Garush is a desert-covered planet that’s home to many of the more heat resistant races and many who are down on their luck. It’s a cheap place to live and home to the police force of the system and a large number of the iron and coal mines in the system. It does have some… dangerous wildlife, but it’s mostly survivable.
Position in Space
Garush is the second planet from Aldyn's sun, and the closest one that is lived on. Many of the asteroid chunks of
Husk ring around Garush and host large mining operations. The two moons of Garush are both only lightly populated, with minimal liveable space on their surfaces. Despite its closeness to
Husk, Garush has had very few ancient artifacts found on its surface and few craters, thanks to a shockingly dense core of the planet and a stronger atmosphere.
The Cities of Garush
Garush is a rather large planet, just larger than
Earth, but the vast majority of it is either uninhabited or uninhabitable. The equator line of the planet reaches extreme temperatures and water evaporates near instantly. Most living things live close to the poles.
On the North Pole, a number of colonies of
Zith Tsar live in
Hive Cities, the largest being Gorolr. The North Pole is also home to one of the largest mountains in the system, and easily the biggest by surface area, the Devil's Tooth, linked to the extended Devil Spine Mountain Range.
On the South Pole, a number of scavenger cities and trade cities have developed, especially for the rare minerals found on the planet.
Skathári and
Dwarves make up much of the population in the South, especially in the unofficial capital of the planet, Zephyr's Edge.
The Policing Planet
Somewhere near in the North of Garush lies the
IFAIR base of operations, the central training ground for
IFAIR soldiers and the teaching ground for brutalistic policing policies. Here
Hobgoblins are raised from birth and trained as soldiers of
The Senate. Anything that gets within a hundred miles of the base is destroyed, the place is incredibly secretive and in a barren, scorched part of Garush.
Despite Garush being home of the policing agency, crime has run rampant in many communities. Much of this comes down to
The Senate's long past policy of self-determinism for the cities and colonies on Garush. As long as nobody takes claimed land or gets too close to government property,
The Senate is fine with most anything that occurs on the planet.
A Hostile Environment
Outside of the intense heat, Garush has a number of other things making it a problematic living location. The planet's sandstone is incredibly hard and brittle, making building difficult. Water is very rare on the surface but plentiful underground, but only at levels hard to reach and usually at temperatures around boiling. Most of the animals that live on the planet are venomous or larger than the average humanoid, surviving off of killing the largest water consumer they can find.
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