazei race.

## Geography

It was a temperate planet with lush forests and jungles.

## History

During the Celestial Age, it was home to the towering bûnara mushrooms and their voracious ûlari spawn. Several Celestials abducted some ûlari and made them humanoid, but when they found that these humanoids turned out to be savage cannibals to bit and ate each other, the Celestials tortured and killed most of them except for a male and a female, who were brought as a gift to their emperor after having their brains modified to make them more servile. Then, the Eimares drank their remains as a juice, and were turned into tree-like monsters.

The few Nagiruge that survived were guided by an old man out of their dungeons into their escape pods, where they returned to their homeworld. The first two Nagiruges returned and ruled over their surviving kin as their king and queen, where they and their naked subjects lived in fear of the Celestials. They were later influenced by the Gweudetonians and their culture, to the point that they even built their own Celestial Gates to navigate the rest of the Galaxy from the Fifth Galactic Empire onwards.

In the Twelfth Galactic Empire, the Arentosians were divided between serving the Poreseai and their enemies. Also, the king and queen Mithura and Goruso were devoured by a suvokkon invasion.

Many ages later, the planet got enslaved by the Konjor Supercorporation. At one point of their early reign, a Konjor official, Muntuska, doused the rivers of the planet with a chemical that he claimed as "the elixir of everlasting life" to trick the gullible locals to punish Arentos for an earlier rebellion. Instead of immortality and healing, the coloured chemicals instead poisoned and killed most of its people, and mutated pockets of the rest into monsters that the Konjors enslaved as their battle-beasts. As for Muntuska himself, he met his end after a gambling match, when a jealous rival poisoned his alcoholic drink with the same elixir, reducing him to a savage mutant that went berserk before the guards shot him dead.

Centuries later, the Konjor authorities used Mithura and Goruso -- two gods of the Arentosian pantheon worshipped by its kings -- into a fashion doll line. As the Arentosians considered it to be blasphemy against their gods and a mockery of their culture, most of them revolted and declared independence. The inept governor of the planet was slain and eaten by a Kuelgon general, Velkurag, who ordered her fleets to bombard the planet. With the planet's destruction, what sounded like a myriad screams was heard at the areas around the star system, and hundreds suddenly choked blood and passed away. The destruction of this ancient world enraged most of the Galaxy, whose civilisations launched invasions and crusades against the Konjor Supercorporation to avenge the planet's destruction.

Although hundreds of Arentosians managed to escape and survive the planet's destruction, their race was remade as the Rimjusennei, a slave race that was repeatedly tortured by the Konjors. They, in turn, became the beautiful Ontemazei.

## Trivia

* Mithura and Goruso were inspired by Equestria Girls.
* The saga of Muntuska poisoning Arentos' waters was inspired by an idea that the author had after watching Calgon's "Ancient Chinese Secret" commercial, in which the chemical actually existed in ancient China and poisoned its rivers, killing hundreds.