Maki-ke (Mah-Kee Keh)
The home of the Kamaki and the Ka-mo is a world that is 99% water and second only to Boreas in size.
Vicious storms constantly wrack the surface, making living on the surface difficult though not impossible. It is the second closest world to to Gilnares, the first being the death world of Helraad.
Geography
A world of almost constantly storm wracked seas, the dry land amount to several large island chains and the odd small speck of and island across the endless expanse.
Under the water one finds enormous tectonic rifts that can often lead down into the mantle, giant undersea mountain ranges and vast forests of plant-life. The oceans are warm with the poles being the colder areas and also the areas where one finds more "Undersea Deserts" so to speak, broad flat plains without much life in them.
The rest of the worlds undersea biomes are verdant and filled with immense biodiversity.
Ecosystem
The ecosystem is vast and almost entirely underwater with the only surface creatures being species of birds built for long gliding and blimp like creatures who traverse the violent clouds and the calmer upper atmosphere like large whales of the sky.
Its oceans are stratified by belts of different temperature water, elevation and currents to create vastly different ecosystems across the planet, the ecosystem of the tectonic rift canyons is vastly different from that of the polar deserts and the mighty kelp forests and coral reefs.
Ecosystem Cycles
The cycles of the world mostly revolve around the immense tidal changes that the world sized ocean undergoes every revolution.
Localized Phenomena
The surface is often covered in storms tinged with radioactivity picked up by the worlds proximity to Gilnares.
Climate
The world is generally warm, between its ability to retain heat due to its heavy cloud cover and the very active tectonic activity there are rarely any areas of true cold away from the poles.
Fauna & Flora
Sea life is the dominant life upon the world with predator and prey of all sizes, its fauna range from megalithic sharks the size of buildings to clouds of psycho sensitive plankton and everything in between.
Massive forests of kelp and other sea plants as well as enormous, millennia old coral reefs cover much of the ocean floor and provides places for all this fauna to hide and flourish.
Natural Resources
The biodiversity of the planet leads to its greatest exports being the immense amount of animal and plantlife, its potential for general biomass is incredible. The deep tectonic rift canyons expose much of the planets mineral wealth in such a way that makes for reasonably easy extraction at least for those well suited to deep underwater living.
Tourism
Cruises, tours, fishing...for many this world is a vacation paradise and many enterprising Kamaki have capitalized on such things.
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