K'Ursa Planetary System

## Summary

The largest world in the known Universe, K'Ursa stands as the capital world of **The** **K'Ursan Federation** and one of the largest powers in the universe. They are allied with all Hoppists and treated as equals, with their world being generally off-limits to Hoppists due to **The Alliance Treaty** signed by **Sop** and **Buddy**. For eons, ancient, ageless beings worked to create a republic that eventually grew into a universal federation of governing bodies across the stars. Many races and beings are extremely hostile to Hops and even fleshies, however K'Ursans (also called bears) are generally friendly, stoic and comedians, making good relations with many races others cannot. Their planet resembles their demeanor in many ways such as history, societies and peaceful atomosphere.

## History

### Early K'Ursan History

Most of the native bears (also called the K'Ursan race), are a fluff race like the hops, and have mostly chosen to live dormant in caves or underground, with few living on the mountains. Due to the lack of a strong source of water and plant life, K'Ursans tend to rest and travel rarely. Once other races began to arrive at their gigantic planet, development rapidly occurred. K'Ursans reached outward for the first time, and actively played a role in bringing other races together, despite their own troubles with each other. Being a great mediator race, due to leaders like Buddy, they've greatly contributed to the growth of the societies in the Universe between all peoples.

While mostly peaceful, the K'Ursans tend to display extreme natural strength, requiring dozens of smaller beings to contend with them at once. Due to this, the formation of the K'Ursan Federation was the driving factor behind K'Ursans leading the military growth within the allied forces. Due to these high standards, they are one of the only races responsible for the training and recruitment of other races into the K'Ursan military, and even most of their allies. While being a Federation, most of the allies governed and created militaries by themselves, however they all agreed to share a currency, and adopt the K'Ursan units of measurement and their other scientific standards.

Intelligent and old, Buddy was the de facto leader of the K'Ursan people, being extremely wise and fair, even in Sop's opinion. As their people grew, Buddy made K'Ursa a neutral territory for every Federation ally to make home or their location of business, due to its popularity and central location between highly populated galactic clusters.

### Prior to First Great Hop Expansion

The Hops aren't the only race to chart and conquer the stars. K'Ursans are a bear fluff race that believe all races to be equal in space. They were discovered by Sop, prior to the true First Great Hop Expansion. As a race, they did their own development by this time, but have not yet met the hops or explored their side of the Universe.

In this time, Sop met Buddy, the leader of his world, much like himself. Around this time, they created **The Alliance Treaty**. Glossing over details and superficial rules, the treaty's purpose is to ensure Hops treated K'Ursans as equals, as several members on either side disliked each other greatly, despite the fondness of the leaders.

Sop and Buddy interacted often, and Buddy was invited to watch Sop baptize his son after he was created. Buddy also enlisted Hop as a citizen, as both stars used in the baptism were in K'Ursan space. Sop renamed himself and Buddy granted him temporary rights as a citizen to visit his son. Sop left Hop on K'Ursa as he feared his child would be infinitely more powerful than him, and trusted the K'Ursan leader and his brother (who almost entirely outclassed Sop in strength) to keep his power in check. They were not to train him, only to oversee he did not act out of order in a degree that would cause damage to the universe, since Karrots' new army was too small to handle a being above Sop's power in a battle. Hop's mother visited in her spouse's place to raise her son while Sop engaged intense training for a year on Karrots. Before contacting Buddy to get his son, his brother would escort them out of the rural home they had and to a ship where Hop would return to Karrots for the first time since conception.

Many Hops from Karrots admired this privilege, as only Sop's involvement with the leaders, and his son's experience there were public back home. Once full disclosure between the races were mutually public, many Hops grew to hate the K'Ursans and questioned Sop's motives, but no one was foolish enough to question it, as it was his personal Hoppist Journey.

During this time, most Hop-K'Ursan animosity is rooted in disagreement in how they run their society and treat their planet. Hops treat Karrots as a holy and sacred world for themselves, a safe space to grow on their own. K'Ursans embrace others and allow them on their world to enhance themselves. Despite this, they are equally advanced, due to the logistical problems of the Federation's philosophy in action, compare to the Hops tending to be very effective, but typically lazy or pre-occupied with Hoppism. Hops that were allowed to be created and raised on K'Ursa are dual-citizens, which are unique due to the troubles their parents would go through to be there. They are welcome to Karrots as long as they are a Hoppist or respect the societal rules of the world, such as non-monetary trade or volunteering in the military.

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## Surface

### Atmosphere

The skies are mostly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon monoxide and various trace elements, including lead, argon and bezzoth (sulfur). Due to the planet's size, starlight takes ages to reach the surface, but often its rays are trapped and cause a heating effect. However, with only one star, and a small number of gas giants eclipsing the view, it can go dark for long periods of time, releasing most of the heat as the nights go on. With no pollution, the air is entirely renewable and fresh. Most of the heat sensed at night actually stems from the planet's core.

### Terrain

Most a sea of rolling hills and mountainous structures, the general surface of K'Ursa is the highly populated capital world of the K'Ursan Federation, and as such it hosts numerous buildings and cities. Dotted from hemisphere to hemisphere, several above-ground and underground roads lead between major centers. Most cities are simply residences for K'Ursan allied races that choose to live there. Several buildings and other constructs line the world, all enforced by the combined militaries of the Federation. On K'Ursa, there are no central military buildings, as each faction of the alliance is controlled by designated (and council approved) leader aboard capital ships that loom the entire planet, hovering above the cities.

Few untouched parts of the terrain remain, however, because of this, they are pre-defined reserves, to ensure the natural plant life of the world remains intact. Most reserves are allowed to have visitors if they contribute to protecting the land, given they are certified by the proper organizations. Beings like organics are allowed to be buried or deposited there once perished. Hops are particularly banned from this area unless they were made on K'Ursa and meet the requirements to care for them. This privilege does not extend to other beings such as family.

### Underground

Modern underworld conditions reflect Karrots in terms of layout and effective tunnels/lanes. It complements surface constructions and grants a greater amount of traffic capacity when needed. Although it is supplementary to the above-ground portions. The underground civilization only exists in the capital and industrial cities, where rural areas have a stern ban on ground molestation. Part of the reason is K'Ursan culture respects leaving nature untouched, whereas Hoppist culture does so within bounds of beliefs. Co-existing worlds under Hoppist control do not have similar restrictions, causing disagreements. K'Ursans also save space in order to reserve it for temporarily sheltering other beings on their heavily defended planet, which extends to the tunnels, often laced with checkpoints, scanners, and tollways to prevent traffic jams and clutter. Loitering underground is prohibited for these reasons.

### Core

Molten metals swirls violently in the planet's core, as vast as entire galactic clusters in other parts of the universe, the magnetic reach only extends to the mantle of the world, rather than beyond its surface due to this. The waves are strong enough to effect ships and buildings via quaking. The heat given off is in excess of the planet's own stars, and even the star **Unis**, and other white dwarfs like it. K'Ursan law states no beings are allowed within 100 lightyears (K'Ursan years) of the core/mantle barrier, which is to be indefinitely maintained by drones.