Carlea

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Carlea is the fourth planet around the star Maea in the Cnara System. It is a cool, temperate E-class planet with life filling its vast oceans and small continents. It is the homeworld of the Carlean species and one of the two capitals of the Cnara-Frealee Federation.

Overview

Carlea was named by the native Carleans in prehistory, after one of their gods. It is a planet filled with life, tens of millions of lifeforms of all sorts. One of those lifeforms that lived here was the Carlean species, an intelligent species that would later rise to conquer a good portion of the galaxy and create the Cnara-Frealee Federation.

Carlea is one of the most important worlds in the Flower Galaxy, as it is the capital world of the Carleans, the intelligent species it gave birth to, and the Cnara-Frealee Federation, the most powerful nation in the Flower Galaxy. The Carleans, being a naturally quite peaceful species, would forge multiple peace treaties among the warring factions of the Flower Galaxy, including the First Treaty of Providence, the Fifteenth Treaty of Providence, the Five Thousand Three Hundred Twenty Third Treaty of Providence, and so many other Treaty of Providences. Essentially, the Carleans would bring lasting peace to the galaxy.

Carlea is interestingly earth-like, as the foliage is similar to what you'd find in temperate regions of Earth, what with their own analogs (though rather larger versions of) grass, trees, flowering plants, etc. Its atmosphere can also house Hoomans and other Earth (and Haven) species naturally, as well, leading to its rise as a very diverse planet.

Every so often, the losing side of a treaty mediated by the Carleans decides to randomly invade the planet. Thus far, the planet has never fallen into enemy hands, due to the well-trained defense force.

Geography

Carlea has a static-lid crust, leading to a relatively flat seafloor, with no trenches or anything. This means that the continents don't yeet around the crust, unlike tectonically active planets such as Earth and Haven. However, large portions of crust have been shoved upward creating two large contients, Reana and Porania. Each of these continents contains massive populations, filled with trillions of Carleans and other species, living in tall arcologies.

These two continents are divided by a vast ocean with no real way to split it up into multiple oceans, so it's just called "Carlea's Ocean". This ocean is filled with hundreds of islands of varying sizes, from tiny spits of sand barely poking above the water to vast islands almost continents in their own right.

A map of Carlea.

Although there isn't much similarity to Earth in terms of continents, there is a lot of similarity to earth in terms of biodiversity, which is very high in most places, especially the large equatorial forests. Carlea has a myriad of biomes from the ice caps to the oceans to the hot deserts, each of which has at least some life.

Interestingly, most of the planet is covered in forests, and the deserts are being artificially cooled down and terraformed.

Along with the endless forests, Carlea is covered with taigas, large snow-capped mountain ranges, frozen wastelands (not much of them anymore though), small deserts, a few regions of arid badlands, and a few swamps near the coasts.

Astrography

Carlea is located near the center of the Cnara Cluster, a region of the Flower Core comprising a few hundred star systems in a dense cluster, and the first systems to be colonized by the Carleans, and one of the most populous regions of the Cnara-Frealee Federation.

Interestingly, this area of space is filled with inhabited worlds with around 30 % of its star systems having at least one planet or moon with some form of life. Studies have not revealed any particular reason as to why this region is so life-filled.

Climate

Carlea has a rather varied climate, with each portion of the planet having its own unique climate. Like most earth-like worlds, its climate is mainly varied depending on latitude with some areas creating hot deserts and others creating patches of frozen wasteland.

Most of the landmasses are covered in temperate forests filled with endless types of flora and fauna, not all of which are even documented yet! However, the north and south poles are covered with large ice caps where only the hardiest life-forms of Carlea can survive.

The atmosphere on Carlea is approximately 5.6 earth atmospheres and has a composition of 69.8% Molecular Nitrogen, 25.1% Molecular Oxygen, 1.2% Argon, and trace amounts of other elements, including carbon dioxide, ozone, and an abnormally large amount of noble gases than was expected from it's location in the system. It's biosphere has altered the atmospheric composition in several ways: Firstly, 1.4 Billion years ago, Photosynthesis was developed, releasing an insane amount of oxygen into the air, rendering most ancient anaerobic species extinct, and over millions of years after that, indirectly creating an Ozone Layer that protects life on land by deflecting or absorbing lethal ultraviolet radiation, which is admittedly pretty rare in the Cnara System anyway. Aside from this, the thickness of the atmosphere protects surface life from most asteroids, that could otherwise destroy large areas of land.

Moon System

Carlea, orbiting so close to Maea, has no natural moons. However, occationally a quasi-satellite gets temporarily captured. The lack of major moons makes vast orbital infrastructure very easy to set up.

Space infrastructure

The space within Carlea's sphere of influence is positively stuffed with various rotating habitats, space stations, transport spacecraft, space farms, and solar collectors. This often makes it very tricky to find where you actually want to go without navigation. Luckily, among the things floating around Carlea is a portion of the Galactic Positioning System, a project funded by the United Nations of the Flower Galaxy as a whole to help citizens navigate easily. Carlea was one of the first planets for it to go up around due to its importance.

There are also many rotating habitats around Carlea. There are in fact so many that almost half of Carlea's population isn't actually on the planet. These rotating habitats are mainly fed by low gravity space farms, carefully designed to be as efficient as possible.