Atavin

Atavin
The Home world of the AIUD is a planet named Atavin.

It is a hot planet, with an average temperature globally of 50*C and has a high atmosphere level (Frequent lightning storms but no hurricanes) but sunlight still gets through a lot, enough to power a few planets. Atavin has a ring system and a moon named Helants.

It orbits the star Euner in the Berol Grid division 983 sector 53 near the borders of the other Grids.

Atavin has two main continents: Rikulii and Vernidrass that are seperated by oceans of sulfuric acid. The acid does not seem to be concentrated enough to cause long lasting damage that acid would usually incur. The landmasses are rocky or sandy with no swamps or rainforests and only one mountain ranges. Although there are many forest type places filled with common flora. Because of the immense heat, a dead zone is along the equator, where no animals live and only certain bacteria can. The Avetza have still colonised this bit, but these cities require supplying from the more pole-orientated cities.

Flora
The flora on Atavin is bright blue and at times green. This is because of the red giant star the planet orbits. The flora is also known for not only using sunlight but also taking in energy from the heat around it. This has resulted in the plants becoming tall and thin as to get heat from more areas, some plants even wrap around themselves in spheres to trap the heat in. They are cold to the touch as they take in available heat sources.


 * Dasson - These are small shrub-like plants that wrap around themselves to trap heat inside.
 * Tarl - These plants are like tall thin trees that have no leaves what-so-ever, they feed on the diluted sulfuric acid when they find it with roots but are extremely slow with a low metabolism to stay in warmer environments.
 * Gerain - These plants are the common crop plants, equivalent to that of wheat or barley on terran planets.
 * Strassos - These plants are so light that they can fly into the air where they intersect denser light. These are one of the rare photsynthetic plants in a common AE ecosystem. They are thin flat circles like lilypads and take off into the air with a slight breeze. they are commonly found circling the air towards beaches.
 * Retten - These are aquatic plants that are found on the ocean sea-bed. They are splayed out in every direction searching for heat in the ocean and are commonly trapping small fish-like beings.

Fauna
The Fuana in AE ecosystems are always silicon-based lifeforms with the same basic need of atmosphere and sulfuric acid, except for some occasional extremophile. Most animals in the ecosystem her scaly or have high metabolisms to deal with radiation from Euner.


 * Avetza - The sentient species on Atavin. described in 'species' section at top of page.
 * Ivuutzak - This species is an equestrian reptile species with three stalk-eyes, six limbs, spikes running down it's back and a blue-yellowish colour to blend into the plants.
 * Ivotza - This species to be closely related to the above creatures but is more sloth-like in appearance. They have one stalk-eye, four limbs, three spikes going down it's back and the same colours of the skin of the above creatures, apart from with more darker tones.
 * Scret - These creatures are insects. They have strong ripping teeth to bite into the plants and are 3cm big. They go into hives very similar to ants hey have wings and no-eyes but are usually found with a very good sense of smell.
 * Dreson - These creatures are large lumbering herbivores of Atavin. They are 10 metres tall have five legs. They have a large snout at the front of their head and thick skin. They are commonly found in three's and seem to be very close to each other.
 * Weska - This creature is another biped. But they are shy, timid, herbivorous creatures with the same amount of intelligence as a Scret. They are left alone where they are found in certain forests areas.
 * Capotes - A large desert lizard which has a tough, thick outer shell to protect it from the heat and UV light which gets through at "dead zones" along the equator where they regularly travel and migrate.