Kastrugua

Amongst the stars within the Promethea System lies the once abandoned world of Mata-78a, or known locally as **Kastrugua**, a large "super-earth" located within the Gamma Quadrant that was once under the control of the Terran Federation during the days following the Terran Exodus who sought to convert it into its new core-world, but this ambitious project was quickly forgotten in favour of mobile space stations, leaving the colonists to toil and revert to mere tribesmen clinging on to what little amounts of society they had. The planet was left out of most records as a result of typos and errors made by the astrological-historians of most factions along with its location being obscured by a unknown locally produced silp-space disturbance, leaving the denizens of Kastrugua to fend for themselves for centuries on a world that has grown into a planet of deadly evolution, a planet dominated by feathered titans.

The planet’s ecosystem that was once devoid of most animal live save for the already present tiny insectoid Gyrobeetles was greatly altered after the facilities holding livestock, pets and experimental animals broke down, causing the animals held within to venture forth into the earth-like but abandoned planet. Animals like sheep and cattle grew to become large beasts like the Beefodon or medium sized herd animals like the Corytholope, but in the case of the experimental animals that were unleashed, one of these animals was in fact a pack of cloned Terror Birds who quickly rose to become the alpha predators of grasslands and forests, some evolving into small pack hunters called Velocidromeus (Reedstalkers) and others evolving into semi-aquatic birds called Beachrunners (Aquai-Aquai), but the most infamous of all the terror bird species to evolve from these clones was the colossal Kelenkotyrannus Imperati (Winged Emperor of the Gods) or known to the locals as Draak-moa.  Along with these terror birds there were flocks of Dromornis (prehistoric relatives of modern ducks) that would evolve into large flightless grazers known as Titanoanatidus Anatidai (Titan Duck) or known locally as Gorgabeaks.

The colonists had spread across the continents of Hilkui-Nui, Gargantko-Lui, Aychtoo-Oh and Vulkandrikus. Each fracturing into separate clans who would lay claim to their own territories upon the world and build their culture upon the domain they called home. For example the south-western mountains of Hilkui-Nui were inhabited by the cultured and peaceful Clans of Onu-Evera and Po-Hima, the former focusing much of their efforts on archiving and studying what little history that stood the test of time and the latter being masterful artisans of masonry, creating primitive but elegant structures for both themselves and their close comrades of Onu-Evera.

Amongst the vast grasslands of Gargantko-Lui lies the domain of the Arcteshya clan, a collective of tribes who share the grasslands with the vast herd-flocks of Gorgabeaks which they both hunt and domesticate. The culture of the Arcteshya clan focuses heavily on argiculture and martial prowess, a common trial for aspiring warriors or hunters is to kill or tame a pack of Gargantko-Lui's grasslands most common predators, the Velocidromeus. If said warriors return with the jagged beaks of the aforementioned creatures they are allowed entry into four of the warrior-lodges, each with their own traditions and heritage that links them back to the founding tribes of the clan, and those who end up taming a pack of Velocidromeus are commonly sent to the hunter-lodges to be educated on how to train and command his pack during hunts for Gorgabeaks.