Basatan

The Home of the Leviathans

**Basatan**, also known as the **Home of the Leviathans**, is a water planet located on the edge of UPA space. Because it is on the edge of UPA space, it is classified as a rim world. It has one moon named **Dagon**. The political and economic capital is **Posydon**, which is located on the centermost island in The Isle.

## Geography

Basatan is roughly the size of Earth and its surface is 96.2% water. The other 3.8% is land, spread across a group of large islands called **The Isle** and many unnamed, smaller islands that dot the surface of the planet. The ocean covering most of the planet is incomprehensibly deep—no one has ever ventured to the bottom and come back to tell the tale.

## Population

Basatan is home to 16.2 million people, themselves called the Basatani. They are a hardy and self-sufficient folk, having grown up on a planet where resources cannot be wasted and people are unable to be spared.

## Economy

Basatan is, unsurprisingly, a major producer of fish in its part of UPA space. Because of this, it is relatively wealthy in comparison to other rim worlds. It mostly relies on resources shipped to it from other planets for construction.

## Technology

Basatan isn't as technologically advanced as its central-space brothers and sisters, but it is considerably more advanced than some less successful rim worlds. The Basatani use a blend of modern and more traditional technologies.

## Flora

Basatan is considered one of the most diverse planets in UPA space when it comes to tropical and aquatic plant life—mostly due to its lack of industrialization, but also because it is simply just home to countless numbers of tropical and aquatic plant species.

## Fauna

Basatan does not have much in the way of terrestrial animal life, but it has enough to keep the ecosystem healthy and diverse. Aquatic animal life, however, is an entirely different story. There are countless species of fish and aquatic mammals—many would consider Basatan as having the most aquatic biodiversity in all of UPA space. There is, however, one type of aquatic life that is completely unique to Basatan that has never been seen before: the leviathan.

### Leviathans

The leviathans are entities entirely unique to Basatan. Colossal creatures of incomprehensible size, they reside in the deepest parts of the ocean. It is impossible to tell if they eat, sleep, or even breathe—to many Basatani, they are considered shear forces of nature. Occasionally, smaller leviathans will come up to the ocean's surface for unknown reasons. During these times, the Basatani people band together in groups akin to war parties and partake in the **Great Hunt**. During this time, countless Basatani join forces and hunt the leviathan. On account of the Basatani people's hardiness, these Great Hunts end in one of two ways: the leviathan sinks back down into the depths, or the entire planet has a massive feast called the **Great Banquet**. People around the world are fed for days and the world's cities and towns are alive with merriment.

A leviathan as it is about to surface underneath an unsuspecting fishing boatA surfaced leviathan catching a fisherman by surpriseA half-submerged leviathan spotted at dawnA traditional Basatani fishing boat caught in a rough stormA traditional Basatani fishing villageBasatan's capital, Posydon.An underwater forest in a shallower part of the oceans of BasatanOne of the beautiful Basatan shelf reefsA Basatan underwater mushroom groveAn underwater cave on BasatanAnother underwater cave on Basatan