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N O T I C E : : m e m o r y _ s t r e a m _ l o c a t e d
I D : : P r e t h e y a
T Y P E: : R E C O L L E C T I V E
'Pretheya' is supposedly the name of our original home planet. Nobody knows if it was ever actually called that for sure, and we also have no clue how it's supposed to be pronounced because we only have written records of the word that date back to old-ass versions of Saltiltomeyin, but either way, this is apparently what our home planet was called.
As for the world itself, we know virtually nothing about it thanks to the events of the
Data Loss. Almost all of the actual, in-depth history is lost to us; but we do still know some broad-strokes information about it. Apparently, the planet is thought to have had some
really weird geography, for starters. We have some old maps of various continents, and the shapes of landmasses as shown on them are downright bizarre. Ancient cultures often draw maps looking pretty weird - since without spatial or satellite imaging it's hard to get a good idea of how continents really look - but this is weird even by those standards. Many of the maps we have include mountain ranges that are the size of fleetships, places coloured bright red or blue or purple that we don't have a
clue what was supposed to be there, and the coasts are littered with more islands than has any right to exist anywhere.
One thing we are quite certain about is that there was apparently a very wide variety of flora there. We've still got quite a lot of native plants from the planet, and many of them are very vibrantly coloured. Supposedly, they adapted to somehow have extremely bright colouration, while still being able to photosynthesize? The weird part is that most forms of chlorophyll can't do that if they're not certain specific colours, but the ones found in plants from our homeworld just... can, I guess. One theory posits that some of the giant red and purple patches are places where the dominant ground-flora was another colour than green, and that's why they got represented that way on maps.
In terms of fauna, that's much harder to guess. A lot of people think that the planet must not have had many apex predators, because we landamaeris seem to have been able to evolve an awful lot of plumage that would not be very practical for anything that had to avoid being seen or risk getting eaten. I've also heard talk of some stuff in our biology that shows we have inactive genes for growing antlers, horns, tails- hell, apparently there's one gene that causes you to not grow any body hair and turns your eyebrows into crystal? Honestly kind of wish I had that, not gonna lie.
We don't know anything about what the civilisations or cultures there were like, sadly. In the same vein, we've got no idea what prompted us to leave the planet and move into space; whether our ancestors did it willingly or were forced, what circumstances there were at the time, etcetera. We also don't actually know where the planet is any more, or else I'm sure we'd go and check it out. There has actually been some progress in the last decade in trying to locate it, from what I've heard, but it still seems unlikely that we'll find it within my lifetime. It's kind of a shame; I would have loved to be alive to see something like that.
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