Ihuna

Ihuna is a terran world of the *Mon Essa System*, located in the Nisapa Straits of the Termula region, a part of the Nisu Segment within the Drakori Arm of the Lewis Galaxy and thus, within Herschel Space. It is famously known for being the home world of the first human settlers that arrived in the Termula region after the mass exodus from the Empire following the Nobility War. For that matter, it belongs to the nation known as the Plutocracy of Gish and was the feudal seat of House Gemeldi, one of the top three most important houses in the Plutocracy. It has remained populated ever since it's colonization with refugees from the Empire, and it's inhabitants have a peculiar culture and ways. They call themselves locally the **Ihun people**.

Soon, it became the most important world in the Nisapa Strait and thus one of the most important worlds in the Plutocracy controling most of the influx in and out of the Termula Region. In fact, large amounts of commerce in and out of the Termula region had to go through this world.

Ihuna's most distintive feature is the several large stone towers, known as Ihuiini, literally "*Ihun towers*". As much as it seems, this stone formations cover most of the central areas of the continent and have provided shelter for it's settlements and cities. The planet was artificially terraformed by some previous civilization that some have associated with the S'aka, while others attribute to the Tuvok, the Irin or the Dengar.

The cultivation of Manon Tree was the base of their diet. Later on imported crops were introduced with success in Ihuna which further helped increasing the local population. The population exploded in the early Plutocracy and many ended up colonizing other worlds who have made the Ihun culture flourish.

## Geogrpahy

* **Shale**

Continent of a long shape that extends from north to south. Extremely long in the southern hemisphere and narrowing down in the northern hemisphere. It's covered in savannahs on the south and long wet forests in the north. It's home to the city of Hanhel, the largest, on the northenmost tip of the continent. It has several Ihuiini, the peculiar stone formations, around the equator, only surpased by Menehon.

* **Menehon**

The largest continent, it's very large and covers about a third of the planet's surface. It has all sort of climates, and two inner seas. Several large cities of the Plutocracy exist here, Antera, Unhil and Ehene are some of the largest and most important ones. Its equator area is home to the famous Ihuiini stone formations being Menehon the one with the most amount of them.

* **Alreta**

The smallest continent, it's a large island surounded by several smaller islands in the southwestern hemisphere. Its covered in large forest terrain.

* **Rohane**

The third largest continent to the northeast, it covers mostly milder climate and a large amount of taiga and tundra to the north while also having large amounts of pastures in the subcontinent of Manema. Life here is known to be "idylic" in planetary standars and it produces Rohane wine, a delicay known in the Termula region.

* **Siot**

A large mediterranean island in the southeast. It's considered to be savannah with the hinterlands being filled with jungles and forest. It's northeastern side It's shapen on a weird form of a circle with an inner sea. The largest city is Tildyma, a comercial power point located at the entrance of the inner sea with shallow warm waters and nice weather. The city is technologically driven while most of the continent is rather agrarian or wild. In fact most settlements are located around the Siot circle inner sea.

* **Beila**

At the Northernmost area, the continent is a penninsula shapen on a form of a claw, with large bays. Considered to be cold, it's natural beauty is astonishing. Mostly famous for it's city Verhal the main economic center for resource straction, scientific research and spacecraft building.

## History

### Terraforming in Ancient Past

Milennia ago, it's been speculated that the S'aka colonized this world, or at least had a base of some sort in this world, recognizing it's potential for terraforming. However, many believe that terraformation wasnt actually made by the S'aka as evidence of their presence are very few and some say it doesnt support the idea. As all over the Galaxy, S'aka remains have not been recovered from this planet which means it was settled late by them and probably all ascended with the rest of their species.

Other proposals for the Terraformation of this planet are the Tuvok and the Irin Federation. The First seemed more likely, as they expanded through the region but their colonization of the area was scarced. Some say, the planet might have been one of the last of their outpost and wanted it to look glorious. There's evidence of population of Tuvok living here but no trace of their terraforming equipment has been found. The Irin Federation is another candidate, but this seems less likely due to the internal division of the species and some remains found that do not indicate space suits, which means the world had already been terraformed. Others say this is inconclusive, as the remains have been found inside ancient domes, which could be "adapted" to the population.

Then it's the Dengar, which have shown signs of farming. This is proof that the Dengar already lived in a habitable planet as signs of farming, crop growing and other outdoor activities have been found. Some say this means they were the ones to terraform it others imply this just means they lived in an already terrafomed world that could have been carried out by the Tuvok or the Irin Federation. This remains still a mystery to be solved.

### Human settlement

The planet was settled soon after the end of the Nobility wars by refugees and migrants forced to relocate by the defeated imperial nobles. Ihuna seems to have been granted to House Gemeldi, and later made the seat of their house as Ihuna's importance grew exponentially in commerce and trade. This catapulted it's population making it one of the main population centers of the Plutocracy.