Paran
Paran is a large, somewhat heavy gravity world of towering mountains and deep valleys all continuously reshuffled by massive tectonic activity, orbiting amid a young solar accretion disc still swarming with extinction-level comets and asteroids.
It is a violent world given rise to violent races and civilizations, all flickering in and out of existence over epochs, only to be controlled and ultimately dominated by its parasitic masters.
Other competing sentient species evolved on 29 Orionis to battle each other and the harshness of their world: tripedal insectoids, squat lung- squids, even avian cloud floaters spawning and dying having never touched even the rugged mountain peaks, among others.
Each, in turn, achieved planetary mastery, only to fall, feud, struggle, war, rise, and then fall again. But among the corpses that at times filled entire deep valleys, unbeknownst to the self- important dominant races the proto-parasteen stirred, awash in blood and gore. The earliest forms merely fed off the fallen, but later stages improved their survival by connecting neurally to a body and prolonging its death.
Geography
Large mountains, thousands of feet high surround deep valleys that over the millennia were filled with bodies of the flying creatures that perished. This fertilized the land so that large trees grew, seeking to get tall enough to reach the sunlight during most of the day.
Alternative Name(s)
29 Orionis-6
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