Ukardra

*"Ukardra. What can be said about it? The cool, cold world where everyone is working hard to build a life for each other."*

## Miscellaneous

### Interesting Characteristics

Second world colonised by the Commonwealth of the Seddrath

Ukardra is a major world in the Commonwealth of the Seddrath, and the second world to be colonised by the Seddrath species. It is a tidally-locked temperate world orbiting the ultra-cool red dwarf star Ioni, and hosts complex multicellular organic life on its surface.

## History

Ukardra formed around Ioni as one of the first planets in the Cerlus Cluster. Forming just over 7 billion years ago, it has had ample time for evolution to create vast majesties of life across it's surface. And so it has. At first, it was just simple, unicellular bacteria bathing in sunpools permanently warmed by the light of the un-setting sun, but soon, those bacteria outgrew those pools. They began to spread across land, and eventually covered all that was touched by the warm hand of the sun. Within a few million years of this, a few were launched into orbit of Ukardra by a meteorite impact. They were the ancestors of the Green Belt, a region of space surrounding Ukardra even today that houses 70% of all Ukardra-born biomass. However, down on the ground, the meteorite impact disrupted the perfectly balanced ecosystem, and soon after, multicellular life evolved.

## Biology

Ukardra is relatively barren compared to the other worlds of the Commonwealth, but it still a vibrant, thriving world. Jungles cover a vast section of the planet, but a large portion of the northern hemisphere is barren desert, dominated by unicellular life.

In orbit of Ukardra, there lies the Green Belt, a 'ring' of life surrounding the planet. Mostly unicellular life, a small selection of multicellular life has evolved there, and thrived. None have managed to escape the orbit of Ukardra, as their prey only exist around this planet.

## Orbit

### Green Belt

The Green Belt is protected by Seddrathi law, and besides, any stations of ships passing through would be covered in organisms, and potentially destroyed. Some smaller asteroids have been maneuvered into Ukardran orbit inside of the Green Belt by ecoterrorists, but these attempts to destroy the Belt have largely been unsuccessful.

### Ukardran Swarm

Far out, much farther out than the Green Belt, orbits a vast swarm of habitats that house an appreciable fraction of the population. Mostly used as a staging ground for the colonisation and industrialisation of the planet, they have become long-term residences for those colonists who, for whatever reason, cannot or will not walk on the planet.

## Population

3.6 billion Seddrath call Ukardra home, and it has been widely recognised as the greatest place to go on vacation, apart from Aolius. As a result of this, vast amounts of tourists come in and occupy immense tourist cities that lay largely abandoned when it isn't tourist season. The population nearly doubles, and the workers are hard pressed to cater for the vast amount of customers. Most of the population are centred around Jungle's Edge, the largest city of the planet. Located on the shores of a tropical sea (at least for Ukardra), it has what is widely regarded as the most beautiful scenery in the entirety of the Commonwealth.