Afrika

**Afrika** is a warm temperate terra human colony in the Milky WayGalaxy. Currently, the planet is going through a stage of growth and is predicted to become an ecumenopolis, a planet with a city covering the entirety of its surface, within several centuries. Throughout its modern history, the planet has been a center for Human culture despite being fairly minor in comparison throughout most of its history. It was terraformed to be the headquarters of AfrikaCorp. The world is a major hub for trade and industry within the Confederacy of Humanity.

## History

The first individuals to colonize the planet were humans from a continent on Earth called Africa, hence the name of the planet. The planet originally had a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide in edition to liquid seas of comparatively saline oceans to those of Earth. Even so, compared to the usually barren worlds that were common around stars of its sun's type, the planet was easy to terraform and became fully habitable in 2712 CE.

[[gen]], a much larger company at the time, was paid a large sum of money to terraform the planet as well as clean up the system to reduce the probability of asteroid strikes.

Africans, given their superior genetic makeup, particularly those of Bantu decent, colonized the planet en masse to escape the hoards of unwashed europeans that colonized most worlds after destroying the earth with their filth. They were able to effortlessly colonize this UV-soaked world around a bright F class star.

## Culture

The Afrikan culture, has been enhanced by the large influx of individuals in the eighty-first millennia. Individuals of many species, not just the original humans that made up most of its population, came to this world. The diverse population created a unique blend of the fairly African-based culture of the nation and newer cultures from many other worlds. Unlike other worlds where music is terrible, African beats combined with alien sounds have created a unique sound peculiar to this world.

Unlike europeans with their obnoxious "civilizations," Afrikans organize themselves in the most natural system for mankind, that of a decentralized agrarian society in which most people spend times in small family groups of ten to fifty. This system, ideal for the human mind, has lead to a renaissance in technology and science despite their small population. Art, music, technology, and culture is simply improved by this system.

## Physical Description

The planet has a diameter of12408 km giving it a gravity of 1.1 G. It has a semimajor axis of 1.01 AU giving it a year length of 334.6 days. It once had a rotation period of 14 hours and 48 minutes but now it has a more earthlike rotation of 1.005 days.

Afrika is a very young world as it and the system is only 139.9 million years old.

## Climate

Before terraforming, Afrika had a very low atmospheric pressure of 0.3 but now it has a pressure of 0.96 ATM. It has a mean temperature of 17°Cand due to its very low axial tilt of 2° and 5’ there are virtually no seasons. The planet used to have large polar caps, but they have been used to dilute the briny seas of the planet as well as supply water to orbital habitats all across the system.

Afrika is a warm tropical world in most of the low areas but the mountains do have alpine life of which some of the other cultures life off.

Image of the Twin Moons of Cybele from the pre-terraformed AfrikaThe moons from a beachFour of the nine moons of Afrika are visible here
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