"Levarianqueva, then, is where all animals, people, rocks, geologic features, and plants dwell. The gods, who are people like us, but with tan-colored skin, brown feathers which cannot change color, pyramid-shaped membranes with holes at the bottom instead of snouts, more prominent lips, no mouths protruding from their guts, a sphere-shaped membrane which protrudes from their gut under their mouth, and are taller than us, wear white and gray clothing, can talk like us, are generally friendly, are immortal, do not sleep, can change the environment at will, punish those who disobey their rules, and are all male, dwell here as well."
(Āqqleryānter, Hāreņqlanka Kēvere. 453 AC (10011007 on Terra). Print.)
- Description of "Levāriānqlēva," the middle realm, according to the Hāreņqlanka Kēvere, the sacred text of Kāvettēism. This section of the book was translated from Yaksōnian into English; therefore, some translation errors may exist.
Levarianqueva is part of the Rdaqtva A system.
Levarianqueva (pronounced luh-VAR-yawn-qui-vuh), formerly known as Rdaqtva B (pronounced uhr-DOCKED-vuh bee) and also known as Florida 2.0, is the second planet from the star Rdaqtva A. It is the closest habitable planet to Sagittarius A*. As such, Levarianqueva was mostly uninhabitable for sapient beings until its terraformation.
Levarianqueva formed around 4.5 billion years ago and did not support multicellular life until its colonization by the Parveans c. 8000 BCE. By this time, the inhabitants of the planet were predominately single-celled organisms, living in underground water sources and thriving on hydrogen sulfide. The Parveans couldn't terraform the planet, so they primarily used it for resource extraction until an interplanetary drought hit the Parvean homeworld in c. 4000 BCE.
According to Parvean legend, whenever a drought hit the empire's capital, it means that the gods aren't respecting them and therefore sacrificial victims from other sapient species are needed to gain the respect of the gods and to end the drought. Therefore, Levarianqueva became used as an interplanetary concentration camp. Various humans compared this use for the planet to the Holocaust on an interplanetary scale.
Following the Galactic-Parvean war of 2563-2579, the Galactic Federation got to seize the vast majority of the Parvean empire, including the Rdaqtva A system. The Galactic Federation destroyed all of the structures built by the Parveans on the planet and started to terraform the planet in 2590. The terraformation of the planet was completed in 2601. After this, Levarianqueva became the home to billions of beings, human or extraterrestrial, and developed a rich culture. Its central location of being the closest habitable planet to Sagittarius A*, the central black hole of the Milky Way, made it a hub for intergalactic trade.
However, this age of prosperity was interrupted when a starship belonging to the Immortal Scientists crashed onto the planet. The casualties were low as the vast majority of the planet's population were safely evacuated to other star systems. All of the planet's settlement was destroyed when a Parvean trading ship collided with the planet. This event had also caused the remnants of human technology on the planet to be buried underground. New settlements on the planet became forbidden.
A few years later, the Immortal Scientists found a laptop with the Galanet, a new invention, installed. They then noticed a button to call the President of the Galactic Federation, which was William G. Sharp at the time. William G. Sharp requested that the Immortal Scientists host a biology experiment on Levarianqueva in response to the spread of evolution denial, which they accepted. After the call, William G. Sharp ordered the transportation of samples of Terran life forms to Levarianqueva. This included samples of animals that had recently gone extinct on Terra, including woolly mammoths, terror birds, and dodos. The imported life soon diversified and even competed effectively with the descendants of native life.
Today, Levarianqueva has a very superactive geology, a strong magnetic field, and very warm ocean temperatures suitable for the formation of hypercanes - tropical cyclones larger than any storm seen on Terra, Levarianqueva's land mass is currently dominated by the supercontinent Qlurdak, which is starting to break apart. The planet's dominant species are the Alligatoris sapiens, an intelligent descendant of American alligators on Terra, whose intelligence allows them to use tools and develop social structures ranging in size from families to entire nations, complex language, abstract concepts, and religions.
Etymology[]
The name "Levarianqueva" is an Anglicization of the Yaksōnian word <Levāriānqlēva>, which translates to "Realm of the Gods," literally "middle realm." In Yaksōnian mythology, the world is divided into three realms. The top one, called <Tsēroyanqlēva> in Yaksōnian or "Seroyanqueva" in English, literally "high realm," is where the clouds, stars, planets, sun, and moon are located, all sharing this realm together without any competition. The middle realm, <Levāriānqlēva> in Yaksōnian or "Levarianqueva" in English, is allegedly where the ten gods (the Immortal Scientists) dwell, as where gators, animals, rocks (especially gastroliths), and plants dwell, and this realm was the one that was the namesake of the planet. The lowest realm, called <Eprōśśinqlēva> in Yaksōnian or "Abroshinqueva" in English, literally "empty realm", is home to the oceans, sea creatures, and the eternal void below the planet (The Yaksōnians believed that Levarianqueva was flat), and where trees, allegedly gators with enlarged hands according to the Yaksōnian sacred text, reach up into Seroyanqueva from the void.
The old name for the planet, Rdaqtva B (the first planet of Levarianqueva's star system was not discovered when the name was decided, and when it was, it was initially thought to be an asteroid/comet), came from a Parvean word <rdaqtva>, which means "sacrificing place, not of the homeworld." Breaking down the word, <rdaqt> means "sacrifice," or more literally "godly death," and the suffix <-va> denotes a place that is outside of the Parvean homeworld, the latter coming from a simplified version of the word <vqrvjaqst> which means "outsider." The word can be broken down further: <rd> is a root meaning "god," <-a> is an adverbial suffix corresponding to "-ly" in English, and <qt> is a root meaning "death." The "B" part of the name "Rdaqtva B" is a traditional human convention for naming planets in star systems that haven't been settled by sapient extraterrestrial life.
In the year 1589 AC (10012143 on Terra), the name of the planet was officially changed from "Rdaqtva B" to "Levarianqueva" following a request from the Immortal Scientists. This also happened to all the other planets of the Rdaqtva A system and the brown dwarf Lihiv, which was originally called. However, the name "Rdaqtva A" continued to be used for the main celestial body in the system.
History[]
Formation[]
Like Terra, Levarianqueva formed 4.5 billion years ago, out of the remnants of a supernova explosion. Plate tectonics began relatively early in the planet's history, due to Sagittarius A's gravity forcibly splitting the crust and mantle into fragments. Levarianqueva's strong magnetic field is also due to Sagittarius A: the black hole prevents the inner core of the planet from absorbing the outer core by forcibly making the inner core hotter. Despite all of the planet's Terra-like conditions, the planet could not support life other than simple single-celled organisms before its terraformation due to it being outside of the galactic habitable zone.
The formation of Levarianqueva's moon, Tevaiqlam (initially called Rdaqtva B I), occured much later. It was a very gradual process that started at 4.2 billion years ago and ended at 1.4 billion years ago. The start of the formation, dubbed the "Centocochle" period, started 4.2 billion years ago and ended 3.9 billion years ago. The Centocochle period started when Levarianqueva captured a handful of asteroids that were kicked out of Rdaqtva A's asteroid belt by the gravity of Corqlanare. Eventually, hundreds of thousands of asteroids were captured by Levarianqueva and forced into orbit around the planet.
The next period of Tevaiqlam's formation, dubbed the "Megacochlo" period, started 3.9 billion years ago and ended 2.5 billion years ago. The Megacochlo period saw two distinct and stable asteroid orbits forming around the planet. The process took millions of years, but eventually, the two objects had enough size and gravity to become spherical, and the final period of Tevaiqlam's formation started 2.5 billion years ago.
This period, dubbed the "Victorcochlos" period, started 2.5 billion years ago and lasted over a billion years, ending 1.4 billion years ago. Even though the orbits were very stable, they still had an area where they intersected. The object that had the inner orbit was about three-quarters the size of Luna, while the object that had the outer orbit was only 5% smaller. The two objects intersected for the last time and collided with each other 1.4 billion years ago, forming Tevaiqlam at last.
Parvean Colonization[]
Two male Parveans talking to each other.
The Parveans, their homeworld being located 15,981 light years away from Sagittarius A, started colonizing the planet as early as 8,000 BCE. By then, the planet was a barren wasteland, and the Parveans could not terraform and colonize the planet with Parvean settlers due to their backwards terraformation technologies, making up for it with their more advanced starship technologies; in fact, the Galactic Federation was not able to surpass the Parveans in terms of starship technology until the late 24th to early 25th centuries.
The Parveans primarily used the planet for resource extraction during their first 4,000 years of rule over the planet, and had technology that allowed them to reduce the damage to rocky bodies that were mined. The Parveans are also hypothesized to have seeded life on Corqlanare, although this is unconfirmed as they didn't have the technology to seed multicellular life.
After their homeworld had entered a megadrought at around 4,000 BCE, the Parveans quickly sought a use for their Levarianqueva colony: as a planet-sized extermination camp to sacrifice their hostages that they had captured through galactic-wide raids and as a planet-sized labor camp in order to produce a continuous amount of slave-produced items and food that are then traded back to the Parvean homeworld. Ghettos, forced labor camps, and extermination camps were established throughout the surface of the planet to house, enslave, and sacrifice their victims, which were destroyed to make way for settlements and colonies during the planet's terraformation by the Galactic Federation.
The conditions inside the Parvean camps were very terrible. All individual species that were captured by the Parveans had seperate ghettos, forced labor camps, and extermination camps in order to prevent each species from interacting with each other and keep interactions between individuals of the same species, reducing the risk of a centralized interspecies slave revolt from happening. Each set of camps were designed to simulate the conditions on the assigned species' homeworld. In the ghettos, sexual enslavement is very common, in order to produce more children in order to make it so that the labor camps have a stable supply of child labor, which is simply because children are usually more obedient than adults.
Humanity's Rule Over Levarianqueva[]
Discovery and Human Colonization[]
Callaghan Simmons holding a discussion.
Mr. President, I have received strange broadcasts from an unknown planet. I repeat, I have received strange broadcasts from an unknown planet.
- Callaghan Simmons, the commander of the Galactic Navy's Fleet IWhere did the broadcast come from?
- [REDACTED], President of the Galactic FederationMr. President, it came from a hijacked Parvean communication network. I recognize that the broadcasters were speaking English.
- Callaghan SimmonsI think that this unknown planet must have been part of the Parvean Empire. Were the broadcasters humans or extraterrestrials?
- [REDACTED]I think the broadcasters were humans, sir. They were speaking in fluent English, and they were asking for help.
- Callaghan SimmonsWhat for?
- [REDACTED]They said they were being enslaved by the Parveans, sir. They wish to be liberated.
- Callaghan SimmonsAlright. Now go to this planet or whatever and liberate these human slaves!
- [REDACTED]On it, my President.
- Callaghan Simmons- The full conversation between Callaghan Simmons, the commander of the Galactic Navy's Fleet I, and [REDACTED], the Galactic President, on March 10, 2574, at 7:45 to 8:01 Terran Eastern Standard Time
Flag of the Galactic Federation, terraformers of Levarianqueva
On March 10, 2574 at 7:32 Terran Eastern Time, Callaghan Simmons, the commander of the Galactic Navy's Fleet I, received a broadcast from Levarianqueva during a human slave revolt in the planet. Unbeknownst to him, his starship was driven off course, and away from the other starships in his fleet by the gravity of a Jupiter-sized gas giant in another star system, and he had ended up in Levarianqueva's magnetic field, which was very strong for a normal terrestrial planet. The broadcast, which was in English and said by a male human, said that the human slaves on the planet were revolting against the Parveans, and the revolt needs aid or else it would be crushed.
After he received the broadcast, Callaghan struggled to decide what to do next. He thought on what to do for the next 10 minutes, until he had discovered that he lost the rest of his fleet, called them, and ordered them to go to his location in 7:42. He then called the Galactic President in 7:45, told him that he had received a broadcast from the planet, and proceeded to have a conversation with the President which lasted until 8:01. At the end of the conversation, the President ordered Callaghan to liberate the humans and other extraterrestrials of the planet that were being held hostage by the Parveans, which he responded with the quote "On it, my President," which later became a patriotic war cry and a unifier against the Federation's enemies, signaling loyalty to the President and the government.
In 8:02, after the conversation ended, Callaghan Simmons and his Fleet I began their journey to Levarianqueva, which was currently 7 light minutes (119 million kilometers, or 77 million miles if you live in Freedom land) away from the Fleet I. The fleet, however, was slowed down by Callagham's order in order to guarentee a safe landing on the planet. On 8:07, the fleet had arrived close to the planet, and on 8:09, the fleet had landed safely on the planet. The landing time is generally accepted by historians as the discovery date of Levarianqueva. The members of Fleet I exited their starships and set out on their mission to liberate the slaves on the planet.
The Galactic Navy's Fleet I landed next to a Parvean extermination camp, and went there, disguising as Parveans. As a Parvean was about to sacrifice a human, Callaghan Simmons killed the Parvean, preventing his death. That human welcomed Callaghan as a liberator and wished to help him kick out the Parveans from the planet. Eventually, on 9:21, the Parveans were fully kicked out of the planet, and all of the slaves were liberated. Callaghan called the Galactic President on 9:23 and said that the slaves had been fully liberated, and then celebrated with his fleet and the liberated slaves, before the fleet returned to their starships with the liberated slaves in 10:31. The Galactic President also promoted Callaghan to the Supreme Commander of the Galactic Navy as a reward in March 12, 2574.
After the Galactic-Parvean war ended in 2579, the planet was determined to be terraformable by the Galactic Federation despite its close distance to Sagittarius A, the black hole that is the center of the Milky Way galaxy, due to its strong magnetic field which protects it and its moon from the solar wind. Terraformation started in 2590 and was completed in 2601. After its terraformation, Levarianqueva became the furthest human settlement from Terra and became the home of billions of beings during the early part of the Galactic Golden Age, including the famous alternate historian and writer Jake Zaithreios, a human who lived during the 30th and 31st centuries and is famous for composing the dystopian alternate history novel series Dark Age — The Fall of Terra, a Christian-themed dystopian alternate history which takes place during the 2030s. Levarianqueva also developed a rich culture during this time.
The Crash of the Ten Scientists[]
- GEMS start tone*
The government of the Galactic Federation has issued a planetary evacuation order for the entirety of Rdaqtva B, in effect from June 7, 3471 to an undetermined date. Listen carefully to this message, as it could save your life. I repeat, the government of the Galactic Federation has issued a planetary evacuation order for the entirety of Rdaqtva B, in effect from June 7, 3471 to an undetermined date. Listen carefully to this message, as it could save your life.On March 3471, we have detected that a starship, with nine immortal scientists on board, had been driven off course. We have just now gathered information that this rogue starship, originally headed for the black hole Sagittarius A*, is now coming towards your planet. We have also gathered information that the starship is scheduled to collide with the western hemisphere of the planet by the end of 3471. There is no way to reverse the starship's course, as the starship has lost all communications with the Galactic Federation's government on Terra. The impact of the starship will cause catastrophic damage and destruction to the western hemisphere of Rdaqtva B, resulting in the loss of countless lives and irreversible damage to the planet.
In order to ensure the safety and survival of all inhabitants of Rdaqtva B, it is imperative that you heed the evacuation order and leave the planet immediately. Every being still on Rdaqtva B as of this time should evacuate to the nearest star system or planet immediately and stay there indefinitely. I repeat, in order to ensure the safety and survival of all inhabitants of Rdaqtva B, it is imperative that you heed the evacuation order and leave the planet immediately. Every being still on Rdaqtva B as of this time should evacuate to the nearest star system or planet immediately and stay there indefinitely. Emergency evacuation shuttles have been dispatched to transport all residents to nearby safe planets within the Galactic Federation. Remember, your safety and survival are of utmost importance. Do not delay in evacuating the planet. Follow the instructions of the emergency personnel and proceed to the designated evacuation points. Do not try to return to your homes or gather belongings; your life is more valuable than any material possessions. For those unable to evacuate on their own, Galactic Federation transport ships will be available to assist in the evacuation process. Please remain calm and cooperate with authorities to ensure a smooth and orderly evacuation. Stay tuned to official Galactic Federation channels for further updates and instructions. Your cooperation is crucial in ensuring a successful evacuation process.
We urge you to remain calm and orderly during the evacuation process. Do not panic or cause chaos, as it will only hinder the evacuation efforts. Trust in the Galactic Federation's emergency response teams to guide you to safety and provide assistance as needed. We understand that this may be a difficult and frightening time for all inhabitants of Rdaqtva B, but please know that the Galactic Federation is doing everything possible to ensure your safety and well-being. Stay strong, stay united, and follow the evacuation orders to protect yourself and your loved ones.
If you wish not to evacuate, prepare for the apocalyptic end of the world. After evacuation programs shut down, you will be free to panic all you want, and all laws on the inner Rdaqtva A system shall be repealed until further notice. Gather with your loved ones, including spouses, parents, siblings, friends, children, or pets. If you are a member of a religious faith, pray to the god or gods you worship. If you have kids, do not tell your child or children about the coming apocalypse to ensure their happiness during these dark times.
Thank you for your time on Rdaqtva B. I, Mascot James of the Galactic Emergency Message System, wish you a sincere goodbye message to everyone on Rdaqtva B who chooses not to evacuate. The Galactic Emergency Message System will now cease to operate inside of the Inner Rdaqtva A system. This message will now repeat until the starship enters the Rdaqtva A system, and when it does, the national anthem of the Federation will play in loop until the starship crashes onto the planet. May you find peace in your final moments and may your memories live on in the vastness of the universe.
*GEMS end tone*
The Galactic Emergency Message System, issuing an alert to the entirety of Levarianqueva on June 7, 3471.
One of the Immortal Scientists.
On January 9, 3469, the Galactic Federation started to prepare to send a collection of scientists to Sagittarius A to study the conditions inside the black hole. Before the journey, the scientists had to take a pill which makes them immortal, preventing them from dying to the black hole. The Galactic Ministry of Science and Technology (GMST) and the Government of the Galactic Federation finished preparing on December 12, 3470, and the scientists' starship was launched from the Gliese 105 system, which is traditionally a hub for starship advancements, on December 20, 3470, over a week later.
The Galactic Federation initially hoped for the scientists' mission to the black hole to be successful, but the starship, like Callaghan Simmons' fleet almost a millenium behind the mission, was driven off course. The Galactic Federation investigated the reason for the crash and where it was headed now. Through computer simulations, it was discovered that the starship was on a direct collision course with Levarianqueva, with no way to stop its trajectory as the starship, suddenly, completely lost all communications with Terra on March 3471.
A screenshot of the last Galactic Emergency Message System (GEMS) message that was issued for Levarianqueva. Following the alert, GEMS ceased to operate inside of the inner Rdaqtva A system, and the mining colonies in Fovannai and Tevaiqlam were abandoned. Note that "December 31, 99,999,999" is the placeholder for an undetermined end date.
Fearing a complete annihlation of the planet's human settlement, the Galactic authorities issued a mandatory evacuation order of the entire planet of Levarianqueva on June 7, 3471. The initial alert was in English, but was translated into over 908 other languages spoken on Levarianqueva at the time (169 human languages, 724 extraterrestrial languages, and 15 human-extraterrestrial creoles or pidgins). Every citizen of the planet was required to leave the Rdaqtva A system, and evacuate to the Frqtevam system. Fortunately, most of the citizens of Levarianqueva was safely evacuated with a few losses. As the Scientists' starship neared the planet, the remaining citizens entered into a state of complete panic, and mass suicides became a frequent occurrence.
The starship finally arrived in the Rdaqtva A system on late November 3471 and collided with Levarianqueva in early December, killing the remaining beings on the western hemisphere of the planet. However, a Parvean trading ship, mistaken for a raid ship, collided with the opposite side of the planet milliseconds later, completely destroying Levarianqueva's human and extraterrestrial settlement. As the scientists were immortal, they had managed to survive this event, and they were the only humans left on the planet. In total, the impacts caused 17,400 deaths out of the original +5.4 billion inhabitants, which was fewer deaths than expected. This is widely credited to the issuing of the evacuation alert.
The Scientists' Cry for Help and the Invention of the Galanet[]
After, the crash, the scientists attempted to contact the Federation's government for help, but to no avail. The Federation only received random gibberish from the direction of the Parvean homeworld. The Galactic Federation attempted to reply back, in the Parvean language, but to no avail. In 3480, many top academic institutions collaborated with the Federation's government and attempted to invent a new version of the Internet, which was made obsolete in 2139 due to it only having the capability to spread news and information at the speed of light, and faster-than-light starships replaced them. After it was made obsolete, many Internet servers shut down and were destroyed, which were reinstated after this new network, called the Galanet, was spread to the public.
A window with the Nova Mosaic web browser opened. The website used is an example website used to showcase the Galanet, with the source code of the site being shown to the right.
The Galanet is the successor of the Internet and incorporates many elements of its predecessor. However, it uses quantum entanglement to allow information to spread faster than the speed of light without relying on faster-than-light starships. Quantum entanglement, the speed of which being instantaneous and way faster than light no matter what location the two atoms that are "entangled" are, is also used to allow for people on starships to communicate with other people on different starships or areas far away from each other instantaneously. As the Galanet was very similar to the ancient Internet, it wasn't very hard to make the Galanet. The Galanet was invented in 3489, and the Immortal Scientists were used as test subjects for the new invention.
After the Galanet was finished, a starship of unknown origin, possibly from Gliese 105 and sponsored by the government, arrived on Levarianqueva in March 23, 3490, near the crash site of the Immortal Scientists. The starship left a laptop with a web browser, named Nova Mosaic, the second word named after the first web browser on the Internet to be widely available, installed on the planet before leaving, with a tutorial website teaching how to use the Galanet made by the University of Yuvanip. After the scientists had explored the entire planet, only to find that all human settlement had been destroyed, the scientists went back to the original crash site. By this time, most of the Federation's humans had forgotten that the Internet even existed.
When the scientists returned to the crash site to figure out how to escape the planet, one of the Scientists saw a metal "pad" partially concealed by vast steppes of grass. Then, the Scientists had an argument, where some Scientists argued that the metal "pad" was a remnant of a basement with potential survivors of the crash, while other Scientists viewed the "pad" as some sort of computer. The Scientists on the latter side were proven correct when one of the Scientists tried to grab the "pad," only to discover more grass under it and not a basement. The same Scientist opened the laptop and was very surprised to find a new program installed on the laptop: the Nova Mosaic web browser, with the Galanet tutorial website opened up when it was started.
William G. Sharp delivering a speech. After his withdrawal from politics, he takes the immortality pill and joins the Immortal Scientists.
After a few hours of reading the information found in the tutorial website, the Scientists began to use the Galanet, browsing the test websites. After hours of browsing the Galanet, the Scientists noticed a button to directly communicate with the President of the Galactic Federation. This button is only present in the Scientists' shared test computer's copy of Nova Mosaic and not in other copies of Nova Mosaic on other computers, possibly due to the fact that the President (William G. Sharp at the time) would then get tons of calls which would distract him from his duties.
The Beginning of the Evolution Project on Levarianqueva[]
When the Immortal Scientists pressed the button, they were immediately taken to a window where they would contact William G. Sharp, the President of the Galactic Federation. During this time, there was a sharp rejection of evolution by the majority of the population, leading to a widespread belief in pseudoscientific thought. William G. Sharp hoped to solve this problem by sending samples of various Terran organisms to Levarianqueva. Sharp believed that the Terran lifeforms would adapt and diversify on a new planet they haven't been to before, therefore proving evolution.
When William G. Sharp recieved the call, he immediately accepted it. TBA
The Rise of the Alligatoris Sapiens[]
A pair of adult Alligatoris sapiens, each belonging to one of the two sexes (male to the left, female to the right)
Several millenia after the collapse of the Galactic Federation, the Immortal Scientists noticed several changes within the species inside Levarianqueva. One of the species impacted by the planet were the American alligators that were transported to the planet. Due to a lack of wetlands, alligators' native habitats, on the planet at the time, some alligators were forced to expand their range into other habitats, evolving into very different species in order to adapt to their new environments. However, most of these new gator species are still reliant on freshwater habitats to a certain extent.
The lineage that evolved into the Alligatoris sapiens, which were assigned the binomial name Alligatoris mississippiensis rdaqtvaaridus by the Immortal Scientists, colonized arid habitats, requiring significant changes to their biology. Firstly, these alligators were still reliant on the water in order to survive, but the desert offers very little in terms of water. This was solved by evolving well-developed kidneys and the ability to reabsorb water through the gut, minimizing the amount of water wasted during excretion. This adaptation worked so well that future descendants of the Alligatoris mississippiensis rdaqtvaaridus could simply survive through the water from food, never once needing to drink.
Secondly, the hot temperatures of the desert during the day encourages desert animals to specialize for crepuscular or nocturnal lifestyles, with night in the desert being much colder than the day. The Alligatoris mississippiensis rdaqtvaaridus evolved a membrane on their eyes called a tapetum lucidum in order to see better in the dark. They had also evolved endothermic adaptations to survive the cold temperatures of the night by evolving feather-like filaments on their skin, making their body temperature warmer. These endothermic adaptations also strengthened the Alligatoris mississippiensis rdaqtvaaridus' tolerance to cold water.
The diets of these alligators changed as well. Although the alligators still fed on various prey and plant items, their diet notably changed with the inclusion of cacti. When a herbivore eats a cactus, they tend to eat the softier, fleshier part of it, because they are adapted to store water. If the fleshier parts are eaten, the cactus could die very quickly. Thus, an arms race began between the gators and cacti, with the cacti evolving more layers on their surface in order to protect their water from herbivores and the gators evolving cognitive adaptations in order to get around the increase of layers before the fleshier parts are even reached. Eventually, this arms race would lead to the evolution of intelligence, even after the deserts have retreated (American alligators may have the ability to remember events that occured long ago to a certain extent, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(alligator)#Moscow_Zoo). Also, the desert-dwelling gators had evolved bipedal locomotion in order to reach taller cacti while minimizing surface area. Their vertebrae had also adapted to bipedal locomotion while preventing back pain as much as possible.
In addition to all of these adaptations, the desert-dwelling alligators had also adapted their reproduction to the harsh desert climate, which would later foster a culture of unity among the future Alligatoris sapiens. The Alligatoris mississippiensis rdaqtvaaridus had also become more social than their relatives in more habitable ecosystems. This is because sociality tends to be found in arid climates.
Two million years after the Galactic Federation's fall, the Alligatoris mississippiensis rdaqtvaaridus had established itself as a dominant species of Levarianqueva's desert, and had already colonized other habitats. However, they were faced with a new challenge. Five million years after the Galactic Federation's fall, the supercontinent Qlurdak had formed, making the interiors of the planet colder while making the oceans hotter. The ocean temperatures increased significantly, allowing for the formation of levicanes that bring rain down to coastal areas, decreasing the effects of rain shadows in many areas. In the interiors and the poles, the first ice caps on the planet's history had formed, lowering the sea level by 120 meters. Soon after this, the Prorinian peninsula formed via a combination of continental drift and lowering sea levels, creating a three-way biological interchange.
The Alligatoris mississippiensis rdaqtvaaridus that remained in the desert evolved into the Alligatoris miangae, which evolved into a highly social species that has slightly downgraded in intelligence and had a major reduction in size, living in the remnants of the once expansive deserts. Like what the name says, the Alligatoris miangae form groups of over a thousand individuals during the breeding season, with the species name being derived from "мянга", the Mongolian word for "one thousand," as a reference to their extensive social groups. However, the lineage of Alligatoris mississippiensis rdaqtvaaridus that evolved into the Alligatoris sapiens migrated to the newly-formed Prorinian peninsula, assuming the niches of apex predators, using stealth and intelligence to coordinate attacks. They were assigned the binomial name Alligatoris prorinii.
Eventually, one Alligatoris prorinii lineage migrated into Qlurdak, retaining many of their ancestral traits. However, the lineage that stayed in the Prorinian peninsula evolved into the Alligatoris sapiens after becoming more human-like. The Alligatoris sapiens then spread rapidly across Levarianqueva, with the basal Alligatoris prorinii lineage (which was assigned the binomial name Alligatoris prorinii conservo) being driven to extinction after being outcompeted by their more intelligent cousins.
Society and Culture[]
Note: This section only represents the society and culture of Levarianqueva as of 2354 AC. For the culture of Levarianqueva before the Alligatoris sapiens evolved, see [DATA EXPUNGED].
Timekeeping[]
Note: In the "Timekeeping" and "Nations" sections and their sub-sections, the word "day" means a Levarianquevan day, the word "month" means a Levarianquevan month, and the word "year" means a Levarianquevan year, unless specified.
In Levarianqueva, timekeeping is primarily based on the orbit of the moon Tevaiqlam and its own orbit around Rdaqtva A. Due to Tevaiqlam's close distance to Levarianqueva as well as its greater mass, the moon's orbital period is roughly 17.3062 Earth days, or roughly 19.3006 Levarianquevan days (a year is roughly 407.3328 Levarianquevan days). Due to this, there are 21 months in a Levarianquevan year, compared to the 12 months used by Terra.
Subdivisions of the Day[]
A Levarianquevan day is divided into subdivisions, much like the day on Terra or other planets. The largest subdivision of the day is the qlisseo, which is defined as 1/12 of a day, or roughly 1 hour and 48 minutes on Terra. The qlisseo can be subdivided into twenty varteo, a single one roughly 5 minutes and 38 seconds on Terra. One varteo can be divided into thirty litraveo, which is roughly 179 milliseconds on Terra.
There are even further divisions of time. One litraveo can be divided into 100 kanaketteo, which is roughly 1.79 milliseconds on Terra, which can be divided further into 100 qloros kanaketteo, roughly 1.79 microseconds on Terra, which can be divided further into 7 keivereo (often used interchangeably with keronneo which has the same origin), roughly 25 nanoseconds and 619 picoseconds on Terra.
Calendars[]
Lunisolar calendars[]
Most calendars in Levarianqueva are lunisolar. The Prorinian calendar, the calendar used in the Prorinian peninsula, has 21 (or 22, if the year is a leap year) lunar months of 19 or 20 days depending on a cycle which repeats every year. The month's length depends on its position in the cycle: months 4, 7, 9, 12, 16, and 19 all have 20 days, and all other months have 19 days (the intercalary month 22 has 18 days, with a day being added every 20 years). To align with the solar year, a month is added to the end of the year every 10 years. However, like lunisolar calendars on Terra, the Prorinian calendar is not perfect. It is slowly drifting away from both the seasons and Tevaiqlam.
The new year of the Prorinian calendar is around the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere. On Levarianqueva, the vernal equinox occurs at around July 4th and January 2nd in the Gregorian calendar, in the northern and southern hemispheres respectively. The Prorinian new year is celebrated in every country in the Prorinian peninsula, but with some differences between nations. In Yaksōn, the new year is celebrated by huge firework shows commemorating the prophesied return of the Immortal Scientists to Seroyanqueva, followed by parades in every major city in the country. In Meyāni, the new year is celebrated by watching gladitorial death matches and attending wrestling matches, reflecting their warrior-like culture.
Solar calendars[]
Despite most Levarianquevan calendars being lunisolar, there is one purely solar calendar in Levarianqueva still in major use: the Rudakami calendar. The Rudakami calendar, used in conjunction with the lunisolar Prorinian calendar used to calculate the dates of very important holidays, has an alternating day length of 19 and 20 days based on a different year-long cycle. Months 1, 4, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, and 19 have 20 days, and all other months have 19 days. Solar calendars, like the Gregorian calendar on Terra or the Rudakami calendar on Levarianqueva, don't have intercalary months like lunisolar calendars, and instead add an extra day at the end of a certain month (the second month in the Gregorian calendar, the twenty-first month in the Rudakami calendar) to align with the solar year.
Formerly, a day was added at the end of the year every 3 years to compensate for the length of the year being 407.3328 days long. However, this would render the average length of a Rudakami year at 407.3333333... days long, which is more than the solar year. Thus, the calendar began to slowly drift away from the seasons, at a rate of roughly 41 Terran seconds every year. This became so much of an issue, that in 1582 AC (10012136 on Terra), the Rudakami god-king Kekórìyà XIII decided to reform the calendar in order to make it more accurate to the solar year. This new calendar only changes in how leap years work: the calendar would continue to have a leap year every 3 years, but leap years fail to take effect every 1,920 years.
This insignificant change would make the calendar more accurate to the solar year by reducing the average year length to be 407.3328125 days long. However, Kekórìyà XIII died shortly after the reform was implemented, causing a civil war within the Rudakami empire as he didn't have any male heirs to succeed him. As such, the reform failed to succeed in various regions of Rudakam for several centuries. The reformed calendar was later adopted by various nations surrounding Rudakami territory, but the nations of the Prorinian peninsula continued to use their own calendar. However, the new reformed calendar, named the "Calendar of Kekórìyà" by many, is still not perfect, and is drifting away from the seasons at a rate of roughly 970 Terran milliseconds every year. If this becomes too much of an issue, another calendar reform might be needed.
Music[]
The music system of Levarianqueva uses a combination of 10-EDO (with EDO meaning that the distribution of notes within an octave are equal), 12-EDO (the system we use), and 15-EDO systems, effectively rendering Levarianquevan music as a 60-EDO system (with 60 being the least common multiple of 10, 12, and 15). Many songs switch between the three EDO scales on a regular basis, and many also assign specific scales to different roles within the song. For example, in many genres of songs, 12-EDO is used for the main melody, 15-EDO is used to support the melody, and 10-EDO is used for the bass track.
The earliest music ever composed by Alligatoris sapiens was probably 12-EDO, as shown by the earliest recorded instances of musical notation found in the Prorinian peninsula which split the octave into 12 notes, although the ancestors of the Qlerevi probably used a 10-EDO system and passed it on to their descendants. The oldest complete song recorded on Levarianqueva, initially composed in 328 AC (10010882 on Terra) and probably composed by the famed Meyāni composer Caikūminis, uses a mixture of 10-EDO and 12-EDO systems along with singing in older versions of the Yaksōnian and Meyāni languages that describe the Meyāni conquest of the Venēmīan Empire about three centuries prior to the song's composition in very much detail. In fact, the song (dubbed Caikūminis' Overture) serves as the only primary source archaeologists have on records of the conquest and the events afterwards, and all other potential primary sources have been lost to history or have been destroyed during future wars or natural disasters like levicanes, quakes, or volcanic eruptions.
Music notation[]
Note: The music notation in this article is a best attempt at representing the actual music notation used in Prorinia.
Music notation has been invented independently many times throughout Levarianqueva's history. However, this article will only focused on the music notation used in the Prorinian peninsula.
In the Prorinian peninsula, notes are represented by |V| (with the V representing a placeholder). The value in the middle of the note changes depending on its value. For example, the note A#/B♭ in our musical notation is represented as |l|O in the Prorinian musical notation. The value in the middle of the note is represented with the non-positional Prorinian numerals, which used a base of 12 with a sub-base of 4. The values 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 36, 47, 48, 49, 59, 60, 61, 143, 144, and 145 in our numeral system would be represented with l, ll, lX, X, Xll, XX, lO, O, Ol, OΘ, OΘlO, ΘlO, ΘO, ΘOl, Θ, Θl, l𐤈 ,𐤈, and 𐤈l in the Prorinian numerals.
To distinguish between different scales, a different number is added to the bottom of the note depending on the equal temperament of the track. The note A#/B♭ in our musical system, which represents the beginning of a new octave in Prorinian musical tradition, is represented with |l|XXIl, |l|O, and |l|OIX in 10-EDO, 12-EDO, and 15-EDO respectively.
In Prorinian musical tradition, a beat contains twelve notes in it. Depending on the length of the note, a certain amount of dots (up to 12) are added to the right of the note. To make more types of notes, Prorinian music can change the tempo of the music in the middle of the song. This is the case as there are no 8th, 16th, 32nd, etc. notes in the Prorinian music system due to 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, etc. not being equivalent to any fraction with a denominator of 12.
To represent octaves in Prorinian music notation, a number in the Prorinian numerals are displayed to the left of the note. The note |l|O, octave 4, can be represented as X|l|O.
Instruments[]
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Architecture[]
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Religion[]
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Levarianqueva has a diverse array of religions, each of which varies in size and influence. A detailed, but simplified summary of all of the major religions in Levarianqueva are listed below:
Kamíreism[]
Kamíreism is the largest religion in the planet, having an estimated 30 million followers as of 2354 AC (10012908 on Terra). It is a henotheistic religion that is primarily practiced in Rudakam, although it has spread into neighboring nations, including Nōlīnia (where over a quarter of the population follow it) and Harvyúrdai. The most supreme diety in Kamíreism is Ametéθàn, the god of the sun, life, the color blue, the calendar, and creation, although there are other deities which are worshipped by some people, most notably Póroθàn, the god of morals, the Kamíre, and education, Θokóyàn, the goddess of the moon, the color red, and natural disasters, and Okámosàn, the god of food. There has been one god whose worship has been universally condemned by the faith: Ríseθàn, an evil god who rules the underworld, although some minor cults that have branched off from the faith continue to worship him.
Followers of Kamíreism believe that the world is full of good spirits, or Kamíre, which power the world and help gatority coexist with nature. According to many Kamíreist texts, Kamíre lie in the underworld and can be damaged by the environment falling out of balance, falling under the influence of Ríseθàn, or envy, the worst of the Kamíreist sins. If the Kamíre are damaged too much, they turn into evil spirits, or Kamíriθ, and can attack souls at the command of Ríseθàn and turn the soul and the body it controls into an acolyte of Ríseθàn. After the soul turns evil, it gradually decays under his influence until it turns into a zombie with no humanity left inside. Therefore, all gators have to keep in mind the balance of the ecosystem, the degree of Ríseθàn's influence over the land, and their emotions when making decisions. Some scholars argue that belief in the Kamíre has led to Rudakam becoming one of the most stable civilizations throughout history, only having 1 civil war and 5 peasant revolts within the last millenium.
According to Kamíreist texts, the world was created when Ametéθàn killed an ancient god named Panokóyàn, with his blood spilling out of his body and becoming the oceans. The corpse of Panokóyàn gradually decayed, until the minerals in his body became the sediment, and pieces of his flesh became scattered around the eternal ocean. Ametéθàn then created the first birds and sent them out to the sea to gather the flesh and store them at one location, creating the first landmasses, Over time, as the sea levels lowered, the landmass gradually expanded until they allowed life to be supported. Then, Ametéθàn created the first plants and animals.
Ametéθàn was very proud of his creation, but it was falling out of balance. To solve this problem, he created the first gators and instructed them to keep the ecosystem in balance. However, since they didn't understand what he said, they proceeded to do the exact opposite to what he said, causing them to turn into Ríseθàn's acolytes. Ametéθàn was very mad about his creation, so he banished the gators to another realm. After that, he restored the world to its original state and created gators again. However, he programmed their minds so that they could understand him, and instructed them to once again keep the environment in balance. So far, the environment has been balanced, and Ametéθàn declared his creation a success.
Despite Kamíreism being praised for promoting stability and environmentalism, it is often criticised for slowing down progress on women's and LGBTQ+ rights. Kamíresm believes that women and members of LGBTQ+ identities are unfit to rule and have rights (and in the case of LGBTQ+, simply existing), and they would cause the destruction of environmental balance if they did. Despite international pressure, Rudakam still has significant restrictions on women's rights and criminalizes homosexuality.
Kāvettēism[]
Main article: Kāvettēism
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Áukan-i Beqlấvâra[]
Áukan-i Beqlấvâra("Way of the Believers" in Meyāni), frequently shortened to Áukan ("The Way") or Áukanism, is a monotheistic religion primarily practiced in Meyāni and neighboring countries to the east, having 14 million followers as of 2354 AC. As mentioned before, Áukanism only worships one god, Alấn, who rules the world. In Áukanism, the current world is described as an endless battle between beqlấvâra "believers" and tấbyara "heretics," according to the Kóra, the sacred text of the Áukanist faith. Allegedly, the Kóra was sent to gatority by Alấn via a supernatural angel-like entity, and many believe the book cannot be translated from the original Classical Meyāni without losing its divine authority.
To combat the tấbyara, Alấn had sent out a divine messenger named Yíšân to the heavens to descend to the mortal realm twelve thousand years after creation. Before this happens, Alấn would give the Meyāni, who were "Alấn's chosen people," various weapons to expell the tấbyara from their territories. When Yíšân finally descends to the mortal realm, he will expell all tấbyara from creation, then become king of all mortals for 170 years. During his reign, the world would enter an age of peace and justice for several million years afterwards. After that, Yíšân would die, and beqlấvâra throughout Levarianqueva would gather inside of a cemetary in Meraqlum and bury him inside that cemetary.
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Mathematics[]
A digital rendering of an ancient Prorinian record depicting the first seven rows of a left-justified Pascal's triangle. The record is believed to be dated to between 540 BC (10010014 on Terra) and 490 BC (10010064 on Terra).
The gators of Levarianqueva are very fond of the field of mathematics, with them studying it due to its frequent appearance throughout the universe.
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Nations[]
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Political map of Levarianqueva as of 2354 AC
Yaksōn[]
| Third Empire of Venēm | ||||||
| Śoqlōri Kessāveōra Venēmīas (Yaksōnian) | ||||||
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| Motto Lērōnon vī vōrri qlorifāt! (Yaksōnian) "We shall reach the stars!" | ||||||
| Anthem Porōrin nēktorōskri pesōpīefō (Yaksōnian) "March of the Prorinian elephants" | ||||||
| Capital | Venēm | |||||
| Largest city | Venēm | |||||
| Official language | Yaksōnian | |||||
| Recognised regional languages | Tioskan, Vardhyah, Enakhir, others | |||||
| Demonym | Yaksōnian | |||||
| Religion | Kāvettēism | |||||
| Government | Unitary consulate under a constitutional monarchy | |||||
| Emperor | Zartan VII | |||||
| Supreme Consul | Mavīme qles Vāqlōro | |||||
| Dictator | vacant | |||||
| Currency | Qloveo | |||||
Main article: Yaksōn
A Kavettēist Tree of Life made according to the description in various texts. This Tree of Life, made with various pigments drawn onto a papyrus sheet, reflects the diversity of art and culture in Yaksōn.
Yaksōn, officially the Third Empire of Venēm, is a unitary consulate under a constitutional monarchy located on the northwestern corners of the Prorinian peninsula. It borders the Ezen Ocean to the north and west, Meyāni to the northeast, the Republic of the Great Prorinian Steppes to the east, and the Tioroskan Confederation to the south. Yaksōn has a long, rich history, which largely overlaps with the history of the Prorinian peninsula as a whole. It also has a rich and diverse culture that blends three traditions into one. Yaksōn is also known for its thriving mixed economy, where corporations are allowed but limited in order to ensure that the state is actually ruled by all of the people, not just wealthy businessmen. Linguistic diversity in Yaksōn is currently being threatened, especially in its southern extremities. Most native-born Yaksōnian inhabitants tend to have dark olive-colored skin, though the brightness of the olive color is variable and depends on factors like birth location or ancestry; darker skin tends to be found near the Tropic of Varaktai (Tropic of Cancer on Terra).
Yaksōn is run by a seven-manned consulate which is directly elected by the citizens every nine years. The seven consuls take turns as the Supreme Consul, which has power over all of the other six consuls. The Supreme Consul also commands the military and can enact laws. However, laws need at least a 2/3 majority from the other consuls in order to pass. Supreme Consuls hold seven month long terms, before being required to give the position up. If the Supreme Consul's term is supposed to end before a leap month, the term is extended to that leap month. Supreme Consuls' terms run in a cycle which repeats every 2 years and 7 to 8 months. After three consecutive cycles, new consuls are elected. Consuls could serve over two consecutive or nonconsecutive election cycles. After serving over two election cycles as consul, consuls are banned from the position, in order to prevent a long-reigning totalitarian dictator from ever rising (dictators on Levarianqueva can theoretically reign for a long time due to the Alligatoris sapiens' 200+ year-long lifespans).
Yaksōn has an interesting way of dealing with a large-scale emergency, which is comparable to ancient Rome on Terra. In the event of an emergency, a dictator is elected that could hopefully salvage the situation and that situation only. The dictator is more powerful than the Supreme Consul. When a dictator is in charge, the Supreme Consul loses the power to command the military. Like dictators in the Roman Republic on Terra, Yaksōnian dictators held power for a set amount of months, until they were required to return power to the consulate.
Although there is a monarch in Yaksōn, called an Emperor, he is only present for cultural purposes, like the monarchs of the UK or Japan post-WW2 on Terra. Succession follows male-only primogeniture, where the first son of the monarch takes power upon his abdication or death, or if he doesn't have any sons, the throne goes to his eldest living brother instead. This system excludes females from succession, because according to Kāvettēist texts, females are inherently bad at ruling and would destroy society if ever given the chance to rule. This is also why there are only male politicians in Yaksōnian society. Yaksōn is also the only country on the Prorinian peninsula where homosexuality and same-sex marriage are illegal. However, Yaksōn's neighbors have adopted more progressive policies regarding gender.
Due to the word for "Emperor" in Yaksōnian being similar to the pronounciation of "Caesar" in Classical Latin, as well as the government being very similar to the Roman Republic, many beings outside Levarianqueva spread conspiracy theories that the Romans invented space travel and colonized the Prorinian peninsula, influencing the government structure and language of Yaksōn in the process. These conspiracy theories have been debunked by historians multiple times, with evidence pointing to the conclusion that the similarities with Ancient Rome are entirely a coincidence. However, the similarities with Ancient Rome are classified as a supernatural anomaly by the Galactic Anomaly Containment Organization, being assigned the designation GA-7009.
Meyāni[]
| Second Republic of Meyāni | ||||||
| Ku-Šóten-i Úsaivâye-i Nehấne (Meyāni) | ||||||
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| Motto Qlíša ấñorâne yo tấbyara (Meyāni) "Destroy the heretics!" | ||||||
| Anthem Kéra-i Alấn (Meyāni) "Alấn's Eagle" | ||||||
| Capital | Meraqlum | |||||
| Official languages | Standard Meyāni (based on the Meraqlum dialect) | |||||
| Recognised regional languages | Bandit, various dialects of Nōlinian | |||||
| Demonym | Meyāni | |||||
| Religion | Áukanism (de jure) Secular (de facto) | |||||
| Government | Unitary parliamentary republic (De facto plutocracy) | |||||
| Currency | Tấnâñña | |||||
Main article: Meyāni
Meyāni, officially the Second Republic of Meyāni, is a unitary parliamentary republic and de facto plutocracy. It borders Yaksōn to the west, the Republic of the Great Prorinian Steppes to the south, the Eastern Barbarians to the east, Nōlīnia to the northeast, and the Ezen Ocean to the northwest. Like Yaksōn, Meyāni has a very rich history which largely overlaps with the history of the Prorinian peninsula as a whole. Meyāni, like all Qlerevi-speaking countries, has a rich warrior culture, but Meyāni takes this to an extreme. Meyāni has a rich capitalist economy which drives wealth inequality between higher and lower castes. Meyāni gators' skin colors depends on the caste they were born into: higher-caste Meyāni tend to have very light lime-colored skin, while lower-caste Meyāni tend to have the same skin color as the Yaksōnians, but with a mix of the lime color of the higher castes as well. Meyāni is famous for having the highest amount of dolphin species anywhere on Levarianqueva.
Meyāni is run by a parliament of 300 individuals which attempt to represent all of the people in the country. The distribution of seats for every province in the country is based on a census which takes place every 10 years. In Meyāni, elections are held every 4 years. The results of the elections determine the distribution of parliamentary seats and the political parties of the twelve consuls, who share power. The consuls, however, act in the interest of the corporations and the higher castes, not all of the people. The Meyāni lower castes could not vote, but the government gives them the "right" to "vote" in order to brainwash them into thinking that they rule the government, when in actuality, the wealthy rule the country.
Meyāni is often criticized for its plutocratic government and corporatocracy. It is also criticized for its lack of universal healthcare, sharp wealth gap between the rich and the poor, and the government exploiting the lower castes and driving them into poverty. Other topics of critics include their practice of slavery, the use of the death penalty, and the government's handling of an ongoing migrant crisis caused by a Mafia-like organization taking over the Great Prorinian Steppes. Meyāni is also criticised for its high suicide rates. Some prominent geopoliticians have suggested that Meyāni may be undergoing societal collapse.
The Meyāni are very progressive despite their warrior-like roots. Homosexuality and same-sex marriage have been legal in Meyāni since 2198 AC (10012752 on Terra), and higher-caste women have been granted the right to vote since 2090 AC (10012644 on Terra). Starting on 2340 AC (10012894 on Terra), Meyāni has been sanctioned by the international community due to its plans to invade the Great Prorinian Steppes to topple the Mafia-led regime there, because of fears of a reenactment of the Great Prorinian War, with Yaksōn threatening war if Meyāni doesn't cancel their plans.
Nōlīnia[]
Main article: Nōlinia
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Confederation of Tioroska[]
Main article: Tioroskan Confederation
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Great Prorinian Steppes[]
Main article: Great Prorinian Steppes
A photo of the Great Prorinian Steppes at dusk.
The Great Prorinian Steppes, officially the Republic of the Great Prorinian Steppes, is a de jure parliamentary republic located in the center of the Prorinian Peninsula. It borders Yaksōn to the northwest, Meyāni to the northeast, and the Tioroskan Confederation to the south. The Great Prorinian Steppes is very decentralized due to the climate there promoting a nomadic herding lifestyle among the inhabitants of the Steppes. Formerly, the Great Prorinian Steppes was run by a parliamentary republic, but was overthrown by a Mafia-like gang organization in 2335 AC (10012889 on Terra) due to said decentralization and nomadic lifestyle limiting the central government's control and allowing pirate and criminal activity to spread uninhibited across the grasslands. Meyāni currently plans to invade the Great Prorinian Steppes to restore democracy in the region, but was met by heavy international backlash. Gators native to the Great Prorinian Steppes tend to have chartreuse-colored skin, but darker due to the region's proximity to the Tropic of Varaktai (the Great Prorinian Steppes is just north of the tropics).
Rudakam[]
Main article: Rudakam
Rudakam, officially the Kingdom of Rudakam, is a unitary semi-constitutional monarchy. located north of the Prorinian peninsula. It borders the Ezen Ocean to the west, Nōlīnia to the south, the Avoressan Ocean and Harvyúrdai to the northeast, and the Eastern Barbarians to the southeast. Rudakam was one of the first empires in the world, and formed in 7692 BC (10002862 on Terra). Rudakam is the last remnant of feudalism in the world, which was abolished in the Prorinian peninsula in the 18th century AC (10012254 -> 10012353 on Terra). Due to this, Rudakam is often considered to be an undeveloped backwater, but in reality, Rudakam has abolished the feudal system in 1894 AC (10012448 on Terra) and now has a strong and developed mixed economy. Native-born Rudakami inhabitants tend to have light chartreuse-colored skin and have eyes reminiscent to that of East Asians. These squinted eyes might be an adaptation to the cold and must have evolved very recently.
Rudakam is run by a semi-constitutional monarchy with a theocratic god-king, claimed to be chosen through divine right, still holding power within the kingdom's politics. Like Yaksōn, Rudakam follows male-only primogeniture, where the monarch hold power until his death or abdication, whence his eldest living son succeeds to the throne. If the monarch doesn't have any male offspring, his eldest living brother succeeds to the throne. Again, like Yaksōnian monarchs, Rudakami monarchs will never be female, because of a shared belief that females having no right to rule whatsoever. Rudakam justifies male-only primogeniture for a different reason than Yaksōn: because of monotheism. The Rudakami people worship one major god, who is depicted in an overwhelming majority of sources to be male. They believed that a god-queen would corrupt the nation, with God himself being sent to punish the nation for its mistakes.
Rudakam's parliament is called the Great Wése (pronounced "WAY-say"), also known as the Council of Advisors. The Great Wése functions as both the executive and legislative branch of the nation and is made up of a hundred individuals that are directly elected by the people. However, only the god-king, with the approval of 2/3 of parliament, has the authority to declare war, but this can be vetoed by the prime minister. A member of the majority party in parliament of the Great Wése are directly appointed by the god-king to become the Rudakami prime minister, who can enact laws with the approval of a 2/3 majority in parliament. Elections happen every 5 years.
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Atmosphere and Climate[]
Levarianqueva's atmosphere is very Terra-like. The majority of the planet's atmosphere is made of nitrogen and oxygen, taking up 75.509% and 19.912% of the planet's atmosphere respectively. The rest of the planet's atmosphere is predominantly made of argon (1.95%), water vapor (1.65965%), and carbon dioxide (0.93%), with the rest of the atmosphere being made of hydrogen sulfide (0.03859%, predominantly due to decomposition) and other gases (0.076%).
Levarianqueva is considerably colder than Terra on average, with an average temperature of 13.5 °C (56.3 °F) compared to the 15 °C (59°F) average temperature on Terra. Despite this, the oceans are considerably hotter, even being hotter than the deserts. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Levarianqueva's history is 79.2 °C (174.6 °F), in an area of water near the Prorinian territories of Tioroska. Due to this, tropical cyclones, which are called levicanes regardless of the ocean they form in, are very common. The strongest levicanes are strong enough to be classed as hypercanes on Terra, bringing rainfall to the coasts during levicane season. Levicanes are currently making the planet hotter at a rate of 0.053 °C (0.095 °F) every 12 years, due to the strongest levicanes damaging the ozone layer of the planet and allowing for ultraviolet radiation from Rdaqtva A to spread to the planet's surface uninhibited.
The impact on the climate is so large that many scholars in Levarianqueva currently fear a mass extinction to take place in the near future, due to ozone layer damage. It is likely that mammals would be hit harder than any other animal species during this future mass extinction due to their rodent-like Terran ancestors losing UV-resistant genes during the Mesozoic era. As of the current year (2354 AC), various mammal species are already starting to die off due to the excessive ultraviolet radiation entering the surface, and efforts are being made by Levarianquevan governments to try and protect them from the coming extinction event.
Although Levarianqueva does have Milankovitch cycles like Terra, albeit the effects of them are slightly limited due to lower eccentricity, it has an orbital resonance with the neigboring planet Fovannai. This impacts the climate once every year by affecting the amount of sunlight which can reach the surface.
Geology[]
A non-satellite map of the planet, with major landmasses and bodies of water labeled. Note that Levarianqueva rotates to the opposite direction to Terra, so the map is shown from east to west.
Levarianqueva has a very active geology which predates the terraformation of the planet, to the point of being more active than Terra's geology. This is due to the closeness of the planet (and by extension the Rdaqtva A system as a whole) to Sagittarius A*, whose gravity forcibly splits the crust and mantle of the planet into fragments, which is similar to how Io's volcanism is caused by its closeness to Jupiter in the Sol system. Before terraformation, there was little to no water to form volcanoes, save for underground pools of water close to the surface which allowed for single-celled life to thrive. Therefore, most volcanoes on Levarianqueva are currently in the process of forming and erupt very frequently. The volcanoes that are older than terraformation are currently inactive and new activity in the future is very unlikely.
Levarianqueva's landmass is currently dominated by the supercontinent Qlurdak, which is currently starting to break apart and is famed by humans for its uncanny resemblance to the Middle East. A rift valley, the Storoian Strait, to the south of Áórenébvtar is currently expanding, forming the subcontinent of Qlaro-Tioreska. A rift valley to the north of Áórenébvtar is currently in the process of forming. This rift valley formed the waters of Lake Vérrùþtà, the Gulf of Ymetthëlia, and the Reoler Strait. A failed rift valley to the west of the Qlerebani Sea formed the Strait of Tarvolla. Another rift valley to the south of the Vreotannian Sea formed the island of Kápfréssor. To the south of that island, a volcanic hotspot is currently active, forming the Hē'ewa'eros Islands.
In addition to Qlurdak and Qlaro-Tioreska, there are three additional subcontinents that formed before terraformation: the subcontinents of Pheriossia, Đélettes, and Ndríssur, the former of which has an uncanny resemblance to New Zealand or the Philippines on Terra. As there were no volcanoes or water to form the subcontinents before terraformation, the three subcontinents tend to be flat and therefore receive massive amounts of rainfall regardless of distance from the coast when levicane season comes and are vulnerable to flooding. Therefore, the subcontinents are slowly disappearing at a rate of 2 centimeters per year.
Due to its very active geology, roughly 3 million detectable quakes occur on Levarianqueva every year. This is six times greater than the amount of detectable earthquakes Terra gets. However, there are an estimated 2,500 inactive or active volcanoes on Levarianqueva, of which 763 are currently active.
Geology of the Prorinian peninsula[]
Map of mountain ranges of the Prorinian peninsula
The vast majority of the Prorinian peninsula is geologically new. Several mountain ranges cover its western, northern, and eastern edges. Parts of the Great Prorinian Steppes exist below sea level due to the peninsula being formed during a cold period of an ice age where sea levels were around 100 meters lower than today.
The Greater Sadasauñña Range forms part of the border between Tioroska and the nations north of it and functions as the spine of the peninsula. Several offshoots of the range exist, including the Cēroqlīr Range which extends to the northwestern coasts of Yaksōn and whose peaks are mostly volcanoes, the Varaktai Range, which contains the highest peak on the planet, Mount Varaktai, a volcano which is slightly taller than Mount Everest on Earth despite the higher gravity, and the Soēran Range, whose tallest peak is Mount Tíšya. Mount Varaktai's frequent eruptions along with the eruptions of other volcanoes along the Varaktai Range cause the Great Prorinian Steppes and the lands directly north of it to be very fertile, as do the eruptions volcanoes of Cēroqlīr make the soil of northern and central Yaksōn very fertile.
The Prorinian peninsula started to form around 5 million years ago when several plates which constitute the northern Prorinian peninsula today collided with each other, forming a single northern Prorinian landmass and forming the Nōlinian Range and the Varaktai Range. This landmass then collided with the supercontinent Qlurdak to form the Soēran Range and the Anti-Nōlinian Range. However, the Nōlinian Range, the Varaktai Range, and the Anti-Nōlinian Range are currently eroding away as a result of levicane formation. Any mountain range that previously existed in what is now the Northern Prorinian Plains has been eroded by levicane formation as well, causing the northern Prorinian peninsula to generally be flat and leaving tall hills in the remnants of the once expansive mountain ranges. The Cēroqlīr Range was probably formed when an oceanic plate collided with an ancient Venēmīan plate, the latter of which later subducted into the much greater Central Qlurdaki plate along with other ancient tectonic plates in the northern Prorinian peninsula.
Levarianqueva-Tevaiqlam System[]
Levarianqueva has an intricate and odd relationship with its moon, Tevaiqlam. The Levarianqueva-Tevaiqlam system is a binary system, which means that the two objects orbit each other. This is because Tevaiqlam is about 5/12 the size of Levarianqueva, which is the biggest moon out of any terrestrial planet discovered by humans so far. It is even bigger than Luna. This, combined with Tevaiqlam being closer to Levarianqueva than Luna is to Terra (which is why Tevaiqlam appears bigger in the Levarianquevan sky), the barycenter of the system (the point where multiple objects orbit around in a system) is not located in the center of the planet, but rather in a spot in space between the two objects, like the Pluto-Charon system in the Solar System.
Ecology and Biology[]
The vast majority of Levarianqueva's life forms are descended from life forms that were imported from Terra. This is due to the Immortal Scientists starting a speculative evolution project on the planet, mainly to preserve Terran animals millions of years after they had gone extinct. However, there are some natively evolved single-celled organisms, most of which evolved in underground water sources close to the surface, which the Parveans were unaware of, before the Galactic Federation terraformed the planet and thrive off of the rich hydrogen sulfide content in the atmosphere. After the terraformation, some of these simple single-celled organisms expanded to the surface and evolved into plankton and bacteria-like organisms, which later evolved into red-colored plants. Viruses, viroids, satellites (in biology, subviral agents which depend on a cell's infection by a helper virus in order to reproduce), and prions are absent from the planet, but there are parasites that are descended from Terran nematodes, flatworms, and lice, which, along with natively evolved "bad" bacteria and Terran-descended viriforms, are the planet's equivalent to viruses.
Species[]
Animals[]
All of Levarianqueva's animals are descended from Terran animals. Major vertebrates of the planet include mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and fish, while the major invertebrates of the planet include arthropods, echinoderms, molluscs, coral, worms, jellyfish, and sponges. Levarianqueva's crocodilian and bat diversity had exploded compared to Terra, as the lack of filled niches on the planet drives new organisms to evolve and compete for those niches, resulting in completely different ecosystems compared to Terra. Levarianquevan monotreme and marsupial diversity had exploded too, but the placental mammals still hold as the dominant mammals on the planet. Although non-mammal tetrapod diversity had boomed, the mammals still (mostly) dominate the planet. However, the equivalent to humans on Levarianqueva, Alligatoris sapiens, was a crocodilian species and not a mammal, convergently evolving with humans rather than being descended from them.
Like animals on Terra, animals on Levarianqueva cannot produce their own glucose, and therefore get their glucose by eating other organisms. After that, they use the glucose for cellular respiration.
"The Reptile Belt"[]
Levarianqueva is a major part of what the Galactic Anomaly Containment Organization calls the Reptile Belt, which is classified as GA-908 by the organization. Major intelligent species that were produced on planets that are part of the Reptile Belt outside of Levarianqueva include, but not limited to, the Parveans and their homeworld in the Rqtvam A system, the troodontid-like Šterëvánians (pronounced "shteh-ruh-VON-ee-uhnz") and their home system of Šterëváymnar A (pronounced "shteh-ruh-VOIM-nar ay"), and the crow-like Çááłǔmàr' (pronounced "tsah-woo-MAR") who are native to the Epsilon Eridani system. There is also speculation that Terra may also be part of the Reptile Belt as there are many bird species on Terra that are intelligent to some degree.
For reasons unknown, planets in the so-called Reptile Belt tend to produce intelligent species that are descendants of or closely resemble reptiles on Terra despite being completely isolated from one another without interstellar traveling technology. Major theories exist to explain the belt, the most accepted is that another intelligent civilization who lived in another galaxy seeded reptilian-like organisms the Milky Way galaxy before their extinction, but it is possible that they are still alive today. However, the existence of the Alligatoris sapiens, a true descendant of Terran reptiles, on Levarianqueva disproves this theory, but there is still unquestionable evidence that the species mentioned in the theory still did exist. Now, new theories are needed to explain the existence of the Reptile Belt.
Terraphytes and Erythrophytes[]
The plants in Levarianqueva are a mix of Terran-descended plants, as well as red-colored plants. Although the Terran plants dominate most of the vegetation on the planet, the red-colored plants, which get their own kingdom called erythrophytes ("red plants") as opposed to the green plants which are called terraphyta ("Terran plants"), are very successful and have since evolved into intertidal and beach vegetation, as well as much of the ground vegetation in the planet's forests. These red-colored plants are actually symbiotic relationships between the descendants of native Levarianquevan chemoplankton, which use hydrogen sulfide to aid their metabolism and Terran-descended red algae.
The erythrophytes primarily reproduce by using the water and ocean currents, with the male gametes being released into the water immediately. When a female gametangia "sees" a male gamete, it releases the female gametes into the water immediately as well. Once a male gamete encounters a female gamete, the gametes combine and develop into a spore, and the spore will become either male, female, or both sexes at the same time depending on the magnetic pole the spore is closest to as well as temperature. After a few months in the ocean, the spore develops flagella-like organs to produce independent movement, although limited, to avoid danger from pelagic filter feeders. Only a small amount of spores survive and settle on the land, and as such, the erythrophytes exhibit R-selection, producing vast amounts of gametes, only a small amount of which will survive.
Like Terran plants, both the terraphytes and the erythrophytes make their own glucose by using photosynthesis. However, the erythrophytes also undergo hydrogen sulfide chemosynthesis. As chemosynthesis isn't dependent on sunlight, the erythrophytes tend to thrive in darker environments such as the forest floors of tropical rainforests. However, they are restricted to areas near sources of surface water that are connected to the ocean such as areas near the coasts and areas near major river systems due to their reproduction being reliant on the ocean currents. As such, you won't see any erythrophytes in desert oases or endorheic basins.
Erythrophytes also have circadian rhythms, like Terran plants and the terraphytes, but it is mainly used to switch from photosynthesis to hydrogen sulfide chemosynthesis and vice versa. The switch from photosynthesis to chemosynthesis happens at sunset, while the switch from chemosynthesis to photosynthesis happens at sunrise. Erythrophytes living in darker environments tend to attract symbiotic firefly species in order to perform photosynthesis in dark environments. In exchange for the fireflies getting a source of food in the form of erythrophyte leaves, the erythrophytes get to perform photosynthesis.
Comparison of Terraphyte and Erythrophyte Cells[]
Diagram of an erythrophyte cell.
The cells of erythrophytes are very similar to those of terraphytes due to a combination of convergent evolution and endosymbiosis with other organisms. However, they are different to some extent.
Like terraphyte cells, erythrophyte cells have: a cell wall (1) to protect the cell and give it more support, a cell membrane (2) to allow for certain substances to go in and out of the cell, a cytoplasm (3) which holds all of the organelles together, chloroplasts (4) to perform photosynthesis, at least one nucleus (5, 6) to coordinate the cell's activities, an endoplasmic reticulum (7) to process proteins, one large vacuole (8) to store food, ribosomes (9) to produce proteins according to DNA instructions, a golgi apparatus (11) to produce transport vesicles, and a lack of lysosomes. However, unlike many eukaryotes on Terra, erythrophytes (including pseudomykites) have two nuclei instead of one, like the cells of Terran ciliates: a macronucleus and a micronucleus. After the cell splits itself into two seperate cells, the genes in the parent cell's micronucleus are inherited by the subsequent daughter cells, accelerating adaptability and allowing erythrophytes and pseudomykites to diversify and evolve very quickly. Also, erythrophyte cell walls are made of chitin like in Terra's fungi, instead of the terraphytes' cell walls which are made of cellulose.
Erythrophyte cells are notable in that they lack mitochondria. Instead, oxidative phosphorylation occurs thoughout the cell membrane as in prokaryotes. Also, erythrophytes have chemoplasts (10), which perform hydrogen sulfide chemosynthesis using the chemical formula , which is where they get their water from. Due to this, erythrophytes' roots are mainly used for support and stability. The remaining sulfur is then excreted from the cytoplasm by transport vesicles produced by the golgi apparatus, which is the primary reason why erythrophyte leaves appear a reddish-grayish color although the proportion of gray varies depending on the species. Erythrophyte cells also have the ability to form cysts and become dormant temporarily to survive harsh conditions, possibly through endosymbiosis with a species of euglenid.
Pseudomykites[]
A member of the pseudomykite species Pseudohumanus koutsourovorum ("false human log-eater") eating a log (right) and one of the Immortal Scientists pointing at the pseudomykite (left) while discussing his discovery with the rest of the group which isn't shown. The photo was taken by a group of Scientists near Lake Tþǜrànálàré.
Unlike Terra's fungi, Levarianquevan fungi are actually the descendants of erythrophytes that have lost their chloroplasts and red coloring, and are different enough to be classified as a new kingdom called pseudomykia ("false mushrooms"). Like Terran fungi, Levarianquevan pseudomykites decompose the remnants of dead organisms to be broken down into more simpler (in)organic molecules which are then recycled back into the soil. However, unlike Terran fungi, non-parasitic pseudomykites on Levarianqueva share more characteristics with animals than fungi on Terra, such as moving independently and having well developed olfactory nerves to search for dead bodies and consume them with their legs and having a nervous system that controls all of the organism's activities. Symbiotic pseudomykites convert complex molecules into more simple molecules and then excrete most of them where their symbionts (mostly terraphytes or erythrophytes) can collect them and use them, while parasitic pseudomykites protrude into the host's deep parts through sharp spade-like organs and then eat parts of the host's surface with their feet, causing severe pain in animals.
The pseudomykites have fully abandoned the water-dependant reproduction of their ancestors. Symbiotic and basal pseudomykites, like animals on Terra, have two sexes (instead of the three of the ancestral erythrophytes), and these two sexes can mate with each other. When the mating occurs, the male will transfer his gametes into the female pseudomykite's body, where she can choose the genes she picks and lays eggs with a source of nutrients near large enough sources of vegetation. After a few months, the egg will grow into a larva, which can't move at all and behaves like any other ancestral erythrophyte, and will remain in that stage until the olfactory nerves (which also function as the pseudomykites' eyes) sense that the surrounding vegetation is dead. The larva will then grow into an adult, and develop the characteristics of pseudomykite adults. However, parasitic pseudomykites simply use their hosts for reproduction.
Some pseudomykites are very intelligent. For example, some species of the genus Pseudohumanus (example shown above) are able to learn to distinguish dead bodies from living bodies, work together to break down large organisms faster, or communicate with the rest of the group using pheromones. Some species of the genus Cogitandomyci are also able to socialize, work together, and communicate using pheromones. This pheromone "language" is different between species, so a member of one genus may not understand the language of another genus; some Alligatoris sapiens claim to have the ability to "speak" in "pseudomykite." Some pseudomykite species in the genuses Pseudohumanus and Cogitandomyci can also use tools that they build from tree branches.
Biodiversity[]
Levarianqueva's biodiversity is relatively similar to Terra. However, Levarianqueva's biodiversity is smaller than Terra, due to the Levarianquevan life having less time to adapt and diversify. As of 2354 AC (10012908 on Terra), there are an estimated 6.9 million species on Levarianqueva, compared to the 8.7 million species on Terra. However, biodiversity is slowly declining on Levarianqueva due to the global warming that is caused by levicanes.
Magnetic Field[]
Levarianqueva's magnetic field is very strong. It is currently estimated that its magnetic field is about half the strength of Neptune in the Solar Systen, if not, even stronger. This strong magnetic field protects both Levarianqueva and its moon from the solar wind. It is currently being debated to why Tevaiqlam can still exist despite being closer to Rdaqtva A than the star's frost line, because the surface of the planet is predominately made of water ice. Tevaiqlam has an almost insignificant atmosphere that protects the moon from the heat that would make it cease to exist quickly, and Levarianqueva's magnetic field is very important to the debate. It is suggested by many scientists in the former Federation space that Levarianqueva's magnetic field protects Tevaiqlam's atmosphere from the solar wind as well as its own, which is supported by many pieces of evidence.
Supernatural Forces[]
Main article: Magic
Levarianqueva, along with the Rdaqtva A system as a whole, has a plethra of supernatural influences, which are classified as GA-41361 by the Galactic Anomaly Containment Organization. However, this influence is heavily concentrated on Levarianqueva, raising questions to its origin. One hypothesis is that the supernatural influence could originate from radiation emitted by Sagittarius A: this hypothesis is accepted by most human scholars. Another hypothesis is that the supernatural forces could be a consequence of humanity's colonization of the Rdaqtva A system, but evidence to support this is low as single-celled organisms have been observed using magic to stun other cells via magic-producing organelles.
Organisms that Use Supernatural Forces[]
Regardless of the origin of the supernatural phenomenon, numerous life forms on Levarianqueva use supernatural forces to their advantage. For example, mage wolves (Canis magii) have evolved fur that traps a layer of magic close to their skin. When prey is nearby, the magic is released, stunning nearby prey and potentially being fatal to any organism nearby. Supernatural forces can also be used by prey as a defensive adaptation. Prorinian elephants (Elephas prorinii) have evolved organs on their trunks that produce magic. When prey approaches, the trunk releases the magic into the air, stunning nearby predators and preventing them from coordinating another attack.