Edemis

A world of Mediterranean atmosphere and standard gravity, which walks its boring and sterile façade, turns out to be quite a lot of resources and life.

## Description

### Environment

A scorching and rocky desert, great central dune deserts and outside of these are long mountain ranges located in rocky terrain. As you approach the poles you find oases and then savannahs and then forests with a more temperate climate.

### Terrain

Dry, rocky world with a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere. Hydrosphere supports several large inland seas, which is surrounded by sparse vegetation and shrubs. The areas inland are hot and arid as a terrain norm.

### Natural Features

Many will think that edemis does not have many natural resources to offer, but like many things on the planet, this is misleading.

Strange objects and products of an animal, vegetable and mineral nature are usually extracted from Edemis, in addition to a large amount of easily filterable fuel, the most valuable products would be:

### Geography

The two southern continents are collectively referred to as the Southern Lands and mostly comprise of vast deserts with arid grasslands and savannas near the northern coasts. The Edemians living on these continents thrived on trade and wealthy city-states developed along great caravan routes bringing goods to coastal port cities from inland sources and vice versa. The Western Land in particular was home to the Great Trade Route which supported cities in the otherwise inhospitable Great Dune Sea found in the center of the continent. Marine trade between the Western and Eastern Lands was so great that the narrow sea between the two continents became known as the Trade Sea. The city of Oslamth was the largest trading port on Edemis before it became the planetary capital.

Along the northern coast of the Western Land is the Valo Hills region, which thousands of years ago was home to a variety of small Edemian communities that relied upon fishing for their survival. Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions forced them to flee from the region, and most of them settled on the small, green northern continent. Although the Valo Hills would be plagued by periodic smaller eruptions that made it inhospitable for another thousand years, eventually the activity died down and new populations began to settle in the region. The volcanic activity would make the soil in the region incredibly fertile and it would become the breadbasket of the planet, eventually being known as the Greenland by the Edemians that came to resettle the region.

The Northern Land in stark contrast to the south, is covered with dense forests with rainforests in the southernmost regions. As mentioned it was settled by refugees from the Valo Hills as they followed the migratory patterns of White Gliders in the hopes of finding a new home. After arriving in the Northern Land, the refugees quickly began to move inland and abandon much of their original sea-faring lifestyle in favor of hunting, gathering and garden farming in their new, bountiful home. Some scattered fishing communities remained but the Northern Lands soon lost contact with the Southern Lands for over two thousand years, during which time the Northerners became very adept at forestry and woodworking.

### Flora

edemis plants are usually resistant and exotic, the further you go into the desert the more they specialize in having properties that have water from humble plants to osasis plants that create their own ecosystem.

### Fauna

The desert fauna of edemis is not unusual at first, except for the unusual growth of some species. The fauna is formed by adaptations to camouflage itself with the rocky and arid environment, often suitable for reserving or disposing of water as well as dissipating the heat of edemis.

There is an impressive amount of hyperfauna in Edemis, both hostile and passive, all of these species have a strange substance known as "The Spice", they are highly resistant and powerful, most of the fauna are foreigners brought long ago from other planets.

## Society

    The people of Edemis are deeply traditional in their customs and have a great almost religious respect for the important places in their history.

They don't like cybernetic modifications and it was only recently that they have allowed genetic enhancements although these generally soldier people receive mistrust and a lot of external control.

Justice is cruel but fair and in edemis they are encouraged to have strong family ties.