Ammailia

**Ammailia** is a planet located in the Ammail system in the Colony Region of the OGC. Ammailia is a arid desert world with red, dusty deserts and savannahs. Ammailia has a small ring of asteroids that orbits around it. These asteroids often get pulled into the planet's gravity and crash into its surface. The craters from these impacts are still visible in the less windy regions in the north. As the homeworld of the Ammaile species, the planet lacks any notable urbanization. Different slavers often visit the planet to lay claim to the local population, helping to spread the Ammaile throughout the galaxy.

## Ecology

Ammailia is a planet located in the Ammail system in the Colony Region of the OGC. Ammailia has no moons and orbits around a sun. Ammailia has a breathable atmosphere and an arid environment of dusty deserts and savannahs. Ammailia has a small ring of asteroids that orbits around it. These asteroids often get pulled into the planet's gravity and crash into its surface. The craters from these impacts are still visible in the less windy regions in the northern hemisphere.

Ammailia has a limited water clustered in several rivers that encircle the planet, such as the Knicacka river and the Nocoo river. The landscape surrounding these rivers is home to the planet's savannahs with tall grasses and the occasional tree. Out beyond the rivers is a landscape of dusty deserts. These deserts have large rounded stone formations shaped by the constant winds of the planet. These winds cause frequent sandstorms that can cover whole portions of the planet's surface. At the northern parts of the planet, there is less wind, allowing a less constant landscape with more craters from the asteroids. Thanks to the dirt's color, Ammailia has a red color.

A majority of Ammailia's lifeforms live in and around the rivers. These lifeforms include the plants like the tall grasses and a variety of aquatic ichthyoids in the river. The plants of Ammailia have adopted a technique of soil absorption to survive the sandstorms from the deserts. Amongst the desert, creatures are rare, with the only major species burrowing in the sand and coming out at night.

Due to the Ammaile's tribal status, there is no major urbanization on Ammailia. Ammaile cities are typically temporary, periodically being relocated due to the planet's sandstorms. The only permanent structures on the planet is the occasional outpost settlement, created by researchers or slavers.

## Inhabitants and culture

Ammailia is the homeworld of the Ammaile species, a race of mammalian bipeds that, despite their presence throughout the galaxy, only have a tribal culture. This is because Ammaile society is frequently interrupted by off-world travelers seeking out the species for their own gain. Most Ammaile tribes live near the rivers, typically only going out into the deserts for hunting. The tribes set up temporary settlements at the shores, relocating down the river every two to three months.

Because of the Ammaile's perceived appeal to other species, and their ability to survive long periods of time without food, off-world travelers to Ammailia are typically slavers seeking to gain individual Ammailis to sell. Other settlers of Ammaile are commonly researchers or activists, seeking to study or protect the planet from the underground.

The main language of Ammailia is Ammaili, the main language of the Ammaile.

## History

Ammailia used to have more grasslands, but these died off after a devasting asteroid strike occured, creating the planet's main ecosytem of deserts and its asteroid belt. The Ammaile evolved from a hopping herbivore species that lived on the arid deserts of Ammailia. The Ammailis were able to develop sentience and build a planetwide culture with low-level technology and sparse cities.

At around 0 YAO, Ammailia was first discovered by a group of Godalgee archivists, taking note of the planet and its inhabitants. Ammailia didn't interact with the outer galaxy until slavers and traffickers encountered the Ammaile, taking advantage of their low-level technologies before they could develop space travel. This led to the Ammaile quickly being spread off-world throughout the Unclaimed Regions, then throughout the rest of the galaxy in the main governments.

Because the Ammaile themselves became members of the OGC, Ammailia became part of the OGC by extension. Despite the Ammaile's membership, and the continual intrusion by traffickers, the planet itself has remained mostly ignored by the rest of the galaxy. In recent years, activism movements have sprouted in an attempt to end the slave trade on Ammailia.

## Government and Economy

Because of the Ammaile's low-tech limited culture, the planet lacks any kind of major governmental body. Even though the planet is a member of the OGC, the OGC has no jurisdiction or presence on the planet.

Ammailia also lacks any kind of economy, but remains the main resource for fresh Ammaile for slavers and traffickers.