Foreign Planet

Ruins of an ancient civilization on Foreign Planet (Totally not a photo of some ruins in Cairo, I swear)

### Location

Space

"Foreign Planet" is an apparently unnamed exoplanet located in the Foreign System. It is the homeworld of Smibnor's species. Torn by a millennia of warfare and ruled by corrupt, inbred mafia kings and queens, Foreign Planet is often considered to be the nuclear armpit of the Milky Way.

## Astrology & Geography

Foreign planet is similar in size to Earth, and has similar gravity. It is located in the goldilocks zone of its star system, but is in relatively closer proximity to its native star, a red dwarf. Foreign Planet rotates on its axis in 24 hour intervals. Compared to Earth, Foreign Planet orbits its star much faster, with a full year being only 100 days long. Foreign Planet has two moons: Foreign Moon A and Foreign Moon B, which orbit the planet on opposite sides to cause erratic tidal patterns.

Much of Foreign Planet 's surface is very rocky, with enormous continents and small oceans which seem to squeeze tightly between each landmass. The land is dominated by vast badlands and deserts. There are extremely small ice caps on its north and south pole and lush, yet uncomfortably humid jungles and rainforests at the equator. The planet's crust is heavily laced with radioactive materials such as uranium, plutonium and radium, which are the source of the world's naturally high radiation levels.

## Atmosphere & Climate

Foreign planet's atmosphere is similar to that of Earth due to its composition of nitrogen, oxygen, and argon, but differs in its comparatively higher quantity of oxygen, just enough to give a Human being a headache. However, due to its close proximity to its sun, Foreign Planet is extremely hot compared to Earth, and is dangerously radioactive as a result of to the radioactive elements in its crust. While the native life of Foreign Planet are accustomed to this intense radiation, it is invariably deadly to most forms of life on Earth, and the planet is therefore inhospitable for humans. The planet's axis lacks a tilt, and any seasonal changes that occur on the planet throughout the year are imperceptible.

## Politics, Technology & Culture

Foreign Planet's society is split into numerous warring countries, most of which are twisted political hegemonies each led by a ruling family that holds all political power. Ruling families put a heavy emphasis on bloodline, and members are rarely allowed to breed outside of their lineage. More often or not, they ensure the "integrity" of their bloodline by either breeding through parthenogenesis or, more unfavorably, sibling incest. Though technically royalty, these ruling families tend to operate more like mafias and crime syndicates, often robbing and assaulting nearby countries for resources and money. They will even wreak havoc on their own citizens, killing and burgling them for rather petty reasons such as tax fraud or running local businesses. Because of this, Foreign Planet's cities are often 90% slums. Cannibalism is also quite common in these corrupt societies, and following rather large and violent conflicts, the victors will sometimes harvest the bodies of their fallen foes for dinner. Funerary ceremonies in many cultures often involve cutting up the body of a deceased loved one, and feeding their pieces to the larvae of the next generation. With how self-destructive and war-hungry their government can be, the fact that the people of Foreign Planet managed to achieve long distance spaceflight at all is both a miracle and a tragedy.

Due to the planet's naturally high quantity of radioactive elements and their natural immunity to nuclear radiation, the people of Foreign planet have been masters nuclear engineering since their industrial era, and have managed to split the atom roughly 3 Earth centuries before humanity did. A majority of their technology, including weapons, vehicles and appliances, are powered by nuclear energy to some degree, and also emit radiation. When it comes to warfare, Foreign Planet's military cares not for ethics; Upon discovering that most other space faring civilizations lack immunity to radiation, they were quick to make weapons designed to make their alien foes as miserable as possible. Among these weapons was the infamous carcinogenizer, a small sidearm that uses uranium ammunition to power deady, radioactive rays that cause irregular cell growth to those who are hit by it.