Amana

Amana was named by the native Amanians for their word for "home". It is a planet battered by war, with very little but primitive mosses surviving the nuclear holocaust. The native Amanians came within a hair of extinction after almost succumbing to a great civil war which also wiped out the vast majority of complex life on the planet. The Amanians are currently rebuilding and reintroducing life across the planet, and it has only recently regained its green landscape.

The planet was not always as it appears today. For a long period of time it was a nondescript slushball, covered almost entirely in primitive bacteria. However, ~300 million years ago, it exploded with life, rapidly evolving to intelligence, the Amanians. However, the Amanian Civil War destroyed this great progress, leaving behind nothing but ruins and a few hundred Amanians squirreled away in the Kenna Limit Cloud, with life on the surface of Amana reduced to its state before the explosion of life 300 million years ago. Today, they are steadily rebuilding, drawing upon limited resources to regain the former splendor of Amana.

Astrographical

Amana is located in the Kenna System, alongside three other worlds: the desolate rock of Krekalla, the enormous gas giant of Augustus, and the distant icy behemoth of Dreaka. The Kenna System can likewise be found on the edge of Cosmoria's stars, near to the Garanka, Dorok, and Ernar systems. Found in the habitable zone, Amana has a large enough sphere of influence to possess a small captured moon, Eminar, which shepherds a thin dusty ring system probably created by impacts blasting dust off of Eminar's surface.

Geography

Amana is covered by one large continent, three minor continents, and many smaller ones, all separated by a small network of seas.

Continents: Chakres

Minor Continents: Draxel

Minor Continents: Kereles

Minor Continents: Waro

History

The Kenna System formed roughly 5.11 billion years ago, with all its planets forming shortly after the star itself. Among the chaos of the early Kenna System, an asteroid collided with the early Amana, less than a few million years after its formation. This had the effect of altering the planet’s tilt from roughly 4° to the present day tilt. The asteroid’s ejected remnants orbited the planet but never coalesced into a moon since it was within Amana’s Roche Limit, instead forming rings. The asteroid also carried organic molecules that promoted photosynthetic organisms to appear, which then scrubbed the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, replacing it with oxygen. Nitrogen also began to build up in the atmosphere around this time.

By the year 61438, the Amanians had reached full power over their world among their huge collection of bickering states. Unfortunately, these states were itching for a reason to destroy each other, and the assassination of Tanna'an of Verla ballooned into an all-out war across the planet. This war lasted for centuries, with both sides willing to use brutal force. By the end, the race had been driven to extinction, except for a few holdouts in remote comets in the Kenna System's oort cloud. These holdouts eventually returned to the inner system, centuries after the war had scarred every planet, leaving many vast craters across the Amanian surface. The remaining population to this day is less than a billion and is slowly picking up the pieces of their ruined civilization, preparing to rise again into space.

Moon System

Eminar, with Amana just peeking over its limb.

Amana has one major moon, Eminar. Eminar is roughly 300 kilometers in radius and orbits relatively distantly from Amana. The moon has many mining colonies set up shortly after the first landing on it, in 61167, which take advantage of the moon's richness in resources. These colonies were abandoned shortly after the carpet bombings of the Amanian Civil War and have not been reclaimed.

Ring System

Amana has a set of thin rings, likely caused by a medium-sized asteroid breaking up after passing within Amana's roche limit. These rings have many tiny asteroids a few tens of meters across shepherding the particles into neat, very circular orbits. The rings are almost invisible from the surface, but still presented a big hazard to orbiting satellites, which set back Amanian development by a few decades.