Category: Places and Ecologies

Pontus

The planet from which the Dukedom of Galatia is ruled in the Kingdom of Athena. The capital of the dukedom and planet is Tourgout.

Galatia

The Dukedom of the Malek family. The only remaining fiefdom in the Kingdom of Athena. The dukedom is ruled from the palace on the planet Pontus

Leto

The Imperial capital on Apollos.

Metis

The Athenian name for the local star at the center of the Athena system.

Athena Six

The capital of the Kingdom of Athena. A warm world with a wide tropical band and abundant deep oceans. The world has five continents and is home to two billion people.

Whooping Ant

A family of two centimeter-long scavenger on Athena known for having the smallest opposable thumbs in the galaxy, and a mouth on either end of its segmented body. It walks on eight legs.

Ecologists have discovered at least eight hundred different species of Whooping Ant on Aetna.

Besides its opposable thumbs, the family has the unique ability to generate as a colony a thump often described as a thud or bang. This “whoop” has been measured up to seventy-eight decibels and is used to scare off would be predators and to keep larger animals from accidentally stepping in their colony.

The Kingdom of Apollos

This is a single system state that is the home of the Pax Imperium Empress. The state like the Empress is supposed to be strictly neutral in policy matters that don’t concern the security of the Empire as a whole.

The Administration Building

Built to twenty stories, the admin building is the tallest building on the moon Aetna. Its height is restricted due to the necessity of all buildings having treads, so they can move across the ice when necessary. The Admin building, like all other buildings on Aetna is designed to float.

Admin houses the various departments responsible for running both the city Utopia, the planet at large, and the orbital above. It also houses the gendarmes and the prison.